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First one that comes to mind is Heroes. I remember really enjoying the first season and even rewatched that once, but things went downhill after. The point where I stopped was when they had been building up to a big fight between two heroes and the main villain, and the whole thing happened behind closed doors. Now, granted, they had done that before in season 1, but that was somewhere midway and it felt more like a cute taste of what was to come. Other one is also The Walking Dead. I think we dropped off somewhere during the shenanigans with the governor and the jail they were staying at.
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I don't know why these keep hitting me after the OP but, in the interest of discussion: Squidbillies- This show was great, even with the uptick in Tammy episodes. Then COVID happened. During COVID, Unknown Hinson with bad opinions happened. Dave Willis firing him for said opinions happened. And the show went into limbo. Until November, when I randomly discovered on HBO Max that they did do a final season. At first, I thought it was just one last episode to kill off the show, but it turns out it's a full 13(?) episode run to the finish. With Tracy Morgan as Early. You read that right. Look, Unknown probably had to go but, if you're going to do one last season, go find Jesco White, have Ga Ga Pee Pap possess Early, and off we go. You could even have a gag of Early see-and-say'd with recycled lines like the last appearance of Chef in South Park. Or, alternately, Roseanne the last season and do the show with no Early at all. But the way they went is a shark jump and I don't know if I'll be able to polish it off.
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You guys are gonna yell at me for this one but I could never get into post Andy Whitfield Spartacus. Gods of the Arena was cool, but I never gibed with Liam McIntyre and it always made me miss Andy and then I'd think about how depressing all that was and I finished season 3 and had no desire to keep going.
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Baron von der Loon posted:Other one is also The Walking Dead. I think we dropped off somewhere during the shenanigans with the governor and the jail they were staying at. The more I hear about Walking Dead, the happier I am that I stuck to my guns of quitting the show on the first episode of the second season. I very distinctly remember telling the person I was watching with that if a kid got hurt I was done, and then in the last couple minutes of the episode… yeah, I was done.
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I bailed on The Walking Dead when Negan showed up. Just so much stupid poo poo happened as a result of that, I literally stopped caring about any of the characters anymore. I'm supposed to believe that Rick can rip a man's throat open with his teeth or cold-bloodedly execute an abusive husband in front of other people, but Negan is what broke him? gently caress outta here. To say nothing of Carl stowing away in a supply truck with an assault rifle, yet when Negan shows up he instantly breaks cover, announces his presence, and moves in close enough to get disarmed instead of just sniping from a distance. Or the whole Daryl being locked up and fed dog food while that goddamned "Easy Street" song kept playing. Nope, that was when I realized that the show wasn't for me anymore. And I actually made it through the entire season on the farm, the prison stuff, the stupid poo poo at the hospital, and the family of cannibals. So I guess Negan finally broke me, too. 
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There is a lot of crap in Family Guy, but I still watch new family guy as background noise and find it fairly funny. I'd take it any day over Modern Simpsons or South Park, at this point it probably has a higher level of funny episodes than Simpsons which is just sad.
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Handmaid's Tale lost me shortly after they surpassed the book material. It had some promise to change the status quo with the story arc where she escaped. It looked like the show's direction was going to be her getting to Canada and then coming back later with help to get her daughter out. But then she gets to the airport and Random Plot Contrivance happens to reset everything, the entire escape arc was rendered meaningless, and I realized they were just going to be rehashing extreme misery porn forever. If you're not going to change your formula, don't write an entire arc to tease it and go back just to demonstrate how hopeless everything is. We already knew that.
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Resident Alien. Season 1 was pretty good and it was fun to see Alan Tudyk as a lead and the overall plot was ok. Season 2 a red flag they were out of ideas was episode 1 when Tudyk lost his memory and we got an amnesia episode. The show often seems to forget it is about an alien there to destroy the planet and we get long digressions into generic sitcom plots. The mayor and his wife are PG rated kinky, isn't that ridiculous? I agree women should be paid the same as men but why is that a whole episode, I thought the planet was in danger? Also seems to think the audience is in love with the alright but mediocre supporting cast and had a long digression where they drive a boat endlessly around a lake and I could sense the director off camera making the "stretch out the scene" signal. I wonder if something happened with production where Tudyk wasn't available for half the shoot?
