TV shows you kept watching waaaaaay too long.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

It happens to everyone. You get a routine of watching a show, become attatched to the characters or plotlines, but the show suddenly or gradually takes a turn in the wrong direction and you stop enjoying the show....yet you keep watching it every new episode hoping it'll get better. Sometimes, your patience is rewarded and the show rebounds. Other times, the show's quality continues to decline.

When I was a kid, I used to love watching a weird little sitcom called Night Court. It hit its comedic peak about 4 or 5 seasons in then continued to declined for, I dunno, 4 more years. I bowed out before the finale seasons, but I still watched 3 years of crap before leaving. THREE YEARS!

I initially loved Smallville. I thought it was a refreshing update of the Superboy franchise, but then the stupidity of the characters and the remarkable blandness of Lana continued to grate on my nerves more and more until I finally had to stop watching. I'd say I watched about 2 seasons worth of absolute crap episodes of that before I left.

[catapulto]

Sadly, I still watch Smallville, even though I have the same complaints. The Justice League episode brought a smile to my face, though.

[Frodo-X]

LOST

Pretty much lost interest halfway into Season 2, but I didn't actually quit watching until earlier this year (Mid-Season 3).

[nervmeister]

Regrettably............ Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (the first few series). I dont anymore but still, knowing that I used to torments me till this very day.

[Legato]

Smallville. One minute it does push me on the brink of turning my back on it but then the show picks itself back up and delivers some good episodes. The funny thing about Smallville is that while it is a hit and miss show they would deliver on the Season Finales the majority of the time.

[Chiasm]

Smallville for me as well.

This season has had a few good moments, namely the Green Arrow episodes, but overall its been pretty blah which pretty much summarizes every Smallville season since the first two.

[Wenatchee the Hatchet]

I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer at all after season 3. Once the high school milleu was dropped the series seemed to lost what gave it some of its focus, sending up genre cliches by reversing them. Getting Angel and Cordelia off the show permanently altered the dynamic of the ensemble cast, which was what made the show fun for the first seasons for me.

I don't watch Smallville anymore. I stopped watching around the start of the Zod stuff, come to think of it, because I didn't have my own TV after that for a while and just didn't care to get back into the show.

[Atom_basher]

i watched alias up until the final season......

[blackdragon6]

LOST

Pretty much lost interest halfway into Season 2.what he said,like wise with smallville

[Blueferret]

LOST

Pretty much lost interest halfway into Season 2, but I didn't actually quit watching until earlier this year (Mid-Season 3).

I agree with Lost. I called shenanigans when the priest who was transporting the heroin happened to be Mr. Echo's brother. Enough is Enough and from what I understand, it's just gotten more and more bizarre.

[Deathstroke]

Sadly, I think I have to say Alias belongs in this category.

[cactusmaac]

The OC............

[brundlefly]

The X-Files. I finally through in the towel when it became obvious that they were trying to recast Mulder and Scully with Doggett and Reyes and then "start over" with a new conspiracy for them to investigate (without ever actually concluding the original one). The whole thing seemed like a big middle-finger to longtime viewers, so I took a certain schadenfreude in that direction not panning out and the decision to end the series instead, though I'd already stopped caring/watching by the time the series finale aired.

[Xerxes]

Pretty much lost interest halfway into Season 2, but I didn't actually quit watching until earlier this year (Mid-Season 3).

Ditto on that. Except i have thrown in the towel in the first half of Season 2.

[kel25]

Highlander. I loved this series but towards the end they just started getting odder and odder. The final season did have some good episodes but the main character of the series was missing from many of them. Not to mention the awful episodes that Richie died in. There is no reason he should have gotten that close to Duncan swining a sword at illusions.

[Pauly T]

NYPD Blue: 1st season was fastastic, and it held up for another season or two before nosediving straight into the toilet and growing increasingly worse season after season before coming back up quite a bit near the end, and I stayed for the whole ride...

Friends: Don't get me wrong, this show was NEVER any good at all. It was just so terrible and such a ratings success right from the start that my friend and I would tune in each week just to bear witness to its god-awfullness.

[EZMOHR]

I still watch The Simpsons and we all know there hasn't been a GREAT episode this decade....and lots of them for the last two years haven't even been funny. Yet, I keep coming back................

[Thorlief]

Frasier, the first four seasons were top-nothc, some of the best comedy you could find on TV..then it became standard and the jokes werent that good..still I watched it until the ELEVENTH season (last one)
Mad about you; I went from enjoy their trendy NYC way of life t absolutly HATIN' it. I hate Paul and Jamie and their trendy gags, I hate their trendy neighbors and I hate his lame BUT trendy cousin Ira. Why does everything and everyone in NYC has to be trendy? I hate ALL of em
but I kept watching it..hell what a waste of time

[Deathstroke]

NYPD Blue: 1st season was fastastic, and it held up for another season or two before nosediving straight into the toilet and growing increasingly worse season after season before coming back up quite a bit near the end, and I stayed for the whole ride...

I have to disagree, I never felt the show got bad. I enjoyed it from the first episode to the last.

[Frodo-X]

Agreed on Frasier. They stretched the Niles and Daphne thing out way too long, and I finally gave up on the show.

[Deathstroke]

Agreed on Frasier. They stretched the Niles and Daphne thing out way too long, and I finally gave up on the show.

I enjoyed Frasier up until the infamous parking lot toll booth episode. Then I missed most of the rest of the season. However, the final season ended up making up for the previous one.

[kalorama]

Lost.

......

