What shows had awkward or otherwise poor returns from cancelations?
When watching a show a while after it's released you can sometimes tell when a show was canceled because a season will end on a big (occasionally spiteful) event.
The following season after it's picked back up occasionally stumbles a bit but I'm wondering what examples can you think of that were especially bad?
For me, it was definitely Arrested Development. The original run was super tight and hilarious, and worked as a self-contained story. Then season four happened and... yeah.
A clear example of a show jumping the shark between seasons.
I believe the main issue there was scheduling conflicts. They couldn’t get all the cast in one place at the same time. So they worked around that in the script. They did a great job given the constraints, but not a great job by the standards of the series.
I actually really liked season four in its original format - where you saw the story from one person's perspective and then later saw it from another's. The way the story lines intertwined was really good IMO. If you watch it now then you get the recut version where it's all in chronological order and it's just weak.
What the hell was up with the hand? They made an amputated hand the cornerstone of half their jokes. That's when we lost interest and stopped watching.
Yeah, that one was just so so bad. For some reason, Chris Carter has completely lost the ability to write even a half-decent script. Also, the new seasons never account for the fact that conspiracy theorists have changed from leftist counter-culture nerds to right-wing nutjobs since the 90s.
I was watching it even though it was testing my patience a bit, and then they made an offhand remark about the moon landing being a conspiracy and that was the final straw that made me quit lol.
There are a couple of fantastic episodes sprinkled in there though. One is like a Black Mirror episode with Mulder and Scully being chased by a malevolent AI. There are a few that seem like they came straight out of the 90s monster of the week episodes too.
Besides mentions of Hulu appearing in the show (which combined with Solar Opposite's Hulu episode which makes me wonder if it's a requirement by Hulu) why do you say that?
new season ep 1.... did you watch it?
matt is stuck in the past. just like the simpsons it has lost touch on all levels.
in simpsons matt failed to adress changes like mobile phones , tablets or just the fact that he owns a house, two cars, two kids and has one job pays the bills. insane.
matt felt that and tried make them use a cellphone once in a while but geez this feels outdated
and so does futurama this year. not one of the jokes was pointing the viewer to anything new. south park has a hard time these days aswell but did not fail like futurama 2023.
solar opposites is nice I agree. Final Space was better. And again shit wins: lower decks.
They show got a clean, decisive, clear cut, happy ending. Why the fuck would they keep going after that? Just make a new show, even a spin-off in the same universe, but there's no point to bringing back the same characters
No-one's mentioned Dexter yet, so I'm gonna go ahead and do that. What a shit show. I really don't get why they brought it back from the dead. Sure the original ending was kind of shitty, but it wasn't that bad they had to revive it and kill it for good.
I'm glad someone enjoyed it! I don't think I could cringe as much watching a show as when I was watching that. I'd rather watch Dawson's Creek or something. There were a lot of elements that could've made it great, but it just really felt horrible watching it the whole time. In comparison the weird X-Files reboot was at least kind of fun, Dexter was like watching a trainwreck to me.
Not really cancelation per se, but some of my favorite shows came back from the writer's strike in 2007-08 pretty poorly.
Sarah Connor Chronicles was axed shortly after they went back on air. Chuck's post-strike material was S3 and beyond, and that's when it started to jump the shark for me. Prison Break S4 was exceptionally bad, even by PB standards.
Dexter did have the Trinity Killer, which was the best season and antagonist by far.
Family Guy got worse every time it was cancelled and brought back, until eventually it was just a parody of itself while being as offensive as possible.
Veronica Mars. Incredible first season followed by 2 lesser but still good seasons. They made an incredible kickstarter video for a revival movie that I believe was the biggest kickstarter ever at the time. But the movie was really bad. There was another Hulu season after that I can barely remember watching except for the awful ending.