Showtime has an awful habit of running a show way too long - Weeds, Dexter, Californication

[Disgustya Stallone]

those 3 shows end much earlier than they did... we got a different story as far as top 10 or even GOAT. Dexter would have easily been top 3 maybe even GOAT had it ended after season 4... you know the one... with the bathtub ending.

Californication became so repetitive after season 4... that would be up there too... and Weeds... not the greatest show but def jumped the shark after season 2 or 3.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Went from top 10 to not mentioned at all



Every showtime show ever

 

[steadyrighteous]

I don't think it's running shows too long, but I do think there's something going up there at their offices with giving notes and meddling with the creatives, because their shows decline so greatly and so uniformly across the board that it can't be a coincidence.

 

[Czerka]

Showtime just doesn't have that premium feel like hbo

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

I don't think it's running shows too long, but I do think there's something going up there at their offices with giving notes and meddling with the creatives, because their shows decline so greatly and so uniformly across the board that it can't be a coincidence.

How is it not?

 

[Spaceman Piff]

californication is the only one out of the 3 that i managed to watch from start to finish.

it's the only one that didn't turn into complete shyt overnight.

its decline was much smoother

 

[Conscious Pilot]

Starz overtook Showtime as number 2 premium channel.

 

[ATearInMyEye]

Dexter could have been a GOAT

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Dexter could have been a GOAT

fukking tragic how bad it fell off.

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

Dexter could have been a GOAT

So true, such high hopes, again that show ends after the trinity killer its def top 3

 

[Savior]

Homeland on deck

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Homeland on deck

Man, the signs are already there. It's either already gone too long or it's about to. I hate to say it but I would bet anything it meets the same fate.

 

[hex]

Thread is 100% facts. But it's not just that the shows run too long, Showtime also meddles with the writing. They flat out told the writers of "Dexter" that they couldn't kill him. I think they did the same thing for "Homeland".

Fred.

 

[Disgustya Stallone]

Thread is 100% facts. But it's not just that the shows run too long, Showtime also meddles with the writing. They flat out told the writers of "Dexter" that they couldn't kill him. I think they did the same thing for "Homeland".

Fred.

They killed curry Carrie last season

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I don't think it's running shows too long, but I do think there's something going up there at their offices with giving notes and meddling with the creatives, because their shows decline so greatly and so uniformly across the board that it can't be a coincidence.

The network just runs it into the ground and tries to milk new seasons to generate more money.