A TV show that changes genres in the middle of its run, completely derailing it

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ay1717@reddit

You would absolutely love Search Party

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Leading_Offer5995@reddit

That’s my binge right now. I’m on season 3 and loving it!

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mjv1111@reddit

Came here to say this. Just finished a few weeks ago. I’m still processing my time investment.

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Eypc2@reddit

The genre shifts are wild and jarring, but I thoroughly enjoyed it the whole way through.

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danielstover@reddit

First season was awesome. A time capsule of millennial culture.

I GET that they were going for genre changes, but for me, the subsequent seasons all felt soooooo weird and hamfisted to the point that I didn’t believe they knew what they were doing

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The close thing I've ever seen like this is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Every season follows a different main character and different cast of characters in general. They also go through wild shifts from season to season especially on the later ones. Classic vampire hunting adventure, going across the world to hunt a guy, basically a slice of life/murder mystery, Mafia season, a prison break, and the newest one is a horse race across America

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Negative_Bar_9734@reddit

Twin Peaks

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chainsawinsect@reddit

The Predator is the premier example of this

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Archon-Toten@reddit

I've seen shows take wild strange directions (the 100), shows arbitrarily change the entire settings between seasons (archer).

But even they stay in the genre.

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CosmackMagus@reddit

I loved this about the 100. If I didn't like a direction the show was taking, I just had to wait a few episodes and it would wildly swing again.

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JustPlayDaGame@reddit

the 100 pissed me off because it was so good until it just wasn’t.

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BlkRosePhoenix@reddit

I liked where the 100 ended up going, not as good as it's start but I still enjoyed the craziness of it. But the problem was that the show caught up to the books and they went off on their own direction. So you may enjoy the books more.

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Justboy__@reddit

Well there was only two storylines which they alternated every other season.

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JewlioMcCunto@reddit

Riverdale. Just give it a watch, you’ll understand after S2

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the cabin in the woods

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bluejade444@reddit

On a second rewatch currently and this sums it up perfectly

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tyrion9@reddit

you should watch From Dusk Til Dawn

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DeezRodenutz@reddit

Predator as well

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Unclestanky@reddit

Yes, that one fooled me!

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dion_o@reddit

Lost

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dumbass_sempervirens@reddit

Baywatch Nights

From a private investigator show to an X-Files knockoff.

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TheTangoFox@reddit

Black Mirror is all over the place

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Snarti@reddit

Yes, but it’s an anthology about completely different universes.

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HexcellsSixHells@reddit

Behind Her Eyes

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IamDoogieHauser@reddit

Moral Orel started as a comedy it's first 2 seasons. Last season was just gut punch drama and depression.

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Thizzenie@reddit

Sugar on Apple TV is a miniseries that does the craziest genre shift I have ever seen.

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pWaveShadowZone@reddit

More than a miniseries! Season 2 is in production now I believe

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nicholas818@reddit

“Kevin Can F**k Himself” kind of does this. It’s a sitcom and a drama depending on which character’s perspective you’re viewing through.

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pWaveShadowZone@reddit

Yeah! So inventive

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NoThrowawayNeeded@reddit

I’m surprised no one has said Riverdale. It starts off as a teen drama and decidedly ends up nowhere close to there

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Xandxel@reddit

The Westworld TV show. I really liked the western cowboy theme from the first season but it started to drift and then was Japan for a bit, and then they were in the modern world. Really lost interest after that so no idea how it ended.

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sellyoakblade@reddit

The first season of WestWorld is one of the finer seasons of TV to exist.

Everything after that first season is very much a case of increasingly deminishing returns - and the drop off from1>2 is HUGE

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Numerous-Match-1713@reddit

Not entirely true.

Best episode of entire series happens to be on season 2.

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13374L@reddit

The biggest error I thought was not exploring Westworld more before the rest of the plot kicked in. They could have written seasons of quality tv just in the concept of the robot amusement park. There’s so many ethical dilemmas, subplots and unique storylines. But instead they rushed it.

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BFFBomb@reddit

WandaVision. Though that is intentional.

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admiral_rabbit@reddit

American Horror Story is one of the best cohesive examples I think, in terms of the genre changing without the work being abstract or silly.

It pretty consistently starts as a horror, and ends as a soap opera.

You start off with people being hunted, threatened, killed by mysterious forces. And the show very neatly pivots to being about the antics of the mysterious forces as soon as we've seen too much of them to sustain the fear.

Season 1 starts off horror, ends as a desperate housewives esque neighbourly feud with naughty ghost boyfriends and girlfriends and demon babies.

Hotel starts off as horror, it ends with all the monsters teaming up to stop a property developer from wrecking their hotel.

Roanoke is one of the neatest. It starts as a very straight haunted House horror, before revealing the first half was a TV drama. The second half is a reality TV show bringing the actors back to stay a night in real (very haunted) house

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xtiaaneubaten@reddit

Youve never watched Maniac then?

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IndieCurtis@reddit

I love this show

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isaaclouria@reddit

Belgian series Callboys starts as a comedy ends as a drama. There’s a subtler genre switch in season 1 of Fleabag too: ep1 has no hints of big drama.

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BarooZaroo@reddit

The new TV series Search Party is kind of like that.

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Jeremy-Hillary-Boob@reddit

There’s one I’m trying to remember with a title like Kevin is bad, or Something about Kevin that juxtaposes sitcom and real life that does what you’re saying

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chosenamewhendrunk@reddit

"Kevin can F**k Himself"

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HamsterFromAbove_079@reddit

I've always wanted a classic cop show that mid-way through season 2 turns into a Walking Dead style apocalypse show without any forewarning.

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kilobitch@reddit

The Chair Company is completely unpredictable. Goes off in directions that make no sense and are totally wild.

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kayakhomeless@reddit

New blood. There’s 5 Rons now.

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zzzorba@reddit

He sees the world wildly and wild ways

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reddit_pug@reddit

I like the thought of a show that stands alone really well and is really interesting, but near the end of the show reveals that it's part of some larger established cinematic universe. Suddenly the implications of the show affect a bunch of other characters and stories. I can't see how it would ever manage not to have the connection spoiled though - executives would push too hard that viewership would be better if they could advertise the connection.

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Nova-Prospekt@reddit

Moral Orel kinda did this. Going from a comedy to more of a dark drama genre. It was cool though

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mopeywhiteguy@reddit

Community did this basically every week!

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CardiologistLost5373@reddit

Imo, the Mad Max movie series kinda does this. The first movie, Max works as a kinda cop enforcing laws in a noticably degrading (but fundamentally modern) city/area. The are undercurrents of things going wrong, but it feels more like a cop movie than a Sci Fi or dystopian movie. Second movie? Bam. 100% the Mad Max vibe we all know and love.

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craylash@reddit

Community kinda tried that

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Unindoctrinated@reddit

Like when Arrow became a soap?

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caleblbaker@reddit

After starting out as Hamlet with super heroes.

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YoelsShitStain@reddit

Not a tv show but the storyline for call of duty zombies went from sci fi to fantasy extremely abruptly.

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KnoWanUKnow2@reddit

The John Larroquette Show. Each season they went in a new direction.

First season was dark. John becomes the night manager of a seedy bus terminal. He struggles with alcoholism. He's attracted to a hooker. His co-workers barely tolerate him or actively sabotage him.

Second season, sitcom. Cast changes. The hooker quits and buys a bar. John's alcoholism virtually disappears.

Third season, whimsical and surreal. There's a surprise elephant in many episodes.

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its_all_4_lulz@reddit

Barry

I want to say that it never actually changes, what you thought you were watching changes.. and it’s amazing.

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