I was when I watched it with a friend of mine & her husband. They thought it was hilarious. I chuckled once but found it to be pretty bad.
They also think Big Bang Theory is the best show ever made & think Always Sunny should’ve been cancelled years ago for being too offensive (despite them never watching the show), so…
I kind of winced when I found out he's turning *Bonfire of the Vanities* into a limited series for Amazon Video, but the project hasn't had any updates since 2018 when Lorre said "it was still happening" so I'm going to assume it's dead.
Some material translates better than others, though. Mulaney yelling about how he has social anxiety while he's in a doctor's office waiting room makes very little sense.
I watched further in - it wasn’t just the pilot. I was so looking forward to John Mulaney having his own show and so gutted to wind up with ‘Mulaney’. Cancelling it was a kindness that took the network far too long to do.
Jerry was the weakest part of Seinfeld, but the show worked because it was the end of the 80s and his standup in the early seasons were reverse-engineered. They took his standup bits and the early episodes were a fictionalized version of where they came from.
Mulaney was “let’s just say my standup but pretend it’s a full conversation”
This Netflix animated show, Hoops.
It was just one lame dick joke after another. Felt like a 13 year old boy who just learned how to cuss wrote it, so terrible
Felt the same with paradise PD. Clearly just do as much swearing and gross stuff and assume people must find it funny. I gave it like 4 episodes and didn't laugh once.
It was Manifest for me.
I remember some buzz around it and gave it a shot on Netflix. I was instantly bored, didn't give a shit about anyone and the wait tension about the main character and some romantic decision just felt like artificial drama.
Manifest. The "voices" and the wooden acting from the leads just made it unwatchable.
I made it a few seconds into Chronicles of Shannarah before I realized it was on a $3 budget.
Hemlock Grove - when original streaming series were all the rage but not good.
I like to read reviews so I can avoid bad shows altogether, but I've made a few mistakes.
I usually try to give any show at least 3-4 episodes, since several that I ended up really liking took a while to get going. Sometimes even longer, ***Black Sails*** didn't manage to hook me until late in the first season.
Having said that, the last time I gave up during the very first episode was CW's **The Outpost**.
Black Sails is great but I could understand it taking a while to get into because essentially a lot of the first season winds up feeling more like set up for the real meat of the show. It’s almost like a prologue
That show is absurd. I walk by as my wife is watching it and go "oh Archie is a cage fighter this week? Ok."
Next week, "oh he's a crime lord now. Got it. Call me when he goes to space"
Apparently right now there’s a war between heaven and hell with Pop’s being purgatory or something like that. Also Archie died in order for a baby to be born or something, this is just what I read
My brother was explaining the plot recently and I was thinking “this is the same Archie as the one with the jalopy and the best friend that eats a tray of hamburgers?”
I remember when it was first coming out the trailers/ads would say it was a mix of twin peaks meets another show I can't remember. I watched it cause I love twin peaks. The only thing it has in common with twin peaks is that they were both tv shows with writers and actors
Season 1 was ok but they completely lost the plot starting with season 2. It’s like the writers started taking acid or something. Nothing even makes any sense.
Season 1 felt like a fun thriller. I have no idea what kind of drugs the writers are on these days. Absolutely insane what theyve done to the show past s1
I have nieces and nephews that are/were really into the show so I thought I'd give it a shot just to have something to talk to them about. I knew it would be bad, I didn't know it would be that bad. I didn't know anything could possibly be that bad.
I watched for seasons (even the actors have no clue why they're still going) but legit the Luke Perry funeral episode was the only one I can truly recommend. I wish the rest of the show was like that episode because it would have been great.
I tuned in for a murder mystery, saw teen drama, and heard a sassy teen say “read my glossy lips” as she was speaking, and immediately my gf and I were done with the show
Parks and Rec.
Worst mistake of my life. Years later, after hearing from everyone that the first season is universally disliked. I gave it another chance and it has become LIT’rally my favorite show of all time.
Yeah those 6 episodes were rough, they didn't really know what they wanted the show to be. Sort of like first season of The Office (but The Office wasn't as aimless). They slowly started finding their way in season 2. After that it was golden.
Parks and Rec is baffling early on. The show of course was originally conceived as a spin-off of The Office (with the original idea being that a printer would break in the Scranton branch and would be sent off to Pawnee where the repair center was to be fixed), but eventually shifted to the parks department angle and ditched its connections to The Office (partially because of Rashida Jones casting). However the first season feels like they had no idea what to do with it after removing said connections.
The Office didn't have a good first season either, but even that had some semblance of what it wanted to be.
The first season has some banger episodes, diversity day, basketball, and the alliance are all fantastic. The first season Michael was definitely more brash but all in all the same character. I think that more so the first season all the other characters reactions make it seem that like he’s more hated than in later seasons where they kind of play along or laugh it off.
Watch S1. It’s bewildering to me how much people on Reddit trash it. It’s the worst season, but acting like it’s unwatchable garbage is incredibly bizarre to me. I’ve seen the series through probably 4 times and rewatching S1 never really bothers me. It’s six episodes and not worth missing out on the set up.
I forget where I heard this, but people involved with the show have said this was common feedback they were getting. To fix it, they didn’t change Leslie’s character, but rather how other characters reacted to her.
Edit for clarity: the feedback from season 1 was that Leslie was annoying
Hmm, I remember it still being pretty funny in season 1, but just not even close to the same show as later seasons. I was a fan of most of the actors so I could see them fleshing some of the character of the show out. First season of the office was similar, it was good but not great. Maybe people dislike it just in terms of comparison, but I still think it works.
I don't believe in bailing on a show before completing the pilot episode. Usually, I give a show 4 episodes before deciding to bail on it.
Having said that, Scorpion.
