What TV show had the worst "fall from grace"?

While the obvious choice is GoT, Heroes is solid second

Game of Thrones.

House of Cards. The show was already boarding on nonsensical before Spacey's fall from grace, but he took the whole ship down with him.

Dexter - the ending could have happened after the first season..... How I met your Mother - "f*** character development, oh that was ur mom btw lol, i want Robin!"

**Heroes**

I know I’m not really answering the question, but just the History Channel as a whole

Walking Dead It beat Sunday Night Football at its peak; nothing ever beats prime time NFL football and Walking Dead did so during season 3 I believe.

Weeds?

West world

Killing Eve

House. I didn’t bother watching the final season.

Dexter

Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead after they killed Glenn

Simpsons. One of the best shows of all time followed by 28 years of complete slop. Just let it die already.

Walking Dead.

How I Met Your Mother

alot more than ppl probably realize. House of cards is an obvious one.

GoT obviously

How I Met Your Mother is probably the Apex for me. I feel like the Finale for that was written back in season 1 and they insisted on forcing it in despite the fact the show had clearly evolved away from it. It undid years of character development for Barney, Robin, AND Ted.

Prison Break

Apparently Stranger Things according to Tumblr 

Dexter. It was a cartoon after S2. And the revival was even worse.

True Detective. Season one — GOAT show, to season four now, just completely forgettable. And I didn’t watch the ones in between, but I hear they’re mid. Mr. Mercedes - Fantastic first season. 10/10. And then it gets weird, and it’s alright, but nowhere near as good as season one. Westworld, Gangs of London, Altered Carbon, The Last of Us, etc….

Lost. Still bitter about it.

Oh look. Another GoT circle jerk.

Tucker Carlson Tonight.

The 100 Started out as a cool show about Earth being wrecked by nuclear warfare, with civilization living up in a space station for several generations. The show opens up with them finally going down to Earth and the first 4 seasons are legitimately great. Season 5 and 6 it gets a little wonky, but season 7 is bat shit insane. The main plot of the final season revolves around the main characters living on a brand new planet and teleporting between several planets while fighting a religious group of people who believe that a Space God will "transcend" them all to the afterlife. The 2nd main character actually gets brainwashed by them and is killed by the main character in the process, all to save her daughter. The twist is fucked though, because not only does her daughter get lobotomized anyway by the cult, but the Space God is real and does transcend most everyone. So killing the main character was double pointless becasue it didnt save her daughter and the religious cult were correct! Anyway, the show ends with the main characters making a deal with the Space God who instead of transcending them, magically takes away their ability to reporduce and allows them to live out their remaining years on some beach. Its presented as a happy ending but they cant procreate and will die off one by one until the inevitable suicide pact between whoever is left. Yes, the show that begins with the human race returning to a nuclear ravaged Earth, ends with them on another planet hundreds of years in the future and a Space God killing the entire human race.

You used to know, it happened when a show added a random little kid with a bowl haircut as a main character. But other than that: 1970s: Happy Days, Brady Bunch, Land of the Lost 1980s: Dallas, Moonlighting, Dynasty 1990s: The X-Files, Roseanne, Family Matters, Northern Exposure 2000s: Heroes, Prison Break, The O.C. 2010s: Glee, GOT, Walking Dead, Dexter, House of Cards, Empire, Sleepy Hollow 2020s: Dexter, The Witcher, Yellowstone A lot of shows fall from grace because networks are squeezing more story out of them than they can support. Very few shows get to be helmed by their original creator who *also* can steer the show to a natural and satisfying conclusion.

Though maybe not the worst... But maybe the fact people don't think about it is because it fell so hard. Anyways I am talking about That 70s Show. The first few seasons are some of the best in sitcom history. The last few are some of the worst. Randy is one of the worst television characters of all time. Nothing he ever said or did was funny.

The Last of Us seemed to lose a lot of people in the second season, they dropped the ball with season 3's production.

I was never a fan of it but Two and a Half Men would be an obvious choice

Supernatural. That show lasted twice as long as it should have, and that's being generous. They were so out of ideas they gave God a sister, and then limped along for FOUR MORE SEASONS after that. Maybe that's less of a fall from grace and more like trying to convince your mom it's time to put down the family dog.

