10 TV Shows That Shot Themselves In The Foot
6. Not Moving On From The Original Cast - Glee
For its first three glorious years, Glee centred on Mr. Will Schuester and his McKinley High Glee club New Directions as they attempted to fight the bias against The Arts by winning their Sectionals, Regionals and Nationals championships. With one of the most talented casts on television, it also documented the teenage journeys of Rachel, Kurt, Finn, Mercedes and the rest of the Glee club as they became voices for change by literally using their voices.
However, when the time came for those characters to graduate, fans wondered what would happen to the show (which had already been renewed for a fourth season). And even though we were promised something very revolutionary, what we got was anything but.
Too afraid to let go and yet too scared to alienate fans, the show adopted a split narrative format, devoting half of its time to the beloved graduates as they chased their dreams in New York City and the other half to the next generation of New Directions back at McKinley. And it didn't take long to see that it wasn't working.
The maturity of the New York storyline didn't balance well with the immaturity of the McKinley ones and the new characters were little more than cardboard copies of the originals forced to repeat earlier storylines without any of the stakes. And by the time those characters were eventually dropped in the fifth season, the majority of the viewers had tuned out (as the 6-8 million viewers sharply dropped to 2 million), marking the beginning of the end for this once-revolutionary show.