What popular TV show did not do it for you and you quit watching?

My biggest problem with most of the shows listed is they have to outdo themselves and go on for too long.
Season one: Great premise!
Season Two: Same premise, but TWICE the danger!
Season three: I don't know, robot ninjas or something?
- I miss when shows could just grow in the first season or two, and then you'd only get raising stakes two or three times a year (season finale/premier and sweeps). Otherwise they're just stories.
  These days shows have to justify themselves right out of the gate.
  
  These days shows have to justify themselves right out of the gate.
  I miss mid-budget live action scifi shows with strong enough episodic elements that I can actually remember individual episodes. These days seemingly every show feels like an 8-12 movie that blurs together.
  Star Trek Strange New Worlds is the closest current thing to an exception. Before that The Orville.
  Most other scifi that comes out has to be an "event".
- Hah, yes!
  Just finished season 3 of Yellowjackets and White Lotus and I just felt, meh. I'm hopeful for season 4 of both shows but I'll be living off the honeymoon phase from seasons 1 and 2.
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
- Oh, this is about Riverdale, isn't it?
  
  Riverdale actually did what I've always wished for a boring failure of a show to do, and just completely go nuts.
  Oh our boring high school drama show is slumping? How about an organ stealing cult, a superhero, and a guy escaping from the cops in a rocketship!
- Its more that they have to keep the money train going, than they have to outdo themselves.

Never got the appeal of these ones. They aren't bad shows, but they did not do it for me.
Game of Thrones
Lost
Better Call Saul
Peaky Blinders
Breaking Bad
- Shit. That's exactly my list.
  I didn't even watch GoT long enough to see Emilia Clark in the buff. But, then, I'd read the first two books and absolutely loathed them, and didn't find the TV series improved the story much.
  I liked the first season of Lost, but the second felt like the writers were like, "oh shit... we got a second season? Shitshitshit..." Like they were just making it up as they went, and the writing and plot was just... bad.
  I didn't watch BCS because I didn't like
  Breaking Bad. I mean, I like scenes from BB, but the show itself suffered (for me) from this tendency in the past decade to base entire shows on tense anxiety. Boardwalk Empires was another that used this mechanism, as did
  Peaky Blinders. Great writing. Great acting. But it's just constant tension, and it's simply not fun.
  It's like directors got ahold of this one technique and just beat it into every fucking show in the past decade. It's tired, overused, and you'll notice it's a common trait of many of the shows you and agree on. You have to have tension, but I didn't need every god damned minute to be wondering if someone's going to get their throat graphically slashed with a straight-edge.
  
  Oh man! You just put to words why I couldn't stand Breaking Bad, and Boardwalk Empire.
  I watched the first simply because a lot of people love it, and I try to watch everything that seems worth seeing. The second I saw some clips from that I really liked, but then I just didn't stick with the actual show.
  In both cases, the series left me on constant edge, in a really bad way.
  Now I realize that I kept waiting for the shows to grant me some kind of catharsis, but it just never happened. Or it happened rarely and in ways that quickly gets brushed away as inconsequential.
  
  I'm not fond of the perpetual tension. Just awful.
  
  this tendency in the past decade to base entire shows on tense anxiety.
  Yup. I call it the "drama of paranoia," and it's exhausting after a while. It also gives you a veneer of "prestige" without having to make characters I give a shit about or plots that fit together at all. As a good example of a show that realized this, Mad Men always struggled with a certain early-season plotline until they finally just ripped off the band-aid and said,
  
  What worked about that show had nothing to do with "ONE BIG SECRET."
- This, plus The Sopranos, The Office, Parks & Rec, IASIP, 30 Rock, etc.
  I get that they're well liked, and they are the source of lots of meme material, but I could never manage to get through a whole episode.
- I have watched any of those except the first couple of Breaking Bad. It was too real for me so I just couldnt.
- I lasted 5 minutes with Peaky Blinders. The loud music drowning out the dialogue did my head in.

