37 Amazing TV Shows That Were Massacred By Bad Writing As Seasons Went On

—u/UgliestDisability

“It was not unwatchable for me, but you can definitely tell the writers lost their direction after Steve Carell left. Characters started acting, well, out of character. The new characters were pretty weird. Storylines were getting stretched thin. I am glad they didn’t cancel the show straight-up after Steve left. I would have been mad if I hadn’t seen how some characters’ lives progressed. But watching the last few seasons, you can definitely tell they knew the show could not go on without Steve. They were just using the time to figure out how to wrap it all up nicely, and maybe throw in a few cameos along the way.”

—u/The_Sound_of_Slants

“In my opinion, The Office never really got ‘bad’; it just became more of the same for the last couple of seasons. Erin was a good character to add, but once you got to Nellie, it felt like they were on the verge of jumping the shark. Their low point is the first half of Season 9, where Jim and Pam have marital problems. It felt completely forced. But yeah, they stick the landing perfectly in the last episode or two.”

—u/das_goose

“The finale is fine, but the show really should’ve ended when Michael Scott left. The last two seasons kept rotating through unlikable managers, and there was a massive void nobody could fill after Michael left.”

—u/BrokenNovocaine