Shows I've stopped watching

I'm taking a break on HTGAWM and Empire. I stopped watching Quantico because it's homophobic. Censoring a gay kiss in this day and age is something they shouldn't get away with. Sadly there's no outrage from GLAAD or the SJWs on tumblr who claim they're LGBT allies. apparently they only care about LGBT issues if it involves lesbians or trans women of color.

Watercooler shows are the TV equivalent of the jock who peaks in high school.

The first episode had a gay kiss. No censorship there.

I quit HTGAWM and Homeland--although I may binge Homeland later. I'm about ready to quit Empire, and I did decide to quit Quantico--I was getting bored.

I love comics, but I quit Gotham, Arrow, and Flash. Just not my thing for TV anymore. I'm going to give Supergirl a chance.

The scripted shows I currently watch and enjoy are THE AFFAIR, THE LEFTOVERS, THE RETURNED, PLEASE LIKE ME, FRESH OFF THE BOAT, BLACK-ISH...and I guess, Modern Family and The Walking Dead, even those annoy me sometimes.

I'm looking forward to new seasons of ORPHAN BLACK and Downton Abbey (another that annoys me sometimes) and of course, the returns of The X-Files, Gilmore Girls, and Twin Peaks.

I quit "Empire", "The Walking Dead", "Gotham".

I'm surprised people quit "How to Get Away With Murder", IMO the second season has been stronger than the first, though maybe they quit during the first season which is understandable.

EMPIRE and GOTHAM: both, due to poor writing and becoming inconsistent and dull during their sophomore seasons. They're the only network series that I watch, which is just as well.

Last year was my big "dropping TV shows" year... I dropped a lot of them, including Bones and Once Upon A Time and half a dozen others I don't even remember.

This year seems to be the year I take on a bunch more. Though I doubt some of them will last more than one year.

I like The Affair better this year than last.

American Horror Story. Hated Freakshow and not feeling Hotel either.

Homeland was saved by last season after a horrible season 3. The new season so far has kept me intrigued.

Homeland? A bunch of CIA propaganda, I assume.

My problem with How To Get Away w Murder is that there is not one character--not one--that I'm happy to see when he/she comes on screen. It's why I have not given up on Empire.; I'm still interested when Cookie, Lucious or Jamal come on, and I'm willing to put up with the oldest brother's bipolar baptism and the youngest brother's attempts at acting.

[quote]I'm willing to put up with the oldest brother's bipolar baptism and the youngest brother's attempts at acting.

This made me laugh.

Quantico. Too stupid.

I started to watch Murder again. Because Connor. But I hate his hair.

Dool

I'm behind on Empire but haven't given up. Why did you give up, OP?

The one I refuse to revisit is American Horror Story. Stopped in the middle of last season because it was just so stupid, and not remotely scary. Also refuse to watch Scream Queens. People are talking about these shows this season but I'm like "No. Never again with Ryan Murphy."

R15, I gave up on Empire because I could literally feel my brain melting away as I watched it. Even though I like Cookie, they use her far too often--she seems to be in every scene. The plot has been ludicrous since season one but it just keeps getting worse.

Plus, why is it obviously shot in Chicago yet they keep saying they're in NYC?

I watched The Affair last season but figured it couldn't go anywhere else plotwise. Has something suddenly changed with season 2?

Watching Getting On on HBO--hilarious

Gave up on AHS, Scream Queens, Gotham, Quantico, and Limitless.

You guys liked Homeland S4? I thought it was so boring - I just stopped. It feels like a different show in S4. Im glad Brody is dead finally...he annoyed the shit out of me. Also, Did we ever find out who bombed the cia 2 seasons ago?

i basically stopped watching anything "relevant". HTGAWM is like any other Shonda show: a little goes a looooong way, you just know they're ready to change motivations and psychologies on every character at the drop of a hat just to deliver those OMG moments that become annoying after a while. Modern Family overstayed its welcome years ago, like 90% of 3+ sesasons shows. I only watch The Affair and You're the worst, nowadays.

