I don’t mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn’t bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
I might get downvoted for this, but Breaking Bad. I made it into the second season, constantly annoyed at how massively unrealistic and terrible these people were to each other. People kept telling me it would get better later on and that I should stick with it, but after that failed to materialise I just gave up.
I’ll probably will be killed for this but it was breaking bad for me. Just so slow and boring. Could see where it was going miles ahead and Walt just kept making dumb decisions which pissed me off. Probably the point of the show or something but I really didn’t like it.
Jesse is the foil. Walt makes decision after bad decision and never feels the consequences – Jesse does.
I think the show works for some people, but I have a pet peeve about plots driven forward by stupid characters making obviously stupid decisions (Jesse Pinkman in this case). It was an immediate turn off for me.
You might check out “Better Call Saul” though. Many of the better written characters from Breaking Bad show up here, and the spin off stands on its own until you get to the last half of the last season. You don’t have to have watched the other show to enjoy or follow it.
but I have a pet peeve about plots driven forward by stupid characters making obviously stupid decisions (Jesse Pinkman in this case)
Do you remember what decision that was? One of the things I really like about BB is that every character behaves fairly sensibly and realistically, so I’m a bit surprised.
Also by the end of the show, Jesse is one of the only characters making sense. I’d argue he does start there (not sure of the specifics they’re referring to), but his character dynamics with the world and Walt sort of flip.
I can’t figure out if Future Man is the worst show I’ve ever seen…or kind of charming.
I wish I could remember. I usually try to give shows like 3 episodes and give up then but I know there have been a few where I pushed through a season for some reason and was like why did I do that. I think its more often that a series was good enough to start with and then goes south but I (sometimes we with my wife) am hoping it will turn around. So season 2 of american gods was like that. As we got to the end of the season it felt like alex watching the violence films in clockwork orange. Boys did not get that bad but its an example of many series where Im pretty glad to see it wrapped up and im no longer enthusiastic about seeing it. Don’t even remember when I gave up with walking dead but it was around the time of neegan good.
Kind of not answering the question but I still feel it applies.
The whole premise of Suits was bullshit and meant while I enjoyed the show I was constantly getting pissed off by the “Mikes Secret” storyline.
Definitely one of the most prestigious law firms in New York, Almost certainly the country and known worldwide is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NEVER going to knowingly hire someone without a law degree and allow them to practice law not even if that man is the smartest legal mind alive.
Harvey was my fancast for Reed Richards.
It’s kind of hard to go back to USA network shows from the time. Except for Psych. I’ll always be here for Psych.
Oh, you know that’s right.
The Studio
This show is written for people who work in Hollywood/the industry. Lots of navel gazing, cameos, and inside jokes. So of course it’s nominated for a slew of awards.
I started watching it yesterday, and managed 10 minutes into episode 3 before the cringe overwhelmed me, and I had to rage-quit. That show is not for me.
The last ship. I loved it in the beginning. It started out as high quality drama/mystery. It had some issues but was overall really good. Or at least the concept was good enough to overlook issues. But then the issues backed up like a toilet. It got to the point where you’re groaning multiple times an episode and the sparkle of the concept dies. I can’t remember how far I got into the series, but it was somewhere early in season three. And I don’t remember TOO much from it as I feel like I’ve blocked out most of it.
They even brought in Tania Raymonde who I absolutely love, and I just couldn’t. I hated how lazy and dumb the writing turned and how quickly it happened. It should have been more of an exploratory show than action/drama. Like, it should have been about trying to find peoples and encounter new groups to vaccinate, and less about having all these big bads. Yeah some small time bad guys should be there time to time, but it should have been more like the first Star Trek series and less like the walking dead. “God damnit, that guy again?”
And it was so inconsistent. Just about everyone is dead! Society is over! Wait, society is still there in pockets. Nah, some places were basically unscathed. It basically became an action/mystery soap opera. Create as much drama as humanly possible, and make the viewer feel like they’re constant victims that somehow overcome everything because they’re badasses, then immediately become victims again.
It was absolute trash, and it could have been the most epic adventure show ever. If I had the reigns, I’d have made it stay hard to find civilization. There would be groups and areas that are better at surviving, and have smart solutions to things. But it would be rare. It’d use that same setting, but the feel would be more like Star Trek/fallout-the comedy. The end of the final episode would have the ship struggling with a skeleton crew finally succumbing to a really big storm and sinking. Then it would switch to a view of the earth spinning with a timelapse. The night side would be dark for a long time, 4-8 years or so. Then you see lights again somewhere. And it stays maybe a small area for a while but it picks back up exponentially as they share knowledge/vaccine, and you see society start to reestablish itself, making the ships mission having ultimately successful.
Andor. I still have yet to finish the first season. It’s ok. It insists on itself. While the premise isn’t bad, and the story is ok. I just cannot get into it.
Honestly, I can understand that opinion. The first half wasn’t great; all the critical acclaim was about the 2nd half of the season.
If you didn’t get to the part with the prison, maybe go back and try to stick it out. That’s where it really picks up
That’s actually exactly where I stopped watching it at was right before the whole prison scene. The whole first half of the season just drawn on and on and on. My girlfriend was incredibly excited to watch it she watched half of an episode and decided she was done. I’ve considered going back and rewatching it because I don’t even remember most of what happened in it because it was that unmemorable for me.
Felt the same, abaolutelt love it now
This is one of the very few times I think “well, you’re entitled to your opinion, but you’re dead wrong”.
