I eventaully got into it, but Mad Men took me more than a few tries
Almost all of them.
Big Bang Theory
Didn’t work for me. So dull. Felt like it was made twenty years earlier than it was.
It’s lowkey offensive to autistic people too. Young Sheldon did much better at that
BBT is critically acclaimed in the same way the Big Mac is the world’s most popular burger.
Also mostly sex jokes disguised as smart people humor. It quickly gets old.
Haha xbox means nerds means smart means genius
They may as well call it The Big Gangbang Theory because it portrays nerd/geeks the same way porn portrays sex.
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.
Call me a monster, but Breaking Bad. It is just feel bad and cringe, I hate it lol.
I’m so with you. I don’t think I know a single person who has seen Breaking Bad and didn’t like it. Meanwhile I hated it.
I didn’t care for Breaking Bad, but I did enjoy “Better Call Saul” up until the last season. 🤷♂️
Some of the early episodes really show their age. It’s definitely still worth watching in 2025, but it is an old show at this point.
Iirc first episode is a banger, then mixed levels throughout season 1, most of season 2 was basically braindead, then decent quality for the remainder? Been a long time since I watched it.
Yeah I couldn’t stand it, and came to the comments because I was sure it would already be mentioned.
I stuck through season 1, pretending that the character’s arcs were believable and fast forwarding through some of the brutality, then gave up.
A friend convinced me to try again, but the seconds time I gave up after the season with the shots of the pool debris at the start. The payoff on that felt cheap and vaguely a violation of chekovs gun. After that I had to tell the friend who wanted me to watch it that I was done and wouldn’t be trying again.
I saw Breaking Bad all the way through when it’s final season was on. Recently tried to rewatch it and stopped when second season started cause I remembered how much I hated that plane crash.
Which is a shame because season 4 is an absolute masterpiece. It’s like a chess match between Walt and Gus with Jesse as pawn.
I have now tried 3 separate times to get through it. I always get bored, or honestly I really hate Walters wife. She is so incredibly cringey and hipocritical that it turns me off from the whole show. He does something that only affects him so he can try to improve his family, she takes it offensively. He gives up and she’s pissed because they’re poor. She cheats and then gets mad at him for some reason. She’s just a bitch, and made me stop watching.
Really? Damn, I mean to each their own, but the show started getting really interesting in the episode where Walter brought in the fulminated mercury…
Yeah I don’t blame you. Watched the whole thing, but it was pretty hard to get into for exactly the reasons you stated, and my gf and I would probably have stopped if Better Call Saul (the episode of BB, not to be confused with the spinoff series of the same name) and the character it introduced hadn’t brought in some sorely-needed levity.
I can’t even start it. It just sounds so “omg gotta sell drugs so quirky!!”
It’s also one of those shows that every dude with bad taste loves to love hahaha
A broke teacher who’s wife is pregnant with their 2nd child finds out he has cancer and is given a short time to live needs to leave money for his family after he passes so they won’t struggle. Where the fuck did you get sell drugs to be quirky from?
Arcane. Despite all the writers effort to create emotional investment it was like someone’s D&D backstory for their edgy rogue
Would you mind naming a couple shows you actually do like? As a huge Arcane fan, I’m intrigued to hear what you consider good.
Sure: JoJo’s bizarre adventure, Delicious in Dungeon, Star Trek DS9, Bob’s Burgers.
Delicious in dungeon was spectacular :o
Thanks. I agree with most of those. Idk what I was expecting. Just never known anyone who’s seen Arcane and didn’t like it, so I expected some wild picks I guess.
the office. the documentary/handheld camera style cinematography is nauseating to watch. see also: parks & rec and similarly-shot titles.
It took me several attempts to watch parks & rec. It ended up being one my favorite. I’ve tried The Office a couple times and couldn’t do it. Same with Sunny.
It’s Always Sunny wasn’t worth watching until season 3, imho and even then it had a lot of dead rubber.
The office had to happen to open the door for the genre to the general public. So I say thanks to it, we got the more refined parks and rec. Watching the office back in the day was hilarious, but now it’s clear that it only walked so parks and rec could run.
I actually watched several episodes of the British original and thought it was fine. I didn’t go out and find the rest to watch or anything, but it was fine. That said, I think watching the original made it hard for me to watch the American version of the show. I have a lot of trouble watching a show if I’ve already read the book(s) for a similar reason.
It took me like 3 attempts to get in to The Office so I don’t blame you
sex and the city , Seinfeld, and friends
I tried to watch Downton Abbey with my wife. I can appreciate the acting, costumes, and sets, but I could really not have cared less about the minutiae of the lives of 1910s British upper class and their servants
Game of thrones, tried and failed at least twice
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.
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.
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.
Breaking bad.
I caught the complete series 1 by accident in a TV marathon when I have never heard of it before.
I was glued to the screen the whole night until 6am. It was so good. Probably my most memorable TV experience after the twist in from Dusk Till dawn.
I never really finished the series, I quit on series 3 or 4.
Im sure I have watched all episodes by now, but I lost interest, because a lot of the story fehlt dragged out too much, when the first series was constant progress.
Same. I watched maybe half of the first episode and then left to go fold laundry and never finished the episode.
White Lotus. Just couldn’t care about anything happening.
Ditto. Just didn’t do it for me
Every reality series.
the first season of ones like survivor, bb, tar, were better than every season after. before all the strategies and stuff got worked out. it was ‘new’ to you and to those on the shows. now it’s just same-old, same-old every single season.
It’s hard to argue with success. If I remember correctly, those early seasons had the best viewership numbers for their time.
For me, it’s the basic format itself that’s unpalatable. It’s not stone cold reality like sports or some documentaries, although those can be embellished, too. It’s also not as polished as scripted series. It feels to me as if a network executive put a concept, a soap opera production, and a rough draft of a script into a blender and pressed “puree.” It makes so much money that I can’t argue that it’s not clever. I just can’t relate to it. There’s probably a bunch of popular stuff I like that other people don’t care for, so it’s important to be able to criticize something while respecting other opinions.
For me, The Expanse.
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!
I can understand this one. I enjoyed the series enough to go back and read the books, but the acting overall was not great
