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Dexter makes me kinda mad because it had so much promise and a lot of good things going for it but what the gently caress
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Code Jockey posted:Dexter makes me kinda mad because it had so much promise and a lot of good things going for it but what the gently caress One of my favorite things I saw written about that show was that "the sixth season of Dexter was the sixth best season of Dexter." The show went on longer than it should have. Weeds nosedived in its sixth season, too, but I think it pulled out of its death spiral more gracefully than Dexter did.
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oldpainless posted:Has anyone said the worst show is Sex and the City? Excuse me but it's super empowering to be a big vapid piece of poo poo how dare you
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i think i made it through about 20 minutes of the father of the pride pilot back in the day. it was loving amazing. it is purestrain cringe the whole way through. it is a show i need to somehow revisit someday, with help. it is one of those rare perfect objects, similar to what harry shearer was getting at with his famous take on the day the clown cried. you cannot prepare yourself for how poo poo it is, and it perfectly misses every comic and emotional beat, every time. it destroys everything it touches. through voice alone you can feel the discomfort and boredom of the voice actors.
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Jul 20, 2016 06:57
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Pick posted:Excuse me but it's super empowering to be a big vapid piece of poo poo Its only slight less bad then Entourage.
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Jul 20, 2016 07:04
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papa_november posted:through voice alone you can feel the discomfort and boredom of the voice actors. Father of the Pride premiered a year after a tiger dragged Roy off stage by his neck. Just imagine how surreal it was for voice actors and script writers to be working on that mess while Roy was still learning to walk again. Fortunately it only cost NBC $2 million per episode.
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Jul 20, 2016 08:43
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Pick posted:Allen Gregory even ended with a rape, which I think was intended as a rape joke, only there's no actual components of a working joke, so it's just a rape. I've never seen this show but everyone I know who watched it (including every single goon who watched it) hate it with the power of a million burning suns. If it's not the worst TV show of all time, it might be the most hated TV show of all time (relative to the small number of people who actually caught it).
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Code Jockey posted:Dexter makes me kinda mad because it had so much promise and a lot of good things going for it but what the gently caress Dexter doesn't belong on the worst TV show ever list, because it started good. It belongs on a list with shows like Heroes that "Started great, picked up speed, then used that speed to go flying off a cliff while screaming out a dated as hell YOLO." You know, shows that make it 1-2 seasons and then implode into pure strain bullshit.
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The first episode of Heroes was really good and I was super psyched for more, but it was mediocre to terrible for the rest of the first season, and then the second season apparently had no budget and became even more terrible than I thought possible.
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Jul 20, 2016 10:43
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The Twinkie Czar posted:Father of the Pride premiered a year after a tiger dragged Roy off stage by his neck. Just imagine how surreal it was for voice actors and script writers to be working on that mess while Roy was still learning to walk again. Holy poo poo. That's gotta be one of the most ill-timed series ever.
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Jul 20, 2016 10:50
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^^^ It just might be. The wikipedia article says it took two years to animate. happyhippy posted:And then Rick kills Carl and Might as well go all the way with the Frank Darabont The Mist ending. And let's say the military was able to protect or quickly retake most cities. But through the absolute worst of luck Carl is always leaving areas weeks before the military arrives and ends up in the very last town to be secured. Give me that, all in the final episode, out of nowhere.
