Last week, Reddit user u/RedWestern asked, "Which TV show got too big for its boots?" and people had some pretty strong opinions. Here are just some of the shows that people submitted!
Warning: Spoilers ahead!
1. When Heroes created all-powerful characters, then kept taking their powers away to justify the difficulty they had saving the world:
2. When Once Upon a Time kept doing memory wipes, then introduced characters from Frozen:
3. When Weeds went way too far past its original premise by leaving the suburbs:
4. When True Blood made Sookie a fairy:
5. When Lost introduced the flash-sideways:
6. When The Vampire Diaries kept throwing in new doppelgängers and creatures:
7. When Glee tried to simultaneously tackle every popular song and every societal issue:
8. When The Flash kept bringing back Harrison Wells and giving people super speed:
9. When Orange Is the New Black moved to a high-security prison and tried to tackle too much:
10. When Pretty Little Liars brought Ali back to life and kept creating new A's:
11. When Sherlock gave Sherlock an evil sister:
12. When Arrow kept making everyone a superhero and gave their heroes impossible abilities:
13. When The Fairly OddParents created an anti-fairy world:
14. When Supernatural kept the show going after the Winchester brothers beat the devil, eventually having them fight God:
15. When The Handmaid's Tale kept June alive despite all the rules she'd broken, erasing any and all tension about whether or not she'd survive:
16. When 13 Reasons Why introduced a ghost, then became a full-on murder mystery:
17. When they kept changing Red's identity on The Blacklist:
18. When The X-Files let the aliens plotline get way too convoluted:
19. When Grey's Anatomy kept putting its staff through life-altering disasters every season:
20. When Dexter gave Dexter so much plot armor, you never thought he'd get caught, then gave his sister romantic feelings for him:
21. When Game of Thrones pushed all the characters together and made the finale super rushed (which included allowing characters to make journeys in days that had previously taken seasons):
22. When all the murder plots on How to Get Away With Murder just got too convoluted:
23. And finally, when Prison Break kept having the characters break out of prison again and again:
What other shows just tripped over their own plotlines and got too big? Let us know in the comments!
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.