Jumping the Shark: When plot twists go too far
Jumping the Shark: When plot twists go too far
When the screenwriter goes off on a tangent
Jumping the shark in 'Happy Days'
The death that was a dream - 'Dallas'
Scully's pregnancy - 'The X-Files'
The accident that wasn't so bad - 'Money Heist'
A polar bear in the middle of a tropical rainforest - 'Lost'
Meredith Grey's superlative survival in 'Grey's Anatomy'
Carrie Bradshaw's unheard-of salary - 'Sex and the City'
Clark Kent's infallible disguise - 'Superman'
Did he die or not? - 'Teen Wolf'
Aunt Vivian is different... - 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'
Tony Soprano's coma - 'The Sopranos'
They pull a sister out of a hat - 'Charmed'
He dies but not really... - 'Ghost Whisperer'
The Ghost Bus - 'Beverly Hills, 90210'
The extraterrestrial origin of Reginald Hargreeves - 'The Umbrella Academy'
Charlie Sheen was alive! - 'Two and a Half Men'
Surprising an increasingly immune audience is very difficult, and screenwriters sometimes go overboard trying to achieve it.