Some nice, smooth, consistent quality. Better Call Saul was in my opinion pretty consistent. Single season anime is almost always consistent, like My Dress-Up Darling or Terror in Resonance.
Not dragging on longer than the series needs to seems to be a key point.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. It’s perfect from start to finish, but it ended after the 2nd season because it was cancelled 💀 so might not count.
I feel the same way about GLOW, the way Netflix cancelled the last season after they’d already started making it is one of the reasons I won’t give them money anymore.
Honestly fuck Netflix so much… literal embodiment of how capitalism is a scourge on everything that makes human life worth it.
Wait that has a show??
It does and it’s so good! I love basically everything Elijah Woods has done tbh, and he is awesome in this.
What the fuck it has Elijah wood in it too? Damn I know what I’m doing this weekend
You’ll love it and think it’s a crime what Netflix did
I thought She-Ra and the Princesses of Power stayed good right through the end.
Almost every episode of TNG is good, and the few bad ones were concentrated toward the beginning, not the end.
I answered Stargate as an overall TV franchise to the opposite question earlier, but SG-1 and Atlantis taken as individual series both stay good, although SG-1 is basically a different also good series in its last three seasons.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann rules all the way through, before and after the timeskip.
The Expanse seemed to be pretty even throughout its six season run. Maybe the only real “ding” is the fourth season where most of Jame’s crew is on a planet.
Firefly. I’m not sure if there was enough gas in that show’s tank to have kept it on this list or if the plug getting pulled at 14 episodes did it a favor for us fan’s collective opinion of it.
Though I’d imagine that “space opera” is easier to keep the story/plot quality pretty even as writers can always just switch to a different set of characters to avoid having to deal with writing their way out of plot corners.
Though I’d imagine that “space opera” is easier to keep the story/plot quality pretty even as writers can always just switch to a different set of characters to avoid having to deal with writing their way out of plot corners.
outside of shows that are intentionally anthologies, that sounds to me like OP’s fear of shows not only dragging on longer than they need to, but also endlessly dragging the viewer nowhere forever.
Yeah… I’ve definitely grown to enjoy shows that know they have to end and know what that ending is going to be instead of just dragging the corpses of all the characters through eternity.
I get wanting to watch a show forever, getting attached to characters and their antics (looking at you Red Dwarf) but its okay to let the characters and their stories fade into the sunset as it were.
The Expanse seemed to be pretty even throughout its six season run. Maybe the only real “ding” is the fourth season where most of Jame’s crew is on a planet.
True, and the same applies to the book that was adapted into that particular season. Cibola Burn is by far the weakest book, but then it’s followed by Nemesis Games, which is by far the best one. I do think, however, that The Expanse starts off very slow, and it only picks up the pace after the Donnager, three or four episodes in.
Surely the biggest ding in The Expanse was the Rocinante pilot getting fired for sex pestery?
Would have been a bigger ding if they kept the sex pest around, no?
Also, I’m fine separating the plot stuff from the actor’s who are being shitty human beings.
Yeah, at least they did the right thing there, but for me personally seeing that guy is a stain on the series, even though the allegations came out later. I can’t really watch anything that had Kevin Spacey in it either.
Oh yeah… it definitely negatively colored a lot of the “touching scenes” that this character has throughout the series.
Lost. That season 3 finale was perfect.
I need to rewatch it like this.
Battlestar Galactica too!
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One of the only shows that consistently got better over time.
Barry was so good.
Sopranos for sure. I think Deadwood would count here as well
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (haven’t watched 2003), remember that being rather consistently good
Also Gravity Falls, but I haven’t rewatched it since it ended in 2016 so I may be looking at it through rose-tinted lenses
Gravity Falls ends too early.
Scavengers Reign is an exceptional work of art that I think not enough people have seen! I can’t recommend it enough
Edit: also, The Terror is another show that very few people seem to have watched, and it’s unbelievably good. It was supposed to be just a limited series, but they tacked on a second season and tried to turn it into an anthology show. Ignore that aspect, think of it as a miniseries and it’s one of the best horror shows I’ve ever seen.
the leftovers. rly good shit.
fr. if anything should’ve had one more season (or at least a couple more eps in season 3), a few arcs/characters felt like they didn’t get a proper sendoff and a few threads left dangling that shouldn’t have been.
I thought The Wire was basically perfect all the way through, though a lot of people didn’t like the final season so much
Venture bros, conversely it wasn’t dragged out long enough
Dark. I love Twin Peaks equally but season 2 has a serious drop off in the middle.
Farscape. It just got better as it went along.
Joe Pera Talks With You is an amazing show. The first season is probably the strongest season, but that’s more of “This is too perfect to be improved” rather than a quality drop off. It’s Adult Swim’s most genuine and heartfelt show by a long mile. It’s the cure for irony poisoning and insomnia. I think this show could have ran a lot longer than it did, but the finale of season 3 serves as a solid ending for Joe and Sarah.
Life & Times of Tim stays pretty fucking funny the whole time, and even improves as the show goes on. Voice acting is really good.
I’d say Death Note stays pretty consistent, definitely one of my favorite animes
