Quote Originally Posted by Max_Killjoy View Post
Writing about something in another thread, and realized that it made for a good example here too.

There's a TV series I used to love, a crime drama/comedy... but it got to the point where I could predict the outcome of each episode based not on the evidence at hand or the behavior of the characters, but on "story writing elements", on the tropes the writers liked to hit, on the patterns established, etc.

To understand what was happening and would happen next, the things going on within the "world" of the show mattered less than the things going on at "story level"... and it kinda ruined the series for me.
I am just guessing, but... Law & Order?

I know that it got to the point where I could tell based on ethnicity and social class of a character whether they were the red herring or real villain of the episode.