More so than perhaps any other season before it that I knew about or kept track of in the detail that I do now of certain shows, I have to wonder if there has been an example of so many duds all airing in one single season of television. There sure have been a lot of them. I’m not even going to mention all of the shows that I think are bad. I’m just going to mention the exceptionally bad shows. Let’s start with the obvious: the new shows.
Examples: ABC- Queens (this show about the drama of an all girl singing group reuniting later with all of their secrets coming to light was just obvious and dumb with nothing exceptional about it), CW- Naomi (this superhero show lacked substance in a pilot that should have been a good origin story that the network has been good at, but instead seemed more like a fan film of a show were they weren’t even sure if Superman was even real), March (this show is so boring that it lacks a Wikipedia page as this documentary on high school marching bands brought little to nothing to it)
NBC- That’s My Jam (I just don’t understand how this one lasted when nothing about it seemed good and the fact that everyone gets the same amount of money regardless of who wins makes me wonder what the point of the whole “competition” even is), CBS- How We Roll (this sitcom based on a true story would have been boring, dull, and unfunny, certain to be cancelled, even without it starting so late in the season that it was doomed from the start)
FOX- The Big Leap (how does this have a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes when it was so terrible that it mocks the very idea of reality shows in a way that won’t get any of those viewers or any other ones in ways that simply wouldn’t happen on reality shows), Pivoting (she can’t fit into tiny pants and winds up in the hospital in a comedy where death is important in some way and, yes, it’s as terrible as that sounds), Domino Masters (this should have been much better than it was, but only seemed to milk the drama between contestants more than anything else)
Continued: Our Kind of People (you can tell that a show is bad if after having seen an episode, I can’t even tell you what this was even supposed to be about in the end), The Real Dirty Dancing (even if I had seen the movie that this is based off of then I wouldn’t be interested in this crapfest that seems very boring with no real point), Welcome to Flatch (Sony bribed its way into a second season since this so is so unfunny that it is more cringe worthy than anything else), Alter Ego (the voting mechanism made no sense in a wanna be Masked Singer with no famous people except judges)
And it’s not just new shows that were bad. Big Sky had one of the worst sophomore slumps that I have ever seen in a TV show as it went from being an interesting missing persons drama to a show about drug running that I have no interest in seeing ever again. Rivervale was just the arc that started out the new season of Riverdale that was beyond absurd. It was too late into the show for it to introduce any of the supernatural elements that could be in the show and it still work. It was as if they let people submit fan fiction and that become episodes of the show. While I don’t yet know when I’ll be covering the best and worst of the decades from the 2010s, I can tell you that Riverdale might almost be certain to win the jumped the shark award worst of the decade in the 2020s.
Then there are shows with bad endings. There are a lot of them. Most of them were cancellations that came as a surprise, especially regarding the CW shows, but it is still hard to like any of these shows now. Legends of Tomorrow had the heroes arrested by time cops with other aspects of it unresolved. Batwoman set up a new villain that won’t be resolved. 4400 seemed to undo some of its canon with its cliffhanger. B Positive left one of the main characters alone without resolving things with her planned love. Ordinary Joe had a cliffhanger for each of the three timelines. Mr. Mayor had a terrible ending in the middle of a debate with a bombshell revealed.
Monarch was supposed to be part of this season, but was delayed like a lot of the FOX shows were to the next season. The reason given was due to the pandemic. It was also a terrible show since we got basically all of what we had wrong with Filthy Rich only with the show focusing on country music stars instead of “religious” hypocrites. I’m only including this here since it could have been part of that season that just happened.
I will be doing posts of this blog on every Sunday now for the foreseeable future. I’m doing this since the day of the week was made available now and I made use of it right away. I can only hope that this does not mess up anything regarding my CSI: Vegas blog. Also stay tuned for different things relating to this blog on Fridays, potentially. Otherwise, things will be even weirder than they are now.
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