I’d say Westworld and Stranger Things comes to mind because I remember reading in season three the original plan was for that man and woman at the ice cream place to get together but they decided to make her gay for no reason. In a show that’s an homage to the 80s a reformed jock with a nerdy girl is a perfect couple.
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I always debate for spy shows like burn notice, whether they get bad as time goes on, or whether they become unwatchable because they run out of "feel good tricks" and become a more realistic kind of swampy mess that kind of stuff actually turns into.
I love burn notice as a series but it definitely trailed off in the last few seasons.
The problem is, the US TV model has pushed just about every single one of its shows to come up with 22 episodes a year, which is just way too many as the rest of the world has already known for a long time.
The head writer can script out what, 6 - 8 episodes a year max? That leaves you with 15 you have to delegate to your B-Team. If you're lucky, you'll get a pro who's a fan of the show to make an episode or two (like Quentin Tarantino's CSI episode) but most of the time, your team will be dealing with C and D-grade film school grads who don't know the slightest thing about your characters whose sole purpose is to churn out glorified, inconsequential filler.
This is part of why Sopranos would have BOMBED had it aired on a traditional TV network rather than HBO. 86 episodes over 9 calendar years and 6 seasons, skipping 2003 and 2005 entirely. A regular TV network would have pushed for 200 episodes in that same amount of time.
Even the best shows on US network TV burn out around the S5 - S7 mark because they're already well over 150 episodes and have fleshed out as much as they can without retconning stuff.