What is the biggest shift in quality between two TV seasons you've seen? Whether leaping in quality or plummeting.
What is the biggest shift in quality between two TV seasons you've seen? Whether leaping in quality or plummeting.
What is the biggest shift in quality between two TV seasons you've seen? Whether leaping in quality or plummeting.
True detective s1 compared to every subsequent season
season 2 was better though
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sorry it's an objective fact and only redditors disagree
I still have only seen 1 and 2, but with 2 I'd say the main problem is they tried to condense a larger plot into the single season anthology format. The plotting and exposition just feels extremely squished together, unlike season 1 which felt completely resolved by the end. Also the dialogue in 2 is highly stylised and noir esque, to the point it sounds literary and unnatural. Often kino in that way but sometimes just awkward.
For me? It's not really this, but I'll say Ozark. The last season jumped the shark.
Pleb got filtered by season 2 Kino.
S3 was the good one
Woody, McConnaughey and Fukunaga carried the hell out of that dogshit writing
This
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nah, the quality drop was obviously tangible with true detective, but it was still a decent show. I wouldn't list he wire for the same reason. S5 was weak for the wire but it was still better than most things going.
for me the most dramatic one in recent memory was probably westworld. the first season was one of the best new shows that came out that year. you could argue for an 8/10 easily, maybe even a 9/10. while the second season was so bad I didn't even finish it. not even GOT had that much of a delta between two consecutive seasons.
the most painful one was probably the reboot of the expanse, but I'm not sure how or if you count that when it's a totally new production picking up. for the same reason I wouldn't list
GOT has the most dramatic dropoff start to finish, going from essentially a 10/10 to a 0/10. but it didn't happen in a single season jump, it was incremental. starting around S4/S5 it was just a continual decline. S8 just felt like the point where there was nothing good left to ruin.
This, the quality drop between s1 and s2 was sharp
i rewatched s1 recently and it was also shit.
heroes
Heroes was fricked over by the writers strike so at least it had an excuse. It got a little better in seasons 3 and 4 but the damage was more than done at that point.
True Detective Season 1 is probably the best single season of TV ever made so it's not a shock the latter seasons couldn't keep up. It could have at least been good though.
Meh, the half of S2 we got was already a catastrophic drop in acting and writing quality, it getting cut off wasn't the only problem
This was the immediate first thought I had. I’d been disappointed in TV before but this was the first time I actually spent time thinking about how much it fricked up compared to previous seasons. Just what the frick dude
the first half season of Heroes and the 2nd half season of Heroes
Barbarians. They fricking dropped the ball one the 2nd season. G*rmans should be put in camps, they're such a cucked country
What happened?
Truthful answer? Season 2 of TWD was by far the most boring season of the show.
Most recently, however, I’d say The Boys.
Season 1 Homelander was an unstoppable force who struck fear into everyone in every scene he’s in.
Then in season 2 and 3 he literally became a le mommies boy milky-milky joke character who can’t even take on some of the weakest heroes anymore. All because some republicans decided to make him their hero and the homosexual ass basedboy director didn’t like that.
>Season 2 of TWD
you capeshit sois still salty
>Homelander
>milky-milky joke character
he is the most popular character on the show homosexual so they tried to humanism him
kek
The writers are leftist gays, all leftists are delusional af, in their mind they wrote a right wing Trumper scumbag but inadvertently created the most likable based character in the show. Same thing with Soldier Boy and Blue Hawk.
GoT season 1 and the final season. I know this doesn't count in OPs mind.
weeds season 3 to 4
Both of the shows were written by the same woman. She can start a show but can't finish it.
Lana Rhoades
boardwalk empire last season
Orange is the New Black had two good seasons then plummeted in season 3
leche
Heroes S1 to S2. S3 and 4 were also bad but they were bad like 2 was bad. 1 was really good.
Miracle workers season 1 was so boring I stopped watching halfway in.
But season 2 is a standalone season that has some of the best humor written in any TV show I’ve ever seen. I watched it 3 times back to back.
Between Miami Vice 2 and 3, when Michael Mann left and they brought in Dick Wolf.
Nah, Season 3 is still decent. Season 4 is where the wheels fall off.
Which season is it they get the white Ferrari? That's the commonly accepted cut-off point for quality.
Season 3. I'm not saying that Season 3 is as good as the first two seasons but I don't think its a dramatic cliff dive.
Miami Vice is incredible for the first two seasons, good for the third season and then mediocre for the last two. There are still good episodes even in the last two seasons though they're just fewer and farther between.
The Wire season 5
Westworld
shameless season 3 to season 4. nerfed lip for no reason and sent him to doofus local college instead of MIT like he got into at the end of 3
Season 4 best season
Babylon 5 improved dramatically from S1 to S2 and then fell off a cliff from S4 to S5.
X-Men: Days of Future Past to X-Men: Apocalypse. Yes they're movies, not shows, oh well.
didn't help that the big bad guy looked like a power rangers villain.
The Killing season 2 to season 3, a massive jump in quality
The Danish killing is infinitely better than the netflix version.
