Stranger Things. Gave up after the first season. It just felt like the show was trying too hard to feel like something nostalgic from the 80s without any of the substance or writing the things from the 80s it was trying to mimic had.
Anything with more than 3 seasons usually fails to maintain my attention. Eventually it’s just more of the same.
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I was in on Mr. Robot until it Fight Clubbed. Tried it a little bit after that, but completely lost interest.
Also not at all a fan of Walking Dead or most shows that are just depressing. Ive also always had this weird logical problem with Zombie apocalypses that never end. Like, I get it’s a monster movie/show, but eventually I’m like “alright, how are there still so many walkers when there’s been no food for years”.
I lost interest in Battlestar Galactica for a similar reason (depressing). Also how the fuck could they not somehow detect who was a Cylon. They apparently have shit built in that let them transmit their conclsciousness across the galaxy when they die, etc etc. Also all the other shit that never got exolained.
Game of Thrones lost me at Reek.
Haven’t gotten into Westworld.
My friends were all 100% convinced I’d be into Stranger Things but it just hasn’t clicked with me. I’m going to give it another try.
Also zero, zero “reality” shit.
Never got the appeal of these ones. They aren’t bad shows, but they did not do it for me.
Game of Thrones
Lost
Better Call Saul
Peaky Blinders
Breaking Bad
Shit. That’s exactly my list.
- I didn’t even watch GoT long enough to see Emilia Clark in the buff. But, then, I’d read the first two books and absolutely loathed them, and didn’t find the TV series improved the story much.
- I liked the first season of Lost, but the second felt like the writers were like, “oh shit… we got a second season? Shitshitshit…” Like they were just making it up as they went, and the writing and plot was just… bad.
- I didn’t watch BCS because I didn’t like
- Breaking Bad. I mean, I like scenes from BB, but the show itself suffered (for me) from this tendency in the past decade to base entire shows on tense anxiety. Boardwalk Empires was another that used this mechanism, as did
- Peaky Blinders. Great writing. Great acting. But it’s just constant tension, and it’s simply not fun.
It’s like directors got ahold of this one technique and just beat it into every fucking show in the past decade. It’s tired, overused, and you’ll notice it’s a common trait of many of the shows you and agree on. You have to have tension, but I didn’t need every god damned minute to be wondering if someone’s going to get their throat graphically slashed with a straight-edge.
Oh man! You just put to words why I couldn’t stand Breaking Bad, and Boardwalk Empire.
I watched the first simply because a lot of people love it, and I try to watch everything that seems worth seeing. The second I saw some clips from that I really liked, but then I just didn’t stick with the actual show.
In both cases, the series left me on constant edge, in a really bad way.
Now I realize that I kept waiting for the shows to grant me some kind of catharsis, but it just never happened. Or it happened rarely and in ways that quickly gets brushed away as inconsequential.
Y’all are trippin, the gus storyline in Better Call Saul/BB is likely my favorite villain of all time.
Fair enough though, I was scared I was gonna see these shows listed in here and here we are!
You’re still allowed to enjoy them.
How could I after this
Fair point. You probably shouldn’t like or enjoy things that other people subjectively don’t like.
My condolences.
this tendency in the past decade to base entire shows on tense anxiety.
Yup. I call it the “drama of paranoia,” and it’s exhausting after a while. It also gives you a veneer of “prestige” without having to make characters I give a shit about or plots that fit together at all. As a good example of a show that realized this, Mad Men always struggled with a certain early-season plotline until they finally just ripped off the band-aid and said,
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the “real” Don Draper’s widow handwaves something out with our boy Dick, and literally nobody else gives a shit.
What worked about that show had nothing to do with “ONE BIG SECRET.”
I’m not fond of the perpetual tension. Just awful.
I have watched any of those except the first couple of Breaking Bad. It was too real for me so I just couldnt.
I lasted 5 minutes with Peaky Blinders. The loud music drowning out the dialogue did my head in.
This, plus The Sopranos, The Office, Parks & Rec, IASIP, 30 Rock, etc.
I get that they’re well liked, and they are the source of lots of meme material, but I could never manage to get through a whole episode.
- Dark
- The Office
- Parks and Rec
- I’m dragging my feet getting through seasons 2 of Silo and Severance.
Aww thats a shame about Dark, I got sucked in to that show 100% until the end.
The office is good background TV for when you’re tired and just need to zone out and chuckle, its a very wholesome show, same with Parks and Rec.
The UK version of The Office isn’t wholesome. The boss is awful and has no redeeming qualities. The rest is just cringeworthy and not funny.
Wholesome?
I don’t see juvenile irresponsibility and adversarialism as “wholesome”. If you wanna say funny, to each his own, but in no way is that show “wholesome”.
