Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5441128-20160228204433/@comment-26247132-20160228214950

For me, it depends on the show and the season. If it's a first season, I'm usually a lot more lenient (I gave The 100 five episodes to suck me in). If it's a third season, I'm a lot less patient and will usually only give it a couple of episodes to redeem itself.

It also depends on how good the show was before. If I'm watching a 3-star show in its fourth season and they have a few 2-star episodes, I'm not going to stop watching (because I usually only half-watch 3-star shows anyway). If I'm watching a 5-star show in its fourth season and they have a few 2-star episodes, I'll stop watching and, depending on the reason, wait until the season is over before catching up again. (This season, I did it with Sleepy Hollow and the first half of TWD when they pulled the Glenn fan-bait. I'm not a horse to be led by a carrot into watching the next episode.)

If I feel like a show has completely jumped the shark or has lost all direction or has one huge glaring problem, then I don't care how good or bad it might have been; I stop watching entirely (Grimm, L&O:SVU, Suits, Penny Dreadful, Man in the High Castle, The 100 if it wasn't for this wikia). If they fix the problem, then I might return to watching it but it's usually pretty doubtful (i.e. if next season Penny Dreadful raises from the dead their token black character killed off for a white guy's story arc, then I might watch it again).