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Jul 20, 2016 11:58
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YeahTubaMike posted:as bad as allen gregory was, after watching lucifer on a plane, i'm tempted to change my answer I watched the first episode if Lucifer because a bunch of goons were gushing about it. It's absolute poo poo. I enjoyed that BBC series with Jamie Bamber as a magic cop more, and that was crap too
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Jul 20, 2016 13:08
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kazr posted:contact m night shalalalamananalalamadingdong before i get to it first I was just talking about this to my wife, but it's funny how people (very much not just you, but many, many people) get so confused by his last name that they'll actually put in extra letters and syllables because they think it's more complicated than 'Shyamalan'. Also, with regards to Dexter, yeah, the first 4 seasons (you all can gently caress off with your complaints about season 3, it was WORLDS BETTER than anything after 4... plus, Jimmy Smits, and actual tension!) were great. Campy, but great. It really should have done something with the fact that Dexter is all but discovered after Trinity royally fucks his life up. It was as if Dexter, as a character, was running around with God Mode and a No Clipping cheat active all the time, and it was only really apparent to the audience once literally nothing came of the Trinity fallout. Show should have been 5 seasons, and then done. Instead, he ends up as a lumberjack. I do love that I can say that to people (or at least could... nowadays, no one cares anymore) and they would think that I was joking. EDIT: Thanks to the Dexter thread(s), I think it's the show I've talked/posted the most about, which is loving insane. Even my custom title is partly a Dexter (and Community  ) reference, for fucks sake  And I didn't even end up liking the loving show.Those threads, though... they were absolutely magical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyyM_JjN7yw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TsSHqVd724 Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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CannedMacabre posted:The Mentalist was exceptionally bad. the mentalist was exceptionally bad, but is not even in the same league of awfulness as allen gregory, lucifer, or work it
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Centripetal Horse posted:To be fair, that show was set like fifteen years after the first woman graduated from a US medical school. It would have been a pretty big deal, although not necessarily a great premise for episode after episode of a television show. Didn't help that the actress could not loving act and the supporting cast seemed like they had only done softcore porn's that Showtime refused to air for lack of quality in story and production. Seriously, there is nothing of redeeming quality about that show, it was just the world's most blatant pandering on TV to bored middle American wives who felt they never reached their potential CannedMacabre posted:The Mentalist was exceptionally bad. The Mentalist? Oh, you mean that uncharming Psych knock off. Yeah, that poo poo was bad
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I dunno if it's bad enough for this thread, but should I even bother watching True Detective season 2? I just finished watching the first one (loved it) but from what I hear the followup is either garbage the whole way through, or garbage most of the way through but gets better by the end.
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Mordja posted:I dunno if it's bad enough for this thread, but should I even bother watching True Detective season 2? I just finished watching the first one (loved it) but from what I hear the followup is either garbage the whole way through, or garbage most of the way through but gets better by the end. If anything it just shows how lucky they got in casting Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. No other actors could have dreamed to carry that load. The second season seemed to be the writers going "Whelp, not getting *that* lucky again!"
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Mordja posted:I dunno if it's bad enough for this thread, but should I even bother watching True Detective season 2? I just finished watching the first one (loved it) but from what I hear the followup is either garbage the whole way through, or garbage most of the way through but gets better by the end. Usually with bad shows, (Dexter, Sons of Anarchy) the related SA thread is inversely as good. With True Detective, it (the show) was just boring, which is the worst thing a show can be. There wasn't even enough to make fun of, really. Save yourself a HUGE amount of time, and just watch a bunch of 'previously on True Detective' and 'Next time on True Detective' promos, and then read the ending synopsis on Wikipedia. I mean, I was even trying to follow the actual plot, and I don't think I've seen the finale, because I just didn't care enough at that point. I know what happens, but it doesn't matter.
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CannedMacabre posted:The Mentalist was exceptionally bad. I like the Mentalist as a background type show just because the main character is so delightfully over the top, much like House of Cards.
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I can see how House of Cards would be a good background show if you find it soothing to listen to an angry man talk in a drawling Southern accent. But that just takes me back to freshmen Philosophy 201 with the guy who never shut up and eventually just started screaming IT IS A FACT THAT NIETZSCHE IS BURNING IN HELL.
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Jul 20, 2016 15:43
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Somebody, at some point, had to make a pitch for Allen Gregory to give the project a green light. I cannot think of any combination of words, sentences, or drugs that could have put enough lipstick on that pig. I have to think they simply pitched another, better show and then used their budget for Allen Gregory, instead.
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Booblord Zagats posted:
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Do It Once Right posted:Somebody, at some point, had to make a pitch for Allen Gregory to give the project a green light. "It's got that guy from Superbad. No, not Mclovin, the other one. This is going to be gold" Probably the only effort that went into it
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Mordja posted:I dunno if it's bad enough for this thread, but should I even bother watching True Detective season 2? I just finished watching the first one (loved it) but from what I hear the followup is either garbage the whole way through, or garbage most of the way through but gets better by the end. It isn't nearly as good as the first season, despite Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdsms, and Taylor Kitsch doing their best. The worst part is that it could have very easily been great if HBO had told Nic Pizzilatto he had to work with s team of writers to tone doen his Thesaurus Robot dialogue. On the other hand, I would really like to read the early draft of the season that involved interstate trucking and the occult set decades ago. You can see the bones of it on the 3 character formula (2 detectives from different states plus a highway cop), Colin Farrell looking like a Texan guy from the 70's, a gay character being a big deal which would fit better in thr past than 2014 or whenever it's set, etc
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Quote-Unquote posted:The first episode of Heroes was really good and I was super psyched for more, but it was mediocre to terrible for the rest of the first season, and then the second season apparently had no budget and became even more terrible than I thought possible. I remembered trying so hard to excuse the second season of Heroes by "oh it's the writer's strike so they lost what little mooring they had." Then the third season premiered. They were hosed all along.
