[ SECRET POST #5962 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5962 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I relate to some of this way too hard. Though for me fear of cancellation isn't really a factor. Cancellation of a great show hurts, but it's a bittersweet hurt, because it means I loved the show, and it also means the show will never go downhill and I'll get to remember it with only affection and admiration.

However the fear of a really good show going downhill has caused me to compulsively stop watching so many things, and I kind of hate it.

In some cases what will happen is that I'll start to feel like the show might be going downhill, and that's what causes me to bail. The problem is that I don't necessarily hang around long enough to be fully sure that the show really is going downhill, or if it's just a momentary wobble.

This tends to happen most often with feel-good shows that are a pleasure to watch. E.g. I bailed on Ted Lasso one episode into S2, and I bailed on Brooklyn 99 three episodes into S6.

Then there are the shows that I stop watching purely out of fear that they might start to go downhill soon. This usually happens with a very specific type of show: dark, challenging, conceptually thorny, very well-written but often hard to watch.

S1 of The Knick was extremely good but I couldn't bring myself to come back for S2.

S1–4 of Mad Men was extremely good but I couldn't bring myself to come back for S5.

Succession is superb but I stalled three episodes into S3.

S1 of The Boys was surprisingly good, but I couldn't bring myself to come back for S2.

I think it's because I really dislike unbridled cynicism, but I LOVE fiction that explores dark and upsetting topics and ideas without shying away from the more challenging aspects. And so a lot of my favorite stories exist right on the edge of the precipice; they're dark in a way that I find complex, nuanced, and challenging, but the second the writing loses its edge, they start to ping as unbridled cynicism and I'm left feeling nothing but squicked. And the thought of that happening is such a bummer to me that I end up bailing before it can happen.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you!
I like darkish or dark stories. But I hate cynicism. So it's really difficult to navigate