Only one season was on Netflix.
Anybody watch this? First season was really entertaining. Second season pretty good too. Third season started out ok, but each episode getting worse and worse and the final episode had me and my friend in shock of how awful it was. What a fricking waste
what are some upcoming Daniella projects
Road House remake with Jake Gyllenhaal
Will there be any nudity in it?
QUE GRANDE CULAZO TIENE LA CHICA LANA RHOADES
Am I crazy or does this actress look like the worse looking version of pornstar Lana Rhoades(pre-bog)?
>Road House remake with Jake Gyllenhaal
We're in Hell. This is Hell.
more like Rhoades House
From recent shows, id say the terror maybe?
The first season of Glee is 10/10, season 2 goes all wrong and turns into Kurt: The Show
Umbrella Academy's first season is really good, season 2 is shit.
Arrested Development season three to season four/five. It went from S-tier to straight up bad, but of course there was that huge gap while it was cancelled.
Season 4 had a lot of rough edges, but certain jokes and payoffs made it worth watching.
Season 5 is where it really drops off.
I Am Jazz
Star Trek: Picard season two, STP season three. Almost a completely different show.
It was, season 3 actually had a showrunner that watched Star Trek.
Impractical Jokers with Joe & Impractical Jokers without Joe.
Yep
Dexter S4 to S5
From S1 to S2
Twin Peaks S1 to S2
Also if it counts Top Gear S22 to S23 is probably the biggest rating drop-off you can find on imdb.
Chrono Trigger to Chrono Cross.
Dark Souls 1 to 2.
>Dark Souls 1 to 2.
One of the greatest wonders of our time. A royal wiener-up.
There'll be some kind of Netflix anime of the Souls series, I'd wager.
>What is the biggest shift in quality between two TV seasons you've seen?
True Detective
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Patriot.
altered carbon. season 2 was unwatchable. 1 wasn't THAT good but we got kinoman and purefoy
And cute naked Latina
yeah that too. all the nudity was pretty kino now that I think about it. no outright uggos. the only downside was that nigress that was shoehorned in.
Season 3 and Season 4 of Last Kingdom. Everything from the writing to the extras in the background really screams generic Netflix slop rather than a camp historical action drama show made by the downton abbey producers
I thought the show peaked in season 3. Season 4 was a drop in quality. Same with season 5. Also, women writers lmao. But surely that was a coincidence.
Seasons 1-3 are very good. Seasons 4 onwards are generic netflix medieval show where the men are emasculated and every other actor looks fresh off the boat from africa
Prison break does the drop with every season. 1 was arguably amazing, even though illogical. 2 was worse but ok, then 3 dropped the ball HARD, 4 was abysmal and 5 was the worst bullshit ever
I never watched much of that show, but I did always wonder about its lifespan. So season 1... they probably break out of the prison. Season 2? Another prison break?
They break INTO a prison.
he is lying
In short, S1 is the escape
Due to a minor frick up the escape does not go as planned and they are being hunted too early, which makes their escape plane leave
S2 is everyone escaping the police while looking for a bag of money
S3 they all coincidentally end up in the same rat infested prison in Panama and someone is blackmailing the main guy to escape there again because they need someone out
S4 is literally the crew being blackmailed again to steal some harddrives and S5 is escape from a prison in yemen or some shit and also getting out of yemen
I liked S2 a lot until the last 2 episodes and that was only because they had to write it in a way that left room for another season
if they had wrote S2 with a conclusive ending in mind and left it there prison break would be a very well regarded series
Mandalorian S2 to S3 (or even book of boba, if you want to count that).
Say what you will about the flaws of S2, but it is a 10/10 in comparison to what came after it.
Season 1 was worth watching a handful of times. Season 2 was worth watching once. Season 3 I only watched to see how bad it would be and still, I regret watching.
idk about biggest but American Gods took a massive nosedive after the first season
Dexter Season 7 to Season 8
And 7 was not good, though an improvement on a dire 5 and 6. But 8 was just that damn bad. One of the worst seasons of TV I've ever seen.
kek this is actually real
That's a fan poster though
>official poster on imdb
Omega kek.
It's literally a photoshop of the original film's poster. So no, it is not "actually real".
Fargo Season 4.
Rick & Morty Season 6.
And all the coma seasons of Archer.
Quints of truth
Weeds Season 3 to Season 4. Unsurpassed drop-off in quality. Was a truly great show up to that point, after that it's unwatchable.
She was made to play that role. I don't think she is a good actress. The role just fits her.
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wtf
Is the joke that you spelled it wrong?
Night Shift
It's shit until season 3 then gets really fricking good
Star Trek TOS S2 to 3
Blackadder. The jump in quality between seasons 1 and 2 was so stark that the first season has pretty much been memory-holed. By comparison, seasons 2-4 were so good they were pretty much on constant repeat on UK TV.
Season 1 isn't that bad. Its clearly the worst of the 4 but its still funny.