I stopped HTGAWM when I had a few of this season in my DVR and tried to recall the characters and their names and just realized I didn't like any of the characters enough the first season to continue. It sucked me in the first season because it was an interesting story. But I found I liked NO ONE on it The characters are all just awful people. I have enough of that in my life.

I am saving SVU but haven't watched any this season. I cannot stand all the baby storylines. It's like when writers can't come up with a story for a female, they just HAVE to either go with a baby or rape.

I actually think Gotham is better this season than it's first one.

I stopped SNL about 3 years ago...right around when Kristin Wiig left. I watched part of the trump one, I am embarrassed to admit.

I've always liked The Affair but this season really convinced me it's the best show on TV right now. I'm still sticking with Homeland but it's starting to get a bit tedious. I've completely given up on The Good Wife, something I should've done at some point during the previous season which was complete shit.

The French series The Returned on Sundance. I loved season one, but a year later, they just sort of plunged in without much in the way of a recap. I spent so much time pausing it and looking stuff up on the internet that I was pulled out of the mood of the piece, which, quite honestly, is the number one thing the show has going for it. Adieu, Pierre Perrier (yes, that's the name of one of the actors)!

Pierre is a hot piece of ass. He's very comfortable with full frontal nudity, if any of you is trying to decide whether to watch The Returned.

Walking Dead etc. Who cares? The living people are worse than the dead.

[quote]The living people are worse than the dead.

I like this. Consider it co-opted.

Broke up with THE WALKING DEAD a season ago. It was the same show every week: go get supplies, zombies, argue, argue, argue, zombies, cliffhanger.

I am about ready to part ways with NASHVILLE. Connie B. always looks like she hasn't slept in weeks. And anytime Deacon is on I figure he is going to throw things or look longingly at a bottle of booze.

I almost gave up on AGENTS OF SHIELD until it realized it needed to be a superhero show.

I quit TWO BROKE GIRLS a long time ago.

AHS

The Walking Dead has been VERY different this season, R29.

I gave up on Castle last season.

Is anyone watching JANE THE VIRGIN? I almost gave it up because Jane gets more and more unlikeable.

Gotham & The Affair are both even better second season.

I love Jane the Virgin, still.

AHS is so corny.

I agree that Walking Dead is better this season.

I didn't get through season 2 episode 1 of Empire. Awful.

How to Get Away with Murder, i can "watch" while doing chores. There aren't so many shows that work for this. Sit-coms work. For dramas, etc, Elementary almost always make sense when you aren't really watching it. Homeland mostly. American Horror Story doesn't make sense if you watch it or if you don't but the only point of the show is to sit there and watch it for the art direction and campy scrips and acting.

I gave up The Good Wife and, reluctantly, sleepy hollow last year.

I like Crazy Ex Girlfriend. Jane the Virgin, somewhat.

The Affair got too smarmy 2/3 through season 1. Gave it a shot 2 episodes this season. No, thanks. ¨¨

I'm also watching Fargo

Finding Carter

I just watched Season 1 of Grantchester (easy to watch)

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (ok)

Manhattan (set at the Manhattan Project) somewhat interesting

I haven't looked as S2 of Leftovers.

Only watching 2 sitcoms - Mindy Project and Modern Family. I know, pretty lame. Mindy makes some good jokes about modern living, though.

I love Mindy's guts. She is not wrong about many things.

Oh shitty AHS.

I wish you people would read a book now and then.

Shows I am behind on, but don't feel I've dropped (BUT I'm quite behind) - Homeland, Downton Abbey, Grimm

Shows I've dropped - The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf, Secrets & Lies and Bloodlines

This fall I've dropped Scream Queens for the absolutely shitty writing, CSI: Cyber for ruining the show by suddenly bringing in Ted Danson, America's Next Top Model once again in mid-season for concentrating on anything else but the modeling and fashion world, Project Runway for Tim Gunn's assholeness and because the show turned out to be a joke.

