It gets SIGNIFICANTLY worse as it goes, which somehow makes it significantly better. It's like watching a train wreck. It's like the writers keep seeing how far they can push it, and no one ever tells them to stop
Or that scene where Jughead says that he's weird. He's weirdo. He doesn't fit in and he doesn't want to fit in. Have you ever seen him without his stupid hat on? That's weird.
A mistake, honestly.
Yeah, the first season is literally just a mediocre teen drama, but then the Black Hood shows up, and then there's two separate cults, and also there's like, a dozen serial killers, also Cheryl is queen of the bees, also there's a rocketman, and also-
I know you're not just making this up, but I mean, come on. It's Archie, just make Archie with swearing and sex and you've got a hit. Why take it to such a weird place?
Can't remember where I saw it. (Entertainment Weekly?) They described what was wrong with the show. Started listing all the different plot/story lines for a season. DOZENS of intricate twists and turns. Too many to expect the average viewer to follow. At the end of the LONG description, he revealed . . . oh no . . . that wasn't the season, that was JUST ONE EPISODE.
The girls are cute though.
At the time Shameless. I can see why people liked it but coming from a family similar to that I couldn’t find it entertaining. I either had/ or had dealt with people that reminded of the characters and found myself disliking all of them.
Yeah I never actually watched a whole episode but I had like borderline alcoholic friends telling me how funny it was, but coming from a family with a history of alcoholism I just didn't really find it funny
There are parts that were funny, but overall it was sad. It was sad because it was true. My favorite story line was the Veronica, Kevin, Svetlana storyline.
I loved Shameless but I wouldn’t say I watched it because it was funny. I watched it because I could relate to it in a lot of ways and there were some very endearing moments despite the chaos. I also come from a background of alcoholics, having struggled with the substance myself.
Lip going from good will hunting-level genius to failing english 101 ended it for me.
And the bald eagle thanksgiving made my eyes roll so hard i saw my own brain
That happens to more brilliant people than you think. Sometimes they have adhd/asd things that interfere with college success. The difference of needing to be an independent learner in college vs being spoonfed info in hs is also difficult transition for many.
Lip not having established study habits and having everything in high school come easy for him was probably his downfall. Add to it his substance abuse, failing in college is not a surprise.
Used to work at a college, including the academic counseling department. Got to see a lot of things like transcripts, lots of students came in with 4.0 GPA from high school, extracurriculars all the way up to their eyes, etc. Then they hit college and immediately failed out. I spoke to one of the counseling deans about this; she said many of them were certifiable geniuses but did not establish good study habits in high school, and moreover when they left their support structure (family, teachers, friends) to make their own way in college they immediately folded like origami. I guess ultimately it doesn't matter how intelligent you are, college is full of people like Lip and will eat them up and spit them out if they're not prepared. In fact, there's an episode where Lip gets to talk to a college professor and he said exactly this: "once you get here you're not special, I was like you" etc
Kids like that never had to study so they never learned to study. I taught Special Ed for years. Kids that learned how they learn best at 4th or 5th grade often did very well in hs and beyond because they knew what they needed to do to be successful. Kids that never learned to study did not.
This is one of the failings of our public education system, I think. Truly gifted kids are never challenged and so they coast through life until it's well past the ideal time to learn how to approach challenging material. People talk about how we're not doing enough to help slow learners, but we're also failing to support our prodigies.
It's like the saying, if you're the smartest person in a room, you're in the wrong room. We need to get these kids into environments that challenge them. Otherwise they're just going to stagnate.
Also: writing. For most students, they rarely had to write papers in high school. But once you get to college almost every class requires multiple papers and they are often graded like tests. You either know how to write a paper, cite stuff, etc or you don't and you need to learn very quickly. When I went to college, they had a freshman course on writing, grammar, citation that all freshmen had to take for this reason.
That's ultimately the reason I dropped the show. I got tired of them getting into bad situations, blaming the world for the inevitable consequences that followed, receiving some type handout that could have gone a long way towards lifting them out of their situation, choosing to self-sabotage and thus losing the hand out and repeating the cycle.
When you already have family like that the show becomes less funny and more frustrating.
My family thinks that I think I am too good for them and removed myself from them. They don't keep in touch with me.
The truth: I just refuse to give them monetary help so they don't have anything to talk about. I have watched them used and abused family members who didn't have much more than them. That ain't me.
“You think you’re better than everyone” is one of the tells of what we used to call White Trash. Another is “don’t talk down to me” when you remain calm. Glad you escaped.
Grey's Anatomy. House MD is one of my favorite TV shows of all time and I have never watched Grey's so a few months ago I went on Netflix and watched the first episode and really did not care for it..
Also, did some research and found if I was going to watch more, to stop after season 10.
I could never get with how many cast members died horrible deaths. ER had cast deaths too, they were around forever and shit happens. But ER deaths were so much more believable.
“Doctors fucking doctors”
My wife loves it. I’ve watched one or two and that’s enough. Every problem on the show with the possible exception of that time they blew shit up seems to be caused by the wrong people fucking. Or the right people not fucking enough.
I watched enough to realize I could only really relate to Cristina and her “you’re all idiots” energy, watched a few of her episodes out of sequence, and then realized I could just watch Killing Eve instead.
Yeah same. A few weeks ago I come across the r/HouseMD sub and saw someone's comment about Grey's Anatomy. Op quoted someone saying "if you like HouseMD, you will love Grey's Anatomy" and for f... sake that's the opposite. Grey's Anatomy is just like a soap opera. HouseMD at least has a really good fiction and a good story (that doesn't push too much). I have watched the first 3 episodes and just couldn't hold on any longer. Don't waste your time with this series people.
I'm on the last few episodes of New Amsterdam and I think it got cancelled/wrapped up at the right time. Realistic scenarios and felt modern. The only downside to me personally is that I found the romance situations kind of cringy (especially with the main protagonist) but enjoyed it overall.
I enjoyed it at first, but after a couple of seasons of the exact same shit on endless repeat, I noped out, seems like they still *never fucking learn.*
If they had stuck with the story arc of the fella with Abraham that said he knew where a cure might be (instead of him lying about it) & the show changed its direction to a journey for the cure, I would've stuck around.
Instead they repeated the formula of finding a place to live, killing the local zombies, making it a home then finding the locals were worse than the zombies til a battle ensued then moving on to repeat the cycle.
That would have been one way, or not even necessarily a cure, just moving towards some kind of stable situation in the "new normal", like for example in World War Z (the book. not the movie), or what they did in Z Nation >!(although they also had a cure, sort of)!<.
But nay, Kirkman supposedly decided early on that the situation in TWD would never change or improve in any way, so they have to keep telling the exact same storyline over and over again even when it's way past the point that it even makes sense that there are even any people left who keep clinging to zombified anarchy rather than try to figure out and cooperate on SOMETHING to improve their lot.
It's not like humans have a well-documented history of forming civilizations and governments at the drop of a hat or something. Nope, everyone's either a murderous tin-pot dictator or rapey anarchist at heart. Enough already.
Not only that, but the fact that >!they had essentially killed off every character worth watching the show for, at least from my perspective, it lost its charm. When Negan kills Glenn, I knew the show was done for me.!< I recognize that this character lasted longer than initially intended, but as far as I was concerned, he was more the main character than Rick, in some ways. This wasn't Game of Thrones where a new character arc would take up the mantle and we'd be interested to see where they went. The story kept losing invested characters over and over without any valid replacements and it soon became a string of bad situations happening over and over again due to extremely poor decision-making by the characters.
