Futurama. The Fox seasons is it’s golden age. Now the show is sci-fi South Park. They have a show set in the future, but the writers make episodes based on the present.
The Walking Dead. TWD dyed in season 2. They made 13 episodes out of 6 issues of the comic. It was poorly written, characters act like idiots, and the twist in Episode 7. You can see it coming from a mile away.
Why should you want to cancel shows? When you don’t like the show, don’t watch. When nobody likes a show, nobody watches, no ad income -> exit show.
Of your example, I never heard of the last one, and to be honest, the name doesn’t sound interesting enough to find out whatnit’s about. Simpsons I haven’t seen in ages (does it still run?) And I’m happy with the 2nd reboot of Futurama, rewatching from the start.
Just because you don’t like a show it should be canceled. Ignoring it is way easier. When it’s worth to have it canceled, it’s not worth to fuss about.
I mostly just don't watch TV. Almost none of it is stuff I'd want to actually cancel - just keep it the fuck away from me and watch whatever you want. However, one of my hated shows was that Honey Boo Boo thing - not only tied to the intensely creepy "child pageant" bs, but aside from that it's still people screwing with a little girl's head for 15 minutes of fame. Every part of it making me physically cringe was just a bonus.
Also parts of my family is watching that 90 Day Fiancee thing, which... mostly seems mean-spirited, exploitative of people in vulnerable situations (being poor, or from a poorer country, or lonely, or just a bit of a moron), vaguely ragebaity - and is of course, pure "reality TV" diarrhea even apart from those. And cringe, likely intentionally boosted for profit same as all the rest.
I also used to hope Big Bang Theory would just... stop. It has, though, so that's nice.
In the early days they did satirise current issues, but it mostly seemed to be through a lens of 31st-century technology or social conventions. Nowadays, the future setting often just feels like window dressing for a story that’s really entirely about the present.
I used to watch most of these, but I just stopped. Never once did I want anything cancelled. Oh except for Fox News. That’s probably the only correct answer.
The reality TV show Cheaters. That moment when people consider it in good taste to bother others for not following relationship norms, setting the memory of their “misdeed” in stone forever, whether or not good faith was in mind by the people in the context or not. Sometimes cameras seem like the worst thing to happen to “honor culture”.
The Simpsons. The current episodes are honestly a bigger fall from the quality of the show 10 years ago than the Simpsons 10 years ago was from it’s golden era. It’s been on eh for most of it’s existence but Plusaversary is when it died if you ask me. That short is borderline symbolism for why Simpsons sucks now.
South Park. I don’t watch the show anymore because it violates one of my non-negotiable values, but I also don’t subscribe to the “SOUTH PARK RUINED THE WORLD” mindset that much of media criticism circles does (largely because I think South Park was a symptom if anything, and also a lot of those articles describe bad South Park clones better than South Park) and I’m not above admitting media I disagree with is well-made (but still, South Park is transphobic and generally promotes a Libertarian [as in US Libertarian Party] mindset.) But before I stopped watching…it started to feel like the creators understood their show through what media (media that was positive about the show) built it up to be rather than what it was. Pretty much every episode became politics (when their pop culture criticism was often funnier honestly) and it started to feel like the characters were just pawns for political issues instead of real characters. It’s like they stopped writing an animated sitcom and started writing an edgier version of standup, and stopped being funny in the process. I think Stick of Truth was probably the last glimpse of what South Park was.
None, If something is a bit shit in your opinion, just ignore it.
I used to love the Simpsons but stopped watching it about 20 years ago.
Same with TWD, half way through season 2, it was obvious that season 1 was not going to be repeated as they had slashed the budget and it had become a soap opera with the occasional zombie. I dropped in for a bit of season 3 and 4 when someone said it had improved and noped out again for good.
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