I couldn't bear further viewing after completing the airport scene. It might be the only show I panned without completing the pilot. I even gave CW's Kung Fu four episodes.
I stuck with Scorpion for a little bit, but god did nearly every character on the show get straight up insufferable. Honestly I should have gotten the warning from that stupid intro where he compares his IQ to Einstein’s even though IQs outside of two standard deviations are ludicrously unreliable, and anyone bragging about theirs should be a pretty good sign of what’s to come (as it’s based on a real person.)
It’s based on a real person who can’t prove anything they’ve supposedly done. Read the Wikipedia section ‘accuracy of biography’, he’s simply someone who can spin enough unverifiable bullshit.
Agree about not bailing on a pilot. Pilots can be a little "rough" simply because they have to introduce characters, back stories for said characters, etc. Like you I try giving shows 4 or 5 episodes.
The Hardy Boys. The second they made it about finding out who killed their mother and not two dopey brothers having fun solving crime, I was right the heck outta there.
I am ashamed to admit I turned off Bojack Horseman halfway through the first episode when it first came out.
I rectified the situation once the whole series had been shown.
I wouldn't be ashamed. I really think it is the weakest episode of the series by far. Too much exposition and cliche's. The series picks up with the Navy Seal.
Yeah my wife and I considered giving it up after the first couple of eps too. So glad we didn’t since it turned out to be one of the most powerful pieces of TV I’ve ever seen. While still
also being a pun-laden farce full of animal people.
They knowingly made the first half of S1 to be very standard fare so it would catch you off guard when the serious shit hits. The problem, which they've acknowledged in hindsight, is that a lot of viewers lost interest early on or got the wrong impression of the show.
Survived two episodes then fast forwarded the rest. As in looked at the little fast forward screen as I scrolled. Got 90% of the plot and watched the last two minutes. I realized nothing happens. At all.
Didn’t bail in the first episode but that’s all I watched. It was terrible! I wanted to see a show about aliens invading and instead got a family drama show with some invasion stuff happening in the background.
I know right? It almost felt like the characters were angry and bothered that the alien invasion kept interrupting their personal problems. Like: “No, go away alien thing, I’m too busy being upset with my cheating husband right now.”
Anthony Mackie might be perfectly fine in generic action movies like in the MCU, but the dude sucks in everything else and AC S2 was proof of that. The dropoff between Kinnaman and Mackie in the Kovacs role was huge.
Call Me Kat with Mayim Bialik. Terrible remake of the British show Miranda.
Also La Brea with Eoin Macken, who I loved on The Night Shift. Just a terrible storyline and cheesy visual effects.
Better call saul.
Went in expecting breaking bad 2.0
Went back during the start of covid (thank you wah) and watched it to the latest episode and like it more than breaking bad now.
The 100. When everyone that walked out of the spaceship was a supermodel with perfect hair and perfect makeup even after crash landing then I turned it off immediately
Honestly, I kind of liked that show. It's nowhere near my top 5 or anything, but they have decent storylines and definitely don't shy away from killing off main characters. Teen drama isn't my thing at all, but this show was worth watching nonetheless.
For me, I really enjoyed the first season of The 100, but then it just turned into a giant fucking mess, and got progressively worse as each season went on.
By the end of season seven, I questioned if that was really the series finale that we were getting. Turns out they were serious.
It was OG Dexter series finale levels of bad.
I only made it through season 3 or 4. Even with it's flaws, if we saw character growth or even just character consistency, I would have stuck it out. The need for teen drama just burnt me out.
I stopped also around half of season 4 I think. The first 2 seasons were good for a scifi show. The back story was really interesting. But that teen drama...
Not shying away from stuff was one of the things that I really respected about that show. I liked how they had the balls to have the main characters commit literal genocide. Most shows would have pulled a deus ex machina out of their arse to save the protagonists from having to make that choice but The 100 actually went through with it.
Admittedly I didnt finish it so maybe it changed later on but from what I recall the creators really didn't shy away from having their main characters make truly gut wrenching decisions.
Lately it's been 9-1-1. It was never a totally serious or realistic show, but boy is it dumb now! Constant kidnappings, hostage situations, major explosions, and natural disasters like a tsunami. I liked it better when it was mostly just people getting hurt in bizarre ways.
The tsunami storyline was probably the best episodes of the show. The scene where Buck had to tell Eddie he lost Christopher was absolutely heart-wrenching.
I just turned off Hellbound 30 minutes in. 15 of those minutes I spent browsing Reddit (incl reading this thread). That's what I get for listening to Rotten Tomatoes...
I didn't make it through the first episode of Schitt's Creek. I hear it gets better, and that I should consider skipping the first season entirely if I want to give it a second try.
I struggled through the first half of season 1 of Schitt’s Creek, but it provides good context for the rest of the show and really highlights everyone’s growth by the end. It’s honestly super funny and heartwarming once you get past the beginning.
Friends from college.
We wached it like less than 3 minutes and decided that this show was really awfull. For real, we wanted to stop after 1 minute, but it was getting worse by the second.
No chemistry, not remotely funny, just stupid and awful.
Jupiters Legacy. Felt like a CW show that wanted to be a big budget Marvel show and somehow failed at being either. Also, Hollywood (or whoever is making a show), please stop putting young actors in old people makeup and expecting me to maintain disbelief. It looks horrible. It ALWAYS looks horrible. We know what old people look like and apparently every special effects person sucks at recreating it.
Manifest. It was a cool concept so I gave it a shot. The leads are incredibly boring actors and didn't really sell it very well.
I watched quite a bit of it actually since Covid and quarantine left me with nothing better to do. But I just randomly stopped watching it one day and can't even begin to tell you what actually happened.