Walking dead. I think I finished the second episode. But I'm not even sure about that one. It was utterly boring
- Walking dead is the king of spreading 4 episodes of content across 12 episodes. You could watch the season opener, the 2 episodes that close the first half and start the second if each season, and the finale, and not miss anything of substance.
  
  Wait, is TWD available on the anime filler website?
- You've seen the best. I stopped somewhere in the middle of S3 because it was so bad. S1 was tolerable but honestly only the pilot was good. Kids watched all of it so I've got an idea how it went on; like a bad and cheap soap opera
- I watched up to the point where they pretended the Asian lad was dead, but actually he was hiding under a bin.
  Not because it was cheap, but because I realised I no longer cared one way or the other.
- The first few episodes were a slog, but it got much better.
  I recomment to give it a try. Maybe start straight from season 2.

Friends.
Seems like everyone likes this show but I dont think I ever watched a full episode.
My humor is more like Scrubs, Seinfeld, IT Crowd.
- I love Scrubs and IT Crowd, but Friends also. I don't, however, like Frasier. People seem to fall into either the Friends or Frasier camp, and never the twain shall meet.
  
  I didn't cate for either.
  
  Friends or Frasier camp, and never the twain shall meet.
- Friends had Chandler and Joey bromance, which is a precursor to the Scrubs bromance.
  The rest of the show isn't similar, but that part was spot on.
- There are quite a few edited 'Friends without the laugh track' videos on YouTube showing how creepy and unfunny some of the characters are. Its a bit of a meme theres so many of them.
  
  Oh I want to check those out... Thanks!

Yellowstone. With shows like The Sopranos or Sons of Anarchy you know the characters are evil, but you can connect just enough for it to be compelling.
In Yellowstone it feels like they want you to see the characters as the heros, when they are mass-murdering, slave-owning oligarchs. They buy cops and politicians to gain power, but get bent on revenge if other powers don't "play by the rules". I didn't last too long, but everyone else seems to love it.
- I watched it for a while, but it just got stupider and stupider with every season. It's a very American show, and it feels like conservative pandering much of the time (even though the show runner isn't a conservative from what I hear).
  
  it most catering to conservative circle jerking.

Lost was the tv version of clickbait. 3 concurrent story lines rotated from week to week. Every episode a cliffhanger that you had to wait 2 more weeks to resolve into a nothing burger. Even watching that shit on disc or streaming is annoying as fuck. I might have liked what was going on story wise, but I got too annoyed with the format to get past mid season 2.
- Yeah. Lost was when I was intrugued by J J abrams style, and then completely turned off by his inability to tell a story or have a plan beyond the halfway point.
  And then they involved him in seemingly every major movie franchise ever for the next two decades.. and he kept doing the same crap. Lots of flash and dazzle and dramatic moments that ultimately mean nothing because the characters have no story to tell, no real arc, no consistent rules creating a believable universe for the watcher to be sucked in to - any rules can be thrown out the window anytime a dramatic cliche opportunity arises. Yet he still seems very popular.
- There is a recut of it, still available via torrent, called Chronologically LOST. It is every scene, but in chronological order, and only once each. Really cool way to see the show and make sense of it.

Breaking Bad. Just lost interest half way through.
- I made it one episode. Extremely well done show about a tragically terrible flaw of American society that frustrates me daily. Didn't need a reminder of how terrible things are.
- Same. Walt is an unlikeable person making bad decisions. I grave up after season 1.
- You know what might help you power through?
  
  Will it make my teeth fall out?

Most anything in recently years, TBH. I always check out what's popular with the reasoning that something about it has to be good if so many people like it, and it used to work out pretty well. Not so much in the last 5 or 6 years.
- Have you tried Severance or Common Side Effects?
  
  I liked common side effects, but I would rather have had s2 of scavenger's reign.
  Also kind of wish that common side effects was live action with animated elements, I think that would have been cool visually.
  
  Common Side Effects
  premise sounds nice, but I just tried watching the first episode and couldn't get past the first minute. The artstyle is so... annoying? Hard to describe, but I absolutely can't stand it
  
  Can't get past the trailers or previews. Awful.

