8 TV Shows That Were Terrible (But We Couldn’t Stop Watching)

2. True Blood

For its first 2-3 seasons (your mileage may vary), True Blood struck just about the right sort of pulpy, gory Southern Gothic with vampires tone that it needed to. It was bats**t, but the right kind.

And then it became the bad kind of crazy around when it introduced fairies into the mix, went completely off the rails with the Billith angle, and never really stopped going downwards all the way to the finish. The show in its first couple of years, despite its silliness, offered up plenty of strong character moments and exciting story arcs to go alongside its heavy usage of sex and violence.

It became almost unbearably ridiculous in its later years though, and while people point to Alan Ball's departure after Season 5 as the start of the decline, it was happening before then. It went from being campy and fun to absurd beyond, well, not belief (because this is vampires and werewolves etc), but beyond tolerance. The storylines and characters were twisted more than Lorena's neck in THAT sex scene, and as it wore on all life drained from the show. Despite that, the viewership remained steady right through to the bulls**t ending.