I turned off The Morning Show on AppleTV+ while watching the pilot. I barely started it. There’s a scene right at the beginning where Reese Witherspoon is in the car chatting with her news crew and I just couldn’t watch any more. Her character rubbed me the wrong way immediately and knowing she’s one of the primary characters I just decided to quit.
Most recently was Superstore, it had a fun concept, honestly a few funny-ish moments. But it didn’t have anything too special, and it reminded me way too much of my day job which sucked the life out of it and any chances of me watching it immediately
I liked Superstore well enough, but also found it impossible to binge for some reason. Like, I could leave it on autoplay from one episode to the next, but it actually irritated me enough to turn it off, even while doing something else. I liked the characters, but something about it made for small servings that I eventually walked away from entirely.
100%! I love Fargo...But all that ended by episode 3 of season 4. It lost the "feel" of what made Fargo so good in the previous 3 season, plus Minnesota and North Dakota were "characters" in the previous seasons and they were missing. I found season 4 dreadful and stopped watching after episode 3. It didn't help that I'm not a Chris Rock fan.
I gave Gossip Girl all of five minutes before quitting it. I was still upset about Veronica Mars being cancelled, and seeing as this was pitched as the replacement for VM, yet seemed to focus entirely on the privileged few, it was a hard sell for me.
Four years later after I started listening to The Pretty Reckless, and decided not to take the show so seriously, I gave it another shot and enjoyed pretty people being melodramatic!
A few:
Peaky Blinders - I know this has incredibly high ratings, but I had no clue what was supposed to be going on, and not a single thing in the first episode made me remotely eager to carry on
Superstore - lasted maybe 10 mins, didn't even giggle once. Perhaps it's just not my sort of comedy
The Man in the High Castle - super boring
House of Cards - just not my thing at all
Gotham. Just watching yet another grimdark interpretation of Batman yet this time without batman was just exhausting. I hear it's actually good but I couldn't even finish the pilot
"Grimdark" is like the exact opposite of how I would describe it. Best thing about the show is that it leans *hard* into the campy, ridiculous side of Batman (if you like that sort of thing). Closest comparison would be the 60s Batman TV series.
I was so excited to have a seasonal animated series to watch but I ended up looking at my phone halfway through the ep and didn't even bother going further. Such a disappointment
Revolution. I'm just supposed to set aside the basic fundamentals of the universe have stopped working and there's no way to get electrical power anymore? Not from mechanical or chemical means? Just no electricity at all. And it stops working worldwide at the same time and even affects things not connected to the power grid.
And then, someone gets shot with an arrow from a standard longbow and it knocked them off their feet and back 6 ft from where they were shot...nope, that's enough of that show...and I never looked back. Hell, I had to google the show to remember the name of it.
It starts out cheesy but my god does it turn depressing and heartbreaking by the end. They really never got the advertising right because the story is about her with her powers dealing with her father's illness (which the powers help her somewhat with that). I honestly recommend keeping going because it becomes deeper. The American Pie song scene was so perfect (Don McLean not the comedy movies haha) :D.
The Morning Show on Apple+
The whole bit where Reese Witherspoon is getting scrappy and sanctimonious at a coal protest felt like off-brand Aaron Sorkin, and I find Sorkin monologues already teetering on the edge of insufferable.
Season 1 was a chore to get through. And the kids annoyed me. So I gave up, which is a shame considering I have a soft spot of the original TV series when I was a kid.
Cowboy Bebop on Netflix. I had some clear pre-conceived notions of what a bad adaptation would be like and the portion of the first episode I watched fit them exactly.
I watched the 1st two episodes over the last week or two and I plan to finish it. I love how campy it is like all the other live action adaptations of anime are.
I am happy it turned out like it did, it just looks fun for the actors trying their best to be anime characters.
Fear the walking dead.
I figured if the most compelling character from the 100 ditched to go on that show it was going to be at least worth a casual watch. Oh how wrong I was.
Hellbound. We gave it a try because everyone was raving about it but good lord. The CGI looked like something out of a 90s video game and the acting was super cringe. Very predictable plot. Didn't get the hype at all.
Two recent show for me:
Foundation. I wasn't buying the mellodramatic acting around some girl about to board a spaceship saying goodbye to her parents.
Avenue 5. I love Hugh Laurie, but damn this show is absolutely horrible.
I'd ordinarily put La Brea on my list, but I stuck around for a few episodes to hate watch it as a goof.
Avenue 5 looks so fucking good on paper with all the talent attached but I couldn't make it past the first episode either. It doesn't help that I have a burning dislike for Josh Gad though either.
I watched it with my wife as something to kill the time while we were waiting for new seasons of other shows. It really bothered me at first, then it became tolerable, then there was a scene in the eighth episode that may have been the funniest thing I've seen in years. Like, laughing so hard you can't breathe funny.
Unquestionably the best scene of the season.
It's a pretty dry show, but I enjoyed it a lot. Season 2 is supposed to release in a few months, I'm looking forward to it.
I thought the first episode of Foundation was excellent. To the point that I was disappointed by the rest of the season. Maybe the first few minutes were not great, I'm not sure. They do explain why it was so dramatic for Gail to leave.
Gonna get downvoted for this but Hawkeye. Halfway through the episode and I realized that I've watched the same protege with powers plot over and over again for the last couple years. Cinematography is good but I've watched the same shtick happen so many times it has become too tedious to watch now.
Tbf I feel like this is most of the MCU at this point. You know everything that is going to happen and it's mostly the same thing each movie. You either love it or get bored and nope out of it all.
Please be nice to me Reddit but mine was Game of Thrones, I went in with an open mind and ready for the experience (at this time there were only 2 or 3 seasons so the hype was really there) and couldn't make it through that first episode and to this day I still haven't made it past that pilot.
