What TV series or seasons you've watched do you think needed a rewrite? Or any TV series taken a writing turn you didn't expect?
Foundation Season 1 (haven't watched season 2) ; halfway through the show it starts being either a parody, or a complete misread on Asimov's message
If you mentally separate it into its own thing, it's not all that bad.
But as an adaptation of Asimov's Foundation Series? It may be the worst adaptation I've ever seen. Its more accurate to say it's inspired by Foundation.
For instance, for me: Although I wasn't completely disappointed, Severance S02 for me broadly went in a direction I didn't expect. I had multiple thoughts about how it would proceed and what plot threads would be pulled on that it just didn't do.
I also would have wrote the history of certain characters differently.
"For All Mankind" [Apple+] has a worker on a Mars base smuggling Martian minerals home. The base is supposed to have KGB and FBI agents embedded in the work crews, plus the Mars stones are being sold openly on Earth. No way would that have happened like that.
The Prisoner was pretty unexpected through most of its episodes if you want a good surreal retro spy type show
Game of Thrones S8. I'm still salty
Boy do I have a few:
Heroes. The first season was great, but then they tried to continue it through the writers' strike.
They really didn't need to do the last season of Scrubs.
Apparently the order of episodes for The Dresden Files got rearranged at some point during production, at the suggestion of someone higher up. While the show is really not a faithful adaptation of the book series, it could've been a fun thing on its own, if done right.
The end of True Blood wasn't great. As well as the Magicians.
The Iron Fist show really struggled in the first season, but it was getting really good by the end of the second season and I was really disappointed by all of the Marvel Netflix shows getting cancelled. Yay for Daredevil coming back!
Inhumans was very disappointing. I'd really like someone to give another shot at that.
Honestly? Most shows drop in quality after season one.
One of the few shows to pleasantly surprise me was Black Sails, season 2 just went places in a way that most shows don't
Secret Invasion and She-Hulk are the easy ones for me.