- Dark
- The OA
- ST: Lower Decks
- The Office
- Parks and Rec
- Peaky Blinders
- I’m dragging my feet getting through seasons 2 of Silo and Severance.
I have to say severance season 1 was way better imo
Aww thats a shame about Dark, I got sucked in to that show 100% until the end.
The office is good background TV for when you’re tired and just need to zone out and chuckle, its a very wholesome show, same with Parks and Rec.
The UK version of The Office isn’t wholesome. The boss is awful and has no redeeming qualities. The rest is just cringeworthy and not funny.
Wholesome?
I don’t see juvenile irresponsibility and adversarialism as “wholesome”. If you wanna say funny, to each his own, but in no way is that show “wholesome”.
Dark turned into nonsense unfortunately. It felt like Lost all over again. I never finished it.
I disagree, I think Dark was much more coherent. It was admittedly a bit convoluted, but I think it did a good job tying everything together.
Whereas Lost was them constantly creating new mysteries that they didn’t have the answers too, and tying it up in the end with some random bullshit.
Agree. Season 3 jumped the shark in my opinion. It’s bad enough that they just kept
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introducing more of the same old "and such-and-such is actually the offspring of this guy!
But the s3 finale just felt completely random and confirmed all of mt suspicions about them not being able to provide meaningful explanations for most of the interesting stuff that happens
What I liked about it is that it DOES have a meaningful, clear explanation in the end, unlike shows like Lost.
Sweet baby Jesus. I love all of these. Fantastic sci fi and fantasy
Big Bang Theory
Star Trek Discovery
Manifest. Holy shit, I tried. But wow, just mind numbing.
Banshee. There’s only so many times you can watch a guy get the absolute piss bashed out of him
Westworld. I started watching it twice, and both times I thought it was really good until I ran out of patience about not knowing what the hell was going on.
- Buffy
- Suits
- Arrested Development
- Archer
- It’s Always Sunny
The last three are some of my favorites of all time, curious what you dislike about them.
Really all of them didn’t grow on me very well. For each of them I watched the first season and decided there was just better stuff I could be watching.
Each had their funny parts but were just a bit too absurd…and I like absurd! Just not my cup of tea.
Came here for Buffy. I remember the film which was entertaining fluff, but then the series came out and almost immediately I hated it. But all of my friends loved it. Every so often one of them would try and persuade me to give it another go but everytime they did it was always by showing me the same fucking episode (‘Hush’, I think it’s called) where no-one speaks.
I guess I just don’t enjoy looooong series which are more soap opera than they are story.
looooong series which are more soap opera than they are story.
You just described the entirety of The CW as a channel.
Battlestar Galactica. Like a lot of the shows people have been mentioning, all it did was raise the stakes every episode. It didn’t feel like it was building anything meaningful, just building up to something.
The most meaningful example of this (spoilers for like a twenty year old show) for me was when they’re in the ship looking for water or whatever and the human cylon just ignores the indicator saying “Water here! Check here!” and the scene just. keeps. going. I swear it felt like half the episode.
I enjoyed episodes that had their own story, like the one with Richard Hatch in prison ship.
That scene in particular - spoilers - is her realizing that she might be a cylon and literally not being able to control herself to reveal there’s water cause she’s a sleeper agent.
Yeah that show is a slow burner vibe thing and i think you were right to stop watching it because you gotta meet it where it’s at - messy, creative, emblematic of the paperback sci-fi classics, not quite so neat as something like Expanse or Star Trek in terms of structure and plot and character taking a backseat to the themes, it’s less Stellaris, more Solaris, less Mass Effect and more No Man’s Sky.
This show to the original BSG is like Primer to Back to the Future.
What helped me through is I just enjoy military dramas so the standalone episodes like the one about the industrial workers and such just kept me engaged in the moment as episodic adventures and so I was in no hurry for a thread to follow, though the arc in S2 and onto the climax in Season 4.
It’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I do find this show beautiful in a way,
and more No Man’s Sky
Speaking of highly overrated things…
Twin Peaks. Couldn’t stand it.
I really wanted to like twin peaks. I wish I could see what other people see it. But damn if I can’t tell the difference between it and an actual soap opera.
Oh yeah. I heard all the hype online, and got two episodes in.
Oh, God, such nonsense
Second best TV show ever!
Different people like different things and that’s awesome.
The #1 best show is Twin Peaks: The Return of course :)
Yes!
I can appreciate Twin Peaks for being groundbreaking at the time in many ways. And David Lynch was a genius…
But yeah, as someone who tried getting into it for the first time relatively recently, I just couldn’t. Got one or two episodes into season 2 before calling it quits.
Bro season 2 is suuuuuuch a slog. I got into it for the mystery and esoteric horror imagery, and I understand that they were trying to emulate a soap opera for season 2, but it’s just so long and uninteresting to me.
It’s been such a road block to getting to Firewalk With Me and The Return :/
Personally, I actually enjoyed it. It had that 90s nostalgic vibe, and I liked it.
However, the renewed 25 years later season felt like Lynch was mocking the audience (or was high on something). The season was boring as fck, story was bad and made no sense. None of the loose ends from the original show were resolved. The acting was so bad, I actually wanted to give it up after the first episode. And he didn’t even give us what we wanted to see more of… Detective Cooper. Instead we got braindead cooper and evil doppleganger cooper for all but the last few minutes of the season. And for some weird reason, every episode ended on some bad recording of a live song that had nothing to do with the show.
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Dr. Who
All of them
Vikings. It started off okay. I just wanted to see vikings do cool viking stuff. But it became a drama about Christianity taking over, which might be historically accurate, but didn’t interest me at all. I straight up didn’t like any of the characters at a certain point.
Better Call Saul for me. It felt like Breaking Bad but playing out at like 25% speed. Also Saul is a whiny bitch, I really lost patience with him when he gets to his “boo hoo being rich isn’t fun I don’t wanna work at a law firm anymore” phase.
Most of the adult animated shows (Rick and Morty, inside job, ect.) they’re like a 15 year olds idea of what adults are.
Breaking Bad
The Mandalorian
Noped out after season 1. They revealed his face during a filler episode, during a boring scene, instead of waiting an episode or two longer for the real gut punch reveal at the end of the last episode.
It was stupid. It killed what would have been one of the best face reveals in cinema history. I had no patience for the show after that. Almost didn’t bother finishing the rest of the season. I don’t really care what their reasons were. Contractual. Whatever. Don’t care.