Game of Thrones. To me it just came across as torture porn. Just a series of awful things happening to people from one scene to the next. The schtick about different kingdoms and families vying for the throne or whatever was just the backdrop and context to rape, abuse and murder, which was the star of the show.
I love fantasy but that show didn't do it for me in the slightest. Not interested in checking out any of that guy's books either.

Game of Thrones - I'm not good with seeing sexual violence and it felt like it was happening every five minutes.
My Dress up Darling - I understand why people would like it, but I don't understand why it was so huge. But I'm getting old.
Beastars - my friend and I watched it in one day and it just didn't do anything for us. I found most of the characters kind of a annoying.
My Hero Academia - I mean this in the best way possible, but I could see myself loving this if I was a kid.
Mushoku Tensi - I know people love this one. I watched the entire first season and I found the protagonist so revolting. I didn't care that he was a cute kid now and gets better and what have you, I thought he was gross.
Friends - I could never get it. I found it boring and unfunny.
Stranger Things - I actually really enjoyed the first season, but I got tired of the kids as they got older. It felt like it was shifting into a teen drama and I found myself skipping through it before I let it go.
YOU - Weird guy stalks a girl. Glad someone enjoys it, but I got tired of it real quick.
- It makes me happy to see others shit on Friends.
  When it first aired, my mom was a fan and it would regularly be on in the living room, which was the crossroads of my childhood house - you had to go through it to get anywhere else. Which meant that Friends was impossible to ignore. Walking by, the highest praise I could conjure was, "Wow, that laugh track is doing a lot of heavy lifting."
  At the time of its popularity, I never heard anyone else dislike it. When the show ended, I felt alone in not being sad about it. Since then, I can't tell if people look back on it with nostalgia or if they are truly still amused by the bland, low-fruit, celebration of stupidity that makes up most of that show's humor.
  The theme song was good though.
  
  At the time of its popularity, I never heard anyone else dislike it.
  We were out there... What a terrible show.
- Definitely agree on Stranger Things. Season 1 was actually really good, but they kept ramping everything up in later seasons and it lost all of what made S1 good.
  I tried watching My Hero Academia with a friend and it was rough. Basically every trope that made me burn out on anime was dialed up to 11. My friend tried to explain that it was satirizing those tropes, but I couldn't handle it.
- I was sort of with you on My Hero Academia as I’m currently watching it for the first time. Parts of it were good and it was enjoyable for the most part watching it as an adult. Dragon Ball Z doesn’t hold up as well but I still love it as I grew up with that.
  However, just yesterday I finished s03e11 “One For All”. And holy shit was that a gut-wrenching and emotional episode about the legendary hero “All Might”. Seeing this Superman like hero being broken and exposed while the whole world watches was incredible. I won’t say anymore, but it was incredibly moving how that episode turned out. Cemented it as an incredible anime for me so far. I’m looking forward to watching the rest of it, and hopefully I will still enjoy it. But boy did it take a long time of watching and filler episodes to get to this point.
- My Hero Academia
  I really enjoyed this, but one day I kind of just stopped watching. I think I get bored with anime shows that are set up to go on and on with endless hundred episode arcs.
  Stranger Things
  The first season really felt like something the creators had been developing for years as a creative idea. The ending with a sandwich left for Eleven was just the right amount of ambiguous to end off the story. The second season felt like a rushed idea pumped out when offered more money where the creators just leaned into full 80s nostalgia by copying ALIENS rather than forging something 80s inspired but unique like the first season.
  Friends
  I don't get it either. It's just vapid interpersonal dynamics comedy. I've watched a little and it has the wide and low appeal, it never did anything interesting.
- Friends has to be the most overrated TV show of all time. I feel like an insane person whenever I hear people saying that it's a funny show.

The new version of Lost in Space just has people in danger constantly and then making the dumbest decision in that situation possible.
Same with 'suits', I really liked it in the beginning, until it was just too painful to watch. Each storyline was set up in a way that there was one path for the protagonists to take that would lead to certain disaster, and lo.and behold, at the end of every episode that path is exactly the path they took.
This happens until you start wondering if you're just looking at the dumbest lawyers or astronauts in existence.
- It's such lazy writing, but it seems like almost everything is written this way these days. Characters make the dumbest possible decisions, and refuse to talk to each other or share important information.

