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- ▪ (of a television series or movie) reach a point at which far-fetched events are included merely for the sake of novelty, indicative of a decline in quality
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English idiom
The idiom "jumping the shark" or "jump the shark" is a term that is used to argue that a creative work or entity has reached a point in which it has exhausted its core intent and is introducing new ideas that are discordant with, or an extreme exaggeration of, its original purpose. Wikipedia