Peaky blinders - I love this era with movies and what not but this show just didn’t hit for me
Incredibly gorgeous visuals, incredibly meh series.
I eventaully got into it, but Mad Men took me more than a few tries
White Lotus. Just couldn’t care about anything happening.
Ditto. Just didn’t do it for me
The White Lotus. I got 2-3 episodes in and was just bored. None of the characters were likable so I just didn’t care.
Same, why should I care about these people?
The only character that seemed like an actual character in S1 was the manager, and…
I mean, that’s the point of the show… Their problems are ridiculous and petty, the entire point is to show what rich people think problems are
I mean, ok.
That seems pretty stupid actually. I thought I didn’t get it, I’m sad to say I do :(
Saw first one season and decided not to bother with it. Too cynical for me.
There is just not a single AMC show I can get into. I don’t know if it’s the style or what but I just none of them work for me.
I thought I was the only one…
Banshee. Went into it expecting something like Justified where it showed small town sheriff stuff but no. It was just flashbacks to before he became sheriff and constant sex scenes.
I mean, it had some Justified to it, but you can’t beat some good old Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.
Good thing Deadwood exists. So far that’s been able to scratch that itch.
Also check out Santa Clarita diet.
Nowhere near the same, but there’s definitely something there.
The office and Big Bang Theory. The office wasn’t funny at all, more of a boring, and same with BBT, too nerdish to keep going, Sheldon was somehow funny.
Same. Curated clips get the point across and are enough.
Breaking Bad. It’s too painful. Jessie is so dumb I can’t watch it. Walter’s motivations are also so randomized… it all drives me banana nuts.
Scavengers Reign. I liked the story, but the acting was so dull. So never finished it.
Almost all of them.
I never could get into The Sopranos, and I don’t think I’ll ever get around to scratching it off my watchlist.
It took me a very long time before. I finally watched that show a few years ago. I didn’t care for it in the beginning, but towards the middle it got a bit more interesting. I didn’t care for the ending. Overall, it’s not gonna be one of those shows I go back to and binge again and again. But I was glad to at least have seen it once.
Arrested Development. I can’t do Bateman AND Howard’s narration.
Spartacus. I had never heard of it until I stopped by a friend’s house and they had it on. They told me it was neat and showed me the scene they were watching. Like clockwork, the scene immediately changed to full frontal dick. My friend downplayed saying that happens once or twice, his wife piped up and said nah it happens every episode with a grin on her face. They continued to talk about how many dicks are in the show and i just couldn’t be bothered to investigate on my own.
Game of thrones, tried and failed at least twice
My dad is always stunned that I never really got into GoT. I tuned in for a couple of seasons at the beginning, but life just got too busy for these kinds of big shows.
Hey, at least you didn’t have to suffer through the ending.
I only had to suffer through the ending, still makes me mad.
The story, if anyone is bored…
I was on a work retreat/hack-a-thon and the final episode was being broadcast that night. I’d tried and failed to find any part of game of thrones interesting in the past, I’d never seen a complete episode.
Everyone is there glued to the TV, I’m at the dinning room table trying to get some kind of work done, but ended up watching most of the episode.
What a massive pile of crap I thought to myself, no idea what these people are on about.
I’m glad everyone agreed it sucked, but really annoyed that is the only episode I’ve seen, and I will never waste my time on it.
The ending was THE BIGGEST like decade long letdown for everybody that watched it.
In my, and many others’ opinions, the show started out extremely strong, and slowly but surely got worse over time…
The show will remain good for many years.
If you want to give the show a fair shake, watch the first ep or first three.
The first season, maybe first two were my favorites and I think started to slowly nose down after that.
The first episode is mostly world building, the next few are where the meat and potatoes start really happening. After that, it’s more of the same, with who fucks it up and how and why, with it all being brilliantly written and tied together. But that first episode… It’s really not a fantasy show, it’s really a psycho political thriller.
Also, regarding the ending, the reason the least season was absolute garbage was because the ending wasn’t written, and STILL isn’t. The author is going to die before ending the series of books. The showrunners knew that, and steered the show in a way they thought the author might go, but it was smoking hot rancid garbage. The entire last two seasons were. They gave closure, I guess, but the show went from an imdb scale of high 8’s and high 9’s to literal 6’s and 5’s at the end. And it was so dark you couldn’t see anything. The rest of the show was actually gorgeous, full of intrigue and stress and wondering. Fuck all the rest of the “mmm i didn’t like it” shows in this post, GOT is something that, unless you really gave it a fair shake by watching the first ep or three and still didn’t like it, you’re missing out on, and really should watch.
If you do watch those eps and don’t like it, fine. But watching the garbage ending is not at all representative of a show that’s a domino effect of a political butterfly effect.
For me, The Expanse.
I can understand this one. I enjoyed the series enough to go back and read the books, but the acting overall was not great
The first couple of episodes drag, but it picks up later. You might try the books instead. Or even the audiobooks — the narrator for those does an excellent job.
I did try the first audio book and found myself unmoved. It wasn’t awful, but I wasn’t as impressed as most seem to be. I’m glad it was enjoyed, but I was ready for it to be over long before it was.
That was around six years ago, though. I might feel differently if I tried again today.
Thanks for the recommendations!