Dark
The OA
ST: Lower Decks
The Office
Parks and Rec
Peaky Blinders
I’m dragging my feet getting through seasons 2 of Silo and Severance.
- Aww thats a shame about Dark, I got sucked in to that show 100% until the end.
  The office is good background TV for when you're tired and just need to zone out and chuckle, its a very wholesome show, same with Parks and Rec.
  
  The UK version of The Office isn't wholesome. The boss is awful and has no redeeming qualities. The rest is just cringeworthy and not funny.
  
  Wholesome?
  I don't see juvenile irresponsibility and adversarialism as "wholesome". If you wanna say funny, to each his own, but in no way is that show "wholesome".
- Sweet baby Jesus. I love all of these. Fantastic sci fi and fantasy
- I have to say severance season 1 was way better imo
- Dark turned into nonsense unfortunately. It felt like Lost all over again. I never finished it.
  
  I disagree, I think Dark was much more coherent. It was admittedly a bit convoluted, but I think it did a good job tying everything together.
  Whereas Lost was them constantly creating new mysteries that they didn't have the answers too, and tying it up in the end with some random bullshit.
  
  Agree. Season 3 jumped the shark in my opinion. It's bad enough that they just kept
  
  But the s3 finale just felt completely random and confirmed all of mt suspicions about them not being able to provide meaningful explanations for most of the interesting stuff that happens

Battlestar Galactica. Like a lot of the shows people have been mentioning, all it did was raise the stakes every episode. It didn't feel like it was building anything meaningful, just building up to something.
The most meaningful example of this (spoilers for like a twenty year old show) for me was when they're in the ship looking for water or whatever and the human cylon just ignores the indicator saying "Water here! Check here!" and the scene just. keeps. going. I swear it felt like half the episode.
- Yeah that show is a slow burner vibe thing and i think you were right to stop watching it because you gotta meet it where it's at - messy, creative, emblematic of the paperback sci-fi classics, not quite so neat as something like Expanse or Star Trek in terms of structure and plot and character taking a backseat to the themes, it's less Stellaris, more Solaris, less Mass Effect and more No Man's Sky.
  This show to the original BSG is like Primer to Back to the Future.
  What helped me through is I just enjoy military dramas so the standalone episodes like the one about the industrial workers and such just kept me engaged in the moment as episodic adventures and so I was in no hurry for a thread to follow, though the arc in S2 and onto the climax in Season 4.
  It's not everyone's cup of tea but I do find this show beautiful in a way,
  
  and more No Man’s Sky
  Speaking of highly overrated things...
- I enjoyed episodes that had their own story, like the one with Richard Hatch in prison ship.

Better Call Saul. I liked Saul in Breaking Bad and learning more about him and his past was great, but I hated knowing how low he has to be by the end for Breaking Bad to make sense. The higher he climbed in the show, the more of a tragedy it became. Just had to put it down some time near the end of Part 2 when he started doing stuff to his brother.
On the one hand I do still want to know what happens to his brother, but on the other hand I hate watching a car crash I know is about to happen before its shown the first signs of drifting into the wrong lane and (mentally) shouting at the screen to stop making stupid decisions.
Worth mentioning that although I acknowledge Breaking Bad would not really happen at all if not for Walter and his pride, but I still despise how much he lets his pride destroy him over and over again. As such I also don't particularly care for the later seasons of Breaking Bad, but at least with those I didn't really know the end so I didn't know how much it was going to keep going downhill beforehand. Oddly enough for this reason I feel like I may have enjoyed Better Call Saul more before having watched Breaking Bad.
- It's very satisfying. You get a proper ending that's bittersweet.
  
  Also, Kim is an awesome character. And Rhea Seehorn ~~can get it~~ is a very attractive young lady.

