Day #14 of the 30 Days of Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

This is Day #14 of The 30 Days of Television Challenge.

The prompt is A series that disappointed you - started out well, went down-hill or had a great pilot, but not so great afterwards, etc.

There's sooo many. It's tragic really. Most series just go on too long. The writers and actors tend to get burned out around the fourth-fifth season, and after that...things go downhill. But there are a few that showed great promise to start and after five or six episodes, you think, oh dear, there's not much here is there? They put it all in the first five or six episodes.

The challenge here - is to pick a series the petered out or didn't hold up to it's promise after about five to ten episodes. Not one that had a bad ending or went off the rails in the fifth or sixth season.

Mine?

Joan or Arcadia - I loved the first two or three episodes then quickly lost interest and gave up on it.

Comments

[wendelah1]

Nashville. I loved the show when it was focused on the music industry. Callie Khouri's husband T-Bone Burnett was the show's executive music producer and composer for the first season. He's the real deal and when he left, I thought the series suffered. It became much more about the character's sex lives, marriage problems and alcohol and drug abuse and less and less about the music itself. It had a very talented cast, as I recall. After season one, I was mainly watching to keep my husband company. He also lost interest by season three, I think.

[shadowkat]

Oh, I agree on Nashville. Although it did have some excellent musical numbers in the later seasons. But Khouri and the producers fought over it. And after the first season, it seemed to move more and more away from being a female centric series to a male one. By the third season - we were completely in the pov of the male characters, and the two strong female leads disappeared almost completely from the show, leaving the weakest to hold it. They killed off one, and sent the other into a cult.

The new writers had written and show-runned Thirty-something, and tried to turn Nashville into Thirty-Something in the third and final season, and it didn't work. It lost its center.

Oh there are so many musical television series that...had potential but just didn't work..

Shame. They were planning on turning it into a musical...but I think those plans may have been dropped now.