Dark turned into nonsense unfortunately. It felt like Lost all over again. I never finished it.
I disagree, I think Dark was much more coherent. It was admittedly a bit convoluted, but I think it did a good job tying everything together.
Whereas Lost was them constantly creating new mysteries that they didn’t have the answers too, and tying it up in the end with some random bullshit.
Agree. Season 3 jumped the shark in my opinion. It’s bad enough that they just kept
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introducing more of the same old "and such-and-such is actually the offspring of this guy!
But the s3 finale just felt completely random and confirmed all of mt suspicions about them not being able to provide meaningful explanations for most of the interesting stuff that happens
What I liked about it is that it DOES have a meaningful, clear explanation in the end, unlike shows like Lost.
I have to say severance season 1 was way better imo
Sweet baby Jesus. I love all of these. Fantastic sci fi and fantasy
Glee.
I lasted a while until the teacher groomed a student. Nope!
The pilot was good.
I didn’t last the first season and was certain it would be cancelled. I couldn’t have been more off the pulse.
Most anything in recently years, TBH. I always check out what’s popular with the reasoning that something about it has to be good if so many people like it, and it used to work out pretty well. Not so much in the last 5 or 6 years.
Have you tried Severance or Common Side Effects?
Can’t get past the trailers or previews. Awful.
I liked common side effects, but I would rather have had s2 of scavenger’s reign.
Also kind of wish that common side effects was live action with animated elements, I think that would have been cool visually.
Common Side Effects
premise sounds nice, but I just tried watching the first episode and couldn’t get past the first minute. The artstyle is so… annoying? Hard to describe, but I absolutely can’t stand it
The Umbrella Academy: in the first couple of series like nothing happens and everyone is very sad.
Umbrella Academy was a hate watch for me. I loved the experience of watching it with my sister, even though I absolutely detested the show itself. Every single one of the characters is just the worst fucking person with zero redeeming qualities, and they somehow just get worse as the show goes on.
You dodged a bullet. It just keeps getting worse until the final season which is the absolute worst
Such a shame too. The premise looked really interesting at first.
Yeah, last season was so boring and unsatisfying.
There were so many ways that show could have gone which would have been good.
You forgot…“stupid”
Like what the fuck was up with that Lila and five arc. Like seriously …what the fuck.
I liked up to the end of the season with the time travel where they all jumped to different times a few years apart. Think it was season 2. After that, i just didn’t feel the show was coherent or interesting.
Severance - So. Goddamn. Slow. Every scene was slow. The lines were delivered slowly. From all the characters. Always. And somehow even the action scenes are slow?? Like when dude is in the hallway loop, that whole scene dragged on for way too long. I couldn’t get past the second episode. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
I was completely hooked until a major moment in season 2 that felt like it was going to turbo charge the story, but then the follow up episodes were just lots of doing nothing with it.
Man, I want my time back from watching season one.
That was exactly what I liked about it. My primary complaint about season 2 is that it’s faster paced. But if the pacing’s not your style then season 2 would not be worth the grind.
The creeping inertia is part of it. All good if not your thing, but that pacing is very much on purpose
You can say that, and maybe it is true for the better season 1, but season 2 has the unshakable feeling of real life considerations affecting the art by having to stretch out the story.
Vikings. It started off okay. I just wanted to see vikings do cool viking stuff. But it became a drama about Christianity taking over, which might be historically accurate, but didn’t interest me at all. I straight up didn’t like any of the characters at a certain point.
Most of the popular ones. Especially Game of Thrones. As soon as the incestuous couple threw the little boy off the tower, I was outta there. I’m so tired of shows about horrible people doing horrible things.
Grimdark stuff is just so infantile. It’s not “realistic and gritty” to have every single character cuss a thousand times per episode and be constantly in and out of clothes
I completely understand and it took me three tries to get through the first few episodes… and then the biggest shock is that you end up partly understanding and feel these horrible people. At times, you may even root for some of them. It’s definitely taxing for most of us but that’s what makes it a great show.
Jaime was a great story, till they done him shitty in the end
!So that kid end up basically being the bad guy. Pretty much everyone would have been better off if he died!<
Wait. Brandon? Hmmm…
Huh. I never thought about it like that. I’m not sure that would have been the case though. The starks would have lost their shit a lot faster had he died. I can’t remember exactly, but it was one of the brothers or the mom that was like “nahhhh he didn’t fall” and then went up the tower and figured it out.
And then, had he died, nobody could’ve stopped her. Even Ned would’ve rained hell, esp with Robert there. The only reason nothing immediately happened was BECAUSE he didn’t die. And then, he wasn’t the bad guy because he basically ended up being the/a good guy for the rest of the show.
Wanna talk about misdirected hate, Jeezzz.