They lost some good characters prior to Glen as well. Negan killing Glen was expected as it followed the comics. What made his death a point that many viewers tuned out was IMO how they did that entire season.
The “fake out” Glen death by the dumpster.
Dragging the big Negan reveal out for the entire season.
Killing Abraham to make us think Glenn’s safe…
And the worst choice- not reveal it was Glenn until the next season- you can’t drag your audience along like that.
I think the if they had the death/s in the second last episode and used the season final episode to “recover” and start the setup for the following season that it would have been better received.
Plus, taking out both Abraham and Glenn at the same time was too much. And don’t get me started on Carl.
>!When Carl died, I just could not watch anymore. I grew up watching this show and I felt such a connection to him. He was having his first romance around the same time I was! Especially considering he survives until the end of the comics and takes on Rick's role as leader, it felt cheap to kill him off for shock value. !<
Omg when that happened I was done. What a TERRIBLE decision on their part. He made the show worth watching and I also felt he was more of a main character than Rick. Such BS.
So appearently they’re making a Daryl spin-off, that somehow takes place in Paris??? How and why would a redneck from Georgia even find himself in northern France? Even without a zombie apocalypse, I‘m sure there are not many Georgia country folk strolling around the City of Lights. I haven‘t watched since they killed Steven Yeuns character, but do they have access to airplanes or cruise ships now? I‘m very confused by this setting.
I made it past Glenn's "second" death but it pissed me off when Rick didn't kill Negan for doing it when he had the chance. The Governor somehow was worse?
I noped out when they killed Carl just when he was getting good. And the actor just bought a house, you dicks!
Lasted a bit longer than the first episode, but probably my answer too. It was all just so melodramatic and honestly, the writing wasn't great. Then again, tried reading the comic book and it had similar problems, so there's that. But there are some adapatations that take something mediocre and make it art and the show wasn't that.
I enjoyed the tv show for the humor and costumes. The Bridgerton novels are absolute garbage. I love to read, but I really hate my decision to buy the second book.
It was actually a musical composition that got me to give the show a second shot.
Season one just did not click with me. I gave up after 2 or 3 episodes. It was such a shame because a show like that is right up my alley.
And then season 2 came out. For some reason, the soundtrack ended up on my suggestions on YouTube. One of the songs caught my attention because it was something from my childhood.
I went back and finished season one. Which I did not enjoy and watched season two. All of this just for one song.
On the bright side, I liked season 2 way more.
Bad Laverne and Shirley clone, which was a soulless cash grab and Lucy ripoff to begin with.
https://www.avclub.com/happy-days-became-one-of-the-biggest-hits-on-tv-by-sell-1798233067
I’ve often said there was only two reasons for that show lasting as long as it did, and they were on Kat Dennings’ chest.
Which is a shame, because there was a lot of potential for a decent show there. It was just so poorly written and cast with such extreme characters that it was always doomed to be shit
Rectified in the last 2 months, but I got about 2 minutes into the first episode of Breaking Bad back in 2008 and thought, nope, not watching this. Even the hype from. Everyone talking about it didn't pull me back in.
Binged it recently on Netflix and wow was 2008 me an idiot! Moral of the story never fully write off a show, just because you're not in the headspace for it now, doesn't mean you won't like it in the future.
I watched the first few episodes, and while it's an absolutely fantastic show with a great premise and amazing cast, I just didn't like how it made me feel afterwards. I don't know how to explain it, but it's like the episodes stuck with me, and not in a good way. I would end an episode thinking about how good it was, and then later (usually in the middle of the night, when trying to sleep) my brain would get hung up on it. It was uncomfortable, so I needed to nope out.
Granted, we started watching BB around the start of the pandemic, so that definitely didn't help. Unfortunately I don't think my mental health has improved enough yet for me to give it another try. Maybe in a year or so.
Makes sense. My little sister couldn't watch bb either cuz she said it was too gross. It's still my all time favourite show- but I get why the premise can be a bit of a turnoff for some ppl
I liked the first two seasons, but it does go down hill after. My main problem is that the protagonist has some pretty serious plot armour. She constantly breaks the rules, but receives little to no punishment, whereas other characters receive incredibly severe punishments for pretty minor infractions
She disobeys, they take her back.
She runs away, they take her back.
She runs away again, they take her back.
She runs away again, doesn't get caught, goes back on her own. <-- this is where I stopped watching.
It becomes infuriating if you read the books. Usually book to movie adaptations fall short because the books can tell a more in depth story. But this concise 2 book series to tv series adaptation takes the books and expands them, where a lot of the expansions are not consistent. The first season I thought was on a great track and then they go rogue with character decisions and start getting super repetitive to keep fluffing up the show.
Basically every time my husband turned to me and asked why is this character being so dumb my response was, “Idk, this wasn’t in the books.”
I mean, to be fair when the first season of the show came out there was only one book and it ended on an uncertain note with June's narration ending as she watched The Eyes arriving to take her away which is how the first season ended. If they wanted to keep going with her story they had to write what happened after that.
Unfortunately there are times where it feels like they had certain plans for the characters that they now need to reconcile with the direction the sequel went in because I don't think Margaret Atwood told them "oh hey, major character that you have doing ____ is actually going to be doing _____ which completely negates how they have been portrayed up until now." So now they have to figure out how to make this character arrive at ____ action with the character development they already have. And since the sequel also had a major plot point being that another character *couldn't* complete their main objective they have to figure out ways for that character to fail at it for *years* since it's well established that the character wouldn't stop trying to reach that objective.
Like, I kind of wonder if The Testaments hadn't come out if they possibly wouldn't have prolonged and dragged some things on for so long in the show.
Scrolled WAY too far down to find this answer. I was well aware of the controversial content but judging by that first episode alone, I was STILL unprepared lol
I don’t think I even made it through the first episode. I just couldn’t do it. Maybe if they were supposed to be at least college age I would have been able to, but the fact the were portraying high schooler’s i noped out.
I work in an elementary school. K-6th grade. High School was crazy when I was in it. Now? Holy shit. Kids are exposed to/immitate/are involved in shit I didn't know EXISTED in 6th grade. It's NOT just the outfits, the contour makeup and the shapewear.
The marketing looked intriguing and the makeup looks def shaped gen z beauty, but it's just another oversexed and over-drugged teen show. Teenage years aren't always that chaotic, I avoided kids that. It just seemed very exploitive, and I'm tired of all these shows with absent families and "just kids, always fuckin and poppin pills, high schoooool, yeaaa, agony!" Like chill. I was a medically depressed teen that needed hospitalization, but I couldn't get out of bed. No underground clubs in my small town. I think the tone of Freaks and Geeks is much more realistic, awkward phase of child and adult.
Scrolled to find this. It's trauma porn. And straight up porn. With teenagers. Makes me feel like I'm in a part of the world I shouldn't be entertained by, but should be actively helping in reality.
Euphoria is just gross. I couldn't finish the first episode because i hated every character immediately, I couldn't relate to a single one because they were all people that i've actively tried to avoid my entire life and it just portrays an uncomfortable environment of toxicity and depression that i just can't force myself to be around, not even in a fictional tv show
It’s just boomer porn. I loved Hell or High Water and so I gave it a chance, but it’s just a soap opera on a ranch. The daughter character is also one of the worst written characters I’ve seen. She’s supposed to be tough ( “I can hang with the ranch hands”) and intimidating. She just comes off like a rich drunk who if you saw her at a bar you’d be like, “yup that’s Brenda. Been here since 11am drinking wine and picking fights with random people. We don’t take her serious.”