In my head the only Star Wars canon consists of IV,V,VI, the bare plot of the prequels, Clone Wars, Andor, and Rogue One. All else is tacky gold decoration.
Andor is a slooooow burn. But worth it.
I’m watching it with my Dad, who hasn’t seen it, and he almost fell asleep more than once in the first half. It’s slow. It’s dense. But it’s setup; those details come back.
Like others said, you have to watch the prison episodes. If you don’t like it after that, you can definitely drop it.
Foundation. holy shit. what a trash heap.
the visuals are great though. maybe i’ll cut out all closups of actors and use it as animated wallpaper or something.
You didn’t even like the Empire Plot? How far did you get?
The show is only good for the Empire plot. I mean… rebellion poison-cloning Dawn and getting close to him to get him on their side, and then Day figuring it out, and ruthlessly squashing all of it! Totally new, and very well crafted, with great character. I suspect Day actor chop is holding the show on his shoulder. In last season, when they dude-fied him, I was thinking it was over… and then he make it work somehow.
The foundation side is indeed very bad character, and serviceable plot.
No. I was out the second a robot murdered someone.
I, Robot was a better adaptation of Asimov.
Are there any good adaptations of Asimov besides Fantastic Voyage and Bicentennial Man?
Besides the seminal I, Robot? Not that I know of. Does Data’s positronic brain count?
Nooooo, I wanted to watch that! I wish we could have some good Asimov media.
oh, don’t let my opinion keep you!
One of my best fiends loves it. He is dumb as a frog, but, hey, maybe you’ll like it too :D
First season was weak. Later seasons gradually improve.
Oh my gosh, yes! As a fan of the books, I was so excited for the series. I was determined not to be put off by the changes to the story the producers made, so it took me a while to realize that the changed story lacked something. Like, being good? I should’ve just stopped after the terrorist attack that killed nobody, or tens of millions of people maybe, in the first episode just to advance the plot. Great visual effects, no emotional resonance. Why should I care? Nobody on-screen seemed to. I stuck it out until the episode that ended with the one character getting surrounded by the Anacreon landing party, but the show never established why I should care about her. So I didn’t, and never bothered with the next episode to resolve the cliff-hanger.
Did you like the Cleon-Empire plot?
It’s a remix of the foundation, understand why they did it because otherwise they’d have to switch of the cast every few episodes. The series is set up to make people that didn’t read the books like it and I personally think a lot of what they did makes sense. Some of the changes are good, some are bad, all unfaithful but given how hard it is to put this book on screen I can see why.
I used to feel the same way when it came out. Big fan of the books and was immediately put off by how much was changed in the first few episodes. But my wife got curious and we watched it again together a few months ago, finishing the three seasons and loved it all.
Yes things are different, but those things work if you let em. It’s less an adaptation of the books and more of a musician of a different genre doing a cover song. You do you, but maybe give it another shot. I’m glad I did.
Firefly
There are worse shows, but this was one of the first where I should have liked everything about it, but instead I hated the campiness.
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I watched the full season and the movie, but I walked away not feeling much. People claim it’s one of the best shows of all time and deserving of a comeback, but I just can’t see it.
This is fair.
Firefly is straight up my alley, and I liked it, but it’s not in my top sci fi TV.
True blood. I knew some people who were just obsessed with it and I watched a lot of it and just couldn’t stand it.
Probably an unpopular opinion but even after watching the entire 1st season of Welcome to Derry I don’t think I’d watch season 2, season 1 didn’t really pull me in.
Evil. I tied, I really tried. But the writing was atrociously bad. After 3 episodes, I had to move on.
I enjoyed Evil for a while, but they just kept trying to give the kids bigger parts and it ruined the show for me.
Firefly.
Just some stinko-pee-yoo acting and writing.
I felt the same. It’s a poorly written space western with a lead actor who cannot act.
Obi Wan. Mandalorian was a little disappointing but cool and zeitgeisty, Boba Fett was worse, then the Obi Wan show was just unwatchable. Which is weird because Andor was so much better than it had any right to be.
Mando was a grear two season run. 1 season of motw type and season 2 for the last episode.
The Acolyte was by far the worst live action SW ever made
I actually watched The Acolyte and liked it better than Boba Fett and Obi Wan.
Eh yeah orobably to be fair, Boba sucked. Obi Wan had cool moments same as Acolyte. That helmut headbut to the lightsaber was fantastic
Obi Wank Enobi
This was the last Star Wars thing I watched and was the final straw for me. Made a resolution then and there to never watch this shit ever again, no matter how many times people say “it’s actually really good though” about the latest Disney Star Wars thing (exactly what they said about the Obi-Wan show).
Andor is actually really good though. Totally unlike the other Disney Star Wars slop.
Mandalorian was far better than andor tho.
It’s sad because The Obi Wan show got retooled repeatedly during production. Pretty sure exec meddling ruined it. “Baby yoda is a huge hit! Let’s add baby Leia to Obi Wan stat!”
I feel compelled to watch every episode of a series to the end. I’m so bad about this that I still try to catch up on Simpsons.
I gave up on Obi and never went back to finish it. That is despite Ewan being an amazing Obi Wan.
The world may never know if they ever finished filming Obi Wan, because we can’t find anyone to try watching all the way through…
I was telling a joke about the Obi Wan series. Obi Wan KeNoni “Noni” is a way of saying “I’m sleepy” in Argentine Spanish.