The Umbrella Academy: in the first couple of series like nothing happens and everyone is very sad.
- You dodged a bullet. It just keeps getting worse until the final season which is the absolute worst

Dark. Sad thing is that I'm very intrigued by the overall narrative and atmosphere, but it's just so damn boring. I also thought Midnight Mass was bad but I did manage to force myself to finish that one.
- I love Dark! It's pretty slow at start but it get's pretty exciting. Also it is 3 seasons and then finished, which is rare for a show.
- 1899 was the best!!! NF cancelled tho :(
- It stops being "boring" after a while.
- Same (re: Dark). I'd rather just rewatch Steins;Gate.

Twin Peaks. Couldn't stand it.
- Oh yeah. I heard all the hype online, and got two episodes in.
- Second best TV show ever!
  Different people like different things and that's awesome.
- Oh, God, such nonsense
- I can appreciate Twin Peaks for being groundbreaking at the time in many ways. And David Lynch was a genius...
  But yeah, as someone who tried getting into it for the first time relatively recently, I just couldn't. Got one or two episodes into season 2 before calling it quits.

Walking dead. The opening episode is so fucking stupid and poorly written. People were just desperate for any zombie show at the time.
I even asked a fangirl why they watch this shit ass show. She agreed it was shit but says she kept going cause your brain forgets the bad bits and remembers the good.
- When that show was popular, I had a boyfriend that didn't seem able to handle the idea of us liking different things. I never cared for zombies, but I'd heard good things about The Walking Dead and gave it a try. I pushed myself to watch the entire first season before deciding, "Nope, I can't."
  But when I told that boyfriend? Apparently I "didn't watch it enough." When I told him I didn't care for zombie stories, he insisted, "But it's not about zombies! It's about the people." Uhh yeah, it's about people in a world with zombies. I could watch a million shows about "people" that don't involve zombies, so why would I keep watching this one that I already don't like?
- Same, only watched the first two episodes and was just bored and weirded out by the writing. Heard much better about the last of us series.
- Yeah, for me The Walking Dead were the non-zombie characters, on the run with no expectation of anyone surviving to their next birthday.

I had allready seen a lot of documentaries about chernobyl, so the recent series did not cut it fir me. It was too dramatised
- Tbf the hbo series was about soviet union and how stupid it was explored through yet another russian caused disaster rather than the disaster itself.
- Of course it was dramatized, that's kind of the entire point. As you said there are already countless documentaries about it, why would you want another one?

Sons of Anarchy
It's basically a soap opera. Over the top and with no real direction. The writers were pretty much making it as they go using all the old tricks to keep you hooked.
I watched it until season 2. Before I started watching the season finale I realized I didn't care how it ended and just dump it.
- I remember watching that show because people told me it's good. I was kinda hooked in the first season, then i started to realise that everyone who told me the show was good, was coincidentally a woman. For some reason on youtube a video popped up that said: the ending of sons of anarchy is hilarious. So i watched it and i had to laugh so hard i could never go back to watch it.
- I hated everybody in this show except for one person and then they killed them off in I believe the ending of season 1.

Breaking Bad. I made it part way through the first season before giving up. Everyone loves that show but I just couldn't enjoy it.

Sons of anarchy.

Nutrek, most of the live series are were terrible, Kurtzman ruined the franchise. lower decks just got silly. ISAIP past season 12 were just plain awful, they shouldve gave up on the series long time ago.
- Even Strange New Worlds?
  
  I couldn't stand Discovery, SNW is wonderful.
- I fucking love lower decks, but that last season clearly was outta ideas
- Yeah god, I forgot about Nutreks. I could go on for a while.
  And people keep trying to convince me that I like Lower Decks (and I like The Orville), but I don't.
- anything is better than Enterprise, the dawnson's creek of trek

Last of Us. Fallout I didn't even bother with. I probably would've bailed on Breaking Bad as well if it wasn't for everyone around me telling that it'll get good eventually (it didn't)

GoT... Too much tape as a plot device, and general subjugation of female characters.
Love... She was supposed to be the cool girl but she was just rude. I lost respect for the characters in episode 2.

