Which shows have you 'show divorced'?

[GoGo Yubari]

I'll try and think of as many as I can, though a lot of them are concurring with other people.

Glee - the episode about Cory Monteith's death was all the closure I needed. I speedwatched through the final season, though.

Homeland - like two episodes into season 3 I just realized that it was over. I didn't care anymore.

Dexter - I basically went through a thing starting in season 6 where I'd watch seasons until I got sick of them. In 6, that lasted two episodes. In 7, that lasted until Ray Stevenson's character was killed off. I can't even remember where I gave up on season 8.

Sons of Anarchy - god, what was the endless episode-closing montage set to at the start of the last season? One of those soppy, melodramatic, somber covers of a classic song. Those are so fucking obnoxious and self-indulgent. Fuck Sons of Anarchy tbh.

[Maxx]

Walking Dead, I mean just look at who created the Walking Dead thread  Andrew Lincoln might be a good actor, but Rick is fucking horrible and I just couldn't watch that performance anymore.

Edited October 20, 2015 by Maxx

[Gazz]

Walking Dead midway through season 4. Misery porn.

Homeland, never bothered with season 4. No Brody, no sale.

HIMYM, never bothered with final season.

Raw, about two months ago but I still read the Uproxx review. It's like looking at an ex-girlfriend's Facebook page...

I truthfully thought the last season of HIMYM, barring the finale, was actually one of the best seasons of the show. Probably because of the many throwbacks to the first few seasons of the show.

It probably was, but once I realised that Ted was a sociopath bent on destroying whatever relationships stood in the path of his perceived happiness, I just wanted him to die miserable and alone.

Marshall is still the king though. Long live Big Fudge.

I've also been reminded of the silly Homeland plot where basically Osama Bin Laden suddenly appeared in Vermont like it was nothing. Once Dana and her 'acting', which was just eye rolling and tutting became a major part of the show, I was out.

[Quom]

I'm pretty much the opposite. It's an achievement for me to stick with a show until it's finished or now in the days of torrents and Netflix I'll have a massive break before jumping back in. A lot of shows I really like but when a season ends I either outgrow them by the time they come back, or they're a bit convoluted and by the time the new season is out I've forgotten major plot points from the previous season (looking at you Orphan Black). 99% of the shows I've watched to completion is from marathoning them. 

The only shows I'm currently up-to-date with and love are GoT and Please Like Me. 

 

[TKz]

Supernatural and Sons are the two big ones. How I Met Your Mother too.

I kind of did this with Smallville, which I always regret. You could feel the budget disappear by the last season and the Darkseid story was so poorly done. They didn't have the budget to do it right and the villain Clark ended up fighting... ugh. But I watched like 10 seasons of it. I wish I'd finished it, but there's no way I will now.

Think I've made it there with Agents of SHIELD, too. I just can't be assed to finish Season 2 and I don't really care about the Inhumans stuff. When Daredevil came out, it kind of changed the game for Marvel TV and the 24 episode padded seasons of SHIELD couldn't hook me anymore.

EDIT: Oh yeah, Psych and Dexter too. Dexter I haven't ever looked back on, but it's a shame about Psych. Good little show, but I just literally didn't need any more of it.

Edited October 20, 2015 by TKzo Amore

[GhostMachine]

Add me to the list of people who gave up on The Walking Dead. I watched the first two seasons, and have seen only about 6 episodes since. And only one from last season, which featured Abraham's group, not the regulars. 

I tried watching Fear The Walking Dead, but gave up after 3 episodes because I don't care for any of the characters whatsoever. 

 

[Benjamin]

Oh yeah, Dexter was definitely one. I can't even remember when I stopped, but after a while I didn't give a shit about it anymore.

[VerbalPuke]

Awkward., after Lauren Iungerich left the show. I felt like the quality was already declining around midway through season 3, then when Iungerich left her own show I stopped bothering with it. 

The Walking Dead is another one, I gave up after season 3 or 4. I still keep up with it because I know a lot of people that watch it, but it just hasn't held my attention for a while. I can only deal with so much "Rick struggles to keep his humanity"/"the group moves from shelter to shelter" stuff before it gets tiresome.

The Walking Dead for me as well, and for the reasons you mentioned. I forget which season I just stopped caring, I think it was, I don't even know. Whatever happened in February's half season is when I think I gave up. I honestly can't remember. The first two seasons were very good, but like you said, the moving from shelter to shelter crap was crap. "Oh hey the group is together, oh hey the group is split for a few episodes, oh they found each other, oh not anymore" just barf. I'm sick of zombies. I used to love zombies as a kid, but zombies are just fucking over saturated. I still love the Romero flicks and all, but the other stuff just got to be too much.

That's about it because I don't have very many shows I've followed regularly. Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad I was able to finish, but good lord was SOA a fucking chore those last two seasons. Myke mentioned misery porn for the Walking Dead, same applies to SOA.

[Lint]

I gave up on American Horror Story during the Coven season...first season was like 'Yea, this is awesome!"  Second season was "Yea, this is grea.....aliens?"  Third season "And she fucked a guy to death...I'm done"

[Nerf]

I think I've only actively divorced two shows: Homeland and American Horror Story. Anything else that I've "divorced" has just been a case of forgetting it exists.