I've been close to dropping Arrow and Agents of SHIELD but there are so few superhero shows that I just have to go in with extremely low expectations and take enjoyment where I can.

I'm on the fence about Supergirl. I watched the pilot but it was too teen girly. Blindspot has some things going on but I'm just not feeling it. I might return to both of those at some point, though. Seriously considering dropping Grimm. The show's been fluff from the start but at least there were lot of likable things about it. Last season turned out to be horrible and this season with the fucking witch suddenly becoming the bulge guy's love interest I'm just not liking it anymore. I feel like I'm watching its writers writing about their own new marriages and having kids with new partners, all straight of course, and it feels like I'm watching a fucking soap.

I also stopped Empire and How To Get Away WIth Murder. Am on the brink with Nashville.

but The Affair has really gotten good this season, you need to watch

I'm only watching Quantico for Rick Cosnett, otherwise I would have stopped after the first episode. Will continue with American Horror Story to see just how dull it gets.

Empire for me too.

I've dropped Empire too.

I thought The Leftovers was getting better this season but some of the things they have the characters do just seem odd and starting to get gimmicky.

I am watching Gotham, Jane the Virgin, Homeland, The Affair and The Knick. The Affair is better this season (since we're getting Helen and Cole's POV). The Affair and The Knick are the best shows, IMO.

Dr Who.

I dropped Once Upon a Time. Modern Family is getting stale. Still watch Good Wife and Grimm(though not as good as last year)

The Walking Dead has been total shit since the beginning of season 2. Frank Darabont leaving was an irreparable loss. I don't know how any of you even started HTGAWM. It was horrible from the second it started. Shonda Rhimes CANNOT write. Viola Davis is completely at sea in a morass of total garbage.

Homeland is quite good this season. The Affair is better and makes a little more sense this season. I'm sticking with Empire for the moment, but I FF through all the "music" now. I can see where it's going and will probably dump it sooner rather than later.

I'm barely holding on to AHS, same with Scream Queens. Murphy seems to have lost his mojo.

I've dropped the ones you've mentioned OP, only walking dead and the last kingdom for me, the main character in that is yum

Empire is such a bad camp act. It is Jud Suss but made by black people. It delves into some of the worst cliches about African Americans. I like Taraji but she seems to play the same character over and over again with the exception of Person Of Interest. Terence Howard is a woman beating cunt. I liked him until I found out about that crap.

I'm not watching season two of The Leftovers because I feel like I already got burned by watching all of season one. Every single one of my friends and coworkers that were watching season one gave up on it and I felt like an idiot for sticking with it. Whenever any of them asked me what happened, their reaction was relief that they gave up on it. I'll wait season two out to see if HBO announces that they've given up on it too.

After binge watching Empire S1, turned it off half way through S2 Episode 1 and never went back. All Shonda shows and as of this week, Once Upon a Time

I know I am opening myself up to be possibly skewered, but does anybody else have a hard time following HTGAWM? I have to put my phone away, turn up the volume on the TV, and focus entirely on the show. Members of my family tend to agree with me about the show. Anybody else out there feel the same way? Or is this a genetic thing?

Love Boat. Too many Charo episodes.

[quote]Shonda Rhimes CANNOT write. Viola Davis is completely at sea in a morass of total garbage.

Shonda Rhimes may be a shitty writer, but she's not actually writing HTGAWM; she's the executive producer. And, is it just me, or is the second season way better than the first? I like the whole "adoption" theme that's running through this season. If you watched soap operas, you might appreciate the show more for what it is (a nighttime soap and not a procedural).

Scream Queens is the show that I've completely abandoned. Just abysmal. I'm embarrassed with everyone involved.

