Every year I drop at least one show. A show I loved or liked and find that I no longer watch or enjoy usually because I find it has somehow lost its way. Things that are soapy like BH 90210 (the original) definitely lose their luster over time, but that’s not the only category I lose.
This year the casualty was Heroes, but I was thinking of the others… Not counting shows that didn’t make it a season here are some that lost their sheen:
- Cold Case – The procedural wasn’t a bad show, but as I was trying to cut back this wasn’t a keeper.
- Criminal Minds – I still catch this brutal-killer-of-the-week procedural with special-fbi-behavioral-unit in reruns, but it doesn’t make the main lineup.
- Desperate Housewives – The first year this soapy drama entertained me but with the sophomore slump it lost me.
- Heroes – I finally gave this up, as the characters and situations became more ridiculous it actually pained me to watch.
- King of the Hill – I still find this show amusing but as the years drag on it just stopped hitting the tivo.
- Prison Break – I did love the first season, but the delight collapsed once they escaped from prison and though I stuck through the entire second season I was mostly yelling at the tv about how stupid it had become before I gave it up.
- Without a Trace – Another procedural that isn’t bad but just didn’t keep me keeping it.
- The Simpsons – Also amusing but after a decade I’m more than happy to catch the occasional rerun.
- Smallville – I loved the complexity of Lex Luthor and Clark Kent’s early relationship, but the freak of the week lost me.
- Survivor – This had a good dynamic but easy enough to drop with a new season of folks each year.
And an almost dishonorable mention to American Idol and Law & Order, both of which have been dropped and picked up again and dropped and picked up…
