Television

Heroes had so much going for it before the writers strike, the premise of that show felt so good then it just got bad.

Halo.

Just make it animated, and don't add anything.

It's almost impressive how bad they fucked this up...

LA Brea.

Great premise ruined by bad writing full of plot holes and somehow worse acting. But man, the concept could go so far.

Altered Carbon.

Season 1 was GREAT. Season 2 wasnt.

They fucked up the most important thing possible with a series changing actors for the same character. YOU NEED TO MAKE US LOVE THE CHARACTER NOT THE ACTOR. They didnt lay in a bunch of physical gestures, catchphrases, signature moves, character traits. Nothing that made be believe Anthony Mackie was the same guy as Joel Kinnaman.

Is it too early to say Wheel of Time?

Swamp Thing was so much worse than it could have been. Gothic horror, beauty and the beast, cosmic terror, body horror, monster of the week serial but it's a bigger monster hunting monsters, etc it's got all these interesting angles and they ended up focusing on none of them.

Dead Like Me And the Dark Crystal show needed the ending it deserved.

Once Upon A Time, Van Helsing (the Syfy tv show), Supernatural (specially the heaven lore), and Yellowjackets

I'd kind of like to see someone do Brave New World a bit better. It was done in the 60s(?) but it's just a bit out of date today, while the book is absolutely something the world needs to think about now. A modern version might actually be even enhanced by certain elements of the modern style.

You know what, I already did one but I'm gonna do another one: Lovecraft Country.

First episode did just about everything you'd want out of a Jim Crow-era supernatural horror road trip mystery. Felt like they really had a handle on the whole "fear of the unknown and incomprehensible" vibe that you don't see done well very often, the cast had great chemistry, and the whole theme of "the real incomprehensible eldritch abomination threatening human sanity is racism" was executed flawlessly. They walked a very fine tightrope between homage and condemnation of Lovecraft's whole... deal and nailed it in one.

And then the main mystery is resolved by the second episode and the whole thing devolves into a very uneven anthology of psychic snakes and angry ghosts and like, Nazi wizards worshipping what I think was just the regular devil and overall very known and comprehensible horrors that didn't really hold my attention for long enough to see if they even tried to tie them all together.

Man, all I wanted was a long-form cosmic horror story wrapped in a character-driven prestige TV period drama with some biting social commentary that doesn't suck. They don't make a lot of those!

The original plan for the second season of Stranger Things was supposed to be a separate story with a few connections to the first season, each season being a different story and cast. I would have loved to see that actually happen, since the second season lost my interest a couple episodes in.

Star Trek Voyager. I don't think I need to explain further, we all have the same ideas.

Looks like the upcoming game will do the fixing though, so that's good.

I would love to watch something like The Walking Dead, but more chill. More to do with building a community, and re-imagining society. Surviving the zombies would be a topic, of course, but without all the extra evilness of the remaining humans.

And episodes that don't force me to increase my TV's brightness to the max.

Sword art online. Drop the rape and incest beats entirely. It had potential to be a great anime about the meaning of life and instead largely ignored that possibility.