To be honest, I really only liked the first season. I thought it was an interesting take on near-future sci-fi, you don’t see a lot of media that takes place in that particular niche, where humans have grown beyond earth but are still limited to what is essentially our galactic backyard.

Then they go all-in on the proto-molecule stuff, which destroys what made the show unique and as a result it becomes incredibly boring and generic.

I'll concur with the people saying that seasons 2-3 was probably the peak? Season 1, especially early on, was just a bit rough. Season 4 was a story that didn't translate well to TV, IMO.

Season 5 was cool, but if I had a complaint about it it was that maybe it needed to differ a bit more from the book, a big part of this book was that it was the first time you ever learned anything about the Roci crew's backstory besides Holden. The TV version was probably right to reveal some of that earlier, but they probably needed to change up season 5 a bit more to compensate for it because some of the stories ended up feeling like a bit of a drag.

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Supernatural - The original creator planned for 5 seasons, but the show kept going up until season 15.

They went from fighting the Devil and stopping the apocalypse to having to fight God's sister, then God himself, who is also the writer of Supernatural (a series of books within the show). Some people loved the whole meta concept, I hated it.

it took me multiple tries to get through the first few episodes. Once you do its well worth it. It was probably my favorite show while it was running. It peaks at season 3 but I still liked it throughout (not positive they stuck the landing in the final season but it wasnt a total botch job either)

The second half of the first season is excellent as are S2 and S3.

It really fell apart when it moved to Amazon, season 4 was boring, season 5 was just garbage and season 6 was to little to late.

Seeing this old chodes face is becoming Andor levels of annoying

Thanks. I’ll try find some time for it.

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Awesome show! And yes- it can get a little too "soapy" from time to time- but damn, do I miss it!

I mean I agree when I started watching the first few episodes I was hesitant to keep going, mostly due to the actors seeming uncomfortable/unfit for their roles (especially Holden) and I was worried it might not have the budget and would appear to cheap.

It took about 5 episodes or so but there’s a point where you realize what these are the exact perfect actors for every character literally perfect.

And story/production wise everything is a build up and there’s pieces to the puzzle being built slowly that it’s exceeding more satisfying after every episode, when it reaches the end of a story line you feel really rewarded in what you are watching

The books are great.

The show never got the feel right, and I watched all six seasons. Some of it is simple — the color is terrible, overdone and depressing. The pacing is slow for a series that really isn’t. The characters are made less likely to bee more gritty and dramatic rather than letting the plot create the drama.

Instead of just making the books well, they tried really hard to make it prestige tv like it was Breaking Bad or Mad Men. And it’s not.

I watched the first two seasons and gave up. I never saw this great show people were talking about.

The last time I left was on episode 3. I started over, and now I'm on Episode 3 now. I'll keep going. Thanks

It's a fantastic show. The first three episodes do a lot of setup and worldbuilding. Episode four "CQB" really takes off. You should stick with it.

I love Sci-Fi but stopped after ep 1 of the Expanse. Too dull and dry. I know people have said it gets better, but to me, they should have done a better job in the beginning then.

True Blood. By the time the witches show up, I was like, "yeah I'm out."

Star Trek: TNG's final season 7 was bonkers as well. There are some amazing episodes in there and an incredible series finale, but some of the stuff in between was truly off the rails where you can tell the writers had just run out of ideas.

Search Party seemed to intentionally go off the rails in its final season.

She would always make everything about her, I’m glad she’s being replaced.

A good version of this is the last season of The OC. It’s full of non-linear storytelling, alternate realities, countless fantasy sequences and vision quests, french talk shows, groundhog heists and maybe aliens?? (Not really but almost.) After a messy S2 and awful S3, S4 just goes buckwild as fuck and it’s insanely entertaining imo. I know there’s a lot of fans who don’t like that season but they’re wrong.

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Ah that makes so much sense! The quality is indeed in such a decline after S2

I got bored of it in the third season. I wouldn't say it went off the rails, it just kept doing the same thing over and over again and it got boring.

Seasons 1 and 2 of Atlanta are pretty straightforward slice of life. When they go to europe in s3 is kind of when it starts getting wacky and surreal.

Season 1 is the end of the book's story. S2 and after they're just making shit up and it shows.