The Walking Dead
The Walking Deadfinally end its 11 - season political campaign , and many fans find themselves breathe with a sigh of relief . The show had become an altogether unlike beast from what it had once started as . Of of course , that sort of longevity ( and tilt ) makes modification inevitable .
While there ’s no predicting if a show ’s going to be amazing or disappointing in the prospicient run , the one thing that show are guaranteed to have is change . Sometimes though , that change is so massive that the show does n’t even feel like the same story anymore , be it because of genre shifts or sheer unsound written material .
10The Walking Dead
The Walking Deadstarted as an intimate survival revulsion play , where both the Walkers and other survivors were terrorize source of tension . Around the time Frank Darabont and his writing team left , the show started its switch to what was an military action - packed snake god soap opera . Unsurprisingly , this did not sit well with fans who were around from the starting signal .
An anon. Redditorsummed up their feelings on these change , “ time of year 1 is basically a 6 - episode pilot . It was made in isolation , and they were blend in for a slower prestige kinda affair , vs. the shock economic value action revulsion we got afterwards on . ” The fact that the close had less than a quarter of its original mold is tell apart of the literal fracturing of the show .
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9Moral Orel
Moral Orelwas one of many controversialAdult Swim display of the 2000s , and , at first , it seemed like any of the electric shock humor shows prevalent from that geological era . However , when Adult Swim dedicate show Lord Dino Stamatopoulos the go - ahead to “ be as dark as he perhaps can , " he did just that , and the show got canceled for it .
unambiguously , the show did manage to subtly foreshadow its change , but it did n’t make them any less shocking.u / ghostpiratesyarhad a somewhat simple explanation , saying “ To be honest , season 1 of Moral Orel is more cushion humour than anything else , and even then it ’s kind of dated now . The show does n’t get leaden until the end of season 2 . ”
8Prison Break
prison house Breakused to be very good about the show ’s premise from its statute title alone . Prison Breakwas originally about an designer who require to transgress his blood brother out of prison by using his in - depth knowledge of the prison he helped build . Most people thought that a show about breaking out of prison would end when they , presumably , broke out of prison . A prison break , so to speak .
or else , they got sent to a worse prison house , and after that , became government broker forced to steal important MacGuffins from terrorists.u / NotEnoughGunlamented about this , state “ From the third season ahead , it ’s all downhill . The narration fix way too Byzantine & ridiculous as it went on , past those first two time of year . ”
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7Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek : The Next Generationhad all the growing pains of a show essay to escape its forerunner ’s massive shadow . While the show was still about space exploration , the budget , authorship , and characterization were so jarring compare to thebest episode of laterTNG . The jump in timbre was so vindicated that the fanbase had a well - known signifier for it . Riker ’s beard .
u / psimworkexplained succinctly by order “ Season 2 ( when Riker got his beard ) still was n’t fantastic , but it was a DRAMATIC advance over time of year 1 ( i.e. the time of year where they basically re - used a lot of scripts that were written for " Star Trek : stage 2 " which was go to be made in the ' 70s before they decided to quarrel it and go with a movie ) . ”
6Archer
Archerstarted as a parody of spy thrillers , over with a suave James Bond original who sounded like a humanity who possess a Warren E. Burger join . For a in effect few season , this was whatArcherwas about . Then , suddenly , they shifted gears to become a drug cartel crime show of all thing , rechristening themselvesArcher Vice .
Archer became a detective noir after time of year 1 , a hobo camp island dangerous undertaking , and a space opera , before finally return to the undercover agent setting . Of course , creator Adam Reed was well known for this , as explained byu / Praxis8 , who said “ Adam Reed is awing , and he ’s done this before with Frisky Dingo . time of year 1 was about a supervillain and superhero , In Season 2 they were running for president . It voice like jump the shark , but it was fucking uproarious . ”
5The Office (US)
It ’s a well - known fact at this head thatThe Office(US)was a very dissimilar show from what it would become . Ironically , that ’s because the show was trying to be exactly like the source material it was adapt , The Office ( UK ) . So much of the original characterization and drollery just do n’t go in the American situation comedy panache .
gratefully , the serial publication shifted gears and went on to become one of the most successful sitcoms of all time ( for about six season at least ) . The wry humor and reuse scripts were thrown aside , replaced with idiotic , fast - paced comedy and surprisingly excited character arcs.u / MoragineSwann33excitedly exclaimed when asked if the show gets better after S1 “ It vex MUCH good ! Keep watching ! Michael better and the stories get practiced . ”
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4Breaking Bad
With how many critical accolades the series has got at this full stop because of its later seasons , it ’s easy to forget thatBreaking Badwasn’t always a modern Shakespearian tragedy . It started out as more of a black funniness ( though that in itself was middling Shakespearian ) . The very premise of a chemistry teacher becoming a methamphetamine dealer was comic at a glance .
However , much of the first season ’s lightheartedness made way of life for increasingly heavier melodic theme and story arcs , though , of course of instruction , with some sparge of pitch - black comedy unfold throughout . An anonymous Redditorstated , “ The humour is still there but we have become so emotionally involved with the character and their journey that we are sometimes blind to it . ”
3Atlanta
WhenAtlantafirst set out , the premiss was simple . A immature humans named Earn became the manager for his drug dealer first cousin , Al , who aspired to be a doorknocker for profit . The show was a rather grounded social commentary on the African - American experience , and how much of it remained an unsolved issue , other than a few surreal scene here and there .
However , each season develop more and more more Lynchian , and the third and 4th season were outright supernatural anthologies.u / NineteenAD9cleverly elaborate on this by saying “ Atlanta is great because they zig when people want them to zag . They do n’t choose for a consistent genre . They intermingle different expressive style together while foreground dissimilar people and still stimulate a coherent substance . ”
2Lost
Lostwas excellently convoluted , and that ’s in no part thanks to the showrunners themselves experience no idea what to do . They earlier had a plan set out , but when executives drop money on their circuit , they adjudicate to force out all the stops on their originative vision , with admittedly varying degrees of success .
Funnily enough , Losthad a very simple assumption when it first started , well before the Others , the hatching , and all those supernatural elements.u / ShiningConceptsexplained “ I ’ve noticed in retrospect that time of year 1 is completely different from the rest of the series because of how set-apart the reference are , and how sparse the mythology is . The plot is much simpler : people are stay on an island and larn to survive with one another . ”
1The Simpsons
If ever there was a poster kid for stray from its first season , it would beThe Simpsons . It could be argued that this was literal , as the show has had a mind - boggle 34 seasons and counting . In its whole run , The Simpsonseven developed figure that helped mark other show tropes , the most famous of which was “ Flanderization . ”
With that form of seniority , it ’s inevitable for shows to change . It ’s just thatThe Simpsonsgot past that change , and enter a strange limbo of irrelevancy.u / TurboSSlamented this oblivion , saying “ The new Simpsons seems to just attempt and bedevil ridiculousness in your face with no subtlety or creativity behind it . It ’s like they try too hard and really press the parts of kor that used to be funny but in an in - your - expression manner . ”
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