Damn near everything since streaming exploded over traditional television. Used to only have to wait through summer before a show's next season. Now it can be several years between seasons. Walking Dead was one of the first ones that did this to me... I watched to season 4 or 5 and totally thought that was it; fucker only ended in 2022 and had 11 total seasons.
this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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Nearly every show cause I have ADHD.
I feel like Stranger Things is headed for this (for me at least). It's been so long since S4 and the hype around it, it feels increasingly difficult to get that excited about S5. The longer it takes, the more I forget about ST.
Dark and possibly Black Mirror
Pretty much all modern TV series nowadays. You can't make a proper TV series when your actors/actresses and the rest of the crew have such long breaks. At a certain point, you just end up losing critical actors or writers or other members of staff.
The Expanse just kept going until the end, and SyFylis cancelled then, and then when Amazon cancelled them for good. Five and a half seasons in seven years, and that's even with the cancellations and COVID.
Setting up https://wiki.servarr.com/ helps with the latter since it'll just turn up in Jellyfin one day when a new season miraculously appears, huzzah! 🎉 Also is great when you suddenyy get movies you have no idea what they are about years after adding them 😸
The Walking Dead. I started because it was popular when it came out, plus Frank Darabont directing. Season 1 was good, then AMC fired him. Seasons 2 and 3 dragged so I stopped after 3. Fast forward to the end of the series and my fiance wanted to watch the episodes as they came out. My first reaction was "why the fuck are there Stormtroopers in this zombie show?"
Caprica, the 1-season Battlestar Galactica prequel. I liked it more than most people, but even I dropped off when they had a 6 month gap in the middle of the season.
Stranger Things. Season 4 took almost 3 years, during which time I had finally cancelled Netflix. I'm vaguely interested in watching the rest of the show, but not until it's done.
Westworld. Never quite finished season 3, and having yet another 2 year wait (after similar gaps between earlier seasons) meant I stopped caring.
I forgot how bad the Stranger Things scheduling was. I guess it's supposed to finally finish this year?
firefly. didn't continue after finishing the first season and the movie.
I’m not sure if this is a joke but that’s all there was of that show, no?
No, after Serenity, there was a second season released in 2014.
No, there wasn't.
Are you outside the US?
I had to double check because I’d totally watch a second season but Firefly only got one 14 episode season. When it aired in the US though, they only aired 11 episodes and they aired out of original intended order. Maybe you’re somewhere they split the release of season one in two parts?
I made it through two and a half seasons of Breaking Bad before the constant anxiety and crushing New Mexiconess of it all became too much to tolerate
Oz. It may have been the original "we'll give you more when we feel like it." Gave up around the time they blew it up.
Also lost Haven at some point soon after they explained the barn, I think
I also stopped there in Haven, and then I finished watching recently... that was a mistake.
Yes. But I've forgotten them.
Are you sure?
Not entirely.
Urgh, thanks for reminding me I still haven't watched Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
Oh, you really should! I mean, I know you know, but like, it's really good! Very good send-off to the series, quite funny, good stuff from beginning to end!
Attack on Titan, my god. Not even between seasons, literally in the middle of a season and they're just like ok we're gonna take a 2 year break now!
At least One Punch Man has the courtesy to put their breaks in between seasons properly.
If I ever have "Fuck you money" Im going to buy the western distribution rights for a bunch of Animes, hire an editor to go through Animes, and edit out the recap of the previous episode, the title sequence, the annoying mid episode break and the next episode preview then smash the whole season into one long movie.
a friend tried to get me to watch One Piece, I looked up how many episodes there were and I said fuck that lol
there probably are fan edits
I was curious so I looked up how many episodes there were. I agree, fuck that haha
The fan edit is called One Pace. But I would just recommend reading the manga, the anime is pretty crap
Yeah that pretty much ruined the hype for me. By the time the actual finale came out, I was basically just watching it to get it over with. No more excitement or anticipation.
Just wait, they're gonna release "The final finale: finality, the fourth final half of the final part of the finale" any day now!
Yeah, still haven't watched the finale. I mean, how often did they pull this "final episodes of the final half of the final part of the final season" shit?!
Under the Dome, there was quite a lot of hype because of the book of the same name by Stepfen King, but the show was not good. I stopped watching in the middle of the first season.
Did you read the book? I vaguely remember both and I feel like when the show veered from the book is when it started to go off the rails.
No, but I heard good things about it. I probably would have if the show was any good.
Tried hard to get through the first airing of Heroes. One episode, halfway through, we just looked at each other and turned off the TV. Turned out to be the second-last episode. Still feel good about that decision.
Bailed on Dexter a season or three before the end.
I’ve been waiting for season 2 of Extracurricular for several years now.
I'm kind of there with "From" but it's my fault for discovering it just before the 3rd season aired. Binged seasons 1 and 2, watched 3 aaaaannnd... 4? Helllooooo?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_(TV_series)
Season 3 finale was 11/24/2024.
Plan is to shoot season 4 through 2025 so season 4 in 2026? Maybe?
I gotta rewatch it from the start to even start watching S3... So tiring
Each season is only 10 episodes so it's not awful. We burned through season 1 and 2 in a weekend.
S3 was really good! but maybe wait until we're closer to S4 lol
Haha yeah probably a good idea
I love that show
I almost always binge so this can happen with any show. Most notably with Game Of Thrones; I stopped watching after I'd caught up with the last episode that came out in real time, and even lost interest.
Then over a year later I watched the rest and was flabbergasted at myself for losing interest in the first place.