To the point where you had to just stop. Not necessarily poor quality, but just not interesting.
The Bear. Just… bored me. It’s just running round in a kitchen with some shouting and the odd shaky food close up.
It makes me wonder if Ingmar Bergman is directing
Succession.
I tried it like 3 times, its just boring rich people drama, a bunch of drugs, absolute lack of any morals or redeeming qualities in lime basically all the characters.
And the most stupid thing is:
spoiler
How the fuck does a CEO just willy nilly calls the president to… shut down an airspace?
Like…???
Also, wtf is a CEO firing board members, the board elects the CEO, that part made zero sense. And they never explain it.
Then a whole epispde of an awkard family therapy, a bunch of cursing.
Wtf is going on?
Then Mr rich ceo head of household made his family members play some stupid game where they crawl on the floor (“boar on the floor”) to “find out who the ‘mole’ is” like wtf so bizzare, I thought I was watching a weird porno.
Stuff makes zero sense. Had to stop watching.
Smallville. Each ep felt like 3 hrs, and not in the good way. Just to get to the end where Lex asks Clark a direct question, Clark lies to his face, and I hope to all the gods that THIS is the one where he just screams “FUCK YOU!” and stabs him in the eye with a shard of kryptonite.
Walking dead. Couldn’t get through the second episode
Friends. It was like Seinfeld, but without acting, writing, humor or staying power.
It’s aged really badly as well. It’s bewilderingly white and has lots of LGBT jokes.
Without the laugh track it is painfully bad to watch
All of this. It’s a comedy and it’s not funny and why am I here?
Big Bang Theory
Everything with a laugh track. If your production has to lean on some peer pressure cue to trick my brain into thinking it’s funny, it’s not funny.
Laugh tracks are to comedy, as jump scares are to horror. From a psychological standpoint, it kinda works to get the desired response, but it’s the lowest hanging fruit, and isn’t necessary if the material isn’t empty and half-assed in the first place.
Laugh tracks had their time and place. I love many 80s and 90s shows that had laugh tracks. But they should have been allowed to die out in the early 00s.
Still there are exceptions, Frasier for example.
This is 100% an unpopular opinion that in no way is meant to shit on the TON of people who love it, but…
Game of Thrones. I love medieval dark fantasy and some well written political intrigue. I’ve been told by so many people how much I would love GoT. The ingredients are all there.
But then I try to watch it, and get bored every time. Not really sure why - seems like a guaranteed hit… but the hook just never sinks in.
Got through 1.5 episodes, so you’re not alone.
I thought it was awful until I read the books. They introduce you too fast to too many characters and don’t give you the chance to get interested in any of them. Once I knew all the characters from the books it was fun to watch (though beer helped as well)
I watched all of Game of Thrones but what bothered me from the start was how they ended every episode with a cheap cliffhanger which was resolved quickly in the next episode and had very few significance. The speed of that episode mostly picked up at the end again only to achieve the next cliffhanger.
Arrow comes to mind but maybe I remember it because it was bad…
The plot for each season was the same: a lie meant to protect somebody ended up harming them and they found out anyway. Once I realized that, it definitely got less entertaining.
I wanted Arrow to be so much more than it was. But it was cheese. The lead is best used in a soap, I think.
So many people raved about Downton Abbey, but I couldn’t get through any of it. Extremely dry and also just made me mad about wealth inequality
I felt like that watching reality television from 2010’s. Explicitly, the shows like Kardashian.
Supernatural, but only after the sixth season (?). At first it was an entertaining monster-of-the-week show that used creatures from all religions and cultures, and then it devolved into being a Christianity focused war against angels and demons and I lost interest when that’s all it became about.
My guess is season 8ish because Ben Edlund, creator of The Tick was writing for the show from season 2 to season 8.
Fubar. I like Schwarzenegger, but the writing was atrocious.
Season one was entertaining enough that I enjoyed it despite the writing, but good god season two the writing was so much worse.
Star Trek: Voyager
Don’t really remember why but it just could not keep my interest. I think I tried a couple times.
Try watching season four. It gets retooled and gets much better.