[Benji]

I gave up on American Horror Story during the Coven season...first season was like 'Yea, this is awesome!"  Second season was "Yea, this is grea.....aliens?"  Third season "And she fucked a guy to death...I'm done"

Three years later and I still don't get what the aliens did or why they were in an otherwise reasonable story.

[HailtotheYo]

The Americans .... LOVED IT the first season and about midway through season 2 simply couldn't be bothered. 

 

[Lint]

I gave up on American Horror Story during the Coven season...first season was like 'Yea, this is awesome!"  Second season was "Yea, this is grea.....aliens?"  Third season "And she fucked a guy to death...I'm done"

Three years later and I still don't get what the aliens did or why they were in an otherwise reasonable story.

Yea, I never quite got that plot twist either.  You have a perfectly reasonable spook story with an American asylum, which is you read about them at that period is creepy enough...throw in the former Nazi doctor and its made.  Aliens?  Where the hell did that fit in

[Alex.]

- Raw 

- LOST after season 3 I think

- Possibly Game of Thrones as season 6 is make or break for me after that shit they did last season

[Benjamin]

 

- Possibly Game of Thrones as season 6 is make or break for me after that shit they did last season

[Noah]

Oh yeah Walking Dead. At this point I'm only in it, until the 2 characters remaining that I care about are killed off(or it ends I guess).

[Marsh]

Mine are repeats from earlier in the thread, but:

Dexter
Got so ridiculous in the later seasons, I didn't watch the end. After watching for so many years and only giving up in the last season, I read a recap of the end to find out what happened, which only served to vindicate my decision to opt out. What an awful decline that show went through.

Under The Dome
I really wanted to like this, but switched off during Season 2 (No idea if it is still going now) because it all seemed far too hokey. I can't put my finger on it exactly, but something about the casting drove me up the wall. Too youth oriented perhaps? Frustrated because the concept of the show really appealed to me, but it ended up too much like Grange Hill/ Byker Grove/ Hollyoaks.

The Simpsons
Loved this show. Years ago, it was a widely held view that The Simpsons was a show for both children and adults, but I don't think that trope holds much water now. We're spoilt for choice these days with TV shows that cater for adult males, boasting movie quality episodes every week. Things like Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, etc. I don't think as many adults watch Simpsons/ Family Guy/ American Dad as they did 10 years ago. All of those shows were on my radar at one point, but I don't keep up with them any more.

24
I've watched them all, but after binge watching the series again recently it doesn't hold up well in 2015. If the rumoured reboot happens without Jack Bauer, I definitely wouldn't watch it. I think it has run its course, there are so many other shows like it now.

Top Gear
Like 24 without Jack Bauer, I won't be watching Top Gear without Clarkson/Hammond/May. Don't want to watch a car show fronted by Chris Evans, it's about as appealing to me as Fifth Gear. (I never watch, and that already exists)

Edited October 25, 2015 by Marsh

[Alex.]

 

- Possibly Game of Thrones as season 6 is make or break for me after that shit they did last season

Me personally dude it was a very weak season filled with lot of terribleness (winterfell storyline, stannis storyline, dorne storyline). Ton of plot holes all done just to "shock" the audience.

[FLiam]

I have a few. Prison Break was one I finished half way through Season 3 as it just turned to shit. Which was disappointing considering how good the first two seasons were.

Heroes. Quit at the start of season three.

Family Guy - The episode before the whole Brian thing. Genuinely feels like a chore to watch these days.

24 - Gave up probably around season 6.

Homeland - Pretty much gave up in season 2.

The Shield - The Glenn Close series killed it.

[JasonM]

I'd like to add a re-marry one for me.

I loved South Park for a long time, and I watched it almost religiously whenever a new episode came out. But around the end of Season 14 I was just completely done with the show, it started to revolve more around pissing off groups 'for teh lulz' rather than send an actual message, and especially Cartman episodes became absolutely fucking awful because they just kept droning on and on and on with his hole Jew-hating schtick to a point where it simply wasn't funny at all, it was grating and offensive not just to the groups, but me as a viewer trying to watch it.

So at that point I just decided 'fuck it, i'm done with SP'. And for a long time I really didn't watch it and had no interest in watching.

Then the latest season started, and they really went all in on the new direction of it being semi-serialized and storylines arcing over an entire season rather than just being episodes of the week. Stuff like PC-bro's still 'meh' me out, but on the other hand Garrison becoming SP's equivalent of Trump, and the whole sodasopa/whole foods/sht pa town stuff is just genuinly funny. Sure, there are still duds in there like the whole Yelp episode which I found to be grating rather than funny, but I feel like they've actually decided to not re-invent the wheel but improve it instead.

 

On the flipside, Family Guy I stopped watching like 4 years ago and I've not had a single moment of wanting to start watching it again. That show went down the hill fast and McFarlane and co are too ass-deep in their millions to give a fuck about producing a show of decent quality.