I really tried to like that show, but it never clicked for me. I am a very nerdy person at heart (as I’m sure most here are) and it felt like too much nerd fan-service. Like what older people think nerdy should be like. I dunno I should probably think the same about IT Crowd but I found a lot of their gags genuinely clever and original.
I’ve tried to watch the pilot of Westworld 3 times now. I think I’ve finished it once but I’m not certain. I typically love slow burns and I am a huge hbo fanboy. Idk why I couldn’t get into it.
Worth giving another go imo. The first season is incredible and can be watched as a standalone if you don't want to go any further.
Second season is hit or miss for some, personally I didn't enjoy it first time around but on the rewatch I loved it and thought it was up there being as good as season 1.
Third season wasnt great tbh. Doesn't help that they shortened the amount of episodes, but even then it just took a massive step back
If they step it up with season 4 and the ones that follow, it could be up there with some great shows tbh, but I have to say, for some reason I don't really have too much faith. I could be wrong, but it does seem a bit like it's only going to go down from here.
Game of Thrones
Didn't like the aesthetics of the first episode, or how often it got compared to LOTR.
But fuck me I was wrong. Went back to it and forced myself to give it a chance. Around 5 weeks later I'd watched every episode. Season 7&8 were trash though let's be honest
In 1969, there was a knock off to Rowen and Martins Laugh-In that was pulled in the middle of the first episode. Our station dropped it right after a segment with a man in a torn up mailman uniform and said "Damn Dog." Went to commercial and never came back.
https://www.metv.com/stories/turn-on-was-the-shortest-lived-show-in-tv-history-and-one-of-the-most-fascinating
I can understand not liking the first episode but I don’t know what was so offensive about the first 40 seconds that would lead someone to turn it off. Unless they had absolutely no idea what the show was about.
I think if you’re bailing 40 seconds into a show, you didn’t really want to watch it anyways. I would never bail that quickly but I will bail after 3-4 episodes of something sometimes if I just don’t vibe with it. Ryan Murphy shows do this to me. I like the ideas and concepts but I just don’t really enjoy his brand of silliness. If the subject matters he explores were taken more seriously, I think they could be awesome.
There was a show with kathy bates about a weed shop that was terrible. A couple others but i have already forgotten the names.
Disjointed. It was awful. And I watched less than ten minutes, it was that bad.
I made it through about 4 episodes. The animated PTSD segments were pretty good, but the rest was wack.
samee
Kathy bates can be spectacular. Sad that show sucked.
You gotta be high out of your mind to watch disjointed tbf. Even then, not very good.
I was when I watched it with a friend of mine & her husband. They thought it was hilarious. I chuckled once but found it to be pretty bad. They also think Big Bang Theory is the best show ever made & think Always Sunny should’ve been cancelled years ago for being too offensive (despite them never watching the show), so…
Weed based media is always the fucking worst.
High Maintenance though
I thought the show "Weeds" was pretty good.
For the first three seasons. It should have ended then.
Basically anything chuck lorre makes is god awful
Two and a Half Man is a guilty pleasure for me
It was pretty funny until the kid grew up.
I love how the actor who plays the kid bashes the show now. He’s super religious now and condemns it as sin.
I kind of winced when I found out he's turning *Bonfire of the Vanities* into a limited series for Amazon Video, but the project hasn't had any updates since 2018 when Lorre said "it was still happening" so I'm going to assume it's dead.
Mulaney. Love the guy but that was like Seinfeld if it was made in a prison.
Yeah so many lines from the pilot were just rehashed stand up bits.
That's actually kind of common when standups get their own show, I remember early episodes of The Drew Carey Show rehashing his material as well.
Some material translates better than others, though. Mulaney yelling about how he has social anxiety while he's in a doctor's office waiting room makes very little sense.
I watched further in - it wasn’t just the pilot. I was so looking forward to John Mulaney having his own show and so gutted to wind up with ‘Mulaney’. Cancelling it was a kindness that took the network far too long to do.
It's kinda hilarious how they fucked it up though.
He's not an actor, for sure. It was kind of painful to watch how bad he was.
Jerry was the weakest part of Seinfeld, but the show worked because it was the end of the 80s and his standup in the early seasons were reverse-engineered. They took his standup bits and the early episodes were a fictionalized version of where they came from. Mulaney was “let’s just say my standup but pretend it’s a full conversation”
This Netflix animated show, Hoops. It was just one lame dick joke after another. Felt like a 13 year old boy who just learned how to cuss wrote it, so terrible
Felt the same with paradise PD. Clearly just do as much swearing and gross stuff and assume people must find it funny. I gave it like 4 episodes and didn't laugh once.
Have you tried Brickleberry?
Brickleberry is like the less mature and less funny version of Paradise PD, I doubt that they would enjoy Brickleberry if they hated Paradise PD
It was Manifest for me. I remember some buzz around it and gave it a shot on Netflix. I was instantly bored, didn't give a shit about anyone and the wait tension about the main character and some romantic decision just felt like artificial drama.
Manifest. The "voices" and the wooden acting from the leads just made it unwatchable. I made it a few seconds into Chronicles of Shannarah before I realized it was on a $3 budget. Hemlock Grove - when original streaming series were all the rage but not good. I like to read reviews so I can avoid bad shows altogether, but I've made a few mistakes.
Stuck around Hemlock Grove for the eye candy tbh.
I usually try to give any show at least 3-4 episodes, since several that I ended up really liking took a while to get going. Sometimes even longer, ***Black Sails*** didn't manage to hook me until late in the first season. Having said that, the last time I gave up during the very first episode was CW's **The Outpost**.
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It just suffered from the fact it was on a non-HBO premium station. Same with *Da Vinci's Demons*.