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CBJSprague24 posted:I don't know why these keep hitting me after the OP but, in the interest of discussion: I'm not a big fan of Tracy Morgan, but the Squidbillies stuff he did was fine I really miss that show
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-I watched most of that 24: Legacy show, which was Fox's attempt to resurrect the series without Kiefer Sutherland. It was as bad as you would expect. They brought a couple of old characters back but it was really unsatisfying. I'm sure most people have forgotten that this exists. -Family Guy, The Simpsons, and Bob's Burgers- Most of this was burnout or the shows just going on autopilot when their creative people left or just stopped caring. In the case of Bob's Burgers, the show at some point (and I can't tell you the exact point that this happened) just stopped telling jokes and everything was just revolving around awkward situations. -The Walking Dead- I made it I want to say halfway through the first real season with Negan and just got tired because it was clear that this story was going to be dragged out further than was needed. I had been mostly forcing myself to sit down and watch that season, but I had to stop. I read the descriptions of what happens after I stopped and I'm glad I did. It seems like a lot of the main characters also got tired of the show as well, because around that point is when they start leaving. I made it through one season of Fear the Walking Dead but I couldn't do more than that. All of the characters were awful and the story was dumb. -I also bailed on South Park around 2012. The last episode I remember watching was the one where they are dressed as Avengers characters (I think it was a Halloween episode?). I think this was also burnout, probably. -Heroes- It's been a long time since I thought about this show, but it looks like I bailed sometime in Season 4. I definitely didn't finish that. I only found out a year or two ago that they brought the show back briefly about 7 years ago for a miniseries. I still have good feelings about the first season, but the show definitely nosedives very quickly after that and never really recovers.
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Escobarbarian posted:That’s not an accurate description of what happened. They were like, only a couple days until shooting season 3 in March 2020 before having to shut down, and then it took longer than usual to come back due to shooting all over Europe. In that time, they wrote season 4, so they shot them together. At this point Glover had an option in his Amazon deal to keep doing Atlanta if he wanted, but he decided season 4 was a good end to the show. Circling back on this because the season's about to end, but S3 is definitely not what the first two seasons are and I'm wondering if I'll stick around until the end at this rate if it continues to be Don Glover's Short Film Festival (oh and also Atlanta sometimes).
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CBJSprague24 posted:Don Glover's Short Film Festival (oh and also Atlanta sometimes). Yeah after the first one I just started skipping every other episode. I'm sure those standalone episodes are fine but that's just not what I'm here for.
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zoux posted:Every show on the CW. 99% of the time the show just ends up sitting on my DVR until I give up and delete it. The only time I just said "gently caress this show" was The Walking Dead, after spending an entire season on the farm over an issue that could have been resolved in half an episode. From what I've heard since then it hasn't gotten any better.
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Archer: I broke up with it after that episode where that teenage girl tries to seduce him. The uncomfortable-to-funny ratio was ramping up anyway, and it became a little too high then. The Simpsons: I still remember watching The Italian Bob and just coming to the disappointing realization that The Simpsons was never going to be good again and I needed to accept that & move on. This is the only show I ever actively, independently broke up with and didn't ghost. Speaking of breaking up, Sydney Bottocks posted:Doctor Who, the revived series from 2005 onwards. David Tennant's Doctor is still perhaps the most annoying-in-a-bad-way live-action character I've ever seen. The show was unfun to watch and mostly unmemorable, and the only reason I ever endured it was because my then-boyfriend was a huge fan, which is something I thought he knew. He broke up with me just before David Tennant's last episode, which was whatever, but then he asked me whether or not I was going to watch the finale. I laughed in his face.
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Friends - Whole household would religiously watch this every week, get prepared for it with snacks etc. Then realized its the same 6 jokes every loving episode for each character. I'm the clean freak one! I'm the quirky hippy one! I'm the nerd one! I'm the Italian one! Walking Dead - Gave up when they got to Negan, oh another group of evil guys with another gimmick, against our plucky goodie survivors who only want to do good! In my fantasy ending for this show, a group of heli's pass over, land, and european/canadian/south american army guys jump out and go 'what the gently caress do you mean you have been squabbling with each other all this time? We banded together within weeks of the outbreak and have been helping reclaim the world since!'. Then Curb music would end the series. Picard - Don't have to give reasons, you know why. Doctor Who - Jodie Whittaker's run. Just really badly written, they introduce something and then never explain it, Doctor is about to die, and next episode is out of danger within 5 seconds. Start of her run was a clue, falling out of the sky no tardis, nothing, ooooh how will she survive????? She just face plants into a loving train at terminal velocity, gets up, and totally ignores it. She gets converted to a Weeping Angel OMG! She cant move now if anyone is watching her, so cant do anything to get out! How will she get out of this interesting conundrum????? Oh wait shes out 5 mins later. Absolute poo poo.
