Where did this show start to go wrong?

That is so funny, here I am watching season 3 with and Jason's first night as a werepanther under the full moon. During this scene I'm wondering, "Are other fans bored with this crap" and headed over to IMDB to find this thread.

Maybe it's just a problem of watching too many episodes back to back, but so much of the behavior is uncharacteristic and odder than what you might expect from backwoods Cajun types. At least Pam is consistent.

But it's the expected dramatic cliffhangers at the end of each episode that requires me to queue up the next episode ... usually to some disappointment and often some laughter at the poor scripting.

I kinda felt a decline in season 2... I hated the bacchanals and think that woman should have died far sooner than the finale. Then it ended on that awful cliffhanger. Season 3 was a mixed bag. I didn't like that Bill was all of a sudden playing into the King's plan and mistreating Sookie I didn't like how Sookie almost died. I really didn't understand why Tara ended up kidnapped though i did like watching her beat that English vampire with the mace. I finally stopped watching however after season 5. What I mean is, when season 6 began, I made it to episode 6 and then stopped watching. Then when season 7 started, I had to stop again about two or three episodes in because it was unwatchable. I liked Season 4 for a spell but Marnie was a terrible villain. For a show that only had ten episodes per season it was astounding how bad a lot of it was.

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Everything involving horrible, country Tara's mum, Arlene and co's parental problems, inconsistent flashbacks of Bill's war past. I gasped when we found out that OF COURSE he was a Southern rich man against the Confederacy. What a man ahead of his time, he probably had like ten black friends too.

Halfway through season 6.

"I'm a bad bitch, i'm a *beep* and i'll kick that hoe, punt, forced trauma, blunt"

I've been watcing this show over and over, some Eps sinks, but over all the show is one of the best HBO every made.



"Lets make some LSD" Dr Walter Bishop.

If you want me to be honest, I think the show start to fall apart in season three. There is a fine line between making a character entertainingly "bitchy" and making them aggravating. And the plot elements that were made up out of whole cloth by the show's producers did not help even slightly.

Seasons four and five were slightly better than three, but one and two remain the only ones that I would thoroughly recommend to anybody.

I think fundamentally the problem with three onwards was that the makers started to believe that the bits and pieces they invented were as good as or better than the plots cloned from Charlaine's novels. Sometimes they were nearly okay, sometimes they were indeed better (Jessica's entire arc and Lafayette not being just another dead cook being the only examples I can really think of). But more often than not, they were disimprovements. Some were just flat-out awful.

Given how much made-up stuff was on offer from season five onwards...

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I agree, I loved the show until the 6th season, but season 7 was *yawn* and season 8 was damn near unwatchable. I'm so glad I decided I didn't want to own this series. And, seriously, did the show's producer have something against female buttocks? It was like 45:1 in favor of men's @$$3$.

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it started to go wrong when they started portraying jason stackhouse... a moron with only two brain cells to rub together as some irresistible hunk that no woman could resist... he was a dimwit...he weighed 160 soaking wet... and he couldn't spell apple if you spotted him the "A"... this show was an insult to women... in more ways than one...