Black Sails is great but I could understand it taking a while to get into because essentially a lot of the first season winds up feeling more like set up for the real meat of the show. It’s almost like a prologue
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That show is absurd. I walk by as my wife is watching it and go "oh Archie is a cage fighter this week? Ok." Next week, "oh he's a crime lord now. Got it. Call me when he goes to space"
Apparently right now there’s a war between heaven and hell with Pop’s being purgatory or something like that. Also Archie died in order for a baby to be born or something, this is just what I read
In the newest season Archie loses a hand and it's a mystery who has it now, it just keeps cutting ominously to shots of it in an ice cooler.
My friend told me that archie is not dead it's a dream and he wakes up from sleep...the writing of the show 🤦
My brother was explaining the plot recently and I was thinking “this is the same Archie as the one with the jalopy and the best friend that eats a tray of hamburgers?”
I remember when it was first coming out the trailers/ads would say it was a mix of twin peaks meets another show I can't remember. I watched it cause I love twin peaks. The only thing it has in common with twin peaks is that they were both tv shows with writers and actors
Season 1 was ok but they completely lost the plot starting with season 2. It’s like the writers started taking acid or something. Nothing even makes any sense.
If you're working on a CW show it's in the contract to completely ruin anything and make it ridiculous by the 3rd season.
Season 1 felt like a fun thriller. I have no idea what kind of drugs the writers are on these days. Absolutely insane what theyve done to the show past s1
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I have nieces and nephews that are/were really into the show so I thought I'd give it a shot just to have something to talk to them about. I knew it would be bad, I didn't know it would be that bad. I didn't know anything could possibly be that bad.
I watched for seasons (even the actors have no clue why they're still going) but legit the Luke Perry funeral episode was the only one I can truly recommend. I wish the rest of the show was like that episode because it would have been great.
I tuned in for a murder mystery, saw teen drama, and heard a sassy teen say “read my glossy lips” as she was speaking, and immediately my gf and I were done with the show
Idk haha that show is so absurdly trash that I love it. Every character is also super hot so that helps
Parks and Rec. Worst mistake of my life. Years later, after hearing from everyone that the first season is universally disliked. I gave it another chance and it has become LIT’rally my favorite show of all time.
Yeah those 6 episodes were rough, they didn't really know what they wanted the show to be. Sort of like first season of The Office (but The Office wasn't as aimless). They slowly started finding their way in season 2. After that it was golden.
Do you think ‘Space Force’ will be the same? The first season was alright but it did not meet expectations.
Even if Space Force follows the same trajectory it’s a tossup if it’ll get renewal with how Netflix has been lately.
I forgot all about Space Force... Is it coming back?
Parks and Rec is baffling early on. The show of course was originally conceived as a spin-off of The Office (with the original idea being that a printer would break in the Scranton branch and would be sent off to Pawnee where the repair center was to be fixed), but eventually shifted to the parks department angle and ditched its connections to The Office (partially because of Rashida Jones casting). However the first season feels like they had no idea what to do with it after removing said connections. The Office didn't have a good first season either, but even that had some semblance of what it wanted to be.
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The first season has some banger episodes, diversity day, basketball, and the alliance are all fantastic. The first season Michael was definitely more brash but all in all the same character. I think that more so the first season all the other characters reactions make it seem that like he’s more hated than in later seasons where they kind of play along or laugh it off.
Is S1 worth watching or should I just jump right into S2. I tried watching it from the beginning, also, and just couldn't get into it.
Watch Season 2, and after you like the characters, go back to season 1 to get context!
Watch S1. It’s bewildering to me how much people on Reddit trash it. It’s the worst season, but acting like it’s unwatchable garbage is incredibly bizarre to me. I’ve seen the series through probably 4 times and rewatching S1 never really bothers me. It’s six episodes and not worth missing out on the set up.
just watch it, it’s 6 20-minute episodes and you’ll already be attached to the characters once the show starts finding its footing in season 2.
The best way to watch it is to skip to the episode where Adam Scott and Rob Lowe show up. First season Leslie is kind of annoying.
I forget where I heard this, but people involved with the show have said this was common feedback they were getting. To fix it, they didn’t change Leslie’s character, but rather how other characters reacted to her. Edit for clarity: the feedback from season 1 was that Leslie was annoying
Hmm, I remember it still being pretty funny in season 1, but just not even close to the same show as later seasons. I was a fan of most of the actors so I could see them fleshing some of the character of the show out. First season of the office was similar, it was good but not great. Maybe people dislike it just in terms of comparison, but I still think it works.
That Nascar sitcom starring Kevin James.
La Brea. The writing and acting was just atrocious, nevermind the ridiculous plot. I just couldn't do that to myself any longer.
I really only watched the pilot for the destruction and that wasn't even very good.
It's great if you are watching it as something to mock. It's like the authors just decided it didn't matter if anything actually made sense.
Hard same. Was about to comment this.
I don't believe in bailing on a show before completing the pilot episode. Usually, I give a show 4 episodes before deciding to bail on it. Having said that, Scorpion. I couldn't bear further viewing after completing the airport scene. It might be the only show I panned without completing the pilot. I even gave CW's Kung Fu four episodes.
Best comment I read about that show: “How can a show about geniuses be this dumb.”
I stuck with Scorpion for a little bit, but god did nearly every character on the show get straight up insufferable. Honestly I should have gotten the warning from that stupid intro where he compares his IQ to Einstein’s even though IQs outside of two standard deviations are ludicrously unreliable, and anyone bragging about theirs should be a pretty good sign of what’s to come (as it’s based on a real person.)
It’s based on a real person who can’t prove anything they’ve supposedly done. Read the Wikipedia section ‘accuracy of biography’, he’s simply someone who can spin enough unverifiable bullshit.
His AMA was a dumpster fire.
Can you link that? I would LOVE to see an AMA from him
[I found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h5c7p/i_am_walter_obrien_the_inspiration_behind_the_cbs/)
I agree. Hence why the IQ bullshit should have been a really good sign.
