Shows You No Longer Watch

[Starbreaker]

What currently airing shows do you no longer watch after being invested in them at one time.

For me...

Law & Order: SVU - for a few years, this was regular viewing for me. I didn't catch every single episode, but I saw a lot. What I see now just kind of annoys me. I don't see how any of these characters still have their job.

Law & Order: CI - Goren and Eames used to have the coolest cases. Now it's a slew of other rotating detectives and the show's music is so loud I can barely hear the actors sometimes.

CSI: Miami - the first season of this show is spectacular. The latin music and the extremely dark cases. It's campy now and I find ALL of the characters annoying.

Smallville - maybe I'm just getting older, but the Clark/Lana stuff just wore me out. We all knew how it was going to end, so why bother? I quit watching about 4 years ago and really haven't looked back. Maybe I'll watch a "best of" selection when the show is over.

Heroes - I bailed out in the middle of the second season. This was the most talked about show at school the year it came out, and now I couldn't tell you three people who watched it. Nothing in this show is consequential.

 

[Aragorn]

Smallville (what utter garbage!)
Private Practice
CSI: NY

I don't think I was a big Law & Order fan, but I'm pretty sure I saw most of SVU's episodes during the first few seasons. I only watched CI during the Logan episodes so that doesn't count.

Shows no longer on the air that I used to watch but then gave up on include Star Trek: Voyager, Boston Legal and Frasier.

 

[RonG]

Smallville - (for the most part) - I tried watching the S9 opener, and gave up midway

Monk - when they started having multiple mid-season breaks a couple of years ago, and the (main) storyline went nowhere, I just quit.. seasons 1-2 are still classic IMO

Numb3rs - quit after 2 seasons

Damages - quit after viewing the first couple of S2 episodes

 

[Kegg]

The Simpsons. I grew up watching this show, have watched many episodes literally hundreds of times, and I can still quote whole segments verbatim.

I also haven't seen a new episode in years. If there's ever a series that should have quit while it was ahead, this is the one.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

The Simpsons - I gave up years ago. The movie merely confirmed to me that it's still crap.
Heroes - Good in the second half of the first season, but crap ever since and I stopped during season 3.
Law & Order - Initially I was excited about Jack McCoy becoming the D.A. but it has felt like a bust to me.


I still watch SVU from time to time, but I agree it has lost its edge and is not nearly as good as it use to be. Same for CI, although I enjoyed the Logan episodes until Noth left. Goldblum is always a treat but it his role just makes me wish Raines had been successful (or rather NBC gave it a chance).

 

[Bast]

I gave up on House during the whole ludicrous storyline with the cop (Tritter?) and never went back.

 

[Jim Steele]

Another vote for Heroes here. Gave up on it not far into season 3. Shite.

 

[Australis]

Scrubs.
Monk (though I am watching the last season to see how it pans out)
CSI: Miami and Las Vegas (never got into NY)
Numb3rs, though I can't think of a particular reason why
Smallville (back when the season finale had all the twisters)
Never got into L&O

There are more, I'll add them when I think of them.

 

[cultcross]

The Simpsons - this show defined my adolescence, I had a Simpsons quote for every occasion, but it just lost the plot. Increasingly contrived stories, assassination of the characters one by one to the point where Homer has changed from dumb but kind hearted father to malicious, dangerously stupid oaf. I change channels when new Simpsons appears now.

Smallville - Stuck with this show till the end of season 5, and quite enjoyed a lot of it, but the plot got more and more ridiculous, the Clark/Lana thing became the single most irritating plotline in TV history and the contrivances to make it Superman-with-no-costume rather than a show about Clark Kent in Smallville got me down. I've seen the odd episode since and never regretted leaving it behind.

ER - I was a religious watcher till Carter left, then it began to lose me as the next season went on, and I kept trying to keep going but it had completely lost interest for me. Bar a few stand-out episodes, I stopped watching soon after. ER was the story of John Carter, and it turned out that without him, it had no story.

