Awesome point on Flapjack, hadn’t even thought of that. I’d love to see a reboot, the world in that show was so interesting. Not nearly enough Steampunk cartoons out there
Inside Job is so good, I was crushed when I heard they canceled it. Such a fun concept for a show, and I thought it was really well written. Was really funny, but also had it’s sad moments. I’m bummed about that one for sure.
Deadwood was pretty disappointing, especially with the movie. I was expecting the movie to wrap stuff up nicely, but it basically leaves stuff exactly where it was except (SPOILER) is dead. It’s not even a horrible ending, it just doesn’t feel like an ending at all and it makes me sad that there’s not more
They had to cram the ending into a movie, where it should have been stretched to multiple seasons. It’s like what happened in Rome season 2, they had to cram 20 years of Roman history into one season.
As a Futurama fan…Futurama. The reboot is very mediocre at best, the show was great when it was a bunch of characters with wildly different personalities messing around in the year 3000. The first reboot was kinda less interesting but ok for the most part, I personally think the movies were pretty bad and the new season just wants to be South Park with 3-year old dated references. It had a good run, should’ve ended after season 4
I watched the first season when it first aired way back in the 90s, and I've seen random episodes here and there since. I recently decided to watch the whole series, and I had forgotten that a lot of the writing is just not my kind of humor, which is why I lost interest back when it was new. Even so, there was enough good stuff for me to keep watching, but I'm in S5 right now, and I've definitely noticed a drop off in quality.
I’m still holding out hope that it gets better as it goes along but you’re absolutely correct about the new reboot. It’s fallen into the same trap as The Simpsons where it’s “pick a trend and make fun of it” show after show.
I was looking for someone else to mention Futurama. The new season is just so mediocre. You hit the nail on the head, they’re leaning so hard on social commentary but most of the references are already dated (Bitcoin mining, lol) and in general it’s just rather cringey. I’ve yet to hear one joke that actually had me bust out laughing, and the writers seem to have forgotten the subtlety that made Futurama stand out from other animated sitcoms.
Billy West sounds like he’s lost his voice and it feels like the rest of the cast are phoning in their performances a lot of the time. And what’s with the release schedule? A Christmas episode in August? I remember there being delays but I don’t understand why they would rush to get it out, they had so long to get it right and they still messed it up.
Oh yeah, and what the hell happened to Zoidberg’s girlfriend when he was all alone on Christmas? Are they just completely retconning season 10 or what? I don’t remember if they said exactly how far back the time button sent them.
The Office (US version) went downhill in seasons 8 and 9 without Steve Carrell. But the ending of the show was satisfying. They brought back Steve for that.
Casa de Papel. The first season is its own contained story and it was fantastic and ended perfectly. The subsequent seasons were okay, but you could really tell that the writers hadn’t expected the show to continue after season 1, and everything kind of felt made up on the spot and not nearly as well constructed. I watched it because I love some of the actors/characters, but when I recommend it to people, I tell them to only watch the first season.
It had a phenomenal last episode, but I think most people agree that MAS*H went on way too long. They really started running out of good, meaty concepts for shows around the time David Ogden Stiers (nothing against him, I like him) joined the cast.
Writers introduced way too many mysteries that they didn’t resolve. ABC should have given them less episodes so they were forced to tie up loose ends faster.
It was the fall of Walter White. If we ended at series 4 he’s a successful drug dealer and no moral lesson was learned. Series 5 saw his greed lead to his downfall and eventual demise turning the story into a tragedy.
IIRC, he was a successful drug dealer, but wanted to quit, and at the end of the 4th season it seemed it was what would happen. Anyway, as I said before, I enjoyed the last season, but the (more or less) open ending of the 4th wouldn’t have been bad (IMO)
Well, I’d rather would have preferred kind of an “open arch”. To me, during the 4th season, WW was trying to quit and reedem himself ; at the end, it seemed that he woukd be able to. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the 5th season, but… he deserved better (story wise)
Did he though? The entire premise of the show is that he really isn’t a good person and all his problems are self inflicted due to his arrogance and pride. I really think he deserved exactly what happened to him.
I’ve always perceived him as a desperate man that got more and more dehumanized, until, well… found someone truly bad, but not as a bad person himself. But you have a point, he put in such position due to his arrogance.
The thing is, his desperation is entirely of his own making. He was offered enough money and support to get by with no problems in the first episode, but turned it down because he was too proud. He put his family through everything in the show entirely because of his pride, all while saying he was doing it for them. I’d argue he was a bad person from day one.
I recently binged all family guy since I stopped watching regularly on Disney +, it had a period where the quality dropped but seems to pick up again later on, quite a lot of self awareness in some jokes too. American Dad will always be better though.
The first episode is a fun reimagining of the original story. The second episode is a neat “reverse who-done-it”/bottle episode. The third episode should not exist. Full stop. “Dracula wakes up in modern times and it turns out his weaknesses are just PTSD and then he chooses to die out of honor or something.”
Penny Dreadful
The second season ends on a fantastic melancholy vibe that matches the whole tone of the show. The third season wastes all character development to have extra drama.
Weeds -I started to think about leaving after a lot of build up between deflated after two main characters couldn’t fathom celebrating Thanksgiving differently. Fully checked out and turned in my keycard when they got Snoop Dog to rap about a new tree strain. Lastly, Nancy was usually the direct cause of all their problems.
I stuck with weeds because 1-3 were just that good. But, when people ask if they should watch, I tell them that’s the show. That’s it. 4 and 5 were entirely their own thing. 6 was pointless. 7 and 8 felt like the right path after 1-3. In my opinion should have been 1-3, 7-8 and then 4-5 with 6 being a fever dream on how Nancy fucked up and could’ve done better.
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