10 TV Shows That Flopped Their Final Season
9. Prison Break
Prison Break's first two seasons were ludicrously entertaining nonsense, after which the law of diminishing returns swiftly kicked in and the show ran itself into the ground for its remainder.
After initially wrapping up with its fourth season and a TV movie finale in 2009, however, the series was revived for a belated fifth season in 2017.
And if the whiff of desperation wasn't already potent enough, this blatant cash-grab undid protagonist Michael Scofield's (Wentworth Miller) actually meaningful death from the show's original ending, while dusting off as many legacy cast members as possible for another wildly belated prison romp.
Except, TV had changed and moved on a lot since 2009, and Prison Break's same-old convoluted "thrills" didn't lack the same giddy punch, not even in a so-bad-it's-good way.
Few were asking for more Prison Break given the relatively concrete ending the original finale gave fans, and the wonky writing only made it feel even more like perfunctory fan fiction the cast were paid a huge sum to appear in.