Watched the series finale to Strike Back yesterday, and came off rather disappointed by the overall quality of this final 5th season. Harebrained story ark, bad writing, lackluster acting. A far cry from what the series used to be, IMO.

Which got me thinking about other really bad final seasons to otherwise good shows. So far I've got:

- Californication. While not every season was as good as the first two (looking at you, 3 and 5), the 7th and final series was abysmal. It felt like there was a whole new (early twen hipster) writing team with the mission to butcher the show as thoroughly as possible. I just pretend the show ended with season 6.

- The Newsroom. Ran out of ideas midway through the previous season and IMO should have stopped there.

- Two and a half men, which actually stopped being any good halfway through season 6, and got dragged on and on to its slow demise like roadkill behind some F150.

What are yours?

X-Files

While there are a few episodes from that season that I like the quality for the season overall was a huge drop compared to the previous seasons. And then there was the series finale which was a huge letdown imho. It also felt like a very different show since Scully's role was scaled back and Agent Reyes came to the forefront and of course Mulder is completely gone until the finale.

Battlestar Galactica (the re-imagining).

I knew someone was going to mention BSG. Lol.

Firefly

It's hard to have a final season when you only lasted 14 episodes in total!

I just wanted to see who replied. Kinda like yelling NICE ASS in a crowd

LOL!! Many people are very passionate about their favorite shows so whenever someone else has a contrary opinion about the show they sometimes lose it. As for me, I don't stress at all about it. I know that there will always be some people out there who don't like a show regardless of how popular or critically acclaimed it is. For example, I'm sure there are people out there who don't care for Game of Thrones. **gasp**

LOST, but to be fair it went downhill long before the last season.

Dexter, they just didn't know how to end the series.

Star trek: TNG, some really bad episodes are in the last season.

Scrubs.

Same could be said for TOS. Nimoy or Shatner described it as the monster of the week season.


Wheels

I see what you did there.


EDIT: Speaking of Game of Thrones. Today, I just realized that Ollena Tyrell is played by Diana Riggs. I don't like the opening theme song and usually fast forward to next weeks preview and episode recap so I usually miss some of the credits.