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I gave up on Arrow during the sixth season, Flash during the fourth season, and Legends of Tomorrow during the fifth season (after Brandon Routh left), but returned for the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover and the final episodes of Arrow and Legends. I dropped The Office at some point along the way and gave up on Community during the disappointing fourth season. My wife and I quite Orphan Black and Killing Eve during the final seasons, after realizing we just didn't care anymore. We enjoyed the acting of Maslany, Comer, and Oh, but the storytelling had left us cold for a while before that.
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happyhippy posted:Friends - Whole household would religiously watch this every week, get prepared for it with snacks etc. Then realized its the same 6 jokes every loving episode for each character. I'm the clean freak one! I'm the quirky hippy one! I'm the nerd one! I'm the Italian one! I watched like three episodes of Friends, and one of them was the one where Ross whitened his teeth so much that they became glow-in-the dark. I thought that was hilarious, and then the next two I watched were terrible & boring. I guess that's more like having a one night stand with a show rather than breaking up with it though. Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I dropped The Office at some point along the way and gave up on Community during the disappointing fourth season. I gave up during the Robert CalIfornia arc, because at the time I had a boss who was exactly like that and I didn't want that energy in my home too.
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Breaking Bad frustrated me. I first tried to watch it shortly after it came out and it stressed me out too much so I gave up only a couple of episodes into season 1. A few years later I gave it another shot and really got into it, but then the molasses pace of the story and Walt's plot armor began to really frustrate me. I really grew to hate him and was basically watching in the hope that something really awful would happen to him or he would get killed. Once I got to the part where Gus was killed and I realized there were still seasons left (and the show was still on the air at the time) I gave up. I watched the series finale when it came out with some friends just to see that horrible fucker finally bite it, but I have had no interest in revisiting the series.
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It's low hanging fruit, but I tapped out on The Flash sometime after the last season when there's a full-on lightsaber (but it's speed force) fight. I have not returned to Snowfall this season, but I blame that on moving houses and just getting to a point where I have access to that show again. I'll probably give this season a shot. I kept with Peaky Blinders up until the season where they took down the Brody's New York mob and he makes a bid for politics. I stalled on the following season hard. I guess I just need to be in a space where I want to follow close captions every episode.
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hatelull posted:It's low hanging fruit, but I tapped out on The Flash sometime after the last season when there's a full-on lightsaber (but it's speed force) fight. Shiiiit, might have to look that one up for the laugh. I tagged out when they introduced Bart. It was ok that Nora came back from the future, and had an interesting ending for her in whatever season that was, series 5? But he is a complete dick, nothing likable in any way.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I don't know why these keep hitting me after the OP but, in the interest of discussion: Yeah, I loved squidbillies..and then it turned out early wasn't a character and now I'd have trouble rewatching the 12 seasons of Unknown considering what an rear end in a top hat the guy actually is. I love me some tracy but s13 was tough to get through. I can absolutely appreciate it only exists as a go gently caress yourself to ole stu which is fantastic, but as a watchable show..eh. e: the shows reddit did not react..let's say positively...to season 13 either. I got more entertainment out of those tears then the actual show for the most part zer0spunk fucked around with this message at 14:47 on May 22, 2022 |
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I think at their best (DD, Punisher S1, JJs1, Luke Cage first half of S1) were genuine high points for the MCU. Better than the movies for me but I quit on JJ in s2 and Punisher s2 loving sucked; an astonishing drop off. Daredevil S2 got a little wobbly but I stuck it out and it's my favorite thing Marvel has done along with Iron Man 1. Stranger Things I got progressively less interested as the first season unfolded and when it was over, never felt the urge to continue it. Seemed like all it was was nostalgic fan service and derivative references to 80's pop culture. The story and the twists weren't interesting to me in the least and I don't care for Mille Bobbie Brown at all. MASH I was never a huge fan but the early seasons were pretty good. After a while, as Alan Alda got more involved and the cast started to roll over, it got more preachy, self serious and sanctimonious and less and less funny. Definitely the Simpsons. I haven't seen an episode in over a decade. Even the Halloween ones started to suck. American Chopper I love the motorcycle designs and watching them come up with cool poo poo but eventually every episode was the same and even the bikes started getting repetitive and less interesting. Same with Chopped. Became too formulaic and I slowly began to realize that hear I am watching a cooking contest and can't even taste the food so, for some reason, I'm watching a show about presentation and what I THINK the dishes taste like. I believe those were the last "reality" TV shows I watched and now I just loathe the entire genre. I'll throw NFL Football in there too. I used to be a highly dedicated viewer and big follower of the sport but 4 or 5 years ago I gradually started watching less and less to where last season I think I watched 2 or 3 games max, including the Super Bowl. There are too many commercials, too much offense, horrible officiating, lengthy replay reviews and I came to realize that I have better things to do with my Sunday afternoons and Monday nights. I watch YouTube recaps on Monday morning and look at the box scores. Gives me all I need. Sometimes I'll listen to a game while I cook or if I'm driving but I aint paying for cable or NFL Network. BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 15:34 on May 22, 2022 |
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zer0spunk posted:Yeah, I loved squidbillies..and then it turned out early wasn't a character and now I'd have trouble rewatching the 12 seasons of Unknown considering what an rear end in a top hat the guy actually is. I'm in the same boat, I loved Squidbillies, especially the early seasons, but when Unknown Hinson apparently decided to go full mask off (and over Dolly Parton supporting BLM, no less), that basically made it a show I can never return to. Ah well, at least I still have Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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I kinda broke up with Supergirl. I stopped watching in the middle of season three. Not sure why. I will get back to it later this year.
