My watch has ended

2 Broke Girls

It’s impossible at this time and age to keep track of every show on air, which is why recommendations on what to stop watching, are just as important as what to watch. Here’s my guide on shows to kick out of your watch-list, for there’s nothing worse than precious time (and space on our hard disks) wasted on terrible television.

Empire: I have professed to loving this show many times to many people, and the truth is I did enjoy the first season’s humour, music and the exquisite tension between the leads, Lucious (Terrence Howard), and Cookie Lyon (Taraji P. Henson). There were lots of surprising turns, the writing was crisp, and Cookie’s barbs, in particular, were magic. Unfortunately, the second season went flying off the rails for me, with story developments that made no sense and twists that were so over-the-top that the show became a parody of its previous season. If you haven’t watched it at all, I highly recommend the first season. The second season, unfortunately, is awful enough to warrant giving up on the show altogether, and is proof that in television, even the toughest Cookie is capable of crumbling.

Quantico: This is another show I openly admitted to liking for its fast pace, and home girl Priyanka Chopra’s surprisingly effective performance. The thriller series worked well when the audience were forced to re-evaluate their predictions as to who bombed the Grand Central Station in the first half of the season, but instead of tying the mystery together and providing some semblance of clarity, the show just became a pointless wild goose chase. While I do hope that Priyanka does more mainstream American television in the future, I’ll be giving

Quantico a miss from now.

The Flash: The show started getting tiresome for me the moment the writers stopped focusing on The Flash’s powers, the humour and the wit that it is known for, and instead started putting out emotional plot arcs. Between Barry (Grant Gustin) refusing to commit to love because he’s a superhero, Joe West (Jesse Martin) going out of his way to be every character’s dad, and Iris West’s (Candice Patton) incapability to express feelings (not to mention the complete lack of chemistry between her and Barry), there were hardly any ‘that is so cool!’ moments during the second season, which are so important for superhero shows. I might cling on for a third season, but for a show that had a talking gorilla as a villain once, the entertainment quotient has taken a steep dive.

The Big Bang Theory: The show used to be an intelligent comedy about a bunch of physicists, but now, it’s just about a bunch of guys and their relationship problems. Even the show’s greatest character, the incorrigible Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), has relationship problems. The Raj Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar) stereotypes have gone from bad to worse. The series has mutated from an interesting show about people passionate about science, a group that is underrepresented in mainstream television, into a boring version of Friends.

2 Broke Girls: I’ve no idea how this show is even running. The acting is vapid, there’s zero humour despite the presence of the usually stellar Jennifer Coolidge, and there really is no reason to watch this unless you’re waiting for

MasterChef to come on next.