The sopranos. I got halfway through season 2 and decided I just didn’t give a shit about finishing it.
I feel like it was a show that was greatly helped by the once a week group viewing era.
Big Bang Theory
I’ve been called “Sheldon” for my autistic traits in a degrading manner. The show plays autism for laughs plenty of times, and also ridicules the “nerds” all the time for no reason. It’s like a bunch of self proclaimed high school “jocks” wrote it
Same here. I always felt they were making fun of my fellow nerds and geeks as opposed to celebrating our intelligence and quirkiness. The writers obviously got the humor and nuance but chose to poke fun so that the rest of the world could laugh at it. I mean I understand why but I didn’t really like it for that reason.
I didn’t even think they got the humor right. Watching episodes without the laugh track shoes the jokes are just a group of bullies being bullies to each other.
I have up on both Silo and Severence early on in Season 2, don’t know Joe popular they are in truth but the Reddit hive mind (or bots) downvote you almost immediately if you even say you don’t love them.
I bailed after the first season, holy shit did that show move slow. I wasn’t invested enough to go along with the jump the shark plot only 5 episodes in. Oh no the main character needs to go stop the big machine from blowing up the entire silo and killing everyone and ending the story, will she succeed or fail?! I had somebody spoil the story for me and it actually is pretty cool and sci-fi, but I can’t spend that much time getting to it.
Second season at least what I watched is much worse it’s pretty much all pointless filler.
I read the wool books and actually liked them but yeah the shows ridiculously slow and doesn’t want to advance any plot whatsoever. I’ve found this is true with a lot of apple shows so I guess they are told not to, but yeah boring as hell.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Dark
- The Office
- Parks and Rec
- I’m dragging my feet getting through seasons 2 of Silo and Severance.
I have to say severance season 1 was way better imo
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.
Sweet baby Jesus. I love all of these. Fantastic sci fi and fantasy
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”.
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?
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
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.
Can’t get past the trailers or previews. Awful.
Ozark. It’s super well done but I just got to the point that the violence was just too much.
The Umbrella Academy: in the first couple of series like nothing happens and everyone is very sad.
You dodged a bullet. It just keeps getting worse until the final season which is the absolute worst
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.
Such a shame too. The premise looked really interesting at first.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Man, I want my time back from watching season one.
Banshee. There’s only so many times you can watch a guy get the absolute piss bashed out of him
The walking dead. A good show with high production value I will admit.
But I found it to be souless morbid and honestly disgusting.
Succession.
it’s such a boring premise. rich people being shitty, but in modern times
Yeah, that’s why I stopped watching: It became apparent that there was no interesting story other than the soap opera playing out in rich people circles.
The first season at least had the hint of something interesting; that estranged stoner being promoted from theme park furry to inner circle. But they barely did anything with it.
I really wanted to like Firefly, but the characters felt too silly and two dimensional.
Firefly’s biggest weakness/strength is the dialog. It was wholly done in the Joss Whedon style and cadence. Every member of the main cast was “the snarky one”, every conversation was a series of verbal setups- and if it was against antagonists they’d be completely witless and walk into verbal traps, and every classic verbal trope would be lampshaded.
If you’ve watched enough of his previous shows it is very easy to predict how a conversation in Firefly will sound.
Back in the day that style of dialog was still somewhat novel, especially to people who weren’t big Buffy/Angel fans. Nowadays this is the baseline MCU style of dialog, which means it is absolutely played out.
Did you watch the one where the people die?
I only watched an episode or two. I don’t remember what order.
Twin Peaks. Couldn’t stand it.
I can appreciate Twin Peaks for being groundbreaking at the time in many ways. And David Lynch was a genius…
But yeah, as someone who tried getting into it for the first time relatively recently, I just couldn’t. Got one or two episodes into season 2 before calling it quits.
Oh, God, such nonsense
Second best TV show ever!
Different people like different things and that’s awesome.
The #1 best show is Twin Peaks: The Return of course :)
Yes!
Personally, I actually enjoyed it. It had that 90s nostalgic vibe, and I liked it.
However, the renewed 25 years later season felt like Lynch was mocking the audience (or was high on something). The season was boring as fck, story was bad and made no sense. None of the loose ends from the original show were resolved. The acting was so bad, I actually wanted to give it up after the first episode. And he didn’t even give us what we wanted to see more of… Detective Cooper. Instead we got braindead cooper and evil doppleganger cooper for all but the last few minutes of the season. And for some weird reason, every episode ended on some bad recording of a live song that had nothing to do with the show.
Oh yeah. I heard all the hype online, and got two episodes in.