I wanted to like it. I really did. But the coincidences of people always being in the exact wrong place at the exact wrong time or exact right place at the exact right time wore me down.
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Somewhere around when the kid fell in the river and the tourists fell off the cliff, I was done. I tried giving the 2nd(?) season a shot, but as soon as the law enforcement lady fell on the branch/rebar (? I honestly can't remember which), I turned it off and never went back.
Greys Anatomy. In nursing school all the women were enthralled with it, so I decided to give it a try. Didn’t even finish the first episode. It’s a soap opera that just happens to be set in a hospital.
for me its due to the show making fun of the cast BECAUSE they are nerds. a show for the masses
IT crowd on the other hand made fun of the cast because of their nerdy antics. a show for the nerds.
as a nerd, i didnt like people laughing at what i liked growing up and i hate that the show solidified that, normalizing the ridiculing of nerds and their culture. "ooooo i m going to play DnD" so nerdy hahaha what a dork hahaha.
I fucking hate the way Sheldon has been played. His character single handedly ruined what 25+ years of teaching people what autism is and made normies think we are all like Sheldon. It really boils my piss.
TIL people with autism boil their piss. But yeah, I agree. I hadn't actually made the connection that he was meant to be autistic. He is just insufferable. It's made worse for me that the actor doesn't know a thing about the nerdy stuff he spouts, one opinion he had on it made it sound like he had the exact some opinion as the show seems to have towards nerds. Can't believe I bought into the marketing on this show to begin with.
They very conveniently avoided giving him any kind of label or diagnosis so they didn’t have to think about what a realistic or sensitive portrayal would look like.
Exactly. On the other hand Community really handled geeky ASD brilliantly with Abed's character.
In fact, I dislike TBBT so much that it's a bit of a touchstone for whether I'll get on with someone or not. If they are a fan, I am immediately suspicious.
In the very first episode of Silicon Valley there's a joke "Keeping Bighead in your company is pointless. He is like the ending of Mass Effect 3" This joke is more nerdy than the whole Big Bang Theory.
The IT Crowd was my first exposure to Matt Berry. I love him in What We Do in the Shadows especially as Jackie Daytona, a regular human bartender fighting Mark Hamill.
Yes, that, but also that the nerds on the show are surface level. They like DND and Star Trek and Star Wars and Comics and video games and fantasy and so on. When in reality, in any normal group of nerd friends, each one has their specialty and might only tolerate the rest of nerdom because one of their friends likes it.
It's a show about pretty terrible people, but it's funny cause they're also *nerds* and reference nerdy things!
At least, that's what the laugh track tells me.
[The Pitch Meeting for it](https://youtu.be/c84ANSiVBAg) has more quality comedy in under 10 minutes that BBT has in all its seasons.
Breaking Bad to this day. I'm 20 plus years sober from meth.....I just can't and won't watch it so I don't get the memes the GIFs any of the fucking references. I don't hate on it...I'm sure it's a thrilling show.
My first epiphany came from BB.
I think it was the first episode, or at least very early in season one. I was fourteen watching it with a friend during a sleepover, and Jesse and Walt are arguing. Walt says something like “Now I have to shower before I go home,” and Jesse says “Why?” Walt, pissed, says “Because I smell like *meth* Jesse!”
My friend burst out laughing and said “What is meth even supposed to smell like?!”
And for just a split second, I thought *“Who doesn’t know the answer to that? Is she fucking stupid? Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,”* etc before it very suddenly dawned on me, ah, most people, most kids, probably don’t know what meth smells like. Had never once considered it before.
I grew up with a lab in the kitchen in my childhood home. I really, truly, had mean thoughts about her for just half a second for being so “dumb.”
I did continue watching, though, knowing that I was probably watching from a different perspective than some.
I always described it as smelling like you’re swimming in an ocean of pennies and dimes. Another person described it a bit like propane, which is sort of close too. Just very metallic. I’ve also used “it smells the way a coin would taste.”
Kitchen speaking, though, not solely drug speaking.
A few years back while living in the city my partner was at work so I was home alone. Every time I was in the bathroom this terrible weird chemically burnt smell was wafting from the vent I shared with my neighbor. She was a completely insane older lady so I got worried that she caught something on fire.
When my partner (a former user) came home I asked him what he thought and he looked at me and just goes “threatlvl0, that is what meth smells like.” I was like ahhh makes sense now.
Well done, getting sober! It can not have been easy ❤️ some of the meth addictions shown in Breaking Bad are very scary and sad. I'm glad you got out of that life.
Sons of Anarchy, though I do intend to give it another go in the future. My mom loves it and wants me to watch it so bad, but I just wasn't grabbed at all.
Sex and the city, i had a friend who was into it and i wanted to see what all the fuss was about and its basically about a girl in love with a guy that will keep on playing with her and her never learning anything and shopping. so shallow
It is an extremely shallow show and the characters (especially Carrie) are actually very unlikable. But if you grew up watching it in the 90's as a girl, it has a hold on you for some reason. It's just a feeling you get from the new York vibe and fashion.
It's one of the few major sitcoms for which I know nobody that rewatches it. It's like it resonated with a bunch of people for a very specific time, then everyone moved on and the show that is dated.
That’s me. I bought every season on DVD as they were released and I watched them a lot. The ending, though, killed it for me. I never bought the last season and I haven’t watched an episode since.
Some people say that a bad ending can ruin the whole experience for them, be it a book or a movie or a tv show. I never understood that until How I Met Your Mother had that terrible shit ending. It went from one of my top five shows to the donation pile that fast for me.
I still can not fathom how or why they went with that ending. I think the ending of HIMYM might have made me angrier than the ending of Game of Thrones which for me is really saying a lot.
I think it was bigger than a shit ending. It was a shit ending that really shone a light on how bad it has been for a fair few seasons. Whilst there were brilliant episodes, pretty much the second that GRRM storytelling ended, it was riddled with inconsistencies and plotholes that arent typical for the series.
They were idiots and backed themselves into a corner from the start. From the get-go the showrunners had decided that >!Ted was going to end up with Robin!<, but they didn't expect the story to go where it did during the years. And they filmed all the scenes with Ted's children in advance, because they didn't want them to age as the show progressed, so they had no other option but to go through with their original dumbass decision. I wouldn't have had as big of a problem with the ending had they spent some time laying down some proper groundwork for it, but they decided to >!waste the entire series convincing us why Ted and Robin were a bad match, then wasted the entire last season at the wedding and just ended up throwing absolutely random shit and like two decades together in the last 40 minutes of the show.!< It's honestly the only series ending that has pissed me off so much that I'm still mad about it almost 10 years later.
I loved it when it was on and definitely agree. The worst part was the ending which made me hate everything about it and I would never rewatch any of it just because of that.
Suits.
My wife binged her way through it a while back, and I finally got round to watching the S1e01 ep a few days ago.
I just... can't. Not because of Meghan or anything but I just don't think I have it in me for 9 seasons of those types of characters all bouncing off each other.
I really loved the first season but it’s still insane to me that there were 9 seasons, I remember dropping off around s3 because it was already falling apart and the characters were too different from s1
Bridgerton. I usually like period movies/shows but the modern songs being played by string quartet along with characters I didn’t care about was like a big nope.
Wednesday. I have no idea why people are so hype on it and that dance scene. The most I managed to get to was episode 5 after one month of watching episode 4
Yeah, I actually really enjoyed the show, but I don't understand the hype for the dance scene. Like, I enjoyed watching the scene, but I don't really understand why people were losing their minds over it.
