Ray Donovan, Homeland, and House of Lies are all solid shows

Yep forgot those two but definitely fit the list.

Weeds and Shameless as well.

[deleted]

Almost all of their hits - Billions, Homeland, Dexter, Californication, Ray Donovan (though I don’t think it’s as egregious).

Oh and the signs where definitely there. And I knew that going in. The final season of the show was rushed heavily as the production lost 6 months of time to work on it. I guess I was just blindsided by how much it sucked and undid it’s entire story

I think contemporary comedy writers are massively hamstrung by having so many topics be considered completely verboten as a target for humour, meaning that the shows lack any sort of bite; they all feel very bland and sterile. I watch a modern comedy like Harley Quinn and the jokes tend to be some variation of pop cultural reference, pop culture reference, white man bad, pop cultural reference, slapstick humour. There's clearly talent there, and genuinely funny moments, but once you notice the formula, it's kind of off-putting.

The Office would not have had the same impact without Michael's complete inappropriateness, nor would 30 Rock or Arrested Development have had the same critical acclaim had it not had the carte blanche to poke fun at every facet of society on all sides of the political, racial, ethnic, gender, etc. spectrum. It's not the only ingredient for good comedy of course but shows tend to feel like preachy morality tales otherwise.

I watched a show called Yugioh Vrains, which despite being a Yugioh anime had a surprising good plot. The show tackled the idea of what if artificial intelligence has consciousness. It asks the question “can humans coexist with AI’s?”. The main antagonists ran simulations and found that humans can not, and so is not working to destroy the main characters AI, one of the six conscious AI that exist in the world. Later in the show it reveals a flaw in the initial simulation, showing that it grouped all of the six conscious AI together. When you do simulations for each of the AI, treating each as separate people, it is revealed that five of the six AI could coexist with humanity. The only one that could not was one that was the second antagonist of the show, which was trying to destroy humanity.

Then the show takes a 180 in the final season, saying that new simulations where ran, that said humans and AI could no coexist, but it does not give a reason for how these simulations where different than the ones they done in the previous season. They backpedaled on their message, partly because they had to rush it really bad, and partly so that the main character would have to battle his AI companion that they have been with since the start of the series. To me it feels like they overlooked the nuance of the message they where telling which showed how the main question can not necessarily be answered through simulations as the simulations can be easily misleading . To me it is just disappointing that they backpedaled and did so in a way that did not make that much sense.

Sorry for the rant

I keep hearing this about Showtime, but Ive never watched a Showtime series afaik. What other shows have they done this with?

please tell me it doesn't end on a cliffhanger.

i'm over watching incomplete tv shows

I think about what I would do instead and have fun with that.

Cope? There are more important things in life than having to "cope" with a TV show's bad writing. Live your life, TV is not life.

By not caring.

To be honest I've yet to see a show with a bad ending where the signs weren't already there.

The Billy stuff was sweaty. The rest was good.

Next week's headlines will be how they're renewing them for 7 seasons so we can all get hooked and slowly lose interest as the show gets more and more absurd.

Lisa: Dad, what's a Muppet?

Homer: Well, it's not quite a mop, it's not quite a puppet, but man...

[laughs hysterically]

Homer: So to answer your question, I don't know.

That’s…not what is going on here. To better explain let me it a little better:

I finished watching a show I watched called Yugioh Vrains(yes it is a Yugioh anime though was surprisingly engaging). I knew going in that the redemption from the show was no the best, due to a whole list of production issues. Despite that I looked past it as I loved the core concept and message.

The show lost 6 months of production time due to being ended early. The series thus had to rush it’s ending, making it of even less quality then the rest of the show. And ultimately it backpedaled on its very important message. It lost so much of what it could have been, and ended leaving me with a bit of disappointment, wishing it would have gone in a different direction.

But don’t get me wrong, I still LOVE the show. I will rewatch it again. I will still obsess over it and talk to other people about it and buy merchandise for it. I am not viewing this show as a “win” or “loss” but if I had to I would view it as a win, because even if the writers went back on the message, and even if the show was not the best, it still left me with so many memories and a different along with hopeful outlook of life. As the show said “I would rather be said that they are no longer here then never have met them at all”.

I guess the reason I asked the question though is that I was curious how other people have felt with being disappointed with a shows end. Along with that I wanted to see how I could help deal with a show leaving me disappointed, and not living up to what it could have been

It’s tough, and I can’t always keep the ending from spoiling the entire series. If the ending didn’t feel completely satisfying, I can work with it, but not when it undoes the very story it created. The really unfortunate part is that those types of endings leave you questioning if the show was accidentally good and just showed it’s true colors at the end.

They are really good at beating a dead horse.

Go outside

LH is a solid low stakes show, highly recommend

I watch Black Sails again. It sticks the landing.

I mostly move on with my life

I doubt it really does bug that many people. Being clinically depressed, it's pretty much a constant in my life and even I joke about how I ate some crappy meal that made me depressed, or whatever offhand 'oh-so-depressed' joke fits.

I find its the people who are not depressed who feel sensitive about the word, while depressed people are 'used' to their condition and usually understand the difference between 'iwanttodie' and "I'm so depressed cuz my favorite thing ended".

Just my experience or anecdote, not fact

Not a common hobby but I love to write or RP (co-writing) fandoms and develop storylines/characters myself. It allows me to have fun and tell more stories.