When do you know when to stop watching a show?
 

I'm in such a dilemma. Cause I'm a huge fan od Kevin Bacon and I have loved the show 'The Following" But I believe it has run it's course and it's best days are behind it. IT should have stopped with season 1 (which was excellent) and I was ok with season 2 but they ended it horribly just to make a season 3 which premiers Monday. I don't want to support it past a certain point but it has been a good show.

When do you know when to give up? (not just this show; any show)

When you don't like it anymore.

It's not difficult.

I give up if the Pilot or the 2nd episode doesn't draw me in.

Either when it does something I don't like, or when I forget to keep up with it.

This. When a show stops entertaining me, it's best to stop watching it.

When you ending up ranting about it more than you are enjoying it.

Yeah, right. See you for next week's Ninja Turtles.

What Cure said....I stopped finding a show amusing, so I stopped watching. I have gone back to the well a couple times, and have had that feeling reinforced, so I've called it quits for good.

but I haven't watched most of the episodes for season 3......XD.....(I'm just waiting to see Renet and I'm done)

I did stop watching Korra season 2 (I did watch the finale just to see the ending)

I stop watching a show when I'm not enjoying it anymore. Doesn't matter how good past seasons have been - relying on my goodwill only takes me so far; ultimately, I don't have the time to invest in watching season after season of shows that aren't delivering, and haven't been for some time.

Also, slightly off-topic, but Kevin Bacon creeps the hell out of me. He may be a lovely man IRL but the first thing I ever saw him in was Sleepers; that and his fondness for taking sex offender roles has resulted in my inability to not be able to look at him without my skin doing its abject best to creep clammily off my body. I suppose it's a testament to his acting talent, in a weird kind of way. :lol:

When it jumps the shark

When the story loses its path

When you feel betrayed by the actions the characters take

The addition of a new character to "liven things up" (i.e. Scrappy-Doo)

I usually don't stop watching shows halfway, simply because no show I've watched has ever gotten so bad that I had to quit.

Granted I'm excluding Simpsons from this since nobody knew the show would go on for 26+ years and counting and will probably go on another 10 years.

Usually it's when I realize that I'm losing interest in what's going on within the show.

I will drop a show for one of the following reasons...

I become bored of the series and it's more like I'm watching out of obligation than entertainment.

If I'm away from a series for a long time and have trouble getting back into it.

If I have trouble keeping up with it for whatever reason and gradually lose interest.

Boy Meets World fits the first.

CSI for the second.

Once Upon a Time fits the third.

If the writers don't know what they're doing or have confidence in their product. Exhibit A: GOTHAM.

At the moment, Arrow is teetering on losing me. I will finish Season 3, but if it doesn't show Oliver Queen surviving death by Lazarus Pit or Omega, I will drop it. Not explaining his resurrection is just infuriating.

When you believe the story they originally set out to tell has been long fleshed out and it has the feel of post-script to it.

When I get tired of watching it.

For me, it's hard for me to quit a show unless I feel it has no appeal to me anymore such as The Simpsons. I've been feeling that way with Glee as well, but since this is the final season and I've stuck with it for this long, I may as well watch until the end.

I tend to stop watching when my favorite characters are just being wasted and have no development. A couple on my list was Heroes, with Sylar being completely ruined, and recently with Criminal Minds, with Spencer Reid not doing anything.

when its over... damn completist mindset... the exception to that rule is when its a book adaptation and they butcher the book so bad in the first 15 minutes then you can kill it with fire... case in point "The Seeker".

I hear ya, nameless - the completist thing drives me nuts as well; the bae does it.

I'll be like "Why do we have Underworld 2 in our dvd library?"

"Because it's part of the set."

"BUT IT SUCKS!"

Almost as annoying as their habit of having a crapful movie in the collection because it's got 5 minutes of redeeming footage from an actor/character that they like (see again: Underworld, existing only in our collection because Lucian, and the Fright Night remake, existing in our collection because Colin Farrell). glob give me strength.

There's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said. So I'll just say that if a show is just plain bad, I will stop watching almost immediately. E.g. The CW's "The Cape". That show was TERRIBLE.

Didn't the show basically claim that Oliver didn't actually die?

I used to be the person that had to complete everything I started, whether it be books, movies, tv series, but now I just think that's silly. Your time is precious and if you think you're wasting it on something, it's time to leave it in the past. :) Hope that helps.

I'm actually making the same decision right now on whether or not I should continue to watch The Walking Dead or not. It's a great show, don't get me wrong! But I'm kind of tired of watching it. I feel like it needs to end soon.

This is why I bought the "Alien Anthology" blu-ray set and the 3D Blu ray of Prometheus, as well as a copy of the 35th anniversary edition of the first film (which I never plan on opening). "Alien Resurrection" sucks but it's still a part of the series.

When they replace Jerry O'Connell with some dude between seasons and come up with a BS excuse because... sorry, my problem, I'll deal with it offline.

I tend to stick with most shows I watch even if they do eventually lose their touch because it's never been so bad that I have to stop. That is unless the show loses it's most valuable star and/or other major cast members. Though aside from that, I've never really felt like a show stopped entertaining me halfway through. Not every episode is a guaranteed win but the ride sure is a hell of a lot of fun in my experience.

When you know it just can't get any better.