10 Episodes That Made You Quit Your Favourite TV Shows

7. The Choice (2.12) - Homeland

Homeland has never been able to match the brilliance of its first season, though for a while season two did a good job of convincing us that it might.

Unfortunately, it was the final episode of the second season - The Choice - that likely succeeded in killing the Homeland dream for many people (that is, it ever being a show to rival the likes of The Sopranos or The Wire). Presumably in an effort to create a moment that people would talk about at the water cooler, The Choice opted to end the season on a truly explosive note: a terrorist attack leaves a large number of the United States national security leadership dead, as Carrie and Brody are implicated as the murderers.

None of which seemed very Homeland; it felt beneath the show and its themes, reliant on random plot twists and characters who kept changing personalities. Chances are that the overwrought nature of this ending curbed your enthusiasm for the show and you never bothered to go back for season three, then. A good thing, because it was quite terrible.