I finally snapped during episode 7 of that hyped show everyone loves

So I was three days into binging this super popular crime drama everyone kept ranting about online. I was on my couch in my tiny apartment in Portland around 2 AM with my third cup of coffee. Episode 7 had this huge twist where the main character suddenly forgets a key piece of evidence they literally held in their hand in episode 2. I screamed at my TV so loud my neighbor banged on the wall. I paused it, went online to see if anyone else caught this plot hole, and found a whole thread roasting it. Turns out the showrunners admitted to a rewrite that messed up continuity. I immediately stopped watching and switched to a random documentary about deep sea fish instead. Has anyone else rage-quit a show over a stupid writing mistake like that?

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julia_anderson22d ago

Grabbed my laptop and pulled up the deep sea fish doc myself after season 2 of that other big show where the whole plot relied on a character not recognizing their own sibling from a photo. The writers literally forgot they showed the sibling's face clear as day in an earlier flashback. There's something about watching a slow fish float through the dark that feels way more honest than paying writers who don't rewatch their own episodes.

the_miles22d ago

Honestly I'm still waiting for a deep sea fish to recognize me after all these years.

blair_martin22d ago

Totally get it, @julia_anderson. This is just part of a bigger pattern where EVERYTHING feels rushed and half-baked now, not just TV shows but how people talk to each other or even how they build things. Nobody bothers to double-check their own work before moving on to the next shiny thing.