The Walking Dead is fantastic this season. The naysayers on this thread are describing the show of about three seasons ago. This past episode in particular had, dare I say it, Emmy-worthy moments, especially Tovah Feldshuh and Merritt Weaver (who absolutely nailed her scenes).

R55 I agree. It's rather convoluted. Plus, they will use name alot like, "So-and-so said this." I'm always thinking, who is so-and-so again?

Fantasy Island. Not enough Charo episodes.

Hee Haw. I've had it up to here with that laughing donkey. Lawrence Welk may be next if they don't stop with the Polygrip commercials.

Last fall, I watched How to Get Away with Murder every week without fail and got caught up in the hype.. In the spring, I was just too busy to watch the six episodes that aired, so they sat in my DVR. Over the summer, I binge watched those spring episodes. Wow, without the hype, it's a really mediocre show. There were some really great moments, but overall the episodes were nothing special. I couldn't tell you any of the character's names and just didn't care about any of them. The writers just seemed to be jerking me around. I was offended. Consequently, I'm no longer DVRing HTGAWM and don't miss it in the least bit. Also not hearing much hype about it either. It seems to have already peaked.

I loved Empire last season. Made me laugh. Made me cry. Thoughtful but outragous too. Very well done series. So, I eagerly I watched the first episode of season 2 and just was shaking my head in disbelief. The series had gone way astray. They were trying to be campy and outrageous. The thoughtful part of the storylines seemed to be gone. Haven't watched any episodes since then, but I'm still DVRing the show. Will try to catch up over the holidays. If it doesn't improve, can easily see myself dropping the show.

Fuck you, r56!

Charo is the greatest recurring character ever added to an already established ensemble. Her April Lopez character is the most brilliantly written stowaway since Helen Hayes in Airport, and the chemistry that Charo creates with Gopher, Doc, and most of all, Julie, nearly melts the screen.

I can't wait to see what they do with her next.

DOOL

I'm about to give up on "The Tonight Show" because Johnny's vacations are getting ridiculous. It's like he's given the show to Jay Leno and that other kid.

Greys, Scandal, HTGAWM were must see last year and this year I lost interest.

To be honest, Scandal is a guilty pleasure. It's basically an over the top primetime soap. If anything, I'm watching it for Mellie: she's Sue Ellen Ewing v.2.0.

"I Married Joan". Just doesn't send me anymore. Kept waiting for the Charo episode, but...

Hemlock Grove. They killed off Dougray Scott's character and it seems like they are really trying too hard to aim for the teen audience. I'm sure that was their target but it seems to have jumped the shark.

I love Empire for the simple fact that it is an over-the-top, unapologetic camp soap. And for Cookie's antics and couture.

I had been watching Three's Company for nearly 40 years, but finally stopped watching.

I can't believe people still watch network TV shows...the formula hasn't changed since Peyton Place.

I've developed an almost pathological hate for all Shonda Rhimes shows . She has good ideas for a show but then goes for style over substance . Look at my pretty diverse cast , please don't notice the giant plot holes and stupid story lines. They could be making so much more out of it but they don't and I don't know why .

OITNB

I never watched Empire in the first place, talk about television for idiots.

Well smeeeeell yoooooouuu R74.

You're missing out r53. Season 2 is some of the best TV ever made. It's surpassing last season with its acting, writing, and direction.

Stopped watching The Royals after first 10 minutes

Got bored silly with Downton Abbey pretty quick

Stopped watching SNL 10 yrs ago - tune in rarely

Never bothered with Empire, Gotham, and Breaking Bad (?) - Gave the last 5 minutes on 2 separate occasions and decided nah.

Most TV programming is awful at best. Good example is The View - Somebody needs to kidnap Whoopi and keep her away from a studio, camera and microphone till she turns 85 yrs. Then turf her.

Walking Dead, Homeland, Indian Summers

American Horror Story. I watched Season 1 first run and hooked all my friends on it, but I started to lose interest in Asylum. I started Coven, stopped by episode 3. I just can't get stay interested.