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FishFood posted:Breaking Bad frustrated me. I first tried to watch it shortly after it came out and it stressed me out too much so I gave up only a couple of episodes into season 1. A few years later I gave it another shot and really got into it, but then the molasses pace of the story and Walt's plot armor began to really frustrate me. I really grew to hate him and was basically watching in the hope that something really awful would happen to him or he would get killed. Once I got to the part where Gus was killed and I realized there were still seasons left (and the show was still on the air at the time) I gave up. I watched the series finale when it came out with some friends just to see that horrible fucker finally bite it, but I have had no interest in revisiting the series. a friend of mine didn't know that the last season of breaking bad was split into two sections. shortly after it ended we were discussing the ending and they were confused - "what are you talking about, that show had a super weird ending?" they thought the show ended with hank on the shitter realizing walt was a drug kingpin, the end, roll credits, lights up, go home. honestly it would have been a better ending imo
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zoux posted:Every show on the CW. When I was young and unattached it was definitely more the latter. These days between having a full time gig and a kid and all that it's usually the former - my leisure time is very limited and if something isn't wowing me or at least inspiring confidence that the show can stick the landing, has something to say, etc then I'm out. roomtone posted:loads but actually rick and morty is probably the best example. I think I tapped out on Rick and Morty around season 3? Whichever one it was where the season finale had the President fight and then the hard reset on the family dynamics. It very much seemed like they were out of ideas at that point, and everything after that was just going to be more pickle Rick type stuff. I also ditched Community around season 2 or 3, so maybe there's just something about Harmon's influence that puts me off. Agree with lots of shows in here but one that comes to mind in particular is Penny Dreadful. Season 1 was so goddamn good that I struggled through the very uneven second season but had no good will left for season 3, or the spinoff. What an immense waste of talent. Also Sleepy Hollow, when it became apparent in season 2 that they were going to gently caress over Nicole Beharie in order to shoehorn in the lovely romance/dysfunctional family plotline for Ichabod.
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So many shows. It's not even them necessarily being bad as opposed to just forgetting about them or not having time or a better show coming along or a better show starting another season. So many shows I've quit on I would have devoured a decade ago. All the ones where I went gently caress THIS have already been said. Still I feel the need to re-mention Every Netflix Marvel Show Ever when it came to Season 2 (some on season 1, DD on S3). Holy gently caress what was up with that line of shows? It's like all of them were competing on what useless boring poo poo they could waste their time on instead of what people actually liked about characters. I can't be sure but I am pretty sure full 10% of Season 3 of Daredevil was actually about Daredevil.
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A very recent one for me was Suits. I probably got through 3/5 of it. I was finding it incredulous that the main characters were friends and always talking about how they were family because they constantly would fight, threaten and backstab each other. All the lawyer characters are written to go in a room, shout their lines at each other, deliver a threat and then storm out - but it's all a misunderstanding, it's all cleared up and we are "family" again.  Which is a shame as I found the Louis character so fun to watch but it all just got too annoying to overlook.