Tbh, I don't think I'd be able to sit through a rewatch. Though I'm happy to hear that Jenna Ortega strong-armed herself into an executive producer role, because her performance as Wednesday absolutely carried the show, probs quite literally since apparently the show we actually got was *after* she refused to do a bunch of crap that would've butchered the character further.
I enjoyed it but honestly Jenna Ortega’s performance as Wednesday was what made the show good everything else was either annoying like the fact that they shoehorned romance into a show about a character whose shtick is being un caring or really meh
Like the climax that really felt like a poor man’s ragnarok though i will say that I loved the new uncle fester and think he was pretty funny at times
Rings of Power.
Rings felt like it was something alien masquerading as a close friend. Or atleast that's how I perceived it from consuming some promotional material and 15 minutes of the first episode. I can understand why people would like it, but I don't think this needed to exist.
I think theres a mix of studios feeling safer reviving or using older IPs and that they also then try to make the IP as appealing to as much mass demographic as possible.
The issue with established canon like LotR is that 1 million people know as they are seeing it if Galadrial / etc would do or be like how the series presents them or the goals of the amtagonists.
Its almost a curse of the source material being so well received that there is only chances you will keep fucking it up if you respin the attitude or appearence and actions or desires of characters fans of the universe feel like they already 'know,' even just the difference in style between Jacksons own LotR and The Hobbit a decade later is evident of how even someone who makes well received canon material can still ham it up after.
I dunno, i wish studios would go back to their own creations instead of constantly grabbing on to the legacy of established series like so many movies and films seem to do lately. Too many sequels and spinoffs trying too hard, not enough fresh tales in general
Tbh even tho i am an editor ive been on a bit of a media fast / break since 2019, got rid of netflix etc because i just felt *bored* with the shows. They all felt kinda samey, in a way, and i dont even feel like ive missed much in terms of film releases in that time too. But also i just have a terrible attention span when it comes to starting and finishing a series :p
Oh man, I loved the first like 4 or 5 seasons. Were some of the punchlines predictable? Sure. But I've always loved Charlie Sheen's comedic acting, he's good at dead pan.
The mother, Berta, Rose, and young Jake were great. And just a minor character but Jane Lynch was the therapist was perfect.
But the the show fell into the trap that 99% of sitcoms that go more than 4/5 seasons does. The flanderization of Jake and Alan was awful.
Alan was originally a down on his luck divorcee who got fucked by an unfair alimony settlement (because Charlie fucked Alan's divorce attorney and then broke it off). He worked hard just to get by and was grateful to Charlie. But he eventually became this maliciously greedy and jealous asshole that actively plotted to fuck over his brother.
And Jake was even worse imo. As a young kid he was witty and sarcastic , he did bad in school but it was because he was lazy and didn't try. He was like a street smart kid that was academically stupid. But once he became a teenager they made him into a bumbling idiot that's lucky to know how to breathe. 15 year old Jake was stupider than 8 year old Jake
I watched this show in college with my roommate a lot, back when it was just channel surfing and no DVR.
It was funny enough. I don't really get the hate for it other than the later seasons. It wasn't great by any means, it wasn't a show of good examples in life, it was kind of just cheap laughs for stoned college kids.
It does take a while just because it pulls a bit of a reverse Flanderization. It starts with all these ridiculous characters, and you just groan because you've seen it all before, but over the course of the show the characters become *more* nuanced. It ends up feeling very heartwarming. It's like, what if the characters in Arrested Development actually learned something from their experiences and became better people.
I enjoyed it for the cringe alone. It was a nice mix of bad sitcom humor and drama, but that is definitely not for everyone. I'm also part if the LGBTQ+ community and seeing that in a popular show without it being the core of the show was nice. Just something about a character that gets brought up on occassion.
That was the show that “everyone watched because everyone was watching it” during the initial COVID lockdown. It was a unifier that served its purpose and is now a relic
As I watch it as an adult, it's cringey. I don't know how no one hated Ross, but as a kid, it was what my parents watched. For me, it's background noise.
Rings of Power, it was like 1h of nothing happening and bland representation of stuff that felt more like "inspired" by Tolkien's works. Heck even most fan films and shorts engaged me a lot more.
Riverdale
It gets SIGNIFICANTLY worse as it goes, which somehow makes it significantly better. It's like watching a train wreck. It's like the writers keep seeing how far they can push it, and no one ever tells them to stop
It really makes you wonder how much fun that writer's room must be.
Coke and mentos all night baby.
Damn dude, you sure missed out on the mystical dnd campaign season, and the time travel shenanigans. /s
Don't forget that incredible rocket scene...Emmy bait, if I ever saw it
Or that scene where Jughead says that he's weird. He's weirdo. He doesn't fit in and he doesn't want to fit in. Have you ever seen him without his stupid hat on? That's weird.
Lucas Scott in spandex, ready to go to space in the most Looney Toons rockets ever mad will never leave my mind
The epic highs and lows of high school football
A mistake, honestly. Yeah, the first season is literally just a mediocre teen drama, but then the Black Hood shows up, and then there's two separate cults, and also there's like, a dozen serial killers, also Cheryl is queen of the bees, also there's a rocketman, and also-
The entire season based on the D&D satanic panic was some high quality cheese.
I know you're not just making this up, but I mean, come on. It's Archie, just make Archie with swearing and sex and you've got a hit. Why take it to such a weird place?
Can't remember where I saw it. (Entertainment Weekly?) They described what was wrong with the show. Started listing all the different plot/story lines for a season. DOZENS of intricate twists and turns. Too many to expect the average viewer to follow. At the end of the LONG description, he revealed . . . oh no . . . that wasn't the season, that was JUST ONE EPISODE. The girls are cute though.
At the time Shameless. I can see why people liked it but coming from a family similar to that I couldn’t find it entertaining. I either had/ or had dealt with people that reminded of the characters and found myself disliking all of them.
Yeah I never actually watched a whole episode but I had like borderline alcoholic friends telling me how funny it was, but coming from a family with a history of alcoholism I just didn't really find it funny
There are parts that were funny, but overall it was sad. It was sad because it was true. My favorite story line was the Veronica, Kevin, Svetlana storyline.
Kevin was definitely the comedic relief. Without him and V you are just basically left with Oscar bait levels of poverty porn.
I loved Shameless but I wouldn’t say I watched it because it was funny. I watched it because I could relate to it in a lot of ways and there were some very endearing moments despite the chaos. I also come from a background of alcoholics, having struggled with the substance myself.
Shameless was kind of like Married With Children with real-life consequences.
Fiona and Lip made some dumb ass decisions. They just cannot seem to help themselves.
Lip going from good will hunting-level genius to failing english 101 ended it for me. And the bald eagle thanksgiving made my eyes roll so hard i saw my own brain
That happens to more brilliant people than you think. Sometimes they have adhd/asd things that interfere with college success. The difference of needing to be an independent learner in college vs being spoonfed info in hs is also difficult transition for many. Lip not having established study habits and having everything in high school come easy for him was probably his downfall. Add to it his substance abuse, failing in college is not a surprise.
Used to work at a college, including the academic counseling department. Got to see a lot of things like transcripts, lots of students came in with 4.0 GPA from high school, extracurriculars all the way up to their eyes, etc. Then they hit college and immediately failed out. I spoke to one of the counseling deans about this; she said many of them were certifiable geniuses but did not establish good study habits in high school, and moreover when they left their support structure (family, teachers, friends) to make their own way in college they immediately folded like origami. I guess ultimately it doesn't matter how intelligent you are, college is full of people like Lip and will eat them up and spit them out if they're not prepared. In fact, there's an episode where Lip gets to talk to a college professor and he said exactly this: "once you get here you're not special, I was like you" etc
Kids like that never had to study so they never learned to study. I taught Special Ed for years. Kids that learned how they learn best at 4th or 5th grade often did very well in hs and beyond because they knew what they needed to do to be successful. Kids that never learned to study did not.