What about “the guy who was cucking the king by fucking his twin sister/the queen and when his secret got discovered tried to murder an innocent kid/royal to cover it up with no thoughts of the consequences”? Eh? Can’t that guy be the bad guy?
So you going to overlook the Bran, once he got access to his powers proceeded to messed with the brains of people. Hodor for one. The ‘mad king’ for the other. If that we were shown.
Or how Bran does jack shit in the big fight, despite being able to.
And then it’s made kind because… He had the most interesting story…
Countless people died because that little shit manipulated time and events to gain power.
I thought Bran fucking up Hodor was a huge mistake though. And how did he mess with the brain of the mad King? I don’t remember that at all.
Maybe I’ll have to rewatch it all because I don’t remember anything about him manipulating time. I kind of remember him being able to see, but then certain people having a sixth sense sort of where they could notice him?
Are you going off the books or just the show?
Just the show, since it was Game of Thrones. Figure book readers would go by the actual name.
There’s a short scene when he’s messing about in the past were he pops over to the King, and if I remember correctly, that’s when the King goes mad. Shouldnt be long after the Hodor scene. It’s been a few years. But I distinctly remember being like ‘wait, it was his fault!? That little shit!’
Handmaid’s Tale.
Never got through even a single episode.
Would it be worth it? Is there vindication or is it just endless boring patriarchy?
Walking Dead. There’s like several shows and a dozen seasons each, although I actively avoided it since it started about, not into zombies shows.
Squid Game, never really like dubs and just didn’t get into listening Korean yet.
I thought Handmaid’s Tale was absolutely amazing. Really felt like I was witnessing late stage america with its path towards a christo fascist path
Yeah, but like, I watch shows to escape from the brutal crutch of reality.
Like Star Trek. Or something set in the past.
There’s a whole bunch or drug shows I haven’t watched which people think I would like, because I advocate for the legalisation of drugs. But that’s exactly why I don’t like them; they show the shitty reality that would be so easy to change.
Oh I never watched “man in the high castle” either. Well a lot of S1 but got bored of it.
Lmao I watch Star Trek to feel the brutal crutch of reality.
But… none of it is based in reality, nor do people really behave like that in reality?
American Horror Story
Game of Thrones, the Expanse, Breaking Bad
The Expanse was great. The books too. What didn’t you like?
Despite being a very human-centered series from what I heard, it had too much “space-awe” in its presentation. That stuff is boring as hell to me, bordering offensive as I am more of a “Whitey’s on the Moon” kind of guy.
For Breaking Bad: If you can get over Skyler White it’s really good towards the end.
I could not even stand Walter, watched 1 and a half episodes.
It’s a polarising show. True that.
I enjoyed it a 7/10. But I can definitely see why some wouldnt.
Rick & Morty. Then the whole szechuan sauce thing happened and I can’t look at any content from that show without cringing. LOOK GUYS IM PICKLE RI-stop please it’s not funny.
The “community” is insufferable, but the show is solid. You might like Solar Opposites. The wall substory is amazing
The wall substory is a wild ride
Is there even still any Rick and morty fans left in the wild? After the whole case against one of the voice actors I never see them around too much anymore.
Justin Roiland wasn’t just the voice actor for Rick, Morty, and various other roles, he was the co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the show alongside Dan Harmon. The whole thing is very much Roiland’s baby, and even after it came out that he’s an abuser and predator and the show fired him it continues to be his celebrated legacy.
Fuck that guy and his stupid show.
Roiland is a co-creator, but it is very obvious that Dan Harmon took over the show for the better.
Hell, the takeover happened while Roiland was still voicing Rick, so it isn’t like something important was lost after Roiland was fired.
I like Rick and Morty, but I have enough self awareness to know that Rick is not a role model.
Yeah, it’s funny because of how terrible everyone is. I’m laughing because it’s outrageous, not because the characters are going through relatable hijinks.
My kid wanted to watch it together, and I was like, that’s fine as long as you let me tell you that Rick isn’t always right and he’s not the hero.
There’s a few shows where the fan base have made it so insufferable that I don’t want to even watch the show . But Rick and Morty are King in this category, the worst fans
I initially found that show a bit interesting, but I found myself feeling more and more cringey about what the show was churning out. I outgrew the whole thing just as the sauce thing was happening
It later became well known what an actual piece of shit Justin Roiland is, and I felt pretty glad not to have been stuck in that fandom still feeling like his work was of any importance to me.
Don’t even get me started about the SA scene(s?), especially the grape-man. I try not to judge people too harshly by their choice of mindless entertainment, but if you found that funny, or at least continue to find it funny, I don’t think I can take you seriously.
Really triggered my partners PTSD too, so I wasn’t surprised at all when the Rolland stuff came to light.
