- The Simpsons. Let it die, Fox/Disney.
- Futurama. The Fox seasons is it’s golden age. Now the show is sci-fi South Park. They have a show set in the future, but the writers make episodes based on the present.
- The Walking Dead. TWD dyed in season 2. They made 13 episodes out of 6 issues of the comic. It was poorly written, characters act like idiots, and the twist in Episode 7. You can see it coming from a mile away.
Why do you care that things you don’t like are running? It’s not for you if you don’t like it. let other people enjoy their things
Don’t yuck someone’s yum.
I think better question would be what shows do you want to see created?
There are a few shows I didn’t like, but then they improved significantly. So rather than getting cancelled, that’s probably what I’d look for
They can put the time and money into something new, but they don’t. Keep on milking.
The fact that they’re still getting milk, means people are still enjoying it
Honestly?
None, If something is a bit shit in your opinion, just ignore it.
I used to love the Simpsons but stopped watching it about 20 years ago.
Same with TWD, half way through season 2, it was obvious that season 1 was not going to be repeated as they had slashed the budget and it had become a soap opera with the occasional zombie. I dropped in for a bit of season 3 and 4 when someone said it had improved and noped out again for good.
I ignore/stop watching too. But sucks to see something you like turned to trash.
Most things on Fox News.
If I don’t like a show I don’t watch or think about it
They have a show set in the future, but the writers make episodes based on the present.
That’s what it’s always been since day 1.
In the early days they did satirise current issues, but it mostly seemed to be through a lens of 31st-century technology or social conventions. Nowadays, the future setting often just feels like window dressing for a story that’s really entirely about the present.
I used to watch most of these, but I just stopped. Never once did I want anything cancelled. Oh except for Fox News. That’s probably the only correct answer.
The reality TV show Cheaters. That moment when people consider it in good taste to bother others for not following relationship norms, setting the memory of their “misdeed” in stone forever, whether or not good faith was in mind by the people in the context or not. Sometimes cameras seem like the worst thing to happen to “honor culture”.
I mostly just don’t watch TV. Almost none of it is stuff I’d want to actually cancel - just keep it the fuck away from me and watch whatever you want. However, one of my hated shows was that Honey Boo Boo thing - not only tied to the intensely creepy “child pageant” bs, but aside from that it’s still people screwing with a little girl’s head for 15 minutes of fame. Every part of it making me physically cringe was just a bonus.
Also parts of my family is watching that 90 Day Fiancee thing, which… mostly seems mean-spirited, exploitative of people in vulnerable situations (being poor, or from a poorer country, or lonely, or just a bit of a moron), vaguely ragebaity - and is of course, pure “reality TV” diarrhea even apart from those. And cringe, likely intentionally boosted for profit same as all the rest.
I also used to hope Big Bang Theory would just… stop. It has, though, so that’s nice.
“I don’t like this thing therefore nobody should like this thing”
I had no idea the walking dead lasted until last year. Says 2022 was its last season.
I’m shocked to see there are people that still watch TV shows. I thought network TV was an ‘all but dead’ medium.
I think many people, myself included, still refer to strictly streaming shows as TV shows.
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God, I am so sick of this shitty kind of negativity. If you don’t like a show, you don’t have to wait for it to get cancelled to decide to stop watching it. Just don’t watch it. Other people watch it, so let them have it.
The Simpsons. The current episodes are honestly a bigger fall from the quality of the show 10 years ago than the Simpsons 10 years ago was from it’s golden era. It’s been on eh for most of it’s existence but Plusaversary is when it died if you ask me. That short is borderline symbolism for why Simpsons sucks now.
South Park. I don’t watch the show anymore because it violates one of my non-negotiable values, but I also don’t subscribe to the “SOUTH PARK RUINED THE WORLD” mindset that much of media criticism circles does (largely because I think South Park was a symptom if anything, and also a lot of those articles describe bad South Park clones better than South Park) and I’m not above admitting media I disagree with is well-made (but still, South Park is transphobic and generally promotes a Libertarian [as in US Libertarian Party] mindset.) But before I stopped watching…it started to feel like the creators understood their show through what media (media that was positive about the show) built it up to be rather than what it was. Pretty much every episode became politics (when their pop culture criticism was often funnier honestly) and it started to feel like the characters were just pawns for political issues instead of real characters. It’s like they stopped writing an animated sitcom and started writing an edgier version of standup, and stopped being funny in the process. I think Stick of Truth was probably the last glimpse of what South Park was.