[Magneto_X]

The X-Files.

Everyone once and a while it had good eps but I kept watching because I believed it would get back to its prime again and that Carter knew what he was doing. Boy, was I wrong about that!

[GRANT!]

The X-Files.

Everyone once and a while it had good eps but I kept watching because I believed it would get back to its prime again and that Carter knew what he was doing. Boy, was I wrong about that!

Yeah I gave up a year before it ended. And was completely confused when I watched the finale.

People bitch about Buffy and Lost losing it but they never got to the point X-Files did. Not even close.

[Rattlehead]

WWe programming. It hasn't been relevant or even remotley compelling since about a year before the WCW buyout, yet I continue to watch every Monday and Tuesday night. I guess I should be glad I'm not lame enough to watch Smackdown.

Smallville. The show really is crap. For every good episode there's five simply atrocious ones, and enough with the Black Kryptonite already. Clark Kent is also written to be a complete mouth breathing buffoon on the show, and he uses his powers in front of everybody.

EDIT: Oh and I actually hung around for the entire second season of Dark Angel.
*runs and hides in shame*

[Toonimator]

Reading just the title of this thread had me immediately think "Night Court", like the original poster ;)

I think Bull ended up going off with some aliens in the final episode. That's how weird it became. Plus Mel Torme was on every other week, it seemed.

Smallville fits the bill for me, too, but when it's good I LOVE it. Just so much of the last few seasons, especially Lana bits, have been absolute dreck.

I don't think LOST has gotten anywhere close to belonging in this thread. It's been on less than 3 full seasons! AND it was just as bizarre at the beginning as anything they're doing now, with the crossing paths, 'monster', & mysterious numbers and all that.

While I loved a lot of Buffy, I think the last few seasons I watched with rose-tinted glasses; there was a lot of good stuff, but plenty of weak episodes that I don't enjoy much anymore.

ALIAS also fits this thread well... I stuck with it through the 2-year jump and most of the next season, but as it started going on odd breaks and, I think, switching timeslots, I lost interest. I caught the end of the episode where Vaughn turns to Syd and says "My name's not Michael Vaughn" then gets hit by a car, shortly after an episode where he visited his uncle to talk about his father, Papa Vaughn, and just felt like I was done, one twist too much.

[Frodo-X]

I don't think LOST has gotten anywhere close to belonging in this thread. It's been on less than 3 full seasons! AND it was just as bizarre at the beginning as anything they're doing now, with the crossing paths, 'monster', & mysterious numbers and all that.

But there is a difference between mysterious-island-with-spooky-stuff-in-the-jungle and crazy-island-cult-that-does-stuff-that-makes-no-sense. Just like X-files went from supernatural stuff to all government conspiracy stuff.

[Murrocko]

WWe programming. It hasn't been relevant or even remotley compelling since about a year before the WCW buyout, yet I continue to watch every Monday and Tuesday night. I guess I should be glad I'm not lame enough to watch Smackdown.

Yuuuuuuup, but recently I really haven't had the urge to watch any of it. I think it's been 3 months since I've watched WWE programs.

[Athena Bast]

Highlander. I loved this series but towards the end they just started getting odder and odder. The final season did have some good episodes but the main character of the series was missing from many of them. Not to mention the awful episodes that Richie died in. There is no reason he should have gotten that close to Duncan swining a sword at illusions.

Adrian didn't want to do a season six really.

I heard that he cut his hair in protest of having to keep doing the series and wore extensions for season 5 and 6. I know he cut his hair but the truth of the extensions I don't know.

[FanboyStranger]

I'm really feeling that way towards 24 this season. They've gone to the well too many times this season, rehashing old plots with new characters. Usually 24 moves so fast that its flaws don't stand out as much, but this season with the exception of the Graeme/Philip Bauer plot, everything has been done better in earlier seasons.

Sopranos, too. Last Sunday was the biggest moment in the past three years, and I didn't really even care. I think I only still watch because it comes up in conversations. To be honest, I think am more interested in Cleaver, and I'm not interested in Cleaver at all. (The behind the scenes mock-umentary DvD extra was pretty funny, though.)

[Magneto_X]

24 may be extremely rediculous but it doesn't stop being fun to watch.

The Simpsons & X-Files didn't have that going for them. It just felt like a chore watching them. I'm glad I finally stopped watching them a season or two into their nadir.

[Frodo-X]

I'm really feeling that way towards 24 this season. They've gone to the well too many times this season, rehashing old plots with new characters. Usually 24 moves so fast that its flaws don't stand out as much, but this season with the exception of the Graeme/Philip Bauer plot, everything has been done better in earlier seasons.

Amen to that.

[Your Imaginary Pal]

The News
geez
in NY every night there's a fire in the Bronx
a Teacher messing with a student
Someone getting hit by an off duty drunk driving cop

not to mention the overly sensationalized celebrity gossip

phooey to the news
phooey I say

give me the paper any day, much easier to filter through.

[stealthwise]

Gave Smallville two seasons too many (I watched the first two seasons).

I've watched the Simpsons since I was in elementary school and am still watching it today.

Tried to give Grey's Anatomy a chance, because my wife liked it, but I can't stand it.

[fierceandfunky]

i did lose faith in smallville.. seasons 3 and 4 were lackluster. but seasons 5 and 6 have made it really awesome again.

LOST went really downhill in season 2.. but picked up again in season 3...

PRISON BREAK.. really sucked major balls 2 episodes in to the 2nd season. season 1 was awesome. then it totally blew...