Severance - So. Goddamn. Slow. Every scene was slow. The lines were delivered slowly. From all the characters. Always. And somehow even the action scenes are slow?? Like when dude is in the hallway loop, that whole scene dragged on for way too long. I couldn't get past the second episode. Ain't nobody got time for that.
- The creeping inertia is part of it. All good if not your thing, but that pacing is very much on purpose
  
  You can say that, and maybe it is true for the better season 1, but season 2 has the unshakable feeling of real life considerations affecting the art by having to stretch out the story.
- That was exactly what I liked about it. My primary complaint about season 2 is that it's faster paced. But if the pacing's not your style then season 2 would not be worth the grind.
- I was completely hooked until a major moment in season 2 that felt like it was going to turbo charge the story, but then the follow up episodes were just lots of doing nothing with it.

I stopped watching the Big bang theory around season 3.
And I think I've only seen one game of thrones episode...
- I lasted about half an episode when I realized they were directly making fun of me and my friends in a pretty horrific way.

Glee.
- The pilot was good.
  
  I didn't last the first season and was certain it would be cancelled. I couldn't have been more off the pulse.
- I lasted a while until the teacher groomed a student. Nope!

Succession.

severance. just so boring... uneventful. i just cant bring myself to care about the characters in any capacity. ive said it in other threads, its just 'depression porn'
- It’s nice to know there’s like 5 of us 🤣
- Same. It’s not that it’s “uneventful”, it’s just that each “event” just adds more nonsensical mystery. It feels like Lost, which some people thought was twisty in a clever way. But instead the writers literally just kept throwing twists with no actual end in mind.
  I’m sure Severance has some kind of plan, but it feels way longer than it needs to be. It’d make a good movie or limited series, but I’m not into this vibe for multiple seasons.
  
  the show practically beats you over the head with the symbolism but failed to write the characters with any depth whatsoever. kinda like lost. no reason to care about what happens to anyone
- I liked season 1 and season 2 is the most pretentious slop and my friends call it a masterpiece and I feel like an alien
  s2e4 has to be one of the worst episodes of television I've ever consumed in my life. stopped watching e right there.
  s1 is alright though, endings a bit stupid but whatever
- It's definitely not for everyone. It's a very complex show with a lot of symbolism, and you kind of have to think for yourself what's really the implications of what's going on.
  I was hooked from beginning to end, but it's definitely pretty boring if you don't get the subtext, or simply want an easy sit back and relax kind of show.
  
  Nah, it's that it's not as "deep" as it thinks it is.

I enjoyed the first season of Yellowjackets, but have given up halfway through S2 as I realised the writers didn't seem to have a plan, and were Lost-ing it, making up extra mysteries as they go along, just to pad the story out.
- I recently watched a video by Jason Pargin, about how pretty much all TV shows are Lost-ing it, due to how modern TV production is done. If you don't think they're Lost-ing it, it's simply because the writers are doing a good job making it up as they go.

Black mirror, too depressing
Wheel of time... Just didnt care enough after the first episode
The witcher... Again just didnt care enough and not a fan of the lead
- It's rough to judge black mirror for the first episode. I had. Ahard time getting into it as well, and even when i was fully hooked, i could only watch like an episode or two a week, because it IS pretty depressing. But it's also thought provoking and there are episodes that just live in my head, in a good way.
  
  I actually watched like 3 seasons but it just became a bit much after a while so I decided to drop it.
  
  I only watched one episode and it was just too pretentious
- Black mirror's an anthology series, so you can't judge it on a single ep

I agree with a lot of the shows listed. I loved TWD but after the Negan stuff, I was so incredibly bored that I gave up, couldn't get into Parks and Rec. Tried 3 episodes before deciding it wasn't for me, etc.
But the one show I haven't seen listed yet is Supernatural. I was obsessed with that show for the first 5 seasons (which was how many the show creator wanted it to go on for) and then it just became so unbearable and ridiculous that I completely gave up by season 7. This one died, but not really. This one died and got brought back - 3 times. This one swapped bodies. This character is actually this character, but SIKE! it was THIS character all along!
Give me a break.
Then it went on for like 8 more seasons and I just cannot fathom that.
- I watched Supernatural one or two seasons too long. The first five were great all around and then it got weird.
- First season (or two even) of Parks & Rec is not at all representative of the rest of the show.

