Gallery: From Breaking Bad to Lost: The Quality of 13 Famous TV Shows, Charted Over Time

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    BREAKINGBAD

    *Breaking Bad* has the quintessential fan favorite graph, with a strong upward correlation each season. (Translation: it never left fans disappointed in the off-season).
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    DEXTER

    *Dexter* rewarded long-time fans with a thoroughly disappointing finale.
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    MADMEN

    *Mad Men* maybe lost a bit of glamour in its later seasons, but it's still a crowd pleaser every season.
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    LOST

    I'm not gonna go back and check but I'll bet one of those two really low-scoring dots was that episode where Nikki and Paolo got buried alive. Sheesh that was goofy.
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    GAMEOFTHRONES

    The best-rated ep of *Game of Thrones* thus far? The one with the Red Wedding.
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    WESTWING

    *West Wing* suffered when Sorkin (and Rob Lowe!) left.
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    THEWIRE

    Everyone loves *The Wire*.
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    SOPRANOS

    Oh yeah that's right, season four did kind of suck.
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    SIMPSONS

    The Simpsons is not as great as it once was, but it's still pretty consistently good.
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    TWINPEAKS

    *Twin Peaks* falls off about halfway through season two, once goofy subplots like Super Nadine take over.
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    FRIENDS

    Friends was a show a bunch of people watched, right?
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    24

    *24* fell off after its first few seasons, but came back with a strong finale.
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