Sleepy Hollow. Loved Season 1's quirkiness. Gave up early on in Season 2.

There are a few shows I watch first run . Anything else that interests me, I either DVR and catch up a few at a time when I have time, or I wait until the entire season is on Netflix.

Scandal, it jumped the shark when everyone in the WH has committed murder.

I've stopped watching Bones. They've made Brennan into something of an idiot savant and the lab/workplace scenarios have gotten so ridiculous.

Grimm, second season.

No more trying . . . Once Upon a Time is dead to me.

Finally gladly gave up on TWD. The writing and acting is horrific. Just done.

Stopped watching Rectify (main character too irritating) and Please like me (first 2 series were sweet but it is tired now). Tried to watch Justified but not my thing.

Still watching The walking dead and Nashville despite the latter being one of the sudsiest soaps I've ever seen. Will get back to GOT one of these days.

Scary r70, like someday they'll find the bodies of little boys under your floorboards scary. You must've sustained considerable brain-damage, seek help immediately!

I stopped watching Scream Queens by episode 3. Just a mess. I also sort of gave up on AHS after the third episode. Not because its bad- its the strongest season since the first one-Im just tired of shows where you MUST watch each episode in order to understand what's happening in the next. Its why I partially gave up on HTGAWWM but im sure I'll end up binge watching it because imlove the characters. Also Walking Dead is just so dark and depressing. I only watch cause my partner is obsessed.

40 yrs of the Three's Company theme song on a loop is the perfect definition of hell.

I stopped watching The Good Wife. Last season was very weak. But finding out the star is an awful person who doesn't deserve success was the final nail in the coffin.

Gotham, Arrow , Empire have been a chore to watch because of the bad writing.

I'm surprised too at how many people have dropped How To Get Away With Murder. It's of the best shows on network TV and this season has been stellar. Shonda is barely involved in the show. That's why it's so much better than Greys and Scandal (which I've both abandoned)

I'm about to drop Empire. It's awful. And I was hooked in season 1.

I hardly watch any tv any more. Dropped AHS, Modern Family ages ago, Homeland after one season. I was really disappointed in the last season of Shameless, which was my favorite show until that point. I don't know if I'll watch the new season. Haven't caught up with Orphan Black or Bates Motel - we'll see if I get around to it.

Still need to check out The Affair, but pretty much everything feels like a waste of time these days.

[quote]Im just tired of shows where you MUST watch each episode in order to understand what's happening in the next

This is one of the dumbest fucking sentences I've ever read here.

I mean,I guess, whatever. There are plenty of dancing with the whatever and real housewives crap which is made for people like you.

Not really, R93

There were (still are?) plenty of shows in which one didn't need to watch every episode to follow it. You know, like Star Trek or Kojak where every episode was self-contained. You're the dumb one.

R93 I like series including procedural and comedies with very minor arcs, and others with long running, slow moving arcs. Yes, you don't have to follow them all that closely. Its pleasant and low stress to follow lightly along.

R94, are you posting from the year 2002 perhaps? Because that was about the last time non-serialized television was a thing. Unless all you watch are procedural dramas (and even those have co-opted the serialization found in most other genres at this point).

I know most of you never watched it or gave it up years ago but I dropped Big Bang Theory. If these character were somewhat amusing when they were younger now that they're older - and looking older - they're just idiots, no matter how supposedly intelligent they are. They also could have had one gay male character or made Raj/Stuart a couple but were too chicken to do anything after years of "one of us could be gay" teases. Plus the Amy/Sheldon thing was never going to go anywhere and now it's over but AFF is still around. Worst: the episodes with Laurie Metcalf are now horrible and they used to be the best.

I sort of agree with you [R97] about BBT. The quirky characters (everyone but Leonard and Penny) are too old to be "cute but geeky." It's highly unrealistic and a bit annoying. Sheldon isn't even that funny anymore.

I've stopped watching "Minority Report".

