i heard walking dead, and lost. most animes are pretty bad after the 2-4 seasons. hence why some japanese ones only go through 2 seasons max.
If you are counting anime, Sword Art Online.
Heroes was great at the start, but that didn’t even last a whole season. The “Save the cheerleader, save the world” arc might be the best superhero TV ever made (10 or 11 episodes, I think?) then it rapidly went downhill to mediocre then terrible.
A.P. Bio. They slowly tied to normalize it and it lost all its edge.
Welcome To Flatch. Season 1 was awesome! Season 2 they tried to make it a “normal” show and it was awful.
glenn howertons show, no wonder he went back to ISAIP, couldnt hack it outside the show.
Thank you for mentioning AP Bio - I half-remembered some show with a trailer that had been color-graded within an inch of its life. No colors left besides peach and teal. But whenever I tried finding it again, it ended something like “Abbot Elementary doesn’t look like that.”
altered carbon. Season 2 was so cheap in comparison
Joel Kinnaman. Accept no substitute.
I’m sure there could have been a replacement that worked.
But in no possible universe could it have been Anthony Mackie.
Heroes. The first season wrapped up its story beautifully. The second season was an aimless disaster.
I’ve read online that the original plan was for each season to tell a stand-alone story with a different set of heroes but the network was insistent on keeping the popular characters from season one on for season two. Peter Petrelli’s power is universe-breaking after he learns to control it, so the show ended up tying itself into a pretzel to explain why the answer to every problem isn’t “get Peter to snap his fingers and fix it”. There was also a writer’s strike in the middle of the season, which didn’t help.
it got wierd after sylar went good, and then it just went in a different direction.
The writer’s strike shielded the show from so much criticism, because people figured the shite pacing and jumble of characters were caused by the studio plowing ahead without proper scripts. Nope! Executives just demanded the dumbest shit imaginable, and the original creators did their level best, until they were told to stop work and join the picket line.
Goliath…the show with Billy Bob Thornton. Season 1 had dynamics and interesting characters plus the ending resolved all the loose ends.
Next attempts at seasons were beyond lame.
I just came here to say: The one scene with the crosswalk was insane. I all but spat my drink. If you know, you know.
Bleach.
Season one, an otherworldly intruder accidentally ropes some kid and his friends into fighting monsters, in a grounded modern setting with a distinct sense of comedic realism.
Season two, they went to Namek.
Hard disagree. Bleach was advertised as a dumb battle shonen when it’s main achievement is the lore and art. There’s still plenty of good stuff after the first season, and basically none of the worldbuilding is done by that point
The who-is-stronger exposition dumps are the problem. I don’t give a shit about Soul Society - that’s not the show I was enjoying. That’s just what it became, for endless repetitive nonsense, after the formulaic-but-distinct first season made a ton of money.
If there was no first season - if it actually had been advertised on what’s in the second season onward - I would not have finished a single episode. Total apathy. But because I cared about what it was, and hoped we might get more of that, I still feel betrayed.
Westworld comes to mind for me
Kiksuya.
Season 2 was rough, but I think season 3 was a good soft reboot. After that it’s all downhill again, but it almost righted itself.
The ending of season 1 was perfect. Anything after that is an excuse for nudity and gore.
Agreed. I like the following seasons okay but the first season is nearly perfect on its own.
Firefly. After the first season everything that made the show great is just missing.
The movie was enjoyable
He said what he said.
This but unironically. I hated that movie.
Cobra Kai
Every successive season forgets harder and harder that grown men having karate feuds is embarrassingly juvenile.
Altered Carbon
The obvious examples for me are Altered Carbon, The Terror (although its anthological and a third is in production) and Westworld.
The Terror had a second season!? I really liked the first season and had no idea it was going to continue as an anthology. I take it the second season doesn’t measure up to the first?
It’s considered bad. I haven’t watched it. It’s set in a Japanese internment camp during WW2.
Jessica Jones
Gonna go with Handmaid’s Tale, gets progressively worse with each season
There’s a really whackadoo cult member in there. I can’t watch it.
