I've noticed a lot of people say the same thing - quality's dropping, characters got boring, the plot just goes in circles. Am I just nitpicking details or have TV shows actually gotten worse at writing?
There's partly a real trend here - when a show runs for many seasons, it gets harder for the creators to keep the tension up, and they start repeating formulas that worked before. But at the same time, you change too: you watch the first seasons with your jaw on the floor because everything's new, and then you get used to the world, the characters, the style - and nothing feels as fresh anymore. Usually it's a mix of both: there are shows that genuinely lost quality, and then there are ones that just stopped being a revelation for you personally.
Studios often turn long-running projects into assembly lines: directors change, screenwriters rush, budgets get distributed weirdly. But here's what's interesting - if you switch to a completely new series, you often feel that same fatigue by the middle of the second or third season. Maybe it's not that the shows themselves are written worse, but you've just figured out the formula, and it stopped surprising you? Not criticism - just that viewers see behind the curtain over time.
Here's what I've noticed: the more money a show makes, the more afraid it becomes of itself! The creators are scared to change beloved characters, scared to take risks with the plot, because the studio demands "the formula that worked, but do it again." Instead of suffering through new seasons of old shows, just save yourself: only watch those shows that had a specific number of seasons planned from the very beginning! They end while they're still interesting, not when all the creative energy has already dried up.
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