{"id":1976871,"date":"2025-08-24T03:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1976871"},"modified":"2025-08-24T03:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:38:58","slug":"19-shows-that-started-out-as-a-perfect-10-but-became-completely-unwatchable-by-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/19-shows-that-started-out-as-a-perfect-10-but-became-completely-unwatchable-by-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Shows That Started Out As A Perfect 10 But Became Completely Unwatchable By The End"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Recently, u\/witchy_eye<\/a> asked r\/AskReddit<\/a> “Which show do you think started as a 10\/10 but ended as a 1\/10?” Here are some of the best submissions:<\/span><\/p>\n

Warning: slight spoilers ahead.<\/p>\n

1.<\/span>Once Upon A Time<\/i> (2011-2018)<\/span><\/p>\n

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“The show was always a little weird, but that first season, I felt like they really, truly had something cool. As the seasons went on, though, it just kept dragging…it had so much potential and a very large character pool to choose from…I never really understood how they messed that all up.”\u2013IBrittadThis<\/a><\/p>\n

Overview:\u00a0<\/b>A young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed.<\/p>\n

2.<\/span>House of Cards<\/i><\/a> (2013-2018)<\/span><\/p>\n

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“One of the best shows ever for the first few seasons and then ended in the most disappointing fashion ever.”\u00a0\u2013\u00a0RogueTiger23<\/a><\/p>\n

“Really jumped the shark.”\u00a0\u2013\u00a0MRC1986<\/a><\/p>\n

Overview:\u00a0<\/b>A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.<\/p>\n

3.<\/span>Pretty Little Liars<\/i><\/a> (2010-2017)<\/span><\/p>\n

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“It just kept going on and on even though the story had ended.”\u2013rdavis284<\/a><\/p>\n

“They should have stopped after they found A the first time!”\u2013fancyFranzi_<\/a><\/p>\n

Overview:\u00a0<\/b>Four friends band together against an anonymous foe who threatens to reveal their darkest secrets, while also investigating the disappearance of their best friend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

4.<\/span>Grey’s Anatomy<\/i><\/a> (2005 – present)<\/span><\/p>\n

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“I’m on Season 14, but everything is the same. Same medical conditions, same plots, same everything. It’s a great show, but it’s just so repetitive.”\u2013esk_680<\/a><\/p>\n

Overview:\u00a0<\/b>A drama centered on the personal and professional lives of five surgical interns and their supervisors.<\/p>\n

5.<\/span>Shameless<\/i> (2011-2021)<\/span><\/p>\n

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“It got harder to watch the longer it went on.”\u2013NickElso579<\/a><\/p>\n

“It was 10\/10 for several seasons. Once Debbie got pregnant and Fiona married a heroin addict, I stopped watching.”\u2013Affectionate_Lead865<\/a><\/p>\n

Overview:\u00a0<\/b>A scrappy, feisty, fiercely loyal Chicago family makes no apologies.<\/p>\n

6.<\/span>The Walking Dead<\/i><\/a> (2010-2022)<\/span><\/p>\n

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“It overstayed its welcome to the point that it inadvertently erased itself from the mainstream consciousness.”\u00a0\u2013whoknows130<\/a><\/p>\n

Overview:\u00a0<\/b>Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.<\/p>\n

7.<\/span>That ’70s Show<\/i> (1998-2006)<\/span><\/p>\n

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“By the final season, it was almost unwatchable. It didn’t feel at all like the fun show I watched for years.”\u2013Arkhangelzk<\/a><\/p>\n

Overview:\u00a0<\/b>A comedy revolving around a group of teenage friends, their mishaps, and their coming of age, set in 1970s Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

8.<\/span>Westworld<\/i> (2016-2022)<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Season 1 was tight and mindbending, but by Season 3, the plot felt so tangled, I stopped caring.”\u2013Ok_Map_31<\/a><\/p>\n

Overview:\u00a0<\/b>At the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, waits a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.<\/p>\n

9.<\/span>The 100<\/i> (2014-2020)<\/span><\/p>\n

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“I loved that show but the ending was just terrible.”\u2013PoxControl<\/a><\/p>\n

Overview:\u00a0<\/b>Set 97 years after a nuclear war destroyed civilization, a spaceship housing humanity’s lone survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth, hoping to repopulate the planet.<\/p>\n

10.<\/span>Game of Thrones<\/i> (2011-2019)<\/span><\/p>\n

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