Writer's Block: Jumped the shark
Aug. 25th, 2011 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I was wondering what the "DOM-2" show was that seems the near-unaminous choice of the Russian respondents to this question, and Wikipedia lists it as some sort of dating-big-prize competition-Habitat for Humanity hybrid. The current season is apparently taking place in the "City of Fat Stu." Russian LJers, I think you're lying.
Anyhow, about the question: most every good show that survives past its first season lingers on for diminishing returns and is cancelled way after its prime. The X-Files was particularly remarkable in how it sank through increasingly dire circles of hell in its later years - Weaker Scripts, Bad Set Relocation, Outright Bad Scripts, Weaker Male Lead, Outright Bad Female Lead, Complete Incoherence, Total Implosion in an Utterly Apathetic Second Movie. It's enough to make one grateful that Eerie, Indiana and The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. survived for only a single season of greatness.
As for stuff that's on now: the Bravo flagship reality shows are remarkable in how brazenly they're fixed, aren't they? It's not so much that they've gotten steadily worse over the years, but anyone who kept watching after the particularly egregious drama-over-talent victories of Hosea and Leanne deserved what they got.
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I was wondering what the "DOM-2" show was that seems the near-unaminous choice of the Russian respondents to this question, and Wikipedia lists it as some sort of dating-big-prize competition-Habitat for Humanity hybrid. The current season is apparently taking place in the "City of Fat Stu." Russian LJers, I think you're lying.
Anyhow, about the question: most every good show that survives past its first season lingers on for diminishing returns and is cancelled way after its prime. The X-Files was particularly remarkable in how it sank through increasingly dire circles of hell in its later years - Weaker Scripts, Bad Set Relocation, Outright Bad Scripts, Weaker Male Lead, Outright Bad Female Lead, Complete Incoherence, Total Implosion in an Utterly Apathetic Second Movie. It's enough to make one grateful that Eerie, Indiana and The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. survived for only a single season of greatness.
As for stuff that's on now: the Bravo flagship reality shows are remarkable in how brazenly they're fixed, aren't they? It's not so much that they've gotten steadily worse over the years, but anyone who kept watching after the particularly egregious drama-over-talent victories of Hosea and Leanne deserved what they got.
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