10 Recent TV Shows That Made ONE Huge Mistake
These TV shows fell down HARD for one major reason.
Producing even a single season of quality TV is a gigantic undertaking, requiring hundreds of cast and crew members to collaborate under typically tight time and budgetary constraints to deliver entertainment for the masses.
No TV show is perfect, then, but there are also those which have made one clear creative misstep that threatened to doom them forever more. And in recent times, there are no better examples than this lot, which have left viewers fuming ever since.
From marketing the show in a manipulative way to ditching a beloved legacy cast member, overdosing on fan service, or even straight-up sidelining the title character themselves, these shows all put one foot so obviously wrong.
The result was a fanbase left scratching their heads at such an obvious creative own-goal - quite what those in charge were thinking is anyone's guess.
In some instances it likely contributed to the show's swift cancellation, while others were at least still well-received enough to get renewed for another season - or even two if they were so lucky.
Fingers crossed that those coming back for more will avoid the same mistake next season. Here's hoping...
10. Baiting Fans With Daredevil - Echo
The Marvel Cinematic Universe's Echo may ultimately have been far from the disaster that many expected pre-release, but it still rarely rose above acceptable mediocrity, and it didn't help that Disney set some unfair expectations right out of the gate.
Echo's marketing heavily played up the presence of Matt Murdock aka Daredevil (Charlie Cox), as understandably led most to believe that he would have a relatively substantial supporting role in the series.
Except, Daredevil ends up appearing in just a single flashback scene in the show's very first episode and... that's it. His screen time totals a whopping 98 seconds across Echo's roughly three hours, and so it's tough to blame fans for feeling duped.
By hinging so much of the show's promotion on Daredevil, only for him to dip out after a cursory early cameo, Disney basically handed fans the cudgel to attack it with, even if Echo was basically fine overall.
Disney were evidently compelled to manipulate fans like this after all the pre-release hand-wringing about the show's potential lack of quality, as well as the overall "necessity" of an Echo series in the first place, but it really only gave fans ammunition to dunk on the end result.