10 TV Shows That Failed Spectacularly In Their Final Season
3. Nip/Tuck
During its first two seasons in particular, Nip/Tuck was absolute must-see TV - a self-consciously trashy, genre-bending medical drama series that just happened to be terrifically acted and brilliantly made, and put Ryan Murphy firmly on the map.
The show's popularity tapered off after its third season concluded the gripping Carver storyline in deeply unsatisfying fashion, and it never quite recovered.
Seasons four and five were solidly decent, but when it came to sticking the landing in its final season, Nip/Tuck fell off a cliff.
A big part of the problem was that Murphy and co. had clearly run out of ideas. The outlandish surgery drama of prior seasons was no longer shocking or darkly amusing - it felt oddly ordinary and totally underwhelming as a result, unaided by a new Beverly Hills setting which failed to enamour fans.
Across a dubiously super-sized final season consisting of 19 episodes, Nip/Tuck's elongated ending was a slog, epitomising the danger of shows that don't know when to call it quits.