What show never declined in quality?

[Highelf]

Star Trek: TNG and DS9. Futurama. I haven't finished Justified yet, but that hasn't slowed down at all.

[Lorgran]

'Allo 'Allo

[callipygoustp]

What the hell was the point of this response, lol.

My exact thought when reading your response to my post, literally the exact same thought.

[sam86]

Breaking Bad
Futurama

[The Emperor]

Blackadder, A bit of Fry and Laurie, Peep Show, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.

[sam86]

Bojack Horseman

I wish u were right
But Horseman ending is annoying me a lot
This show was helping me a LOT about living with depression, the ending (from what i understand) show that u can't win, that no matter how much u change or try to be better depression will always win, WTF? I didn't need that negativity, i already exist in the WORST country on earth ty
I really wanted the show to end on positive note

[Usagi Senshi]

you have the right to do w/e u want, but to me that is a complete waste of money.

Which is completely fine as I have lots of money to waste. :3

[Natureseer]

The Good Wife

while some seasons of the show had some less interesting themes, the quality of the show was unwavering and brilliant

[Kokolums]

Its always interesting to see how many people on this forum are tilted towards anime.

[Usagi Senshi]

Its always interesting to see how many people on this forum are tilted towards anime.

I've only purchased animation since I used my own money towards my first anime VHS (Akira) in late 1991.

I did buy the Jonny Quest and Tex Avery collections recently. I love me some good western animation too!

I buy live action shit for my mom and slap those in her collection.

[gaymer77]

I would say Friends 100% and maybe Family Guy.

Last 3-4 seasons of Friends were pretty bad actually. Agree with you on Family Guy though. My answer would also include some classics such as I Love Lucy and MASH (most heartbreaking series finale I've seen)

[kieraTM]

I would say Friends 100% and maybe Family Guy.

This thread is obviously subjective, but I agree that Friends has always been consistently good. Not seen much of Family Guy. I think Everybody Loves Raymond (I watched this as a kid though) and Red Dwarf (maybe a few iffy episodes) were also consistently good on the whole.

Two of my favourite shows, The Simpsons and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, sadly got worse as they went on. Interestingly the term 'Flanderization' was coined by the Simpsons, meaning where one characters minor traits were expanded upon each season until they consumed the character as a whole. In the case of the Simpsons for eg, Homer begins as a fairly well rounded character, who occasionally makes foolish but hilarious decisions. Marge is the opposite, rather level headed and 'boring'. After season 10 onwards, Homer just becomes this absolute bumbling buffoon whilst Marge becomes an ultra-serious foil to his jokes and blunders.
The same thing happened in Sunny, where the characters have obvious but unstated character defects (like Dennis being a psychopath, Mac having massive body dis-morphia, Charlie being lovable but foolish, Dee being the underdog), but these traits are taken to the n'th degree in season 12+ where the characters seem to act entirely towards these traits.

To conclude I think these examples show that whilst some series devolve in quality they can still be extremely entertaining in their 'heyday' IMO.

[callipygoustp]

At least I expressed an opinion, you just shit on my post without saying anything of substance... whatever man.

Heh, you don't get it at all do you: I expressed an opinion and YOU "shit" on it. That you gave opinions to back up your opinion doesn't matter; they're still an opinion. I merely threw back at you what you threw at me: a "your opinion is wrong" response.

[exochaft]

Its always interesting to see how many people on this forum are tilted towards anime.

It's likely because in general, animation is becoming more widely accepted as a vehicle for good storytelling. The stigma has always been that anything animated is kids stuff, but that stigma is slowly being eroded away. Sure, there's really crappy anime and anime that's really juvenile... but the standard live-action programming can be just as bad. Some of the live-action programming I see on the major networks and broadcasting companies in the US are very trite and dumb, loaded with so much overacting that they give soap operas a run for their money.

[xyzam]

Fringe. It remained more amazing with each season, and then things were pointed out as Easter eggs in every single episode. Show planned for exact number of episodes and ended gloriously.

[Sefer]

The Sopranos. Nuff said.

[callipygoustp]

Was not intended that way, was just intending to express my opinion. Sorry it came out too harsh.

Harsh? No. Unnecessary to quote me to express an alternative opinion? Yes.

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The Office. Even when Carell left it was still awesome.

Just recently re-watched the series. Couldn't agree more. I regularly laughed the whole way through. God dam that was a great show.

[Voidism]

Most of the Star Trek shows only got better at later seasons.

[McNeil]

Frasier, Bob's Burgers, Married With Children and My Name is Earl to name a few.

I disagree with some others, but I guess its subjective to find a show getting worse or not. Futurama for example was a masterpiece for at least the first 4 seasons, but after the movies from season 5 the show felt like it declined a lot by then. I believe this was also when the show got picked up after a rather long cancellation. Family Guy has never been that good of a show imo, I liked the first 3 seasons but it was quick to decline after a few cancellations. When I watch a new episode its just very hard to believe how people can like it as much, its obviously nothing like how the show was in the first 3 seasons.

[Shadowferal]

I rewatch Fringe, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer every so often.