Okay… so when did you turn down The Walking Dead?
One day, u/TheScrollingBones asked fellow Redditors on r/tv an important question: “What TV show had a great pilot but became a huge disappointment after a few episodes?” Here are the answers
1. Spiral
Sony Pictures Television
“I don’t know how many people know/remember this show, but Helix. Saints Smoke, it has an intense pilot that sets a great premise, and while I personally didn’t find the show as a whole a “huge disappointment”, it’s definitely pretty mediocre, if not inferior.” – n / Faorot
2. Survivor
ABC / Via giphy.com
“Designated Survivor started off great, but then turned into total crap in just a few episodes. It’s a completely different show now… it’s gone from being a government conspiracy thriller to some West Wing rip-off drama, and it’s not working.” — you/Gato1980
3. Rejoicing
FOX / Via giphy.com
“Chorus. It had a smart, original, quirky pilot that satirized the type of oversaturated post-school special soap it became after the first thirteen episodes. It started to fall apart in the last nine seasons, but it was still pretty solid. The second season was like a train wreck and the rest of the show was almost impossible to watch.” -u/QueenOfTheSlayers
4. Next
FOX / Via giphy.com
“Amazing pilot, a truly tense thriller. Then episode 2 was terrible, episode 3 was really good, but pretty much everything after that was mediocre or downright awful.” -u/SongBirdsWrath
5. Under the dome
CBS / Via giphy.com
“The first episode of Under the Dome was absolutely brilliant. The first season was imperfect, but watchable. The second season completely went off the rails. get up and go.” – u/Without glue
6. Sleepy Hollow
FOX / Via giphy.com
“Sleepy Hollow is one of my favorite pilots of all time, but the show never lived up to the potential this episode had.” – you/cory120
7. Revenge
ABC / Via in.pinterest.com
“Damn good 1st season, but after it just one of the worst series.
Read the rest of the episodes on the wiki.” — u/emilyguy
9. Luke Cage
Disney / Marvel
“I actually went through a few episodes, but they just didn’t appeal to me, like Daredevil or Jessica Jones.” -u/CrapThunder
10. The Last Man on Earth
FOX / Via giphy.com
The Last Man on Earth is a perfect example. I was so excited about the series and then Forte and the regression to a bad normal series ruined everything.” – u / waste paper
11. Cape
NBC/Amazon/via amazon.com
The Cloak was a short-lived superhero show that promised to be both down-to-earth and campy, about a police officer accused of murder and learning to be a hero from a group of circus performers. After the first few episodes, it got too boring. and serious, but the pilot was very interesting.” – u/AwesomeManatee
12. Blacklist
NBC / Via giphy.com
“It was such a cool idea and the characters are great. The biggest problem I feel was the lack of an endgame. They dragged out too many questions over several seasons, so I gave up.” -u/TictacTyler
13. Fast forward
ABC / via gfycat.com
“Such a great premise and the beginning and then every subsequent episode was really bad. Full of pretentious dialogue with no substance, no plan, characters doing things for no reason, it was infuriating.” – y / spectrum
14. End of the fucking world
Channel 4 / Via tensor.com
“The End of the Fucking World” started with the main character being a real psycho, and then, by the second or third episode, he became just a nervous teenager. – you /[deleted]
16. Preacher
AMC / via giphy.com
“I LOVE the pilot, it was amazing. I still watch the series, but it’s one of those things where there are some really high hits but lots and lots of really low lows. % of the season is kind of a boring boring holiday that I just push through to get to the fun parts. The show could have been much better.” — U/Mojambo213
17. Revolution
Warner Bros. / Via tensor.com
“It was a great pilot with a really interesting production. The season was let down by rather obnoxious, eccentric main characters and a slightly banal plot. – u/ParanoidQ
18. The Amazing Mrs Maisel
Amazon Prime Video / Via tensor.com
“The show wasn’t bad, but I liked the pilot and thought everything else was fine, so disappointment followed.” – you/cronedog
19. Stargate Universe
Showtime / Via tensor.com
“The pilot was excellent, but shortly after that, arguments in space began, according to my wife.” — you/goaway432
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