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I anticipate pushback on this, but Bob's Burgers, gave up in season 3 I think. For a good bit the episodes got too formulaic, the kids have a montage with a little song about their antics while the parents are doing something stupid. I love the characters but didn't really feel like I was getting anything out of it. I'll go back and catch up eventually but I just don't really feel the push. Also Rick and Morty, Rick isn't funny he's just an rear end in a top hat and everyone else was becoming one as well, and whenever the show verges on making an actual point about how awful they all are the show reverses course and makes a poop joke.
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Slavik posted:A very recent one for me was Suits. I probably got through 3/5 of it. I was finding it incredulous that the main characters were friends and always talking about how they were family because they constantly would fight, threaten and backstab each other. I gave up on Suits the season after Mike got out of jail. The show just felt completely unfocused.
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Sydney Bottocks posted:For me, it's almost entirely intentional. If I like a show, and it's still good, but for whatever reason I fell behind watching it, I'll eventually get around to catching back up with it. But if I come to the realization that I don't like it anymore? Time to walk away and move on to other things. It's the same with music and bands; if an artist starts putting out subpar work or changes to a style or genre I'm not interested in, I'll just quit buying their stuff. There are way too many other things competing for my time to stick with something I don't really enjoy anymore. Season 4 of Arrested Development was bad in comparison to the original run....but I never felt that it was terrible. And....I found the fifth season to be a big step up in quality.....even with the out of left field finale.
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Rick and Morty after they ran out of Douglas Adams material to rip off. The Walking Dead after Glenn died. Occasionally I'll watch an episode and it's like an ai generated fever dream of a show now. They are infiltrating some evil tribe and making an alliance with some good tribe. A zombie kills a kid. Repeat forever. It actually kind of works as a show to occasionally drop into an episode now. I'm pretty sure you could shuffle every single episode after Glen died and it would be a better show, as a psychotic cosmic horror show where not only are they in a zombie apocalypse but they are in a time glitched apocalypse trapped to relive variations of incoherence. Survivor Watched from 2007 to finally see what the fuss was about/ironywatch a dying american reality tv show. ended up loving it and watched every season/s every year until last year. They just started to make really bad decisions with cast safety and such and tried to autocorrect too little too late.
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I've drifted away mid-run from probably more tv shows than I've actually finished in their entirety, mostly fueled by that general "I just don't care enough to keep current with it" feeling. Lots of ones folks have already mentioned - all of the CW DC shows (except, somehow, Batwoman), Archer, the Netflix marvel fare, Stranger Things, etc. Two others to toss into the ring: Glee - Nearly everyone I know had a breaking point with Glee, usually in the seasons 4-6 range. Mine came around midway season 4 when it finally cemented in my brain that the showrunners had no particular desire to strive for any sort of coherence/cohesiveness - narratively, emotionally or whatever - so why bother wasting my own time on it? Grey's Anatomy - This loving show that's somehow still going and just hit 400 episodes. I broke up with it somewhere in season 9, when the fallout of the big plane crash seemed to drag on forever. Tragically I picked it back up with the most recent season (18, jesus christ) but at least it seems like it might finally be winding down if ABC chooses to just let it go.
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Angel Never finished the final season. All the bullshit with Cordy in the previous ones really pissed me off, plus it was airing during a messy break up that just killed my mood for pretty much anything at the time. Too bad, would have liked to have seen that muppet episode. Arrested Development Heard bad things about S4, even from a superfan pal, so just never bothered. Cobra Kai Loved S1, liked S2 and S3, enjoyed the S4 opener but still not gone back to watch the rest of it yet. Doctor Who While I’ve always been fond of the concept and characters, every ep that I’ve seen of the original series - bar the pilot - was absolute shite. I gave up entirely after Colin Baker came in but that fondness for the core idea still had me give Eight’s one-off show a shot. Then came the revival and I’d dip in and out, mostly finding it desperately average. Then S5 hits and it’s magical, loved Matt Smith and Karen Gillan…but just S5. Everything after was shite again bar the one odd moment of greatness here and there so I bailed. I came back to give Jodie a go as she’s always been good in everything I’ve seen her in. But Chibnall’s skills are frozen concentrated dogshit so I ditched it again after his second season opener and it’s going to take more than bringing back a clapped out has-been like Rusty for me to consider ever giving it another chance. Been burned