21 Episodes So Bad That People Stopped Watching the Show Altogether

Lots of us develop love/hate relationships with our favorite shows. After all, The Big Bang Theory got all those ratings — it couldn’t all have been dementia patients who forgot to turn off the TV. Maybe you refuse to give up on a show that started great and you’re hoping just hit a rough patch. Maybe it always sucked but it has a train wreck quality to it. Maybe Norman Reedus is just really hot. No judgment.

Eventually, though, if things don’t improve, it’s inevitable you’ll hit a breaking point. They’ll kill off an unacceptable character, pull out the same clichéd plot device one too many times, or just slide into hopeless degeneracy — and not the fun kind. That’s why user timoretenebris asked r/AskReddit, “What show did you stop watching because of a single episode and why?”