PhantomStranger

Has any comedy taken such a dive like The Office? The show was virtually unrecognizable by its sixth or seventh season. It happened to a number of shows on NBC in the past decade. I thought 30 Rock got way too goofy and silly by the end as well.

stopgap

I have this handicap where I have to follow shows to its end. Even though I am no longer enjoying them. I guess it's a feeling of investment.given that, I watched then endings in my list but felt more like a reason to just move on:

Heroes (what train wreck with much premise potential)
Lost
Smallville
Entourage
The office
Friends
Had to edit because I forgot about Dexter but should be a given by overall viewer reaction

The one show I literally gave up on was Himym. It turned out to be a bunch of whiny people always moping about thir relationships. Every freaking week. We got that from Friends and they actually made it work (for a while at least).

mike7162

Bones - at some point, what were once interesting characters became trite and annoying (same goes for the story lines)
CSI: Anything
Glee is next

Hokeyboy

TRUE BLOOD. Went from ridiculously entertaining to awful around Season 5.

stopgap

Forgot about this one completely. I tapped after two episodes. Sookie just annoyed me to no end.

Jory

Interesting. This one was only three seasons. Is there a big drop in quality, or did you just lose interest? I just started Season 2.

johnnysd

There is absolutely ZERO loss of quality. Season three is probably the best. I guess the language structure could turn someone off but I thought is was brilliant.

Original Desmond

Smallville
Heros
numbers
simpsons

DWilson

I had dropped out of "Smallville" early on, and only gave it another shot when HDNet started showing it from the beginning in HD. I actually thought each season improved a little bit on the season before, particularly after they started embracing The Comics rather than saying they were nothing like them, and treating the charters' origins as if they were an embarrassment.

I never thought the show got it completely right, but I think if it had lasted 20 seasons, it might have finally become a damned good show.

Mondo Kane

OZ
Riveting TV that became a massive joke towards the end (Full frontal male nudity seemed to be it's main priority in the final season)

I think I bailed around season 4.

Easy

ER
Heroes
Lost
Revenge

Troy Stiffler

Parks and Rec - I just lost touch with it. 30 Rock ended. Community scheduling is maligned. Their new shows were duds. I just stopped watching Thursday NBC.

dhmac

Quitting after just 2 episodes doesn't count as religiously watching before quitting a show.

stopgap

You are right. I lost sight of the topic at hand when responding right away.

davidh777

You misspelled "fapped."

sven

Deadwood just gets better.

The Questyen

Forgot about two more:

Castle (watched through season 4 and quit. Show was spinning it's wheels)
Revenge (stopped a few episodes into season 3. Would have made a killer two season show with the premise but they had to drag it out.)

sven

I got sick of Beckett(was that her name) being an expert on every subject known to man because she either "dated a guy" or "went through a phase in college".

DVD Polizei

Hell On Wheels. But I think I'll try it again. I really liked the first season.

Finisher

Hell on Wheels for me too. Enjoyed the first season but for some reason didn't feel compelled to watch season two but will probably marathon it.

The Simpsons became godawful about 5-6 seasons ago. That said, I caught an episode earlier this season and it was surprisingly witty so I started DVRing it. Have mostly liked the half dozen or so episodes I watched this year.

Heroes I think I dropped after season two. Show just became a chore to sit through.

New Girl I liked season one but ditched it mainly because my DVR keeps filling and a couple characters on that show annoy me.

Michael Corvin

Phoebe never hooked up with one of the gang. Putting Rachel and Joey together was an act of desperation to drag the show out another season for the cast's big paydays. Still watched 'til the end, but man between that and Monica & Chandler adopting/looking for a house... the show was a shell of it's former self.

I got burned out on BN, but hung in there. The rabbit hole just got ridiculous. This guy isn't the bad guy, THIS guy is! No wait, he was a decoy, THIS GUY was behind it all... nope his evil twin was responsible for the burn notice! Nope, this girl was the mastermind... It was fucking stupid for awhile but the final two seasons stepped it up and improved from it's formulaic mediocrity.

As long as they stay away from Wo-fat, H50 still hits that guilty pleasure point for me. It's dumb, but it's dumb fun.

Smallville took a dive by season 4, but you're right every season after that improved on the season prior.

Michael Corvin

I don't know if it qualifies as 'religiously' but I watched and loved the first couple seasons of Psych and It's Always Sunny before dropping them. They both fell into that "I get it, but I doubt I'll miss much" if I drop 'em kinda vibe. They feel like shows you could drop for multiple seasons, come back and zero character development has happened in the time you were away.

onebyone

Heroes showed me that it is ok to walk away from a show you once loved when the fire dies.

I stopped watching Castle, Grey's Anatomy, CSI & Glee when I didn't like them anymore due to bad writing or cast changes.

I kind of wish I had stopped True Blood, but it's too late now.

andicus

Add me to the list of those puzzled that Deadwood would be listed. IMHO it never dropped in quality in the slightest, and I was severely disappointed to read that it wasn't coming back.

On my list would be:

Simpsons - I give it a shot now and then, but it only reaffirms my dropping it.
True Blood - I Will eventually watch the rest, but it really went downhill, so no hurry.
Californication - Seemed to turn into "How crudely can we say anything to do with sex in order to shock people?" I'm no prude, it's just that it makes the dialogue sound forced or unnatural. Another one where I'll probably end up watching the last 2 seasons, but sometime down the road.

joliom

I gave up after the first season of Deadwood. Nothing ever seemed to happen. That's why I lost interest. The production design, cinematography, and acting were all first rate, but the plot just seemed to be crawling along. Maybe things picked up in the proceeding seasons...I don't know. At the time I had so many other shows on my plate that my patience for a slow burn type of series probably just wasn't where it should have been. Of all the ones on my list, Deadwood is the one I'm most likely to revisit, however.

Oh, and as of today, you can also add Falling Skies to my list. After last week's episode, I gave up and threw in the towel. It was on tonight and I deleted the series from my DVR.