more than enough. Hannibal Watched most of the first series but just stopped and never went back. Don’t even know why, I was rather digging it honestly. Heroes Liked S1, completely lost interest a couple of eps into S2. Legion This should be right up my alley but while I loved the pilot ep, the leads are great, and I have the series all set to go, I never feelin the mood to continue. Preacher I stuck it out till the penultimate ep of S2, desperately wanting it to get better. A complete waste of time and the excellent lead trio’s talent, just meandering bollocks. Did it ever get around to the “not enough gun” scene? I’m betting not. Snowpiercer Dug the film, liked S1 but bounced hard off the S2 opener, not bothered going back yet. Star Trek Discovery I expected something vaguely Mass Effect, that Burnham was gonna Shep her way across the galaxy being a cool and awesome XO having space adventures with a fun crew. Instead, she was a dour and wretched charisma vacuum with all the charm and personality of an exterminator’s jockstrap. I kept on in there hoping it would turn things around but once we finally got an ep all about the mysterious robot lady…AND THEY KILL HER OFF IN IT, LOL that was the final straw. Star Trek Picard I learned my lesson with Disco and bailed after sticking the dreadful S1 out. Everything I have heard about S2 tells me I made the correct choice. Stranger Things Watched S1 and it was all right I suppose but I didn’t care enough to keep going. The Walking Dead Made it about midway into S3 and had enough. Never looked back. The Wire Got the first season DVD somewhere, watched the opener, never bothered going back. That said, I do actually want to give a proper go at some point before I did. The Witcher S1 was fun enough but I watched the first ep of S2, waited a couple of weeks then watched the second ep and…still haven’t bothered continuing. I didn’t dislike either ep I watched but I just couldn’t find the energy to keep going. Westworld I enjoyed S1 and even have S2 & S3 ready to go but just can never be bothered, plus everyone saying they’re both bad anyway isn’t exactly encouraging. Hmmm, that’s a lot ‘liked the first season, immediately lost interest in S2’ instances, goddamn. Anyway, the only two series I am jazzed to get around to are The Wire, and Halt And Catch Fire. One of these days, etc.
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Sentinel Red posted:Hmmm, that’s a lot ‘liked the first season, immediately lost interest in S2’ instances, goddamn. Anyway, the only two series I am jazzed to get around to are The Wire, and Halt And Catch Fire. One of these days, etc. I bought S1 of The Wire and bought the rest of the series after seeing about 3-4 episodes. Goddamn, that's a classic.
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I'm actually really good at binging and finishing shows, so these two are major exceptions: Bob's Burgers. - Too many depressing characters: Teddy, Mr. Fishodor, Gail, also Bob himself to an extent. - Gene is consistently unfunnier than Jar Jar Binks. - "Your rear end is made out of gold and can't be sold" storylines like the one where Bob is too morally high-minded to sell or rent the restaurant to a film studio or what that was (sorry, it's been a few years). - Gross and unfunny poo poo. The tapeworm episode was my last. King of the Hill. - Depressing characters: Cotton Hill, that friend of Hank's Teddy in Bob's Burgers is apparently modeled after, Hank Hill himself. - That one episode where Hank somehow rationalized that some kind of football(?) player was above all other people in the neighborhood. (Could have been some other kind of popular spectator sport.) - I don't find stupid people too stupid to address their issues or seek out help funny or entertaining. - Last episode for me was what felt like the 800th one to focus on Cotton Hill.
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Mr. Smile Face Hat posted:King of the Hill. Dang it, I am sick and tired of everyone's asinine ideas about me.
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Mr. Smile Face Hat posted:I'm actually really good at binging and finishing shows, so these two are major exceptions: King of the Hill is a show where I'll watch one episode every three or four months, it was good but not great, and my complaints are pretty close to yours. And yeah Cotton Hill is a miserable bastard and I always hated that Hank never kicked his rear end. Apparently he dies in season 12 and even there he doesn't get what he has coming to him. Hank's a bit of an rear end in a top hat (one with merits and good qualities, but still an rear end in a top hat). Sadly that means everyone he has to go up "against" has to be a bigger rear end in a top hat. As Nero Danced fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Jun 16, 2022 |
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Mr. Smile Face Hat posted:Bob's Burgers. I tried to get into Bob's Burgers, but it was just so...meh. Tina reminds me of myself at Tina's age, but not in a way that's particularly funny. It's just straightforward.  Also, Kristen Schaal's voice makes me envy the deaf.When I see "gross and unfunny poo poo", I think Drawn Together, one of the worst shows I've ever seen. quote:King of the Hill. King of the Hill was weird. I liked it when it was on, but every time I rewatched an episode, I kind of wondered why. Also, Hank & Peggy seemed like roommates rather than husband & wife, and that was always vaguely offputting imho.
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