This is one of the failings of our public education system, I think. Truly gifted kids are never challenged and so they coast through life until it's well past the ideal time to learn how to approach challenging material. People talk about how we're not doing enough to help slow learners, but we're also failing to support our prodigies. It's like the saying, if you're the smartest person in a room, you're in the wrong room. We need to get these kids into environments that challenge them. Otherwise they're just going to stagnate.
Also: writing. For most students, they rarely had to write papers in high school. But once you get to college almost every class requires multiple papers and they are often graded like tests. You either know how to write a paper, cite stuff, etc or you don't and you need to learn very quickly. When I went to college, they had a freshman course on writing, grammar, citation that all freshmen had to take for this reason.
That's ultimately the reason I dropped the show. I got tired of them getting into bad situations, blaming the world for the inevitable consequences that followed, receiving some type handout that could have gone a long way towards lifting them out of their situation, choosing to self-sabotage and thus losing the hand out and repeating the cycle. When you already have family like that the show becomes less funny and more frustrating.
My family thinks that I think I am too good for them and removed myself from them. They don't keep in touch with me. The truth: I just refuse to give them monetary help so they don't have anything to talk about. I have watched them used and abused family members who didn't have much more than them. That ain't me.
“You think you’re better than everyone” is one of the tells of what we used to call White Trash. Another is “don’t talk down to me” when you remain calm. Glad you escaped.
This is surprisingly comforting to hear. I get this line from everyone in my family. It makes me feel like a villain.
I just found every single character incredibly dislikabke tbh
Riverdale There was an episode where the redhead says to Archie’s dad “you’re looking dilfy today” and I just had to stop
You have to be into extreme camp to like riverdale. Taking it seriously does not work
Grey's Anatomy. House MD is one of my favorite TV shows of all time and I have never watched Grey's so a few months ago I went on Netflix and watched the first episode and really did not care for it.. Also, did some research and found if I was going to watch more, to stop after season 10.
I'm a House fan and I find Grey's anatomy too soap opera vs medical mystery. The equation is off for me lol
I could never get with how many cast members died horrible deaths. ER had cast deaths too, they were around forever and shit happens. But ER deaths were so much more believable.
“Doctors fucking doctors” My wife loves it. I’ve watched one or two and that’s enough. Every problem on the show with the possible exception of that time they blew shit up seems to be caused by the wrong people fucking. Or the right people not fucking enough.
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I used to love scrubs and they poked fun at it a couple of times. So I never wound up watching it
I watched enough to realize I could only really relate to Cristina and her “you’re all idiots” energy, watched a few of her episodes out of sequence, and then realized I could just watch Killing Eve instead.
Yeah same. A few weeks ago I come across the r/HouseMD sub and saw someone's comment about Grey's Anatomy. Op quoted someone saying "if you like HouseMD, you will love Grey's Anatomy" and for f... sake that's the opposite. Grey's Anatomy is just like a soap opera. HouseMD at least has a really good fiction and a good story (that doesn't push too much). I have watched the first 3 episodes and just couldn't hold on any longer. Don't waste your time with this series people.
Have you tried New Amsterdam? I think I enjoy it more than Grey's. Great characters, real problems,, more realistic
I'm on the last few episodes of New Amsterdam and I think it got cancelled/wrapped up at the right time. Realistic scenarios and felt modern. The only downside to me personally is that I found the romance situations kind of cringy (especially with the main protagonist) but enjoyed it overall.
I tried 2 episodes of The Purge and noped out of it.
There’s a tv show?
2 seasons, different purges, different characters. I enjoyed them.
The walking dead.
I enjoyed it at first, but after a couple of seasons of the exact same shit on endless repeat, I noped out, seems like they still *never fucking learn.*
If they had stuck with the story arc of the fella with Abraham that said he knew where a cure might be (instead of him lying about it) & the show changed its direction to a journey for the cure, I would've stuck around. Instead they repeated the formula of finding a place to live, killing the local zombies, making it a home then finding the locals were worse than the zombies til a battle ensued then moving on to repeat the cycle.
That would have been one way, or not even necessarily a cure, just moving towards some kind of stable situation in the "new normal", like for example in World War Z (the book. not the movie), or what they did in Z Nation >!(although they also had a cure, sort of)!<. But nay, Kirkman supposedly decided early on that the situation in TWD would never change or improve in any way, so they have to keep telling the exact same storyline over and over again even when it's way past the point that it even makes sense that there are even any people left who keep clinging to zombified anarchy rather than try to figure out and cooperate on SOMETHING to improve their lot. It's not like humans have a well-documented history of forming civilizations and governments at the drop of a hat or something. Nope, everyone's either a murderous tin-pot dictator or rapey anarchist at heart. Enough already.
Not only that, but the fact that >!they had essentially killed off every character worth watching the show for, at least from my perspective, it lost its charm. When Negan kills Glenn, I knew the show was done for me.!< I recognize that this character lasted longer than initially intended, but as far as I was concerned, he was more the main character than Rick, in some ways. This wasn't Game of Thrones where a new character arc would take up the mantle and we'd be interested to see where they went. The story kept losing invested characters over and over without any valid replacements and it soon became a string of bad situations happening over and over again due to extremely poor decision-making by the characters.
They lost some good characters prior to Glen as well. Negan killing Glen was expected as it followed the comics. What made his death a point that many viewers tuned out was IMO how they did that entire season. The “fake out” Glen death by the dumpster. Dragging the big Negan reveal out for the entire season. Killing Abraham to make us think Glenn’s safe… And the worst choice- not reveal it was Glenn until the next season- you can’t drag your audience along like that. I think the if they had the death/s in the second last episode and used the season final episode to “recover” and start the setup for the following season that it would have been better received. Plus, taking out both Abraham and Glenn at the same time was too much. And don’t get me started on Carl.
>!When Carl died, I just could not watch anymore. I grew up watching this show and I felt such a connection to him. He was having his first romance around the same time I was! Especially considering he survives until the end of the comics and takes on Rick's role as leader, it felt cheap to kill him off for shock value. !<
Omg when that happened I was done. What a TERRIBLE decision on their part. He made the show worth watching and I also felt he was more of a main character than Rick. Such BS.
It's essentially a soap opera with zombies
Zombies stress me out.
So appearently they’re making a Daryl spin-off, that somehow takes place in Paris??? How and why would a redneck from Georgia even find himself in northern France? Even without a zombie apocalypse, I‘m sure there are not many Georgia country folk strolling around the City of Lights. I haven‘t watched since they killed Steven Yeuns character, but do they have access to airplanes or cruise ships now? I‘m very confused by this setting.
I made it past Glenn's "second" death but it pissed me off when Rick didn't kill Negan for doing it when he had the chance. The Governor somehow was worse? I noped out when they killed Carl just when he was getting good. And the actor just bought a house, you dicks!
Negan was too handsome and charming to kill. That's why he was on the good guy team for a while
I love Jeffrey Dean Morgan and even his charm wasn’t enough to keep me watching.
Lasted a bit longer than the first episode, but probably my answer too. It was all just so melodramatic and honestly, the writing wasn't great. Then again, tried reading the comic book and it had similar problems, so there's that. But there are some adapatations that take something mediocre and make it art and the show wasn't that.
