TV Tuesday: Going the Distance

[yourlibrarian]

It's easy to try out a lot of different shows nowadays, but maybe harder to decide what to stick with. What was the longest you ever watched a show before giving up on it?

Poll #32984 What was the longest you ever watched a show before giving up on it?

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 37

The longest I watched was...

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Less than 1 episode
1 (2.7%)

1 episode
0 (0.0%)

2-3 episodes
3 (8.1%)

4-6 episodes
2 (5.4%)

7-12 episodes
0 (0.0%)

13-18 episodes
0 (0.0%)

19-24 episodes
1 (2.7%)

25-44 episodes
4 (10.8%)

45-66 episodes
4 (10.8%)

67-88 episodes
1 (2.7%)

89-111 episodes
3 (8.1%)

Over 111 episodes
18 (48.6%)

Comments

[donutsweeper]

I try to give most things that I was at least somewhat interested in originally at least a full episode. There's honestly been quite a number of shows I dropped numerous seasons in, 5, 6, even 10 or 12. Sometimes it's due to a cast change but often it's just my level of interest had been lowering and lowering for a while and there was some sort of break (either mid-season or between seasons) and I got out of the habit of tuning in to X channel at Y time (for shows airing on regular tv) or I just never noticed or cared enough to watch when a new season dropped on a streaming service.

I'm not sure how what the longest I watched something before quitting I think I lasted until after s10 of, ER, NCIS, and Supernatural so over 200 episodes. And then there's soap operas, many of which I watched for years and years before wandering away and they air 250 episodes (ish) a year so probably well over 1k episodes if not much, much more.

[yourlibrarian]

I'm trying to remember if there's a show I just noped out of well along because of some development. But for the most part it's similar, in that a number of things have either been boring me or rubbing me the wrong way.