It’s underrated for sure, but the jump in quality is definitely massive. It’s a case where season 1 isn’t ‘bad’ due to bad writing but more that it’s very unfocused compared to what came after.
lmao just realised I've never seen an episode of S1, I'm not sure I knew it existed
>What is the biggest shift in quality between two TV seasons you've seen?
Picard Season 2 to Picard Season 3.
Season 2 is absolute trash, the worst Star Trek has even been and a complete abomination. Season 3 is actually pretty good.
True Detective managed to do both, season 2 was a colossal drop in quality then season 3 was an unexpected blast of pure kino.
Stands to reason that season 4 will be shit again.
3 was a coward's season. Just hitting the same beats as s01 and 02 of having a shootout at the end of the 4th episode so that the goys don't get bored, then a timeskip and re-opening the case.
And then they had to predictably subvert your expectations so that the ending is not similar to s01.
S04 will be shit because they'll try to re-invent the show through gimmicks like though women and alaska.
>shootout at the end of the 4th episode
It deliberately didn't do this, the 4th episode was ominous, slow and quiet instead of explosive, then the shootout was chopped up into flashbacks in the 5th episode. I liked the way it remixed and subverted it's own tropes, mostly because it was all to serve a good story rather than to just cuck the audience out of what they were expecting.
did hiro saved the world?
Babylon5 improvements from s1 to s2
Boardwalk Empire post Jimmy, Peaky Blinders with Horse Girl or right after. GOT after Red Wedding and Sand Sneeds.
Star Trek: TNG Season 1 was absolute garbage. It tried to be TOS Season 4 in a way but with no progression in terms of story or sophistication. It was frankly shocking it got a second season and then over 2 and 3 it took off thanks to Michael Pillar.
Probably Sherlock from S2 to S3. It always had issues but I've never seen a show fall to pieces so hard in my life. Also Rome. S2 is still better than the vast majority of shows out there but S1 is pretty much perfection.
>S2 to S3
The drop from S1 to S2 was pretty steep as well.
To be honest Sherlock might be the show with the greatest disparity between it's best episode and its worst.
NTA, but which ever season ended with Sherlock jumping off a building and the next season refusing to answer how he survived is what killed the show for me.
Even the writers couldn't write their way out of that one
For me it was Sherlock actually being convinced that he saw a giant supernatural dog.
He was heavily drugged up on an experimental army gas, to be fair
>fricking sherlock
does anybody have the "smart character written by stupid people" post saved?
god that show fricking killed me. you just need to look at it as brits doing brit comedy, like blackadder.
ah nvm here it is
Smallville : s7 to s8
How I met your Mother : s6 to s7, it already dropped in season 6 but it got much worse in season 7
Skins : s2 to s3, and then s5 as well
>Skins : s2 to s3
oh damn yeah, forgot about that one
such a weird jump, particularly in just refusing to maintain any connection to earlier characters even though it would have been trivially easy in some cases. I think I actually liked the 3rd group better than the 2nd.
First two season of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman were superb. Then immediately from the season 3 premiere on it's complete trash
Atlanta S2 to S3
There have been a lot of drop offs over the years but nothing compares to Game of Thrones. To be the centre of the cultural zeitgeist for close to a decade, only to be completely forgotten by many a week after the show finished and to be barely mentioned since speaks volumes. Excluding the last 2-3 seasons the show was on track to be one of the best of all time, and now nobody ever mentions it when that conversation of 'best show ever' comes up.
Sopranos S1E1 -> rest of S1 -> S2
Sopranos S4 -> S5
Sopranos S5 -> S6
Altered Carbon and it's not even close.
I think westworld's crash is worse than altered carbon's, but in fairness that's like comparing two flaming wrecks so it's going to come down to taste somewhat.
TNG S2>3
Westworld S1 was a masterpiece.
Westworld S2 was a trainwreck.
Walking Dead S1 and S2.
After being wildly successful the studio decided to slash the budget dramatically and stretch out a tiny subplot in the comics into a full season with nonstop teleporting zombies.
Fargo S1 to S2
Top Gear after they fired Clarkson
Rome season 2
The Terror Season 1 to Season 2.
Its not really even the same show in any way; but its still insulting.
Heroes, True Detective, Westworld, Mandalorian.
at least with mando it wasn't living up to the hype to begin with, so the drop didnt hurt as much
Buffy season 1 to buffy season 2 was a leap in quality.
Game of thrones season 1 to game of thrones season 2 was a drop in quality.
Man in the High Castle season two to season three was a huge drop.
The Terror between season one and two if you actually consider them to be the same show.
>Man in the High Castle season two to season three was a huge drop.
this one is up there for me as far as consecutive seasons go.
Nikita Season 3 to 4. It wasn't a great series to begin with but it had a lot of action and excitement going on. It was cancelled after season 3 and Netflix bought it and allowed them to tie up the story in season 4. The problem was most of the 6 episodes were spent talking in small rooms or being on the same sets for multiple episodes.
does anime count?
Red Dwarf s6 to s7
It's actually incredible