What are some crap TV show season renewals you've seen with a disappointing conclusion? (nord.pub)

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I've seen House of Cards (starring Kevin Spacey & Robin Wright) where the first 5 seasons were excellent, but the sixth (final) season is shit. It's definitely been rushed during production on top of the drama with Spacey himself having to leave the show (due to allegations of sexual misconduct), so the show was rewritten into his character dying from a heart attack shifting the point of view into Robin Wright's character instead.

The ratings plummeted but the last episode is the worst reviewed via IMDb, like WTF was that ending all about?! They didn't even try to make it 13 episodes like the previous five seasons (cut it off at the 8th episode making that the 73rd and last, the season overall is just written poor and the script was composed last minute), too much was happening at once with no links to the previous seasons that made the series successful.

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[-] rozodru@piefed.world 12 points 2 days ago

Heroes. That show alone should be a textbook example of not to follow greed.
It should have stayed a limited run event. It was great, it was awesome, it was the show everyone was talking about. it wrapped up nicely.

and then NBC got greedy and wanted more and they honestly had no idea what to do with it.

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

Wasn’t there a writer’s strike, too? The studios are notorious for fucking up shows because they’d rather crew the writers.

[-] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 7 points 2 days ago

There absolutely was a writer's strike, and the show went to shit when it happened. The first two seasons were very innovative, lots of fun stuff, and a story arc with real progression. Then they started diverging from that arc, losing focus, and had far less progress towards any conclusion. Even when there were good points, and there were, they not only didn't advance the story but sometimes even detracted from it.

[-] imecth@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

The series was supposed to be an anthology but the show got very popular so instead of doing a soft reboot for season 2 they kept the cast, which created a lot of narrative problems. Anyways the show plodded along for 2 more seasons - which were actually ok - so the writers' strike wasn't that big of an issue.

I doubt NBC ever regretted continuing heroes, strangling your golden goose doesn't help anyone.