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Top 5 TV Disappointments Of 2007
By Kelly West: 2008-01-01 19:28:19
When you have a show that you love, it’s kind of hard not to have high expectations for it. Unfortunately, this can often lead to being insanely disappointed when the series has a bad season. If it’s failing to live up to what it once was, it can be almost painful to tune in week after week. Unfortunately, this happens a lot with TV shows. When it does, all we can do is hope that the series will eventually bring itself back to its original greatness.
Looking back on the past years worth of television, I found it strangely easy to list off a number of shows that disappointed me this year. This is not to say that I’ve fallen out of love with any of these shows. Just that I think they all slipped into a bit of a rut this year and just because I still love them, doesn’t mean I’m above pointing out their flaws. Here they are in no particular order: Veronica Mars 
Our favorite teen detective heads off to college and the show is never the same again. I loved the first two seasons and while the first arc of the third season, in which Veronica starts college and manages to figure out who was behind a number of campus rape incidents was decent; when the show returned for midseason, it was just a big mess. The whole “Who killed the dean?” arc was boring and ended on an extremely lame note. I don’t know if this was due to the writers’ inability to come up with something better or if The CW was interfering too much but it just didn’t work. Add that to the fact that the series got axed and my level of disappointment with regards to Mars pretty much went through the roof this year. To say that its unfortunate that this fantastic series had to end the way it did would be a major understatement.
Heroes 
Like many others, I got really into Heroes when it first premiered in fall of 2006. The season built up a lot of momentum as we got to know the different heroes and see how their lives began to intertwine. I was less than impressed with the first season finale, but perhaps that was due to the whole “Save the Cheerleader” hype building up our expectations for the finale to a level that it couldn’t possibly meet. Then the second season picked up and everything was all over the map. It would’ve been better if we didn’t have to wait weeks into the second season to find out what happened immediately after the Kirby Plaza showdown. Things seemed to pick up in the last few episodes of the second season though so I’m thinking there’s a good chance that Heroes will be back on it’s game when it returns next year.
Grey’s Anatomy 
Grey’s actually started out decent in 2007. George deals with some family drama as his dad undergoes surgery, Meredith and Derek are actually semi-happy, Cristina and Burke are on the rocks but the drama there is good and Izzie decides what to do with the inheritance check she got from Denny. Then the dreaded ferry accident happened and everything went to hell. Meredith nearly died, lingered in some limbo area talking to dead people for an episode then came back. Izzie and George had that ridiculous affair that dragged on through the fourth season. We got a whole lot more of the Der-Mer flip-flopping and some wedding drama. The only thing that even came close to redeeming the third season was Sandra Oh’s phenomenal performance at the end of the finale. Season four picked it up a bit but overall, I’m still not convinced that Grey’s is back to what it was in the first two seasons.
24 
After rewatching the sixth season on DVD, I think people are being a little too hard on the season. Was it the best season of 24 ever? Not by a long shot but when you watch the episodes back to back, it’s really not that bad of a season. The problem is, for an amazing show like 24, “not that bad” just doesn’t cut the mustard. Maybe it was all of the Bauer family drama or the lack of Tony, Michelle and Edgar. Something just didn’t work. Unfortunately, due to the strike we’ll have to wait more than a year to see if the series improves in its seventh season.
The Office 
Please don’t hate me for putting The Office on this list. By normal comedic standards, it’s still one of the funniest, best written shows on television. But I can’t say that I thought this year was the best for the series. Sure, there were some great episodes like “Traveling Salesman” and “Business School” earlier in the year but I think many of us hoped that season 3 would’ve topped the second season. Instead, not only did it not top it, it didn’t really live up to it. Add that to the drawn-out hour-long episodes that started up the fourth season and things just didn’t click as well for the series this year. I’m kind of hoping that the writers strike will give the series’ writers the opportunity to really think about where they’re taking the series and what they want to do with the characters. It’s not enough just to be funny or put our favorite quirky characters in silly situations. The folks at Dunder-Mifflin need to continue to be developed otherwise it’s just going to be a lot of the same jokes rewritten in different contexts over and over again.
Do you completely disagree with me as far as any of the above shows are concerned? Were there any shows that left you cold this year? Post a comment below! RELATED: 24, greys anatomy, heroes, veronica mars, the office
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January 3rd, 2008 at 14:09
too bad for veronica mars. it was a good show.