I recall watching Hello Tomorrow which was a quirky atompunk themed comedy from Apple. It wasn’t perfect, it wasn’t especially funny - but it had a charismatic affable liar as a lead that you found sympathetic despite his sleaze, and gave huge pre-war Fallout vibes. Apple silently cancelled it some time ago.
I would also argue Peacock’s attempt at Brave New World. Reimagined for the modern era (because really it had to be) and probably took more from Westworld than it did Brave New World, but it was doomed by being a Peacock original.
The Witcher.
Great source material, great actors and actresses, people who really cared about the show, all ruined by people ignoring anyone with any passion.
Also Halo. I couldn’t even finish the first season. We could have had a great drama or fantastic action adventure through space. Instead we got a snooze fest that didn’t understand the source material.
Henry Cavill complaining is the canary in the coal mine for when a show has jumped the shark
Halo has got to be a contender based on how little it actually accomplished across the two seasons before it was cancelled. All we got in the end was a very poorly written introduction to a story, though I’m still not actually sure what the story was going to be about because it basically stopped before it even started.
I couldn’t even get through the first episode of Halo. I understand that they didn’t care about the source material at all. To be honest, neither did i. I hardly ever played the game, i liked the book that i got from a friend. But even i realized that they didn’t even care enough to get the sound of the guns right. They made it so hard on themselves just to fail.