Dexter - The writers just got so lazy with this shit it wasn't even funny. I think it was like season 5 but they literally wrote a storyline where Dexter had to catch the killer and get his kill room set up in record time, the guy was going to catch a plane to somewhere. Don't remember, don't care. The writers actually want us to believe that in a post-911 world that Dexter was able, on the spur of the moment, drug the guy AT THE AIRPORT (literally needle in the neck with the guy collapsing and Dexter dragging him, drag him into a side room broom closet, set up the kill room with full plastic lining, strap the guy down with shrink wrap (where it came from nobody knows), put up some pictures, kill the guy, dismember him, put him in numerous trash bags, make numerous trips OUT of the airport and dispose of everything and he walks away without ANYONE asking even one question of him......literally NO ONE NOTICED. It was at that point that the shows numerous flaws were just too much for me. I couldn't take it anymore. I know others that stuck with it hoping for yet another hot woman coming into his life but I was done. House of Cards - The final so for me was when Frank had become the President and he and his wife were welcoming the Russian PM and that dude literally grabbed the first lady, bent her backwards in a dip and kissed her full on the mouth in front of everyone.....and Frank did nothing in the moment. Yeah later he got sort of revenge but it was stupid. First season Frank would never have tolerated such disrespect in front of him.....no sane man would. Yet here we are supposed to believe that world leaders act like that in public. So f****** stupid. And all that was before Kevin Spacey's weird ass was outed in the me too movement. Homeland - this f****** show. Another Showtime disaster. I swear Showtime has ruined more shows than any other network in history. They have a good premise, produce a decent show for a few season then fire all the writers and bring in scabs that don't even watch the old show, don't care, just there for a paycheck. So they write outlandish and unbelievable bullshit and the show goes to c***. Did it with Dexter then did it with this show. SO pathetic.

Happy Days defined the phenomena when in season 5 the show reached the nadir of gimmickry. Fonzie wearing his trademark leather jacket, swim trunks and water skis, literally [jumped the shark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark).

True Detective suffered from a momentous drop in quality after the magnificent achievement that is season 1 Penny Dreadful - the first two seasons were great but season 3 had a fair amount of problems. It was still entertaining and had some great moments with fantastic acting (particularly from from Eva Green and Rory Kinnear) but the storytelling really suffered compared to the first two seasons ER - a lot of excellent storytelling and great characters for the first eight seasons but it's best to stop watching after the penultimate episode of season 8 Lost - started off well then dropped the ball GoT ......... what needs to be said?

Stranger Things. Most people are going to say it's GOT but the downfall of Stranger Things was more shocking. The last season of GOT seemed like writers who didn't have source material anymore and were struggling to provide a decent ending to the story. Stranger Things was one of the most brilliant horror shows ever created and it ended up turning into a CW show with an AI generated. They also killed the main protagonist of the show after fans spent almost a decade watching her be strong enough to love other people after being tortured and abused. Even if she isn't dead she was forced to leave every person who cared about her. It sent a dangerous message to victims of abuse. That is more shocking than what happened on GOT. I can't think of any modern TV show that has done that. Some of the women on Yellowjackets won't get a happy ending but they're not sympathetic the way Eleven was.

Great question! You really got me riled up. 😂 Three instantly came to mind: Sons of Anarchy, The O.C. & Dawson’s Creek For all three, it felt like they spent seasons building emotional investment into these beautiful characters… and then rushed the landing Not even that the endings were “*bad*,” just… absolutely painfully abrupt.  In all three cases... it felt like the weight of what we went through with the characters didn’t fully get processed. It truly weakens the rewatch too, because if I know the ending is not doing the series any justice, I don't want to revisit the whole experience. A great ending doesn’t need to be perfect… it just needs to *feel deserving* of the investment of time and emotion of the audience.

*Euphoria* currently completing it's fall from grace.

House of Cards (US) People hate on the last season for GoT, but at least they watched. Pure apathy for HoC.

Westworld

Game of Thrones. There have been plenty of TV series that started out excellent and sort of got a bit c*** for one reason or another. But I don't think anyone saw a cliff drop in quality like Game of Thrones. It really was almost breath taking to watch it f*** up so badly. It's bad even relatively speaking. And what's worse is, it was fucked up so bad because the showrunners wanted to wrap things up so they could work on the Star Wars reboot... *a job they didn't even end up getting...* So it was just thrown in the shitter for f****** nothing. Like take the Simpsons, a series we all know hasn't been great and needs to die. If you take it's golden age runs as your first data point, and the worst of the new series, even that pales in comparison to just how quickly and extremely Game of Thrones fell off. Most fans of ASOIAF are content to wait 10-20 years for a main line book series reboot, and then hopefully then they will f****** do it properly this time. Because what's 10-20 years for a mainline instalment in the series between friends, eh? \*cries\*

Two and a half men

Last of us. They butchered Ellie. Feel bad for the actress

HIMYM.

West Wing

Brookside (the British soap opera) was f****** *awful* at the end. They had totally given up. One of the main storylines was a mystery person dropping toilets out of windows.

Most of them.

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