without most of the main characters., which killed off its main characters in the same fashion you swat away flies. They all left nothing but a trail of never-quite-the-same, downward-spiralling and fizzled-out shows in their wake.
I welcome a flurry of emails detailing other instances where it has worked. Right answers only. I won’t accept the deaths of Ned Stark in series one of. Both were successful cullings of main characters – but the difference is that they were scripted in from the start and happened early on for dramatic effect. Any later, I feel as though you can see right through the television and into the room full of writers scratching their heads about how they can freshen up their show.