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For me it's the original Kung Fu. Starts off really good with philosophical arguments and fights grounded in reality more or less, then descends into complete gibberish and awful "magic" effects that we are supposed to take seriously, starting in the second season. And then they kept making sequel and spinoff series. I dropped it near the end of the second season and never bothered trying to get into it again.
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The Battlestar Galactica remake. I used to recommend that show to everyone I knew. "Watch the miniseries and first episode with me and if you don't immediately want to see more I'll never mention it to you again." That was a tough ask even when I was a huge fan, but it turned a couple of friends into fans. Idk, maybe I was more convincing when I was younger. Anyway, it took a few years but the fact that the show is so dated as to basically be... anachronistic might be the wrong term but there's a lot of plot thread that's definitely 'cringe' today. The 'plan' was all bullshit and the show's 'commentary' on the necessity for war and violence during the Iraq war rings very hollow today. It still has stellar acting and some plot points do still give me chills even thinking about, but I probably won't ever do a full series re-watch again.
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Jun 21, 2022 08:10
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God the Ozark ending really was god loving awful
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Jun 21, 2022 10:49
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:In the order in which I remember: Most people are probably aware, but this seems to be standard practice. There are only 7 episodes of the show after Braff leaves, and they're OK but don't go anywhere. Most fans of the show (including die hard lifelong fans) consider season 8's finale the culmination. Zach Braff himself hasn't seen season 9 even though he's in six episodes. He and Donald Faison are podcasting their way through the whole series so I'll get to hear his opinion eventually.
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Jun 21, 2022 15:27
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Ozark. Tbh this show was stupid from the beginning but I liked watching it anyways. The last season dropped and I watched half the first episode and realized what a chore watching it had become. So I just turned it off, because I don't care what happens at all.
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Jun 21, 2022 19:20
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Ozark was such a mediocre show and then that finale was absolutely awful
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Jun 21, 2022 19:31
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Resident Alien. Season 1 was pretty good and it was fun to see Alan Tudyk as a lead and the overall plot was ok. Oooof. Same. Also Tudyk got alien superpowers, so every plot line can just get tied up with handy contrivance! That reminds me that I haven't stuck with a Sci Fi show since... Farscape? Or Battlestar? (and yeah, I should have given up on that one). Giving up on them is ALWAYS the correct decision.
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Resident Alien is definitely a weird awkward show but I dig how it feels like it accidentally became super feminist at some point.
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Escobarbarian posted:God the Ozark ending really was god loving awful Also why don't they ever turn lights on in their goddamned house?
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I still like Resident Alien but I do agree that season 2 has felt a little unfocused by having everyone get their own subplots.
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I'm surprised as many people listed some of the shows I did in the OP. I figured I was the only one for many of them. One that I stuck with to the end (all eight episodes) but probably should've been fodder for this thread: Allen Gregory. Holy gently caress, what an awful pile of crap. I'd like to know what Jonah Hill had pictures of Rupert Murdoch sodomizing to get shitheap green-lit. I don't think I've ever watched a show where I hated virtually every single main character, but 8-year old repugnant, spoiled poo poo who is some combination of rapey and probably gay; his repugnant, spoiled poo poo gay father; his other dad who broke up his old family to be Gay for Pay to gold-dig off his new husband  . I ended up sticking with it just to hatewatch and post in the thread.As Nero Danced posted: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. And even then, Peggy ruins it. LadyPictureShow posted:Justified it seemed fun, but I petered out quick; it felt a lot like a procedural and it just didn't land with me. As Nero Danced posted:Agreed, season 1 is very slow and takes its time, most of the first season is establishing who the rest of the characters in the marshal's office are. Once Boyd gets out of prison, it picks back up. Seasons 2-4 are phenomenal, season 5 is a bit of a dud (Elmore Leonard, the writer, died and sucked the window out of the sails, I'd almost say you can skip this season entirely), and season 6 is a return to form. As others said, S5 is bad by Justified standards, but sets up the great run to the finish in S6. Still, you might be able to skip it.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I'm surprised as many people listed some of the shows I did in the OP. I figured I was the only one for many of them. Allen Gregory was seven episodes, not eight. The only characters I can think of that weren't absolutely terrible people are Julie and maybe that redhead kid. You could just tell how proud Jonah Hill was of the show too, despite the fact that it was painfully unfunny, uninteresting, self-indulgent, and ugly. It seemed like it was based around a Saturday Night Live character from a deleted scene or something. Allen's crush on the principal was especially cringeworthy -- not because an eight-year old with a crush on an old lady is eeeewww grooooss lmao, but for a few reasons: 1) A child developing a crush on an authority figure, no matter how that authority figure looks, is 100% normal & unworthy of note. 2) A child developing an aggressively sexual crush on anyone is (iirc) a sign that they've been molested (correct me if I'm wrong), which is not in any way funny. The thread was fun though. 