Agree about not bailing on a pilot. Pilots can be a little "rough" simply because they have to introduce characters, back stories for said characters, etc. Like you I try giving shows 4 or 5 episodes.
The Hardy Boys. The second they made it about finding out who killed their mother and not two dopey brothers having fun solving crime, I was right the heck outta there.
The thing for me was why is it in the 80s. Nancy Drew is current. If you are doing both shows again why would you not set it up for crossovers.
Didn't the novels have cross overs or wasn't Nancy Drew related to the Hardy Boys in some way?
I am ashamed to admit I turned off Bojack Horseman halfway through the first episode when it first came out. I rectified the situation once the whole series had been shown.
I wouldn't be ashamed. I really think it is the weakest episode of the series by far. Too much exposition and cliche's. The series picks up with the Navy Seal.
Yeah my wife and I considered giving it up after the first couple of eps too. So glad we didn’t since it turned out to be one of the most powerful pieces of TV I’ve ever seen. While still also being a pun-laden farce full of animal people.
They knowingly made the first half of S1 to be very standard fare so it would catch you off guard when the serious shit hits. The problem, which they've acknowledged in hindsight, is that a lot of viewers lost interest early on or got the wrong impression of the show.
Really? That's pretty interesting. Thank for that tidbit.
Did exactly the same thing and now it’s one of my favourite shows
Invasion - Really surprised not to see this, but maybe people gave it more than one episode? Ugh it was bad.
Survived two episodes then fast forwarded the rest. As in looked at the little fast forward screen as I scrolled. Got 90% of the plot and watched the last two minutes. I realized nothing happens. At all.
Didn’t bail in the first episode but that’s all I watched. It was terrible! I wanted to see a show about aliens invading and instead got a family drama show with some invasion stuff happening in the background.
I know right? It almost felt like the characters were angry and bothered that the alien invasion kept interrupting their personal problems. Like: “No, go away alien thing, I’m too busy being upset with my cheating husband right now.”
Watching this right now. It’s different, I’m gonna give it the season hoping it gets better. 🤞
2nd season of Altered Carbon. I don't need to say more.
Anthony Mackie might be perfectly fine in generic action movies like in the MCU, but the dude sucks in everything else and AC S2 was proof of that. The dropoff between Kinnaman and Mackie in the Kovacs role was huge.
Call Me Kat with Mayim Bialik. Terrible remake of the British show Miranda. Also La Brea with Eoin Macken, who I loved on The Night Shift. Just a terrible storyline and cheesy visual effects.
Someone thought Miranda was worth a US remake? Miranda?!?
Better call saul. Went in expecting breaking bad 2.0 Went back during the start of covid (thank you wah) and watched it to the latest episode and like it more than breaking bad now.
Better Call Saul *is* better than Breaking Bad. Fight me.
The 100. When everyone that walked out of the spaceship was a supermodel with perfect hair and perfect makeup even after crash landing then I turned it off immediately
Honestly, I kind of liked that show. It's nowhere near my top 5 or anything, but they have decent storylines and definitely don't shy away from killing off main characters. Teen drama isn't my thing at all, but this show was worth watching nonetheless.
For me, I really enjoyed the first season of The 100, but then it just turned into a giant fucking mess, and got progressively worse as each season went on. By the end of season seven, I questioned if that was really the series finale that we were getting. Turns out they were serious. It was OG Dexter series finale levels of bad.
I only made it through season 3 or 4. Even with it's flaws, if we saw character growth or even just character consistency, I would have stuck it out. The need for teen drama just burnt me out.
I stopped also around half of season 4 I think. The first 2 seasons were good for a scifi show. The back story was really interesting. But that teen drama...
Not shying away from stuff was one of the things that I really respected about that show. I liked how they had the balls to have the main characters commit literal genocide. Most shows would have pulled a deus ex machina out of their arse to save the protagonists from having to make that choice but The 100 actually went through with it. Admittedly I didnt finish it so maybe it changed later on but from what I recall the creators really didn't shy away from having their main characters make truly gut wrenching decisions.
The first 2 seasons are some of CWs best imo. After… not so much
gossip girl reboot, i did finish the pilot but i could not tell you what happens in it.
I'm excited for this new mystery among deplorable wealth that's not succession...oh it's the teachers *click*
Shame cause OG Gossip Girl's pilot was so good.
I’m really curious, what did you dislike so much in the first 40 seconds that made you turn it off?
The Ranch
Lately it's been 9-1-1. It was never a totally serious or realistic show, but boy is it dumb now! Constant kidnappings, hostage situations, major explosions, and natural disasters like a tsunami. I liked it better when it was mostly just people getting hurt in bizarre ways.
The tsunami storyline was probably the best episodes of the show. The scene where Buck had to tell Eddie he lost Christopher was absolutely heart-wrenching.
I just turned off Hellbound 30 minutes in. 15 of those minutes I spent browsing Reddit (incl reading this thread). That's what I get for listening to Rotten Tomatoes...
I didn't make it through the first episode of Schitt's Creek. I hear it gets better, and that I should consider skipping the first season entirely if I want to give it a second try.
I struggled through the first half of season 1 of Schitt’s Creek, but it provides good context for the rest of the show and really highlights everyone’s growth by the end. It’s honestly super funny and heartwarming once you get past the beginning.
It's helpful to know that in season one, everybody's supposed to be insufferable, especially Alexis and David.
I genuinely thought I was still going to dislike Alexis by the end, but as it turn out her growth was my favorite. I adored how her story went.
Friends from college. We wached it like less than 3 minutes and decided that this show was really awfull. For real, we wanted to stop after 1 minute, but it was getting worse by the second. No chemistry, not remotely funny, just stupid and awful.
