Ever watched a TV series and thought it too long?

I've certainly thought that some shows should have ended a couple seasons before they did. That was a much bigger problem in my youth (70's-80's), though, when common practice was to keep a show going as long as its viewership held up. I think nowadays showrunners are much better about admitting that they've run out of ideas.

But Goldbergs is a recent one that really should have ended at least two seasons earlier. At the point where the main character is having two senior years and then a gap year, all so he wasn't separated from the family at college, it should have been killed off.
 
Doctor Who is one of slowest produced shows at this point. It's like three seasons over the course of five years, then regeneration. Heck, had Star Trek got those types of intermissions, Berman legacy Trek would bo going on to this day. If they show is decreasing in quality, it's not because of the pace of production.
 
We got this far and nobody mentioned Charmed yet? It could have been a couple of seasons shorter.

We have had a third of a century of The Simpsons. The earlier stuff was good.

Supernatural went on for how long?

Saturday Night Live has lasted longer than it needed to be by a lot.

Archie Bunker lasted until Archie Bunker's Place and the latter should not have happened.
 
Buffy. Should have ended after 3 seasons.
 
NotASlayer
NotASlayer
I'd have gone for five seasons! Though it was starting to take itself too seriously in S5.
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I lost interest in OUAT at the beginning of season 3.

True Blood’s last season was TERRIBLE.
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Henry was an annoying little rat from the beginning, but oh dear God....when he hit puberty?! He was frightening. I was only there for Rumpelstiltskin. He WAS the show, in my opinion. For awhile anyway...

True Blood started off well. Loved Eric, Pam, and Lafayette!!! But when Maryanne showed up in S2, it was the beginning of the end for me. What a ridiculous storyline.
 
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Oh, definitely.

Seinfeld - one of my favourite shows ever, probably should've wrapped up in s8.
The debate on BTVS overstaying its welcome still rages on. 😉
True Blood
Friends overstayed its welcome by at least 2 seasons
Dexter (and don't get me started on that stupid finale..)

The question is, have you ever abandoned a show after being so frustrated with it?

I couldn't. Even though I'd be annoyed, I stuck with some series that were ridiculous because you're emotionally invested in some of the characters.
 
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I have, and sometimes it's because it's not the characters anymore, just body snatchers that replaced them. I doubt I'd watch any series, and wary of movies, if I was cursed to keep watching no matter what.
Stake fodder
Stake fodder
I'm a completist. I worry the show will get good again if I leave off!
TheAnnoyingOne
TheAnnoyingOne
Agree about Dexter. Season 5 should have wrapped things up, instead of firing the original showrunner and extending the show.
After a certain point in most series, with the main exception being those that had an ending point and stuck to it, every subsequent season can be called "The Quest for More Money".
 
Skanky Vamp
Skanky Vamp
But Buffy's intended endpoint was S3. So just because it goes past it's intended endpoint isn't necessarily as bad thing.
NotASlayer said:
After a certain point in most series, with the main exception being those that had an ending point and stuck to it, every subsequent season can be called "The Quest for More Money".
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Also known as, 'how to ruin a perfectly good series'.
 
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After a certain point
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This is the part that interests me. Is do you know when that certain point is as it happens? I posit that you do not. It's only after furter episodes and/or seasons are you like 'ok, that was the certain point' So the idea of keeping on going after that certain point isn't that bad of a thing to me, it's just when they refuse to change or end it after realizing that certain point has long since past. And then of course whose certain point has more authority? The fans certain point or the writers, et al certain point?

I mean, most Disney properties have been at that certain point for years now and they keep going. And while they are losing fans a large amount still don't see to care.
 
NotASlayer
NotASlayer
Yes, I think the only time you know when that point is is when the series had an intended endpoint. Like Buffy or B5.
@Skanky Vamp What I've come across stated that there was a 5 year plan for Buffy. Though season three does have a logical endpoint. After all, the Mayor is defeated and school is over to a degree that can't be beaten. Because you blew it up.
 
Skanky Vamp
Skanky Vamp
Season one was a mid-season replacement. They signed the show up for two additional seasons. Then early in season 3, they signed up for another two, with Greenwalt helming an Angel spin-off.
Buffy
Charmed
How I met your mother
Criminal minds
Sabrina the teenage witch
The Simpsons
Family Guy

So many shows dragged on for too long. No it seems to be the opposite, things get canceled before they get a real chance to get good.


Ethan Reigns said:
Supernatural went on for how long?
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15 very short years!
 
NotASlayer
NotASlayer
Too true about being cancelled too soon! It can easily take two seasons for a show to really find its feet (which may be one reason why season 3 is often the peak), and nowadays if a show isn't successful by then, it's cancelled.
Humm I've only watched few episodes but Grey's Anatomy lol, why does it continues after 20 seasons & the main character's departure?

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