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mind the walrus posted:I remembered trying so hard to excuse the second season of Heroes by "oh it's the writer's strike so they lost what little mooring they had." Then the third season premiered. They were hosed all along. Haha, yeah I remember a lot of people being all "this time they'll get it right!" before it came out.
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OctoberBlues posted:I like the Mentalist as a background type show just because the main character is so delightfully over the top, much like House of Cards. Pretty much. It's a slightly sub-  tier show that is elevated by having Simon Baker as the lead. It's not high art, but it's a competently made procedural that doesn't belong anywhere near a "worst ever" list.
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Professor Shark posted:It isn't nearly as good as the first season, despite Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdsms, and Taylor Kitsch doing their best. The worst part is that it could have very easily been great if HBO had told Nic Pizzilatto he had to work with s team of writers to tone doen his Thesaurus Robot dialogue. The second season made me so mad because of the time I had wasted watching it that I was, frankly, apoplectic.
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Mordja posted:Haha, yeah I remember a lot of people being all "this time they'll get it right!" before it came out. I do remember that, and then season 3 dropped like a wet fart onto our TVs
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Much of True Detective S2 was very disappointing but there were a few bright spots. Colin Farrell did a really good job, much better than I expected, although no-one else was particularly good on the show and Rachal McAdams was miscast pretty badly. There were a few really good action setpieces, nothing quite as gripping as the night raid on the drug den from S1 but they were good nonetheless. Apart from that there are plenty of valid, major complaints about S2 but I'm not sorry I watched it even though it was mostly boring and occasionally stultifying. That adult swim show with all the has-been cartoon characters in a reality show might be the worst thing I've ever seen.
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Filthy Hans posted:Much of True Detective S2 was very disappointing but there were a few bright spots. Colin Farrell did a really good job, much better than I expected, although no-one else was particularly good on the show and Rachal McAdams was miscast pretty badly. There were a few really good action setpieces, nothing quite as gripping as the night raid on the drug den from S1 but they were good nonetheless. Apart from that there are plenty of valid, major complaints about S2 but I'm not sorry I watched it even though it was mostly boring and occasionally stultifying. Yeah same I hope that the third season draws on Raymond Chandler hard and it's a single detective, or better yet since HBO has already made a Philip Marlowe series, make an updated version
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PassTheRemote posted:I do remember that, and then season 3 dropped like a wet fart onto our TVs Go ahead and read this in George Takei's voice, and then put his laugh in at the end. 
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I'm not sure whether or not South Park got worse over the past few years, or if I just aged out of it, but I swear, whenever I hear anybody quote the latest season of South Park like its the most clever thing ever, I can't help but lose some respect for them. Its just so far up its own rear end. Pretty much anytime South Park tries to make a point about anything, it comes off as awful. Jellymouth fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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Jul 20, 2016 20:36
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its the nutshack its the nutshack its the nutshack
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A few takes from the past few pages: - True Detective S2 was ridiculous, but I had substantially more fun watching it than S1. - Someone mentioned You're the Worst. That show is good. - Baby Bob is a real contender for worst show ever. Probably not one of the 25 worst, but at least in the bottom 100, unlike most of what's been brought up ITT.
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How is Grey's Anatomy still on? I saw a commercial the other day and was shocked. Not saying it's worst ever but 11 or whatever seasons really?
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I recently rewatched season 1 and I'm amazed how much it holds up. I did not have any fun watching TD S2, however I did get some enjoyment out of the internet memes that cropped up around it. I think an HBO exec admitted to pressuring Pizzolatto to put out a script even though it wasn't finished and then rushing production. It definitely feels like season 2 would've been great if Pizzolatto or other writers had a chance to do another pass on the script, and if it wasn't so terribly miscast.Professor Shark posted:Yeah same there won't be a third season
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Mordja posted:I dunno if it's bad enough for this thread, but should I even bother watching True Detective season 2? I just finished watching the first one (loved it) but from what I hear the followup is either garbage the whole way through, or garbage most of the way through but gets better by the end. i liked it and always felt it got a bad rap, just don't watch it with season 1 in the back of your head
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