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We've all been dissapointed by sequels or series that have gone on too long...
I'll start..
28 days later, the sequel started strong, but totally fell apart before my eyes. The gay tracksuit Ninja crew were kinda fun though.
Having just rewatched the Nolan Batman trilogy, it should have stopped after The Dark Knight (even though a sequel was kinda required). TDK Rises just wasn't a patch on the first two.
The Wire
Season one - Started watching one Sunday afternoon, thought it was an ok crime drama series, before I know it, its 2am on Monday morning and I am still watching, I have to get up for work in a few hours and I am still thinking I can squeeze in another episode to see how the story progresses, it was the TV equivalent of going from "meah I don't think the drugs are having any effect" to hanging around the back of the train station offering blow jobs to finance the next fix.
Season two, not as good but still well worth watching.
Season three, solid return up to season one standards.
Season four was a masterpiece.
Season five doesn't exist and I wall kill anyone who claims otherwise.
Stranger Things should have stopped after season two
Star Wars should have stopped after RotJ
The last couple of seasons of Line of Duty have been a bit crap, time will tell what the new one will be like (but my money is on a bit crap)
The last two seasons of Game of Thrones were crap, but not because it had gone on too long, not because the wrapped it up too quickly.
James Bond after Sean Connery.
I've a horrible feeling 'The Night Manager' might end up in this thread.
Too many series to choose from.. decent for a season or two but then run out of ideas or try and stretch the source material thin..
Westworld
Mr Robot
American Gods
The Boys
Anything with Celebrity or Strictly in the title.
James Bond after Sean Connery.
The early Bond films are virtually unwatchable now. Shite special effects, crassly sexist / slightly racist and with more plothole than plot. I think they'd be best described as a product of their time.
For me, the Final Destination film franchise. First two were good. After that it went down a rabbit hole of increasingly derivative straight-to-video horror gore / shock films.
Any American show that goes on for more than about 4/5 seasons. Parks and Rec springs readily to mind.
The Simpsons is currently on season 37, with viewing figures down about 92% from its heyday. Is anyone still watching? Does anyone care?
This might upset a few folks but the last 2 or 3 series of Dr. Who have been quite dire in my view. Not because of all the 'wokeness' that has been talked about but because of the general lack of storylines and poor/no continuity between the different doctors. Why do they have to completely reinvent the universe just because the Dr looks different?
Starship Troopers.
First was excellent in that tongue in cheek sort of way,but should have stopped there, and even the increased budget didnt help.
Homeland after S2
Handmaids Tale again after S2
Fast n Furious, before release of the first movie
The Walking Dead. Just looked and its now on season 11...think we made it to about season 5 before giving up given the repetitive of the storyline
28 Days later? Am I missing something here? There were two more sequels (if you count 28 Months Later) before 28 Years Later (or were there people in tracksuits in 28 Weeks Later)?
FWIW, I also quite liked 28 Years Later.
I thnk Breaking Bad might have been better if it had somehow finished with the demise of Gustavo Fring. The white supremacist arsewipes were not a patch on him as villains.
BBCs Sherlock adaptation (the Bendict Cumberbumble one) should have stopped after series two. Just knowing how bad the later stuff got makes the excellent early episodes unwatchable.
The last two seasons of Game of Thrones were crap, but not because it had gone on too long, not because the wrapped it up too quickly.
Somewhat ironic that it was still greed that killed it. Just greedy to keep the massive viewing numbers rather than the greed to keep it going longer
Sadly, Red Dwarf after S6 (iirc, whenever Rimmer left)
No the night manager will not get a vote, each one is just as good as the last, just 'easy watching' you know exactly what you get and it's good all family fun.
Stranger things, I've not watched the latest set and nor will I because it should have ended already.
Walking dead, everybody would have died or they'd have found a cure you can't keep churning out that rubbish when basically all they do is run away all the flipping time.
The vampire diaries, started strong but I had to give up on it.
Dr who, it was sinking by Peter Capaldi and I gave up about two episodes into Jodie and haven't watched it since.
