Alan Jackson’s quiet resistance to bro-country proved that tradition, restraint, and honesty could still define greatness in modern country music.

When Roger McGuinn fired David Crosby from The Byrds in 1967, it ended a friendship, reshaped the band, and ignited a lasting counterculture rivalry.

For years, Rusty Hamer felt safely permanent on American television. On Make Room for Daddy, he became the version of childhood viewers trusted and assumed would always be there. What audiences saw was a happy, funny son. What they never saw was how completely things collapsed once the cameras stopped.

From the outside, being a writer looks suspiciously glamorous. Quiet cafés, late-night breakthroughs, and the intoxicating idea that your thoughts might someday matter to strangers. These movies are here to gently—and sometimes brutally—correct that fantasy. They show writers who spiral, stall, self-sabotage, sell out, burn out, or discover that the act of writing is far messier than the dream that led them to the keyboard in the first place.

From Steve Carell to Regé-Jean Page, these actors shocked fans by leaving hit TV shows at their peak—changing the series forever.

“From rushed finales to messy reboots, these TV shows were so bad even their creators admitted they failed. A hilarious deep dive into TV’s biggest regrets.