pentyne posted:

21 Jump Street.

Johnny Depp, a relatively unknown actor at the time signed a 4 year contract and decide there was no way in hell he would re-sign. So after he left season 5 was just a hilarious mess of trying to make the "cops pretend to be high schoolers" thing work after 5 years. The show was never anything special other then a niche cop show but its like everything that kept the show going vanished once Depp was gone. Plus 2 other main cast members had already left by that point and it seems like their replacements were hired because they were related to one of the actors or just cheaper to pay.

The show got pretty stale by season 3, but Depp's popularity seems to have kept it afloat anyways.