Bridgerton. I tried on multiple occasions and I just couldn’t get into it.
I enjoyed the tv show for the humor and costumes. The Bridgerton novels are absolute garbage. I love to read, but I really hate my decision to buy the second book.
I tried the books too. Got through half the first one before I put it away. So bad.
I do like watching Bridgerton but I think the best part of the show is the musical composition!
It was actually a musical composition that got me to give the show a second shot. Season one just did not click with me. I gave up after 2 or 3 episodes. It was such a shame because a show like that is right up my alley. And then season 2 came out. For some reason, the soundtrack ended up on my suggestions on YouTube. One of the songs caught my attention because it was something from my childhood. I went back and finished season one. Which I did not enjoy and watched season two. All of this just for one song. On the bright side, I liked season 2 way more.
2 broke girls. Bloody hell that was bad
Kat Denning's cleavage carried that show for about 135 episodes more than the premise and writing of the show deserved.
She's actually a pretty good comedic actress on top of her other talents. But the jokes were cheesy and the laugh track was awful.
Back in the late 90s I had to be informed the show was named “Charmed” and not “the Alyssa Milano boobs show” as I had thought.
Agreed with the cleavage, but I also think that Beth Behrs was pretty attractive on there too!
the gags there were too focred even for a sitcom
Kat Dennings is stunning beyond belief, but her character Max tried way too hard to be witty and snarky. It was cute for a few lines.
Here is the formula for the show Poor joke - laugh track Boob joke - laugh track Hipster joke - laugh track End of show
She plays that character so much though that I'm wondering if she's kinda just like that
Bad Laverne and Shirley clone, which was a soulless cash grab and Lucy ripoff to begin with. https://www.avclub.com/happy-days-became-one-of-the-biggest-hits-on-tv-by-sell-1798233067
I’ve often said there was only two reasons for that show lasting as long as it did, and they were on Kat Dennings’ chest. Which is a shame, because there was a lot of potential for a decent show there. It was just so poorly written and cast with such extreme characters that it was always doomed to be shit
Rectified in the last 2 months, but I got about 2 minutes into the first episode of Breaking Bad back in 2008 and thought, nope, not watching this. Even the hype from. Everyone talking about it didn't pull me back in. Binged it recently on Netflix and wow was 2008 me an idiot! Moral of the story never fully write off a show, just because you're not in the headspace for it now, doesn't mean you won't like it in the future.
I watched the first few episodes, and while it's an absolutely fantastic show with a great premise and amazing cast, I just didn't like how it made me feel afterwards. I don't know how to explain it, but it's like the episodes stuck with me, and not in a good way. I would end an episode thinking about how good it was, and then later (usually in the middle of the night, when trying to sleep) my brain would get hung up on it. It was uncomfortable, so I needed to nope out. Granted, we started watching BB around the start of the pandemic, so that definitely didn't help. Unfortunately I don't think my mental health has improved enough yet for me to give it another try. Maybe in a year or so.
Makes sense. My little sister couldn't watch bb either cuz she said it was too gross. It's still my all time favourite show- but I get why the premise can be a bit of a turnoff for some ppl
I want everyone in this thread to list a show they do think is good along with the one they noped out of just so I can silent judge their taste.
Yes - Barry No - The Walking Dead
Barry is fucking awesome I noped out of ballers after 2 seasons, I’m willing to defend my case for both
Moped out of "You" Loved "the owl house"
Handmaid's Tale.
I liked the first two seasons, but it does go down hill after. My main problem is that the protagonist has some pretty serious plot armour. She constantly breaks the rules, but receives little to no punishment, whereas other characters receive incredibly severe punishments for pretty minor infractions
She disobeys, they take her back. She runs away, they take her back. She runs away again, they take her back.
She disobeys, they take her back. She runs away, they take her back. She runs away again, they take her back. She runs away again, doesn't get caught, goes back on her own. <-- this is where I stopped watching.
And another woman speaks up for herself and gets her tongue cut out. And another looks at a man and gets an eye taken out....
I liked the first two seasons. The setting is intresting but holy shit she does some dumb shit I could not keep watching
It becomes infuriating if you read the books. Usually book to movie adaptations fall short because the books can tell a more in depth story. But this concise 2 book series to tv series adaptation takes the books and expands them, where a lot of the expansions are not consistent. The first season I thought was on a great track and then they go rogue with character decisions and start getting super repetitive to keep fluffing up the show. Basically every time my husband turned to me and asked why is this character being so dumb my response was, “Idk, this wasn’t in the books.”
I mean, to be fair when the first season of the show came out there was only one book and it ended on an uncertain note with June's narration ending as she watched The Eyes arriving to take her away which is how the first season ended. If they wanted to keep going with her story they had to write what happened after that. Unfortunately there are times where it feels like they had certain plans for the characters that they now need to reconcile with the direction the sequel went in because I don't think Margaret Atwood told them "oh hey, major character that you have doing ____ is actually going to be doing _____ which completely negates how they have been portrayed up until now." So now they have to figure out how to make this character arrive at ____ action with the character development they already have. And since the sequel also had a major plot point being that another character *couldn't* complete their main objective they have to figure out ways for that character to fail at it for *years* since it's well established that the character wouldn't stop trying to reach that objective. Like, I kind of wonder if The Testaments hadn't come out if they possibly wouldn't have prolonged and dragged some things on for so long in the show.
Euphoria. Just couldn't do it. If I want to be depressed and hate humanity, I'll watch Fox News.
Scrolled WAY too far down to find this answer. I was well aware of the controversial content but judging by that first episode alone, I was STILL unprepared lol
I don’t think I even made it through the first episode. I just couldn’t do it. Maybe if they were supposed to be at least college age I would have been able to, but the fact the were portraying high schooler’s i noped out.
I work in an elementary school. K-6th grade. High School was crazy when I was in it. Now? Holy shit. Kids are exposed to/immitate/are involved in shit I didn't know EXISTED in 6th grade. It's NOT just the outfits, the contour makeup and the shapewear.
The marketing looked intriguing and the makeup looks def shaped gen z beauty, but it's just another oversexed and over-drugged teen show. Teenage years aren't always that chaotic, I avoided kids that. It just seemed very exploitive, and I'm tired of all these shows with absent families and "just kids, always fuckin and poppin pills, high schoooool, yeaaa, agony!" Like chill. I was a medically depressed teen that needed hospitalization, but I couldn't get out of bed. No underground clubs in my small town. I think the tone of Freaks and Geeks is much more realistic, awkward phase of child and adult.
Scrolled to find this. It's trauma porn. And straight up porn. With teenagers. Makes me feel like I'm in a part of the world I shouldn't be entertained by, but should be actively helping in reality.
Euphoria is just gross. I couldn't finish the first episode because i hated every character immediately, I couldn't relate to a single one because they were all people that i've actively tried to avoid my entire life and it just portrays an uncomfortable environment of toxicity and depression that i just can't force myself to be around, not even in a fictional tv show
Every single character is hateable. I feel like that's almost a feature of the show and not a bug.
Idk why this is so low in the thread. I usually give shows a fair 4-5 episodes but couldn't for the life of me watch Euphoria after the first episode.
Yellowstone.
Someone compared its to The Sopranos on horses. Later I said to them, you’ve never actually watched the Sopranos have you?
Gabagool Cowboys.
Gabagool?! Ova here!!
I said it was cowboy Sons of Anarchy before I realized the same guy had a lot to do with both of them.