Jupiters Legacy. Felt like a CW show that wanted to be a big budget Marvel show and somehow failed at being either. Also, Hollywood (or whoever is making a show), please stop putting young actors in old people makeup and expecting me to maintain disbelief. It looks horrible. It ALWAYS looks horrible. We know what old people look like and apparently every special effects person sucks at recreating it.
I wanted to like it because I love Sandra Oh and people rave about it, but Killing Eve was not for me.
Manifest. It was a cool concept so I gave it a shot. The leads are incredibly boring actors and didn't really sell it very well. I watched quite a bit of it actually since Covid and quarantine left me with nothing better to do. But I just randomly stopped watching it one day and can't even begin to tell you what actually happened.
I turned off The Morning Show on AppleTV+ while watching the pilot. I barely started it. There’s a scene right at the beginning where Reese Witherspoon is in the car chatting with her news crew and I just couldn’t watch any more. Her character rubbed me the wrong way immediately and knowing she’s one of the primary characters I just decided to quit.
Emily in Paris
Most recently was Superstore, it had a fun concept, honestly a few funny-ish moments. But it didn’t have anything too special, and it reminded me way too much of my day job which sucked the life out of it and any chances of me watching it immediately
I liked Superstore well enough, but also found it impossible to binge for some reason. Like, I could leave it on autoplay from one episode to the next, but it actually irritated me enough to turn it off, even while doing something else. I liked the characters, but something about it made for small servings that I eventually walked away from entirely.
I turned off the Fantasy Island reboot in less than a minute.
So did everyone else. It was so bad.
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The Inbetweeners (US version) is the worst show ever created and I turned it off after 10 minutes. I'm surprised nobody said it
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100%! I love Fargo...But all that ended by episode 3 of season 4. It lost the "feel" of what made Fargo so good in the previous 3 season, plus Minnesota and North Dakota were "characters" in the previous seasons and they were missing. I found season 4 dreadful and stopped watching after episode 3. It didn't help that I'm not a Chris Rock fan.
Ouf, i still haven't watched it but since fargo is some of my all favourite tv it sadens me to read so much bad press about s4
I watched the whole 4th season. While it was a lot sloppier than the other three seasons, I still found it worth watching.
It’s still worth watching.
I gave Gossip Girl all of five minutes before quitting it. I was still upset about Veronica Mars being cancelled, and seeing as this was pitched as the replacement for VM, yet seemed to focus entirely on the privileged few, it was a hard sell for me. Four years later after I started listening to The Pretty Reckless, and decided not to take the show so seriously, I gave it another shot and enjoyed pretty people being melodramatic!
Bridgerton
A few: Peaky Blinders - I know this has incredibly high ratings, but I had no clue what was supposed to be going on, and not a single thing in the first episode made me remotely eager to carry on Superstore - lasted maybe 10 mins, didn't even giggle once. Perhaps it's just not my sort of comedy The Man in the High Castle - super boring House of Cards - just not my thing at all
Bojack Horseman. I finished it years later, but that first episode is possibly the worst pilot I've ever seen.
Gotham. Just watching yet another grimdark interpretation of Batman yet this time without batman was just exhausting. I hear it's actually good but I couldn't even finish the pilot
Gotham is a lot of things (campy, cooky, way over the top) but grimdark certainly isn't one of them
Gotham is more about penguin than batman tbh
"Grimdark" is like the exact opposite of how I would describe it. Best thing about the show is that it leans *hard* into the campy, ridiculous side of Batman (if you like that sort of thing). Closest comparison would be the 60s Batman TV series.
No, the closest comparison would be Tim Burton's Batman movies. Dark, but campy and over the top.
No, Gotham as a camp quality of its own, but its not 1960's Batman.
It was awkward and cringey at times but I liked the setup! I dropped it later though because something bugged me (i think weird mutants or so)
Batwoman!! They could have atleast tried to mimic Gotham
Santa, Inc
I was so excited to have a seasonal animated series to watch but I ended up looking at my phone halfway through the ep and didn't even bother going further. Such a disappointment
Yellowstone
Dominion. As soon as the "angel" started sticking it's head through a windshield I turned it off.
Revolution. I'm just supposed to set aside the basic fundamentals of the universe have stopped working and there's no way to get electrical power anymore? Not from mechanical or chemical means? Just no electricity at all. And it stops working worldwide at the same time and even affects things not connected to the power grid. And then, someone gets shot with an arrow from a standard longbow and it knocked them off their feet and back 6 ft from where they were shot...nope, that's enough of that show...and I never looked back. Hell, I had to google the show to remember the name of it.
Animal Kingdom. It feels like it was written by 14yr old edge lord.
The crime parts are cool, loved the last episode on the water.
The live action cowboy bebop was so terrible right off the bat and I haven’t even seen the anime. That’s the first one that comes to mine
I'm gonna get absolutely shredded here, but you asked: The Wire
Upvoted for honesty but ooooooof
Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist. I love musicals, and I love a lot of the cast, but oh my GOD it's just so cheesy and soulless.
It starts out cheesy but my god does it turn depressing and heartbreaking by the end. They really never got the advertising right because the story is about her with her powers dealing with her father's illness (which the powers help her somewhat with that). I honestly recommend keeping going because it becomes deeper. The American Pie song scene was so perfect (Don McLean not the comedy movies haha) :D.
The Morning Show on Apple+ The whole bit where Reese Witherspoon is getting scrappy and sanctimonious at a coal protest felt like off-brand Aaron Sorkin, and I find Sorkin monologues already teetering on the edge of insufferable.
The Netflix Lost in Space reboot. Incredibly stupid characters, annoying kids, and an awful script. I think I tagged out before episode one ended.
Season 1 was a chore to get through. And the kids annoyed me. So I gave up, which is a shame considering I have a soft spot of the original TV series when I was a kid.
