Name a TV show and when it "Jumped the Shark"...

[politicat]

42. Earlier for Angel.

That fourth season of Connor and Cordelia and assorted WTFery was the beast below for me. I actually rather enjoyed S5 after that. The writing got sharp again, the stakes got higher.

And maybe it makes me weird, but I found BTVS S6 to be the strongest, if darkest, season. I didn't much like S4 -- between Anya and uneven writing and the Cyborg... (I eventually came to like Anya, but she was... Difficult.)

S6 didn't seem so much about teen angst but existential despair, and it may be one of the better depictions of the many facets of clinical depression.

I keep my television limited, so there's a lot I skip, and there haven't been as many long-running series that kept my attention in the past few years. (My list gets regularly pruned because programs make it 2-3 seasons, if that.)

Lost lost me at S4, I think, with the coffin scene, because it seemed so random.

And if S. Moffatt doesn't take a course in writing women Right Here Soon Now, there may be a Who shark for me personally.