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    9 months ago

    Too soon:

    Raised By Wolves

    Santa Clarita Diet

    GLOW

    Utopia (the UK version)

    Happy Endings

    Freaks and Geeks

    Popular (did anyone else watch this?)

    Firefly

    Too long

    Big Bang Theory

    The Simpsons

    Master Chef

    Sex And The City

    TWD

    Too long because started great but went suddenly downhill:

    Westworld

    Futurama

    Arested Development (that final season omgwtf)

    Game of Thrones

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      9 months ago

      New Futurama is just as good as old Futurama. Fight me.

      Arrested Developments Netflix seasons, though different from the original run in format, I found them enjoyable and worth rewatching.

      Game of Throne’s last half sucked but not because it went on too long, quite the opposite. The producers tried to rush the series to a quick finish so they could go do a Star Wars. HBO offered them extra seasons, they had plenty of source material they downright ignored or went against. The series was best when it was verbatim from the books. In the hands of someone who cared it could have been twice as long and quality all the way through. Obviously I’ll die on this hill.

      Couldn’t agree more on the rest of your list. Westworld would have been a tight one season limited series.

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        Yeah I think we actually agree on GOT - it is on my list because it suddenly took a turn for the worst in the last 2 seasons. I’d have loved it if they’d just made it all and followed the books.

        Who knows, maybe GRRM might have been motivated to finish them if it had gone down that way.

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        9 months ago

        100% agree on Westworld and I would extend that to the movies and the books too.

        Yul Brynner in Westworld? Excellent. Yul Brynner in Futureworld? The world has gained nothing by its existence.

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      9 months ago

      Futurama seems ok now? People seemed to enjoy the recent season

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        @otter have to admit I haven’t seen it in a long time, should check it out and see if it’s returned to form.

        I remember in about 2011 thinking “huh, glad I didn’t buy that Planet Express t shirt after all.”

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      Season 4 of Westworld changed it from “Too Long” to “Too Soon” for me, personally. I didn’t really care for season 3 when it aired, but season 4 made me more forgiving of it, retroactively. It seemed like they were setting things up in season 5 which required season 4, which in turn required season 3. Especially given the nature of the show, it felt like they were building some grand story which required these banal meanderings that would all make sense when they clicked into place at the end.

      Now I’m really curious what they were planning in 5 and it looks like we won’t get to find out.

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          That’s how I felt after S3, but I gave S4 a shot and it justified a lot of the decisions I didn’t care for in S3. Maybe S5 would’ve disappointed, maybe not, but it seemed like it was going to be the last season and I would’ve at least given it a chance to fully redeem itself.

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      I maintain that Big Bang Theory had 6 amazing seasons spread out over 12.

      If someone with too much time and effort to spare could run through and edit out every nerd joke for joke sake, every episode that doesnt advance the characters and so on you would wind up with 6 seasons of damn good tv.