11 Beloved TV Shows With More Bad Seasons Than Good
9. True Blood
Debuting back in 2008, Alan Ball's smart and sexy True Blood marked itself out as a genre show that had more of a bite than other supernatural-themed series at the time. The first run of episodes weren't quite there, but they established a solid foundation that the second season was able to turn into something truly special.
Despite being an instant hit - and riding the wave of interest in dark supernatural love stories in the late 2000s - the show's quality quickly declined, before jumping off a cliff entirely in the final couple of years. The warning signs were always there looking back on it though, with daft and exploitative subplots like the introduction of rapist werepanthers (yes, that's a thing in this show) in season 4 indicating just how much True Blood could veer off base at times.
Sadly, the more the series started to plod along, the more the logic behind these side-stories started bleeding into the central mythology, completely derailing an otherwise over-the-top but seriously entertaining genre show and resulting in a final season where virtually every character was mangled beyond recognition.