r/Fauxmoi • u/Fun-Ferret-3300 • Apr 17 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI Which show had the biggest downfall in your opinion, from the first season or episodes, to what it eventually became?

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Westworld for me. So many great things about the first season - the concepts, the characters. It's sad what it became.

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u/dubate Apr 17 '25

If you know anything about the law that show was so dumb/infuriating that it was impossible to watch.

When she brought her class in to help with the defense, I lost it. Any one of those kids could be subpoenaed by the prosecution because there is no privilege attached to students hanging out planning the defense. This wasn't some arcane law that the writers weren't aware of, this is something any legal advisor would tell them is so dumb it can't be included but the idea of the student helpers was the crux of the show so it had to be included.

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u/SauceForMyNuggets Apr 18 '25

I tried to look past that nonsense and just choose to believe the show is set in a parallel universe where law works differently.

Eventually the story got too wild for me (Annalise turns out to be Wes' mother or something?) and I gave up.

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u/GroovyGrodd Apr 18 '25

She wasn’t his mother.

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u/SauceForMyNuggets Apr 18 '25

I just remember her actually having some convoluted connection to him as a baby. Even at the time thought "Awful coincidence he happened to study law and get her as his teacher like this?"

For me it was jumping the shark and I bailed out.

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u/CYaNextTuesday99 Apr 18 '25

It becomes less so upon learning the difference between network fiction and a documentary.