US: When do you dump a show?

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With more and more quality shows coming out, I have had a bit of a cull on my watched shows, getting rid of most notably The Walking Dead last week as I generally just seem to be putting these on and then paying more attention to my phone.

I have been like this with The Walking Dead for a while. But when do you decide to stop watching a show?
 
I try to drop shows in the first 1 or 2 episodes and then stick them out to the end. Shows that i'm starting to lose interest in I tend to watch while doing something else.
 
Will usually watch the first season and then decide.

If there is nothing on and I don't want to watch anything I have recorded, then that's a sign too.
 
I've just dropped vinyl. Just got nothing to it apart from the music IMO. I tend to drop a show when I start to hesitate in putting an episode on. That's normally the sign that it's not doing anything for me. Shows like GOT and BCS, I can't wait to watch a new episode each week, but Vinyl was just getting monotonous. I lasted one episode of Constantine before giving up. Another one was the recent sky one show about the apocalypse. Lasted 4 episodes then gave up.
 
When they start rehasing the same story lines every season.

Suits was at the point of nearly being dropped and probably will be if s6 doesn't change the format.
 
When it gets to the point where you want to chill out and watch something good, but the latest episode of a show you are watching seems like it would be a waste of your precious time and you'd only be watching it as you are part way through the season. I'm finding I am doing this more and more these days. Most recently I have got bored of the walking dead, the blacklist, the strain, homeland and the 100 is hanging on by a thread at the moment.

It's not even like it's because there is so much good stuff out there I need to make room as I'm actually running out of things to watch now. Looking forward to GOT and Fear the walking dead, hopefully they don't go downhill.
 
My TV viewing tends to go in fits and starts depending on my shifts, and I often end up a week or two behind on some shows, my tipping point is when that happens and catching up feels like a chore rather than something I want to do.
 
When we just cant be bothered watching it or its just not very good anymore(or was borderline to begin with).

Suits, binned a few episodes into season 3, just got terrible with every character annoying.
Blacklist, binned after S1, thought it might pickup but its dross.
Fringe, binned after S3(or 4), just got silly and poor.
Person of Interest, wasn't especially good anyway, binned after S1.
 
When it's more of a chore to watch than enjoyment.

Prison Break started losing it around season 3, I dropped it before 4. Likewise with Dexter.
I found the acting in Walking Dead kinda cringy, dropped it a few eps into season 2.

The only exception is with Lost. I wasn't even that into it and found it pretty stupid and boring with no direction around season 4-5, but I figured I had gone that far, so I stuck it out and finished it. Didn't really feel anything when people die later in the series, I was just going through the motions.
 
If I find that I keep putting off watching a show to watch other stuff first, I'll take that as a hint that I'm not really interested any more and just get rid of it. Bonus is I free up some space on my Sky box in the process.

In the case of Quantico, after the first episode. What a load of crap that was.
 
I stopped watching TWD about two episodes into the current Season. I just got bored with it. Frustrated with the story and decisions made by the characters. I think that's the first time I have ever stopped watching a series I have put so much time into.
 
Given that I am still watching Grimm, I guess it takes a lot to make me drop a show.
That said, I have never run out of space on my Tivo, so have not needed to drop anything. Usually, shows that are barely hanging onto my watch list end up hibernating on my tv till summer where all my tv shows have ended, at that point I finally catch up on them - if ever I ran out of space, these shows would be the ones to go.

That said, a show tends to have about 3 episodes to convince me to stick with it or not once I have decided, I stubbornly stay till the end (hence still watching Grimm)
 
Depends how good it's been before. I gave Arrow and flash 5 or so episodes before I ditched them. I don't feel the need to keep going in the thread to tell people like others do in TWD thread though. I find the same faces turning up to tell you how poor it all is more tedious than the show. I quit the thread before the show :D

Rome I tried 3 episodes and quit, I hadn't invested much time in it. I almost quit Daredevil after 3 episodes and glad I didnt. If your not enjoying something after 4 or so hours then I say that's enough.
 
Normally when I have it recorded but can't be bothered to watch it. Some shows I still really look forward to each week, such as GoT and the Flash, but others become a chore to watch.
 
I will generally give everything half a season as new shows can take a few episodes to find their feet. Though in some cases shows have been bad enough for my to drop them within the first few episodes.

For longer running shows then I find I drop them naturally as I keep picking things to watch instead and then realise I have numerous episodes behind. On very rare occasions I will catch up but in most cases they just get left and I never go back to them.
 
If I don't HATE the first episode, I give them a full season to win me over, as sometimes, as with Agents of SHIELD, the starts can be terrible, but really pick up once the show gets in to it's stride.
 
I've only binned off 1 show this year - limitless. Dross

Apart from that I will give it 3 episodes and will normally enjoy it. I am pretty selective about what I watch.
 
TWD got dropped when - in line with what others have said - I realised I was playing solitaire on my phone and the programme was just background. Even worse when I started watching it at x2 speed (complete with comedy Alvin & The Chipmunks voices) just to get past the dullness.
I'm not missing it at all. I must admit that kind of surprised me as I do love a good zombie film/book.
 
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