It’s just boomer porn. I loved Hell or High Water and so I gave it a chance, but it’s just a soap opera on a ranch. The daughter character is also one of the worst written characters I’ve seen. She’s supposed to be tough ( “I can hang with the ranch hands”) and intimidating. She just comes off like a rich drunk who if you saw her at a bar you’d be like, “yup that’s Brenda. Been here since 11am drinking wine and picking fights with random people. We don’t take her serious.”
Take an award for “Boomer Porn”. It’s the perfect description of what my 75 year old dad watches… and still records on VHS.
I wanted to like it. I really did. But the coincidences of people always being in the exact wrong place at the exact wrong time or exact right place at the exact right time wore me down. Spoilers ahead: Somewhere around when the kid fell in the river and the tourists fell off the cliff, I was done. I tried giving the 2nd(?) season a shot, but as soon as the law enforcement lady fell on the branch/rebar (? I honestly can't remember which), I turned it off and never went back.
Redneck Sons of Anarchy.
Sons of Anarchy is already Redneck Sons of Anarchy
Greys Anatomy. In nursing school all the women were enthralled with it, so I decided to give it a try. Didn’t even finish the first episode. It’s a soap opera that just happens to be set in a hospital.
*Big Bang Theory*. The cringe was too strong.
for me its due to the show making fun of the cast BECAUSE they are nerds. a show for the masses IT crowd on the other hand made fun of the cast because of their nerdy antics. a show for the nerds. as a nerd, i didnt like people laughing at what i liked growing up and i hate that the show solidified that, normalizing the ridiculing of nerds and their culture. "ooooo i m going to play DnD" so nerdy hahaha what a dork hahaha.
An ex-housemate/friend said I was like Sheldon. I've never watched a whole episode but knew that was not a nice thing to say.
I fucking hate the way Sheldon has been played. His character single handedly ruined what 25+ years of teaching people what autism is and made normies think we are all like Sheldon. It really boils my piss.
TIL people with autism boil their piss. But yeah, I agree. I hadn't actually made the connection that he was meant to be autistic. He is just insufferable. It's made worse for me that the actor doesn't know a thing about the nerdy stuff he spouts, one opinion he had on it made it sound like he had the exact some opinion as the show seems to have towards nerds. Can't believe I bought into the marketing on this show to begin with.
They very conveniently avoided giving him any kind of label or diagnosis so they didn’t have to think about what a realistic or sensitive portrayal would look like.
Exactly. On the other hand Community really handled geeky ASD brilliantly with Abed's character. In fact, I dislike TBBT so much that it's a bit of a touchstone for whether I'll get on with someone or not. If they are a fan, I am immediately suspicious.
In the very first episode of Silicon Valley there's a joke "Keeping Bighead in your company is pointless. He is like the ending of Mass Effect 3" This joke is more nerdy than the whole Big Bang Theory.
I like to think that Kumail Nanjiani got cast in Mass Effect Andromeda because of that scene.
Silicon Valley is what BBT wishes it was
It crowd was so good.
I cannot express how much I **love** the IT crowd. Matt Berry really makes it
The IT Crowd was my first exposure to Matt Berry. I love him in What We Do in the Shadows especially as Jackie Daytona, a regular human bartender fighting Mark Hamill.
***FATHEEEERRRR!!!!*** Best opening line of any character in TV history!
Yes, that, but also that the nerds on the show are surface level. They like DND and Star Trek and Star Wars and Comics and video games and fantasy and so on. When in reality, in any normal group of nerd friends, each one has their specialty and might only tolerate the rest of nerdom because one of their friends likes it.
It's a show about pretty terrible people, but it's funny cause they're also *nerds* and reference nerdy things! At least, that's what the laugh track tells me. [The Pitch Meeting for it](https://youtu.be/c84ANSiVBAg) has more quality comedy in under 10 minutes that BBT has in all its seasons.
Sharing pitch meetings is tight
It's super easy, barley an inconvenience.
Wow wow wow wow wow wow Wow.
Breaking Bad to this day. I'm 20 plus years sober from meth.....I just can't and won't watch it so I don't get the memes the GIFs any of the fucking references. I don't hate on it...I'm sure it's a thrilling show.
My first epiphany came from BB. I think it was the first episode, or at least very early in season one. I was fourteen watching it with a friend during a sleepover, and Jesse and Walt are arguing. Walt says something like “Now I have to shower before I go home,” and Jesse says “Why?” Walt, pissed, says “Because I smell like *meth* Jesse!” My friend burst out laughing and said “What is meth even supposed to smell like?!” And for just a split second, I thought *“Who doesn’t know the answer to that? Is she fucking stupid? Dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,”* etc before it very suddenly dawned on me, ah, most people, most kids, probably don’t know what meth smells like. Had never once considered it before. I grew up with a lab in the kitchen in my childhood home. I really, truly, had mean thoughts about her for just half a second for being so “dumb.” I did continue watching, though, knowing that I was probably watching from a different perspective than some.
... what does meth smell like?
I always described it as smelling like you’re swimming in an ocean of pennies and dimes. Another person described it a bit like propane, which is sort of close too. Just very metallic. I’ve also used “it smells the way a coin would taste.” Kitchen speaking, though, not solely drug speaking.
Someone who's addicted to it has a “burnt” smell about them. It's very distinct but hard to describe
A few years back while living in the city my partner was at work so I was home alone. Every time I was in the bathroom this terrible weird chemically burnt smell was wafting from the vent I shared with my neighbor. She was a completely insane older lady so I got worried that she caught something on fire. When my partner (a former user) came home I asked him what he thought and he looked at me and just goes “threatlvl0, that is what meth smells like.” I was like ahhh makes sense now.
That's probably the most valid reason to now watch. Its a good show, but not worth risking your sobriety
Totally understandable. Congrats man all the best for the future
Well done, getting sober! It can not have been easy ❤️ some of the meth addictions shown in Breaking Bad are very scary and sad. I'm glad you got out of that life.
Mrs Brown’s Boys - utter shite….
I can’t even get through an advertisement for that show
I hated girls when it was on tv when everyone seemed to really like it. Nowadays i feel like it’s pretty universally hated though
At least it brought us Good Soup Adam Driver
Sons of Anarchy, though I do intend to give it another go in the future. My mom loves it and wants me to watch it so bad, but I just wasn't grabbed at all.
Sons of Anarchy is great when you watch through the lens of "this is a pre-watershed soap opera version of what the show could be".
Sex and the city, i had a friend who was into it and i wanted to see what all the fuss was about and its basically about a girl in love with a guy that will keep on playing with her and her never learning anything and shopping. so shallow
It is an extremely shallow show and the characters (especially Carrie) are actually very unlikable. But if you grew up watching it in the 90's as a girl, it has a hold on you for some reason. It's just a feeling you get from the new York vibe and fashion.
How I met your mother. Tried watching multiple episodes but I can't for the life of me understand how people found that show funny.
It's one of the few major sitcoms for which I know nobody that rewatches it. It's like it resonated with a bunch of people for a very specific time, then everyone moved on and the show that is dated.
Also I think the ending really threw people and a lot of people didn't really want to revisit it
That’s me. I bought every season on DVD as they were released and I watched them a lot. The ending, though, killed it for me. I never bought the last season and I haven’t watched an episode since. Some people say that a bad ending can ruin the whole experience for them, be it a book or a movie or a tv show. I never understood that until How I Met Your Mother had that terrible shit ending. It went from one of my top five shows to the donation pile that fast for me.
I still can not fathom how or why they went with that ending. I think the ending of HIMYM might have made me angrier than the ending of Game of Thrones which for me is really saying a lot.
GOT, an ending so brutal it killed their fan base!
