Went too soon/out-stayed their welcome
Went too soon/out-stayed their welcome
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irocfan

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46,640 posts

213 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Which TV series did you mourn the ending of?

Firefly
DS:9 (though to be fair the ending was at a logical point so there were no loose ends)


And which did you think "should've been cancelled ages ago?"

vixen1700

27,858 posts

293 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Recently re-watched the V remake and was gutted to find out it was cancelled after two series, the last episode had it gearing up well for much more to come. frown

Muzzer79

12,674 posts

210 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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irocfan said:
Which TV series did you mourn the ending of?
Breaking Bad

irocfan said:
And which did you think "should've been cancelled ages ago?"
Homeland

RacingBlue

1,455 posts

187 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Lost should have finished four series earlier. Agreed with Breaking Bad. The last few episodes were some of the most compelling TV I’ve seen.

Mcphisto

847 posts

158 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Which TV series did you mourn the ending of?

Blackadder (and the Young Ones back in the day but not worn well)


And which did you think "should've been cancelled ages ago?"

Britains got talent and all those type of shows

Johnnytheboy

24,499 posts

209 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Too soon: Terminator Sarah Connor. Though watching again recently and series 2 is nowhere near as good as series 1.

Police Squad (only six made!)

Dragged on: The Big Bang Theory. Anything after series 4 gets rapidly worse.

The Simpsons. Anything after series 8 ditto.

Johnnytheboy

24,499 posts

209 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Game of Thrones. If Westeros had been destroyed in some Deus Ex Machina like a asteroid strike at the end of the penultimate series, it would till have been more satisfactory than that turd of a final series.

bmwmike

8,284 posts

131 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Schits Creak i thought was very good.

Shows I wish they'd cancel: News & Weather

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

284 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Ashes to Ashes and Life on Mars. Breaking Bad. Boardwalk Empire and I'm sure I'll feel the same way about Vikings when I get to the end. Oh, and Banshee. And of course The Sopranos.

Wished they'd finished sooner?

Hard to say, Homeland I guess. Stopped after the first couple of seasons. Never watched Lost but gathered that got daft. And Twin Peaks the same.

If something is rubbish or doesn't hold my attention, then I ditch it.

TCEvo

15,038 posts

225 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Too Soon: Southland (nod to Bosch but fortunately there's one season to go).

Enough: Homeland

irocfan

Original Poster:

46,640 posts

213 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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I loved Impastor - comedy about a crim impersonating a gay, small town, pastor (it's actually on Amazon prime)

boyse7en

7,954 posts

188 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Too soon:
Detectorists (although I have read it is coming back)

Too long:
Pretty much any US sitcom goes on beyond its natural time. Cheers, Big Bang Theory, Frasier, Friends, Sex and the City etc all should have been a few series shorter.

irocfan

Original Poster:

46,640 posts

213 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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boyse7en said:
Too soon:
Detectorists (although I have read it is coming back)

Too long:
Pretty much any US sitcom goes on beyond its natural time. Cheers, Big Bang Theory, Frasier, Friends, Sex and the City etc all should have been a few series shorter.
Bad news for you then - both SitC and Frasier are coming back

Muntu

7,674 posts

222 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Too soon:
The Bridge: I nearly didn't get past Episode 4 of this as I found Saga hugely annoying in the first few episodes, but once I got over that it was hugely compelling viewing. It definitely has / had a few more seasons in it

Too long:
The Sopranos. It saddens me to say this but it's true. Without seasons 5 and 6 it would be in my all time top 2. Just didn't enjoy the woke stuff in the last two seasons - the gay gangsters, the climate change stuff, the general feel of seasons 5 & 6. They should have left it as a story of gangsters doing gangster stuff. Still brilliant though despite all that

ThePrisoner

1,074 posts

231 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Too soon:

Ringer

A Sarah Michelle Gellar TV series . Felled half way through the series without a decent ending.

The secret circle .

Again cancelled without a proper ending.


Out stayed :

The inevitable Howards Way:

Hats off to the beeb in milking a TV series for what was an age when the poor actor/ character died in real life half way through the second series .

Edited by ThePrisoner on Friday 12th March 20:15

Terzo123

4,648 posts

231 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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vixen1700 said:
Recently re-watched the V remake and was gutted to find out it was cancelled after two series, the last episode had it gearing up well for much more to come. frown
I really enjoyed the remake of V, was fairly pee'd off that it was cancelled.

If Lost had been cancelled the same way as V, it would have been lauded. Instead it ended a complete shambles.

Sons of Anarchy dragged on a fair bit, there's only so many times you can watch the same bike chases ending up in the same industrial estate.

jonwm

2,678 posts

137 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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I always wanted to see more of Entourage

Lynchie999

3,621 posts

176 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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too soon...

LOST

outstayed ...

LOST

hehe

just been binge watching it on D+ up to mid S2... pretty good TV wasn't it! (sort of went downhill when the temple was introduced, should've stuck with the Dharma storyline)

BadOrangePete

860 posts

67 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Off the top of my head,

Too soon; Phoenix nights, IT Crowd,

Outstayed; Walking dead.

gregs656

12,107 posts

204 months

Friday 12th March 2021
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Muntu said:
Too soon:
The Bridge: I nearly didn't get past Episode 4 of this as I found Saga hugely annoying in the first few episodes, but once I got over that it was hugely compelling viewing. It definitely has / had a few more seasons in it

Too long:
The Sopranos. It saddens me to say this but it's true. Without seasons 5 and 6 it would be in my all time top 2. Just didn't enjoy the woke stuff in the last two seasons - the gay gangsters, the climate change stuff, the general feel of seasons 5 & 6. They should have left it as a story of gangsters doing gangster stuff. Still brilliant though despite all that
I never thought I’d see someone complain The Sopranos was too woke.