 

[Iasius]

Counting shows where I've watched at least half a season:

Simpsons
Psych
Monk
Mad Men
Smallville

Also American Dad

 

[Mysterion]

Heroes
Two and a Half Men
The Simpsons

 

[tomalak301]

Heroes - Watched up to the end of Season 3, but I just didn't care for it to continue watching

The Simpsons - I haven't watched an episode in years. Hell, when it was good I could take it or leave it.

I may give up on Glee. Didn't like the episode last week (Almost condoning Performance enhancing Drugs, this close to the MLB Postseason?).

 

[T'Baio]

I was the biggest fan of 24 before it even came out, in a sense, thinking it was a wonderful premise for a show. I loved the first season, and believe it or not, started the first threads about it here.

Then around season 5 I realized that season 1 was as good as it was gonna get, and then I saw Jack control the ailerons of a passenger jet by pulling open a compartment and pulling on cables! I gave up after that bit.

 

[23skidoo]

I've stopped watching a few shows, but not because I dislike them. There are several shows that I've decided to watch exclusively on DVD. These include Fringe and NCIS. In the case of Fringe I missed the last third of the first season because I lost track of the show when Fox put it on hiatus for a couple months. I got the DVD set but didn't have time to watch the missed episodes before Season 2 began, so I decided to heck with it and I'll watch it all on DVD.

Same with NCIS. It was scheduled at the same time as another program I liked a couple years ago, and so I decided to just wait for the DVDs.

In terms of shows I've given up on, there haven't been any recently. I still watch and enjoy Heroes and I'll stick with it to the (likely) bitter end. There are a few shows I watched the first episode of and decided it wasn't for me - Dollhouse being one. I liked Flashpoint, but I can never find when it's on, so it more or less lost me.

I did try watching Lost for awhile, but I missed a few episodes due to travel and work and I never got caught up. I've made the decision to watch the whole show on DVD once the final season airs and the story is complete.

After ignoring it for a few years I gave Smallville a try, but it didn't hold my interest and I felt it diverged too much from the comic books to satisfy me.

In terms of older shows, I'm pretty much completely weaned off Star Trek. I refuse to support the Remastered alterations (I am happy the originals - more or less - are being put on Blu-Ray, but I remain offended by the rationale behind the idea), TNG has not aged well, and DS9 was never a show that worked well with viewing episodes at random. Voyager I never cared for and Enterprise is nowhere to be found (but I have that show on DVD so it doesn't matter).

Alex

 

[Kitty Worrier]

I still watch SVU from time to time, but I agree it has lost its edge and is not nearly as good as it use to be. Same for CI, although I enjoyed the Logan episodes until Noth left. Goldblum is always a treat but it his role just makes me wish Raines had been successful (or rather NBC gave it a chance).

I watched the Logan episodes as well. Was sad to see him go. I also like Goldblum on the show, but it makes me miss Raines as well. That was such an interesting show. So was Life.

*sigh*

I stopped watching Simpsons years ago. Scrubs after the move, I just couldn't bother looking for it on ABC after the crap that was the last season on NBC. I realized at the start of last season that I just didn't find Two and a Half Men funny anymore and didn't care for the characters to the point of not liking any of them, so I gave up. And Heroes after the season three finale. Frak the writers in the neck.

 

[sidious618]

Let's see. I gave up on 24 when Jack tortured his brother for no reason. I gave up on Heroes a few episodes before the first season finale because I realized it was soulless and wouldn't be going anywhere. From what I've heard it turns out that I was right. I gave up on Stargate Atlantis during the first quarter of the fifth season but that show just ended so I don't know if it counts.

 

[Sephiroth]

I gave up on Atlantis mid season 3 when I realsied that the ship was never going to get off the ground

 

[Scout101]

Heroes, and for the most part, The Simpsons.

 

[Sephiroth]

I was gonna give up on SVU, NO REAL COP would get away with half the shit that Stabler has pulled, but then I saw the episode "Zebras"

 

[Shatmandu]

Heroes was good for the first season. I bailed about five episodes into the second, because if I heard one more esoteric-douchebaggery voiceover from Mohinder, I would kill.

I'll watch Smallville, but I have to turn it when one of two things happen: there's a hospital scene or Chloe appears on screen.

Joe, clicked