10 TV Shows That Shot Themselves In The Foot

You'd think a show called Prison Break would have figured out that all it had to do was exactly what it said on the tin, but in a baffling turn of events, it quickly outlived its concept and descended into an outlandish shell of the self-contained story it was meant to tell. The show's first season is considered one of the all-time great seasons of television ever made - and rightly so, as Michael Schofield's intricate plot to rescue his innocent brother Lincoln Burrows from prison kept us glued to our screens for the whole year.

It's true that the show accomplished everything it set out to do in that first year, but the fact of the matter is that it wasn't built to last, and it's unfortunate that Fox never realized that because the second season began documenting their lives on the run, with each episode making its title less and less relevant. And as the show went on, one or both brothers hopped in and out of different prisons in a desperate attempt to make that title mean something once more - but it simply wasn't meat to be.

While that first season will always be considered among the greatest TV seasons, Prison Break as a whole would have maintained its reputation as one of the greatest TV shows in history had it not continued past it. Unfortunately, like we've seen many times before, its popularity was ultimately its downfall.