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Person of Interest

First two seasons were phenomenal. From that point forward it was a battle royal between the writing team, with each one trying to push their personal perspective on the series to the point it was like watching three different series mashed together.

Spartacus

The lead actor died at the end of season one. That is it. Pack it up and go home.

Prison Break

You had one good season. It was the concept. The moment the actual break is done, there is nothing to go on.

That's enough for now.

Grey's Anatomy

Because just how long can that thing go on for?

Law and Order

Any of its iterations. Same as above.

House M.D.

Good show until you start to put in and take out characters just to maintain the pulse of the thing.

Now I'm done!

American Gods. I mean, still better would have been to just do it as good as the first season

The 2020 Dracula Netflix show.

The first episode is a fun reimagining of the original story. The second episode is a neat "reverse who-done-it"/bottle episode. The third episode should not exist. Full stop. "Dracula wakes up in modern times and it turns out his weaknesses are just PTSD and then he chooses to die out of honor or something."

Penny Dreadful

The second season ends on a fantastic melancholy vibe that matches the whole tone of the show. The third season wastes all character development to have extra drama.

Orphan black - first season was amazing, it was an amazing concept. It was pretty clear the writers didn't know wtf to do once they got a season 2+ and they choked imho

Mad Men. If it had ended with him standing on the top of the stairs saying "This is not the end!" it would have been perfect. Everything after that was weak wish fulfillment.

Every Jenji Kohan show.

Heroes

Game of Thrones

How I Met Your Mother

Tokyo Ghoul

Friends.

Lost.

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

I think The Shield ended a season too late. If the seasons 6 and 7 were condensed into one with [spoilers ahead] the fallout of the Kavanaugh investigation and the money train, rather than stretching them across two different season, I think the ending would have a tighter pace and would really feel like the "walls are closing in." Plus the whole cartel subplot of the last season came out of nowhere

Edit: Riverdale too, but that should go without saying

Edit 2: House of Cards should've ended with Kevin Spacey leaving

Edit 3: True Detective

Young Sheldon. There's nothing left they can do with the formula.