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What's a show that should've gotten cancelled or ended SOONER than it did? (lemmy.world)

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Too many "what got cancelled too soon" questions, what's a show that went on too long?

Hard mode: no The Walking Dead

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[-] Jiggzy@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago

The Blacklist. Started out great and then I couldn't even finish the last series.

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I forgot about The Blacklist, I'm always so surprised when I hear it's still going on! Seriously, season 1 might be one of the best crime dramas of the 2010s, everything that I watched after that (through season 3) was awful. Apparently Red is the main woman's dad? And her mom??? I have no idea

[-] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, how is it still going? I watched the first couple of seasons and it was already being held up entirely by James Spader, with everything around him being sort of bearable.

Fun fact, my wife and I now use the term "Blacklisting" for whenever a show has already explicitly revealed something to you (or made it so obvious you worked it out), but then there's a scene where the main characters stand around and talk through that plot point in ELI5 language. That was like at least a third of the screen time.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

And the main woman got killed.

[-] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago

To be fair, she was a terrible actress from the start. James Spader carried that whole show.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't call her terrible, but yes, the show would be nothing without James Spader

[-] RHSJack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I gave her slack because I figured new actress, first big job, they will get comfortable. Nope. If anything, she gets worse. The husband character became interesting! When they wrote her off, I looked, took a sip of coffee, and said "welp. Anyway."

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