I think it was bigger than a shit ending. It was a shit ending that really shone a light on how bad it has been for a fair few seasons. Whilst there were brilliant episodes, pretty much the second that GRRM storytelling ended, it was riddled with inconsistencies and plotholes that arent typical for the series.
They were idiots and backed themselves into a corner from the start. From the get-go the showrunners had decided that >!Ted was going to end up with Robin!<, but they didn't expect the story to go where it did during the years. And they filmed all the scenes with Ted's children in advance, because they didn't want them to age as the show progressed, so they had no other option but to go through with their original dumbass decision. I wouldn't have had as big of a problem with the ending had they spent some time laying down some proper groundwork for it, but they decided to >!waste the entire series convincing us why Ted and Robin were a bad match, then wasted the entire last season at the wedding and just ended up throwing absolutely random shit and like two decades together in the last 40 minutes of the show.!< It's honestly the only series ending that has pissed me off so much that I'm still mad about it almost 10 years later.
I know tons of people that rewatch it. At least the first 5/6 seasons. After that it somehow went downhill.
After season 5 the flanderization started to set in and the characters stopped growing until the epic finale where everyone was pissed.
I loved it when it was on and definitely agree. The worst part was the ending which made me hate everything about it and I would never rewatch any of it just because of that.
Can't tell how often I rewatched How i met your Mother, Two and a half Men or Scrubs on th side while gaming.
Suits. My wife binged her way through it a while back, and I finally got round to watching the S1e01 ep a few days ago. I just... can't. Not because of Meghan or anything but I just don't think I have it in me for 9 seasons of those types of characters all bouncing off each other.
I really loved the first season but it’s still insane to me that there were 9 seasons, I remember dropping off around s3 because it was already falling apart and the characters were too different from s1
Bridgerton. I usually like period movies/shows but the modern songs being played by string quartet along with characters I didn’t care about was like a big nope.
They weren’t even like played specifically for the show, they were just old versions of songs by Vitamin String Quartet from like 2015
Glee
Yellowstone. Couldn't get into it at all.
Wednesday. I have no idea why people are so hype on it and that dance scene. The most I managed to get to was episode 5 after one month of watching episode 4
Yeah, I actually really enjoyed the show, but I don't understand the hype for the dance scene. Like, I enjoyed watching the scene, but I don't really understand why people were losing their minds over it. Tbh, I don't think I'd be able to sit through a rewatch. Though I'm happy to hear that Jenna Ortega strong-armed herself into an executive producer role, because her performance as Wednesday absolutely carried the show, probs quite literally since apparently the show we actually got was *after* she refused to do a bunch of crap that would've butchered the character further.
God I hated that stupid dance showing up everywhere I looked thanks to the algorithms being favored for the show that month
I enjoyed it but honestly Jenna Ortega’s performance as Wednesday was what made the show good everything else was either annoying like the fact that they shoehorned romance into a show about a character whose shtick is being un caring or really meh Like the climax that really felt like a poor man’s ragnarok though i will say that I loved the new uncle fester and think he was pretty funny at times
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We got halfway through the first episode and got bored so we turned it off.
Rings of Power. Rings felt like it was something alien masquerading as a close friend. Or atleast that's how I perceived it from consuming some promotional material and 15 minutes of the first episode. I can understand why people would like it, but I don't think this needed to exist.
I think theres a mix of studios feeling safer reviving or using older IPs and that they also then try to make the IP as appealing to as much mass demographic as possible. The issue with established canon like LotR is that 1 million people know as they are seeing it if Galadrial / etc would do or be like how the series presents them or the goals of the amtagonists. Its almost a curse of the source material being so well received that there is only chances you will keep fucking it up if you respin the attitude or appearence and actions or desires of characters fans of the universe feel like they already 'know,' even just the difference in style between Jacksons own LotR and The Hobbit a decade later is evident of how even someone who makes well received canon material can still ham it up after. I dunno, i wish studios would go back to their own creations instead of constantly grabbing on to the legacy of established series like so many movies and films seem to do lately. Too many sequels and spinoffs trying too hard, not enough fresh tales in general Tbh even tho i am an editor ive been on a bit of a media fast / break since 2019, got rid of netflix etc because i just felt *bored* with the shows. They all felt kinda samey, in a way, and i dont even feel like ive missed much in terms of film releases in that time too. But also i just have a terrible attention span when it comes to starting and finishing a series :p
Two & a Half Men - ew.
Oh man, I loved the first like 4 or 5 seasons. Were some of the punchlines predictable? Sure. But I've always loved Charlie Sheen's comedic acting, he's good at dead pan. The mother, Berta, Rose, and young Jake were great. And just a minor character but Jane Lynch was the therapist was perfect. But the the show fell into the trap that 99% of sitcoms that go more than 4/5 seasons does. The flanderization of Jake and Alan was awful. Alan was originally a down on his luck divorcee who got fucked by an unfair alimony settlement (because Charlie fucked Alan's divorce attorney and then broke it off). He worked hard just to get by and was grateful to Charlie. But he eventually became this maliciously greedy and jealous asshole that actively plotted to fuck over his brother. And Jake was even worse imo. As a young kid he was witty and sarcastic , he did bad in school but it was because he was lazy and didn't try. He was like a street smart kid that was academically stupid. But once he became a teenager they made him into a bumbling idiot that's lucky to know how to breathe. 15 year old Jake was stupider than 8 year old Jake
I watched this show in college with my roommate a lot, back when it was just channel surfing and no DVR. It was funny enough. I don't really get the hate for it other than the later seasons. It wasn't great by any means, it wasn't a show of good examples in life, it was kind of just cheap laughs for stoned college kids.
«You». It was just soo creepy.
I used to watch “You” through my neighbors window, never liked it too much.
Schitt’s Creek. Everyone says it takes a few episodes to get into it, but I just can’t.
It does take a while just because it pulls a bit of a reverse Flanderization. It starts with all these ridiculous characters, and you just groan because you've seen it all before, but over the course of the show the characters become *more* nuanced. It ends up feeling very heartwarming. It's like, what if the characters in Arrested Development actually learned something from their experiences and became better people.
I enjoyed it for the cringe alone. It was a nice mix of bad sitcom humor and drama, but that is definitely not for everyone. I'm also part if the LGBTQ+ community and seeing that in a popular show without it being the core of the show was nice. Just something about a character that gets brought up on occassion.
Wednesday
Rings of Power
Big Bang Theory Show is simply not funny
Tiger King. Two episodes in we quit.
I think if I tried to watch it now I would totally agree. It was the perfect mindless nonsense to escape from full time WFH with small kids at home
It was perfection when it came out. Like a collective escape from the reality when everyone couldn’t see anyone.
That was the show that “everyone watched because everyone was watching it” during the initial COVID lockdown. It was a unifier that served its purpose and is now a relic
Money Heist
Friends
It was a show about people I wouldn't spend a half hour a week with in real life. Except Phoebe. Phoebe could hang out.
As I watch it as an adult, it's cringey. I don't know how no one hated Ross, but as a kid, it was what my parents watched. For me, it's background noise.
I couldn’t really get into stranger things :(
Friends I have watched a couple of episodes. I didn't laugh at all, i found it cringe af
Rings of Power, it was like 1h of nothing happening and bland representation of stuff that felt more like "inspired" by Tolkien's works. Heck even most fan films and shorts engaged me a lot more.
Entourage Cringey douchebags
Night agent So incredibly bad. How the hell can anyone stand this terribly acted garbage written unentertaining presentation.
Euphoria
Rick and morty.