• Skavau@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
    27·
    17 天前

    The obvious examples for me are Altered Carbon, The Terror (although its anthological and a third is in production) and Westworld.

    • adhocfungus@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      17 天前

      The Terror had a second season!? I really liked the first season and had no idea it was going to continue as an anthology. I take it the second season doesn’t measure up to the first?

  • ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    17 天前

    Heroes. The first season wrapped up its story beautifully. The second season was an aimless disaster.

    I’ve read online that the original plan was for each season to tell a stand-alone story with a different set of heroes but the network was insistent on keeping the popular characters from season one on for season two. Peter Petrelli’s power is universe-breaking after he learns to control it, so the show ended up tying itself into a pretzel to explain why the answer to every problem isn’t “get Peter to snap his fingers and fix it”. There was also a writer’s strike in the middle of the season, which didn’t help.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      17 天前

      The writer’s strike shielded the show from so much criticism, because people figured the shite pacing and jumble of characters were caused by the studio plowing ahead without proper scripts. Nope! Executives just demanded the dumbest shit imaginable, and the original creators did their level best, until they were told to stop work and join the picket line.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      17 天前

      it got wierd after sylar went good, and then it just went in a different direction.

    • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      17 天前

      I actually think season 2 of Prison Break was a perfectly natural and well done (for the intended tone) continuation of the story. I know people snarkily point out the title doesn’t strictly apply anymore, but I think convicts on the run from a manhunt fits. The show was from the beginning always a political conspiracy thriller baked inside of a prison story anyway.

      The following seasons get increasingly absurd, but they are enjoyable in a silly way.

      • MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        17 天前

        Strong agree. I think Prison Break slowly goes off the rails with more spies and conspiracy. It’s not out of nowhere given Lincoln’s original crime is murdering the Vice President (allegedly), but it does eventually just get ridiculous.

        I still like the later seasons for the characters, but it is wildly different from where they started.

        • SSTF@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          17 天前

          The Vice President’s brother!

          It gets comical how the characters say that phrase so much instead of using his name, for audience benefit.

          I appreciate each season changing things up with a different central conceit. As absurd as the Central American super prison and spy craft seasons were at least the show kept changing instead of spinning its wheels.

          • MimicJar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            17 天前

            Ah right the brother! It’s been too long.

            And yeah, it got worse but it didn’t get boring.

  • THB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    17 天前

    Gonna go with Handmaid’s Tale, gets progressively worse with each season

  • JillyB@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    17 天前

    I only watched a bit of True Detective season 2 but I could tell it was not going to be nearly as good as the phenomenal first season

    • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      17 天前

      TD Season 2 has to be one of the biggest falls from grace I’ve ever seen in a TV show.

      • J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        17 天前

        As weird as it sounds, I liked season 2 TD a lot and on some level I think it’s even better than season 1.

        I initially watched season 1, then season 4 (skipped 2 because of the seemingly bad feedback) and then watched season 2.

        I really liked that season 2 was more down to earth and had more of a realistic-gritty vibe. I really liked the ending as well. It felt real.

        Season 1 was great, but in comparison to season 2 it was more about style. I liked the setup of season 4 (and it was cool to see Jodie Foster), but I didn’t like the ending.

        But yes, I do think season 2 of true detective was better than season 1.

    • theblips@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      17 天前

      To be fair, it was the highest possible bar to clear. True Detective season 1 is arguably the best TV has ever gotten, it was just perfect from story to pacing to acting and cinematography

  • FMT99@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    17 天前

    Before you all kill me, this is just like my unpopular opinion man, but Futurama… The first season, well maybe the first two, were amazing, clever scifi parody but the premise wore thin and it became schmaltzy and unfunny. It became more about the characters and less about the world and it suffered for it.

    I mean “should have been dropped” might be a bit strong.

  • blindsight@beehaw.org
    English
    7·
    17 天前

    Heroes was great at the start, but that didn’t even last a whole season. The “Save the cheerleader, save the world” arc might be the best superhero TV ever made (10 or 11 episodes, I think?) then it rapidly went downhill to mediocre then terrible.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    6·
    16 天前

    HEROES. It died an ugly death because of a writer’s strike. It’s unfortunate, but I support the writers.