10 TV Shows That Went From Great To Terrible SO FAST

As the mega hit sitcom The Office was closing its doors, the show’s breakout writer Mindy Kaling was busy working on a series of her own.

A charming fusion of workplace sitcom and Nancy Meyers style slow burn rom com, The Mindy Project debuted to solid reviews and gradually grew more popular over its first three seasons. The series weathered a long term will-they-won't-they romance with skill, relying on a superb supporting cast when the central romance was sidelined...

Only to screw up its potential success with a disastrous string of fifth season episodes.

By turning the main character's love interest into an abusive misogynist late in the series, the show clumsily attempted to graft heavy handed social commentary into its story by rewriting the personalities of its pre-existing, and widely beloved, central characters.

Sure, the show later ret-conned Danny’s complete personality change and returned him to gruff but sensitive heroism by the series finale. But by then it was, as Jojo once said, too little too late.