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  • Arrow on Random Long-Running TV Series That People Need To Stop Watching

    (#8) Arrow

    • Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Colin Donnell, David Ramsey, Willa Holland, Susanna Thompson, Paul Blackthorne, Emily Bett Rickards, Colton Haynes, Manu Bennett, John Barrowman, Echo Kellum, Josh Segarra, Rick Gonzalez, Juliana Harkavy

    Arrow is far from the longest running show of all time, but it's still about three seasons past its prime. From the moment Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough) shows up at the beginning of Season 4, the show gets out of hand, and one could make the argument that it started to go downhill after Season 2. 

    After the second season, the Rotten Tomatoes audience score dropped out of the 90s to 73%, and Season four plummeted to 44%. While that was the definitive low-point for the show, it still hasn't climbed back above the 70s, whereas the first two seasons were in the high 80s and low 90s.

  • Family Guy on Random Long-Running TV Series That People Need To Stop Watching

    (#12) Family Guy

    • Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green

    Viewership of Family Guy has been on a steady decline since Season 6 (which originally aired in 2007). The sixth season garnered an average of 7.94 million viewers — the show's highest since Season 1 — but that number has continued to drop in the following 10 seasons, and Family Guy Season 16 only pulled an average of 3.93 million viewers

    People are not watching anymore, and it's hard to blame them. In Season 12, MacFarlane and co. made a half-hearted attempt to serialize the show with Brian's death, only to bring him back a few episodes later with a time travel retcon. South Park transitioned to serial episodes later in its run, and their dedication to the new format has paid off. In contrast to this, Family Guy shot itself in the foot; it could have reinvented itself like the kids from that tiny Colorado mountain town, but instead it opted to continue doing one-off, antic-filled episodes. When a show is on for decades, it's pretty much obligated to reinvent itself, or it will inevitably lose its audience.

  • Homeland on Random Long-Running TV Series That People Need To Stop Watching

    (#3) Homeland

    • Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin, Rupert Friend

    In 2018, Homeland began its seventh season, yet it's been dead in the water for some time. Ever since Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) survived longer than he should have (beyond the first season), the show has given viewers nothing but diminishing returns. 

     Robert Rorke of the New York Post ravaged the third season of the show, saying "Seldom in the history of cable TV has a series imploded as quickly as Showtime's Homeland... The show, in the middle of its third season, is now impossible to take seriously." Whether it was Season 1 or Season 3 where things went bad, the show is at least four seasons past its prime. 

  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia on Random Long-Running TV Series That People Need To Stop Watching

    (#14) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    • Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, Danny DeVito

    One can only sit back and watch lunacy for so long, and that's exactly what It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is. Perhaps you could call it anarchy, but most episodes come down to the same things, and the shtick is a bit dried up. We get it, they're a bunch of sociopaths.

    This show was hilarious in its early days, but as is the case with all gimmicks, it has inevitably gotten stale. Halfway through the series, creators got so desperate that they had to make one character suddenly fat. The show only lives on because it switched networks in 2012 from FX to FXX, but unless an FXXX comes along soon, the gang may be out of places to run.

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on Random Long-Running TV Series That People Need To Stop Watching

    (#9) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    • Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T

    Really, how long can viewers watch Mariska Hargitay frown? Law and Order: SVU has been on since the previous century, and it actually began as a spin-off. Also, Ice-T, the guy famous for the song "Cop Killer," has played a cop for 20 years. While the show's ratings have shown a slight dip, it hasn't plummeted enough to put the series to bed, so there's really no end in sight. When its inevitable 21st Season comes to fruition, it will have outlived its ancestor, Law & Order, and that's kind of insane.

  • The Middle on Random Long-Running TV Series That People Need To Stop Watching

    (#5) The Middle

    • Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott

    At the end of Season 1, The Middle had run its course. Despite this, the series continued, and enjoys heavy syndication. Its viewership is declining, with Season eight marking its lowest average audience numbers yet, but still it persists. Patricia Heaton plays the overworked mother Frankie, who's basically just a nicer version of Debra from Everybody Loves Raymond. The real kicker, though, is her husband Mike (Neil Flynn). The actor was absolutely adored by Scrubs fans for his hilarious performance as the Janitor, yet in the next sitcom he chose to work on, he is supremely boring. While coastal fans gave up years ago, Middle America still loves the show, so it may limp along forever.

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There are always longer TV series, the audiences run in watching the long-running dramas all their lives. It is hard to imagine The Guiding Light lasted 72 years after its first release in 1937, and the Guinness Book of Records called it the longest TV series in the world. In fact, there are still many TV series that have been continuously updated in recent years. People can't predict when these TV series will be the finale, maybe next year, maybe 10 years later.

Usually, these long-running TV series are great for the family, because their plots are mostly about family, friendship, and daily life. But we must be aware that when the total number of episodes of a TV dramas reaches 3 digits, it is impossible for every episode to be great. Here the random tool shows 15 long-running TV series that people should stop watching.

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