Anything with more than 3 seasons usually fails to maintain my attention. Eventually it's just more of the same.

Breaking Bad. I tried twice, got a little farther each time but, just lost interest.

Almost every one?
- yes

Rick & Morty. Then the whole szechuan sauce thing happened and I can't look at any content from that show without cringing. LOOK GUYS IM PICKLE RI-stop please it's not funny.

The Orwell
- Orville?
  
  Yeah, that. Thanks.
- If you can wade through the sludge (like ST:TNG S1), it really becomes incredibly thought-provoking in especially season 3.
- I mean, the Orville is more like a comedy, not everyone is into that.
  Have you watched The Expanse? That's more of what more realistic space sci-fi looks like.
  Also: For All Mankind, depicting an alternate space race where the Soviets won the race to the moon, and the space race didn't end, and continued on, base on moon, maybe even expanding further into the solar system (no spoilers, you'll have to watch).
  
  Ironically, I couldn't stand Expanse's pilot and I don't think I got past the first few episodes. It was just so slow and nap-inducing...

I watch quite a lot of series and enjoy some of them. TV has never been too good, and nowadays its the most obvious that write-as-you-go model has blatant flaws. Storytelling is difficult enough already, but it's worse when you don't know how many episodes you actually have to tell the story, and you have to argue with other writers to include your scenes and plot lines.
I constantly find myself enjoying miniseries the most. The ending makes the story. So, the second best shows are those where every season or series has a self-contained opening and ending arcs. Cliffhangers bore me, most hooks are lost on me. Usually when characters seem to meander and roam aimlessly is because the writers are lost as well. And plots of convenience (where magically something just happened by chance to create or resolve a new plotline, or deus ex machina) just completely bore me.
So, anyways, to answer the question. True Blood lost me completely midway second season. Awesome world, but the writers didn't know how to write for shit.

Buffy
Suits
Arrested Development
Archer
It's Always Sunny
- Came here for Buffy. I remember the film which was entertaining fluff, but then the series came out and almost immediately I hated it. But all of my friends loved it. Every so often one of them would try and persuade me to give it another go but everytime they did it was always by showing me the same fucking episode ('Hush', I think it's called) where no-one speaks.
  I guess I just don't enjoy looooong series which are more soap opera than they are story.
  
  looooong series which are more soap opera than they are story.
  You just described the entirety of The CW as a channel.
- The last three are some of my favorites of all time, curious what you dislike about them.

Got some anime for y'all
Daily Life of Immortal King: There was so much vital force in the first episode, I kept watching hoping to see more love and care for the rest of the first season. Instead I got a bunch of flat characters that seemed to be walking plot coupons to be cashed in when the plot needed to happen.
Attack on Titan: Everyone talks about how epic anime twists are. This is because they tend to make the twist about something core to the plot, so when the twist finally hits it could tear the whole story asunder and leave you with a whole different story to tell. The risk of this is that you (the viewer) might not like the story after the twist. This is what happened to me. The first twist hit, I spotted that it was a mecha anime in disguise, and promptly checked out because I had just watched a shit ton of gundam and was sick of mecha anime.
Eminence in Shadow: I actually watched the whole series because I was momentarily down for some power fantasy junk food. I do not reccomend it. I feel like my life is worse for the experience
Brothers Confict: This is among the ranks of "so bad it's good" anime. I simply could not deal with the pain and had to quit.
Rising of Shield Hero: I just can't deal with the horny shield.
Made in Abyss: I hated watching Riko constantly treat Reg like a machine. Couldn't get over that.
Blue Exorcist: I have no idea why this didn't hit for me. I was in the target demographic and everything, and it did end up being a springboard for me into other anime once I got bored barely ten episodes in.
- I couldn't keep with Demon Slayer. It was just ultimately unpredictable in plot to me, but not really in a good way. I don't know how to describe it.
  I hated watching Riko constantly treat Reg like a machine.
  But.. is he not?
  
