Ironside. Not the well acclaimed classic, but the remake that died with only three episodes to it's name. It was monotonous, and horribly casted. A wheelchair bound detective should have been the role of a lifetime and they fall to cliché acting and writing. 3 episodes, guys.
What makes it even worse is that it was named one of the most anticipated shows of the year by nearly every critic site. And like you said, it was cliched, but even worse, it was dull. For me, there's nothing worse then bad then boring, and the one episode I caught was downright boring.
For me, it came down to a few shows, three of four which pain me greatly to include here, as they're favorites that have fallen off the cliff, to me.
Psych: Show #1 that saddens me to include. It's time for the boys of Santa Barbara to call it quits, I'm sad to say. As anyone on this site who knows me knows, Psych used to be one of my favorite shows. This past year did a complete 180 in changing my opinion. Never before has a show relied so much on its guest stars to carry its major players, and Shawn(James Roday) has gone from being legitimately funny to an annoying dousche. The physical comedy that used to be funny from Dule Hill has now gotten repetitive, and the only thing holding this show together is the chemistry between Roday and Hill. As for continuity , Juliet finds out after seven seasons that Shawn is a fake psychic, dumps him in a furious rage...then reconciles with him three episodes later? It's insulting to my intelligence. Psych the Musical was on Sunday Night, and I could hardly be arsed to watch it until last night. It wasn't bad, but was on par with Season 7, simply that it was uneven. As for Season 8, other then what should be another fun appearance by Cary Elwes, I'm not looking ahead to its new season come January.
The Glades : Where to begin? Another uninspired show from A&E. They brought in Taylor Cole for Season 3, only to abruptly remove her for Season 4. She was truly the first thing about the show to make it interesting, and its as if when she was apart of the cast, the writers were inspired, as the cases were intriguing as well. But in Season 4, the cases that Jim Longworth(Matt Passmore) solved as head detective took a backseat on most occasions to his wedding plans with Callie(Kiele Sanchez), and they were predictable, and for the most part, boring. The show somehow ran four seasons before getting the axe, and it ended on a
cliffhanger, with Jim shot by a mysterious intruder in the new home he had just bought for he and Callie, leaving his survival and his shooter
forever a mystery. The show was cancelled three days after the season finale aired, so why not pull the plug sooner, rather then airing a finale they knew they'ld never be following up on? It was one of the few interesting things about Season Four, and they even managed to mess that up. As the case with Shawn on Psych, Jim's smart-arse act grew old in Season Four, in part because the rest of the cast was a charisma-void that he couldn't play off of. I'm not sad to see it go, but it would have been nice to get some closure.
Sons of Anarchy: Seasons 1-5a were great, this was bad.
John 8:28(You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free) was a great episode, but it was the exception rather then the rule. There was too much talking and not enough acting, and while Kurt Sutter had a lot of balls to kill off two of his main characters in Clay and Tara, but how they got there was poor. Why was Tara truly killed here? In the SOA world, it wasn't because of Gemma's false beliefs, it was to expand Jax's suffering. In the SAMCRO world, all that's left is suffering, and it's hard to sit through as they talk endlessly about said suffering. I've loved Sons of Anarchy for 4 and 1/2 seasons, so the past season and a half have been hard to swallow. If it weren't for Season 7 putting the show out of its misery, I probably wouldn't hang with it another year. They're setting it up so the finale comes down to Jax vs. Gemma, which is something I've
never wanted to see. But at this point, where else can they go? This is another show that pains me to include, because it once was a favorite of mine.
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: I barely laughed this past season, which is never a good sign for a show that used to be one of my favorite comedies.
Flowers For Charlie was excellent, the rest, mostly a mess of rehashed acts and seemingly insider jokes amongst the cast that their audience is too 'dumb' to get. There were glimmers of the old Sunny here, but like SOA, it's grown long in the tooth. My wife(and most die-hard Sunny fans, I imagine) disagrees with me vehemently, but when I break it down, I didn't laugh much. And I love Sunny. I'm not attached to it the way I am serials
Psych and
SOA, but I still miss what it used to be.