At what point do you stop watching?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Drew Carey Show
monkeyalien — 10 years ago(December 15, 2015 10:32 AM)
I'm binge-watching the entire series and I'm up to the beginning of the 9th season. I knew going into this that the 8th and 9th were gawd-awful. I'm saving the series in case I want to watch it again but deleting episodes that I don't care to watch, which is a few every season and pretty much all of 8 and 9. I don't want to just drop off at season 7 with no closure so I'm thinking about leaving the episode that introduces Kelly and the highlights of her being pregnant and having drew's kid.
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NikolajCostas1005 — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 12:33 AM)
It began a downward spiral somewhere in Season 5 and started becoming pretty bad halfway through Season 6 when Drew became Mimi's baby. However, I still kinda try to wade through it because even the bad seasons still had funny episodes sprinkled throughout.
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amyghost — 7 years ago(March 13, 2019 01:00 PM)
It never fully jumped the shark for me, though I thought it lost something when Christa Miller and Craig Ferguson left. Something sort of dark did creep into the show, it seemed; viewing it now, years later, I think the later, 'reactionary' Drew might have been a little bit of Carey's somewhat bitter, satirical take on the more hard rightwing turn the country was starting to take under Bush, and maybe also a reflection of how the character himself was becoming a little bit bitter and angry over the direction in which his life looked to be going after 40.
Given that, it makes the final episode (Drew's marriage and the birth of his and Kellie's baby), which I didn't much like originally, make a little more sense in context–the party's over, we're grownups now with responsibilities to others besides ourselves, and now it's time to move on.