  I mean, he is, but he's also a kid and more importantly a person
- I've only watched 3 Animes, ever:
  Death Note
  Steins;Gate (and the prequel/mid-quel)
  Mirai Nikki (Future Diary)
  I have no interest in the medium of presentation, only the story. (I dislike animations)
  
  You didn't find any of the art interesting at all? But anyway, if the plots suck, we wouldn't watch, either! I recommend that you try My Hero Academia, which is about 80% of the planet's population attaining superpowers; the story follows one boy in the 20% with no special abilities at all as he tries to navigate life in this new world.

Game of Thrones, the Expanse, Breaking Bad

I really wanted to like Firefly, but the characters felt too silly and two dimensional.
- Did you watch the one where the people die?
- Firefly's biggest weakness/strength is the dialog. It was wholly done in the Joss Whedon style and cadence. Every member of the main cast was "the snarky one", every conversation was a series of verbal setups- and if it was against antagonists they'd be completely witless and walk into verbal traps, and every classic verbal trope would be lampshaded.
  If you've watched enough of his previous shows it is very easy to predict how a conversation in Firefly will sound.
  Back in the day that style of dialog was still somewhat novel, especially to people who weren't big Buffy/Angel fans. Nowadays this is the baseline MCU style of dialog, which means it is absolutely played out.

Mr. Robot
Feels too dark. Drugs, depression, dystopia, alter egos?
Feels like I'm watching some conspiracy theory documentary, way to dark.
Succession, its just rich people doing rich people things. So much boring family drama.
The Wire. I stop watching because too much corrupt cop moments that triggers PTSD.
Stanger Things. The part where

Didn't finish Lost. Like WTF dude, a fucking

The Walking Dead, the story is boring and dragged on too long and I lost interest.
Probably a lot more boring TV, but probably too boring for me to even remember.
- Yeah, good list.
  I was in on Mr. Robot until it Fight Clubbed. Tried it a little bit after that, but completely lost interest.
  Also not at all a fan of Walking Dead or most shows that are just depressing. Ive also always had this weird logical problem with Zombie apocalypses that never end. Like, I get it's a monster movie/show, but eventually I'm like "alright, how are there still so many walkers when there's been no food for years".
  I lost interest in Battlestar Galactica for a similar reason (depressing). Also how the fuck could they not somehow detect who was a Cylon. They apparently have shit built in that let them transmit their conclsciousness across the galaxy when they die, etc etc. Also all the other shit that never got exolained.
  Game of Thrones lost me at Reek.
  Haven't gotten into Westworld.
  My friends were all 100% convinced I'd be into Stranger Things but it just hasn't clicked with me. I'm going to give it another try.
  Also zero, zero "reality" shit.

Like 97% of them
Damn few shows are worth my time these days. Re-tread it's galore, with simplistic emotional appeal to get you to react and continue to watch. Essentially producers saw what worked for "reality" TV in the 90's and applied that same juvenile, transparent, boring approach to new shows.
- In that case, we should ask: what have you finished and do you recommend?

Too many. I can count by the fingers of my left hand how many shows I watched to the end and I still have unused fingers.
- Which are those (at least, which you suggest)?
  
  Person of Interest and MacGuyver
  Yup, old and ancient stuff.

Nearly all of them, most seem to be racist comedy's or stereotypes and just bullshit I can't handle, or the plot is over used so much it's predictable, honestly most popular TV shows are just straight up boring and to much otherism and other racism, sexism, transphobia, ECT in them. Or just about fighting each other and it's all about drama because they don't have the apparent ability to just simply talk to each other.
- Or just about fighting each other and it’s all about drama because they don’t have the apparent ability to just simply talk to each other.
  Classic sitcom formula. I never got into a lot of the "family" shows in the 90s, because almost every plot revolved around someone being a poor communicator - and that's it. Person A can't talk about event/topic Y, and now Person B assumes reason Z and the entire episode and all its hijinks only exist because of it. Everything could've been avoided if Person A and Person B actually talked things through, like healthy, sane people who actually want to avoid conflict. But writers couldn't think of a way to both model proper communication and create a compelling storyline, so here we are.