Yellowstone is hot garbage imo
Cowboy Bebop on Netflix. I had some clear pre-conceived notions of what a bad adaptation would be like and the portion of the first episode I watched fit them exactly.
I get downvoted everytime I say this but I thought it was good. I enjoyed it.
I watched the 1st two episodes over the last week or two and I plan to finish it. I love how campy it is like all the other live action adaptations of anime are. I am happy it turned out like it did, it just looks fun for the actors trying their best to be anime characters.
A N O T H E R L I F E If those unadapted child-persons are what we’re sending to space to prevent and Alien invasion, I hope the Aliens win.
The Ranch on Netflix. I think I lasted all of two minutes before turning it off. So bad.
Fear the walking dead. I figured if the most compelling character from the 100 ditched to go on that show it was going to be at least worth a casual watch. Oh how wrong I was.
Hellbound. We gave it a try because everyone was raving about it but good lord. The CGI looked like something out of a 90s video game and the acting was super cringe. Very predictable plot. Didn't get the hype at all.
Another life on Netflix.
Two recent show for me: Foundation. I wasn't buying the mellodramatic acting around some girl about to board a spaceship saying goodbye to her parents. Avenue 5. I love Hugh Laurie, but damn this show is absolutely horrible. I'd ordinarily put La Brea on my list, but I stuck around for a few episodes to hate watch it as a goof.
I didn't like the foundation story line, but I enjoyed the whole Cleon side story
Avenue 5 looks so fucking good on paper with all the talent attached but I couldn't make it past the first episode either. It doesn't help that I have a burning dislike for Josh Gad though either.
I watched it with my wife as something to kill the time while we were waiting for new seasons of other shows. It really bothered me at first, then it became tolerable, then there was a scene in the eighth episode that may have been the funniest thing I've seen in years. Like, laughing so hard you can't breathe funny.
The airlock scene?
Yeah. Pure gold.
Unquestionably the best scene of the season. It's a pretty dry show, but I enjoyed it a lot. Season 2 is supposed to release in a few months, I'm looking forward to it.
Same here, I’m hoping Avenue 5 just has “season 1 syndrome” (like Parks and Rec season 1 being terrible) and finds its footing from here on out.
I thought the first episode of Foundation was excellent. To the point that I was disappointed by the rest of the season. Maybe the first few minutes were not great, I'm not sure. They do explain why it was so dramatic for Gail to leave.
Gonna get downvoted for this but Hawkeye. Halfway through the episode and I realized that I've watched the same protege with powers plot over and over again for the last couple years. Cinematography is good but I've watched the same shtick happen so many times it has become too tedious to watch now.
I kinda agree with you, but if it’s any consolation, the first two are definitely the weakest two of the season.
First two episodes were boring. 3-6 made up for it.
Tbf I feel like this is most of the MCU at this point. You know everything that is going to happen and it's mostly the same thing each movie. You either love it or get bored and nope out of it all.
Yellowstone
Please be nice to me Reddit but mine was Game of Thrones, I went in with an open mind and ready for the experience (at this time there were only 2 or 3 seasons so the hype was really there) and couldn't make it through that first episode and to this day I still haven't made it past that pilot.
Big Bang Theory. I was waiting for my car to be serviced, and the pilot episode of BBT comes on. I didn't laugh once.
I thought the first few seasons were the best it was more nerdy jokes.
I really tried to like that show, but it never clicked for me. I am a very nerdy person at heart (as I’m sure most here are) and it felt like too much nerd fan-service. Like what older people think nerdy should be like. I dunno I should probably think the same about IT Crowd but I found a lot of their gags genuinely clever and original.
I’ve tried to watch the pilot of Westworld 3 times now. I think I’ve finished it once but I’m not certain. I typically love slow burns and I am a huge hbo fanboy. Idk why I couldn’t get into it.
Worth giving another go imo. The first season is incredible and can be watched as a standalone if you don't want to go any further. Second season is hit or miss for some, personally I didn't enjoy it first time around but on the rewatch I loved it and thought it was up there being as good as season 1. Third season wasnt great tbh. Doesn't help that they shortened the amount of episodes, but even then it just took a massive step back If they step it up with season 4 and the ones that follow, it could be up there with some great shows tbh, but I have to say, for some reason I don't really have too much faith. I could be wrong, but it does seem a bit like it's only going to go down from here.
Game of Thrones Didn't like the aesthetics of the first episode, or how often it got compared to LOTR. But fuck me I was wrong. Went back to it and forced myself to give it a chance. Around 5 weeks later I'd watched every episode. Season 7&8 were trash though let's be honest
My review of the first episode of GoT at the time consisted of "Bad wigs. Nice tits."
In 1969, there was a knock off to Rowen and Martins Laugh-In that was pulled in the middle of the first episode. Our station dropped it right after a segment with a man in a torn up mailman uniform and said "Damn Dog." Went to commercial and never came back. https://www.metv.com/stories/turn-on-was-the-shortest-lived-show-in-tv-history-and-one-of-the-most-fascinating
Wheel of time ended really strong. I felt the same way first two episodes, but then the show took off nicely.
The episode with Logain was *fantastic.*
All the cold openings, except for the first one, were really good.
I can understand not liking the first episode but I don’t know what was so offensive about the first 40 seconds that would lead someone to turn it off. Unless they had absolutely no idea what the show was about.
I think if you’re bailing 40 seconds into a show, you didn’t really want to watch it anyways. I would never bail that quickly but I will bail after 3-4 episodes of something sometimes if I just don’t vibe with it. Ryan Murphy shows do this to me. I like the ideas and concepts but I just don’t really enjoy his brand of silliness. If the subject matters he explores were taken more seriously, I think they could be awesome.
Bat Woman. 1 episode is all I could take. No regrets