Happily dropped The Walking Dead and Quantico. Both very overrated and boring for me.

I've stopped watching Batman. Yvonne Craig's tits keep getting in the way of Burt Ward's package.

haven't watched a tv show in years. I think the last I saw was the last season of Breaking Bad. So do your math. The strange thing is that after you haven't watched them for a while if you catch them skimming over channels you realize how bad the acting was, the plot holes, the cliché,the tropes, the formulas. It's like watching old cartoons of when you were young. The "magic" is gone. I don't miss them.

[quote]haven't watched a tv show in years.

Ugh, why is there always one of these tedious asshats in every thread about TV?

Yes, yes, we get it, you're SOOOOO superior!

(rolling eyes)

You're an asshat...

It's what you do...

DOOL

NCIS

r103, as a former tv show watcher I wanted to see what other people watch or stopped watching. I don't get where you got the superior stuff. If I found I show I might like, I'd watch it. It hasn't happened in years though. Maybe I've seen too much tv in the past and now everything looks been there done there to me.

I stopped watching The Good Wife after last season, when the behind the scenes drama became more interesting than the show. The only show that I've watched faithfully as it aired, from beginning to end, was Mad Men. Even with Breaking Bad, I took a break in the fourth or fifth season and picked it up at the end. Shows I'm watching now are The Affair, Masters of Sex, Ray Donovan, HTGAWM, Empire, You're the Worst. I have watched every season of Shameless up till now, but I'm not sure if I will pick it up again when the new season starts. American shows go on for too long, anyway. I used to like Supernatural, but I dropped it a few seasons ago - what is it on now, S11? The Office (American version) was another show I liked a lot for a few seasons, but it got boring.

After more than 20 campaigns, I have finally given up on "Film & television Coppin' a 'tude"

Giving up Walking Dead and Scandal. I don't know how anyone can say Walking Dead is "different" this season. It's the same shit. The only thing is they added boring Morgan and his pacifist ways and it's drawn out and annoying.

Shonda Rhimes seems to hate her female protagonists because both Olivia Pope and Meredith (from Grey's Anatomy) are completely unlikable. It's like with the abortion episode, Shonda wants people to hate Olivia.

Dr Who. I watched last season, but missed the premiere of this season, realized I didn't miss it, and haven't watched a single episode this season.

R110 you missed some of the best stories of Doctor Who since the reboot. And they finally jettisoned Long-Distance Clara. It took three fucking episodes to do it though, be warned.

How to Get Away With Murder - yawn

R106 check out pastor, I think you might like it

[quote] It's like with the abortion episode, Shonda wants people to hate Olivia.

Why would having an abortion make people hate Olivia? I thought that was one of the better, more realistic, bits of story they cobbled together last year.

I just had a very low rent slumming year. I dropped almost all prestige series. I didn't even watch the end of Mad Men. Suddenly, I only enjoy the lowbrow shit I always included because its is enjoyable. That means 2 Broke Girls, Mom, Modern Family, Big Bang, the end of Mike and Molly. These shows are BAD, but they have a lazy easiness about them, and feature some pros, and I don't even need to watch. They are just noise and some chuckles when Im cooking or doing the washing up and want some company that isn't Rachael Maddow or Conan or Bill Maher.

At some point, I need to look at the last half-season of Mad Men. But reading R115 is probably the first thought I've had.

Empire was literally the 21st Century black version of Dynasty. Started with lots of potential but quickly squandered it by being style over substance.

[quote] Modern Family got stale a few years back but I keep it on TIVO because it's so gay-friendly.

How was it gay-friendly?

[italic]South Park[/italic] It lost its fascination for me a while ago. I binged watched it and I think that is what made me grow so weary of it.

R119 I think the new ones are still good.

2015 Thread Bumper is back.

I don’t watch the broadcast TV channels at all anymore.

Is The Simpsons still on?

R120 I tried to watch them but they kept getting more and more preposterous.