28 Days later? Am I missing something here? There were two more sequels (if you count 28 Months Later) before 28 Years Later (or were there people in tracksuits in 28 Weeks Later)?
FWIW, I also quite liked 28 Years Later.
Yeah agreed. 28 years later is my favourite of the whole lot so far.
Much more than just zombies which has been done to ahem death.
I expect the tracksuit Jimmys will feature in the up and coming film.
28 Days later? Am I missing something here? There were two more sequels (if you count 28 Months Later) before 28 Years Later (or were there people in tracksuits in 28 Weeks Later)?
FWIW, I also quite liked 28 Years Later.
Yeah agreed. 28 years later is my favourite of the whole lot so far.
Much more than just zombies which has been done to ahem death.
I expect the tracksuit Jimmys will feature in the up and coming film.
Great reminder - just booked my Bone Temple tickets.
I think what I really liked about 28 Years is 1. they tried something different 2. it ended on an upper not a downer.
We saw with friends and were buzzing when we left the cinema. I can't remember the last time that happened!
Sorry for the thread hijack OP
No the night manager will not get a vote, each one is just as good as the last, just 'easy watching' you know exactly what you get and it's good all family fun.
I think we might be talking about different programmes here.
Dr Who lameness I'm convinced was down to the writer. Now Russell T Davies is back, it's improved loads. Unfair to blame the lead actors IMHO, although I suspect Capaldi was given too much leeway to make his own shit up as he went along.
Gave up with Handmaid's Tale halfway through the penultimate series, genuinely wanted Giliad to extradite June and subject her to a gruesome end.
^ similarly, there can only be one Highlander movie.
”Heroes” should have been one and done.
The third in the trilogy wasn't quite as good as the second.
It's Holiday on the Buses I'm talking about, which was pipped by Mutiny on the Buses.
I'm amazed Lost hasn't made an appearance on this thread yet.
”Heroes” should have been one and done.
Came here to say this.
I think both Lost and Heroes suffered from "oh shit we've got to make another series!" Heroes was clearly a (great) one-and-done story, I suspect Lost never had an endgame in mind.
never had an endgame in mind
Oh so many things that applies to leading to nomination of:
- Umbrella Academy
- Man in the high castle (series 3), great cast but lost its way
The matrix should have stopped at the first bullet time scene.
Someone said Homeland and whilst it definitely dragged out the Damian Lewis character arc , once he'd left it got pretty good again and managed a fairly satisfying ending .
Sons of Anarchy was good fun until it wasn't and Dexter got so bad it put me off watching any of the newer stuff .
Killing Eve should have stopped after S2.
Am I being unreasonable- the first season was brilliant and had an ending, the second was really just cashing in on it and setting up for further cashing in in season three
Umbrella Academy was a dramatisation of the comic, with the first two seasons being a version of all the published issues. The third season seems to be based on unpublished/incomplete plots, and suffered accordingly, so I’d go with the wish that Netflix had waited. S4 was v. disappointing.
Alien. Aliens. Then stop.
Absolutely no AVP films either. They've all been toss.
There's loads but the most recent for us was 'Only Murders in the Building'.
Seasons 1-3 were excellent, superb cast, script and (rarely for a US megaseries) some pace to the proceedings.
Season 4 left me slackjawed at how quick and hard something can bomb.
The internet would have me believe I'm not alone with these misgivings.
24 should have stopped after the 2nd season, every season after that seemed to be too much of a rehash those.
Might be controversial on here, but IMO Fargo TV series should have been season 1, season 2 and had season 5 as the third and stopped there. That would have been a perfect film and TV series spin off.
Might be controversial on here, but IMO Fargo TV series should have been season 1, season 2 and had season 5 as the third and stopped there. That would have been a perfect film and TV series spin off.
Agreed.
It's so long since I last watched any I cannot pinpoint where it went wrong and should have stopped, but...
X Files.
First few seasons at least were often a great sci-fi watch for me.
I didn't manage to get past the 1st episode but I believe The Walking Dead is right up there. 11 seasons in the modern TV era for something that isn't Grey's Anatomy-esque is absolutely ripping the arse right out it. Plus the insane amount of spin offs they appear to be milking to death