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YeahTubaMike posted:2) A child developing an aggressively sexual crush on anyone is (iirc) a sign that they've been molested (correct me if I'm wrong), which is not in any way funny. um why did you bring this up
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YeahTubaMike posted:Allen Gregory was seven episodes, not eight. The only characters I can think of that weren't absolutely terrible people are Julie and maybe that redhead kid. Even Julie was ruined by the end of the run. Since that show, I will not watch anything with Hill in it.
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Escobarbarian posted:um Because it was a reason that his crush on the principal was offputting & creepy rather than comically lightheartedly gross like the show thought it was. I can edit it out or spoil it or something though, I was just trying to make a point. Mister Kingdom posted:Even Julie was ruined by the end of the run. Since that show, I will not watch anything with Hill in it. What happened to Julie? It's been 10+ years since I last saw the show.
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YeahTubaMike posted:What happened to Julie? It's been 10+ years since I last saw the show. At one point she succumbed to Allen's "charms" and did/said something horrible. I don't recall exactly. I know I posted about it in the hatewatch thread.
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YeahTubaMike posted:Because it was a reason that his crush on the principal was offputting & creepy rather than comically lightheartedly gross like the show thought it was. I can edit it out or spoil it or something though, I was just trying to make a point. But like Did you think that was intentional? Do you think that’s what the joke was meant to be? Cos otherwise you’ve just kind of brought up a weird thing with only a tangential connection
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davecrazy posted:I can’t be bothered to finish Ozark. I just don’t care anymore. I enjoyed S1 of Ozark quite a bit, watched maybe 2 episodes of S2 and was like "yeah that's enough". No matter how much acclaim the rest of the series got I just never felt the need to pick it up, can't put my finger on why though.
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I also quit Archer but way before everyone else I guess. I'm learning new things about it through this thread like a coma season? Space? For me the show just stopped being funny and well yeah, all good things must come to an end
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It's just so much yelling, I also dipped before coma whatever seasons. if i see a random episode, it's fine, but it's a really horrible show to watch in a row. i think that's the only coach mcguirk character I get burned out on fast.
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Mister Kingdom posted:At one point she succumbed to Allen's "charms" and did/said something horrible. I don't recall exactly. I know I posted about it in the hatewatch thread. "Charms"? What charms? Also, I'd love a link to that thread. A jog down memory lane would be nice. Escobarbarian posted:But like Maybe I phrased it weirdly or structured my post in a way that didn't make sense, but I'll try to clarify. I think that "little boy has crush on old lady" was the joke in and of itself. I think that joke isn't funny because the premise is boring on one hand & extremely disturbing on the other.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:I also quit Archer but way before everyone else I guess. I'm learning new things about it through this thread like a coma season? Space? Basically at the end of season 7 Archer got shot and went into a coma. They then spent 3 seasons with the characters in other settings, one of them in space before he woke up.
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Even when I liked the show I felt like Ozark was overrated. The characters are one note and corny as hell. The poppy field old people are some of the dumbest, most unbelievable characters I have ever seen. Everyone swoons over Ruth and while she's probably the least awful character on the show her accent is embarrassingly bad and makes me cringe when I hear it. The main family sucks. They are awful but in a way that isn't that interesting. Ruths family sucks and are all barely characters. The whole thing felt like Breaking Bad but not really pulling it off. it's like if the Sons of Anarchy guy did BB or something.
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It was massively overrated. It was never a quality show at all, it was just kind of compulsively watchable despite being totally average. Probably cos of the performances.
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Escobarbarian posted:It was massively overrated. It was never a quality show at all, it was just kind of compulsively watchable despite being totally average. Probably cos of the performances. but enough about The Umbrella Academy
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That’s totally incorrect!!!!! Season 1 wasn’t average it was actively loving terrible
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I can barely manage to make it through four seasons of anything. I think I gave up on justified midway through season 3, it was still good but the formula lost me. Community had two good seasons and that was it for me. Sitcoms in generally have a limited shelf life for me but the characters really stopped feeling like humans by the end of season 2. I am two episodes away from finishing the expanse. Season five of the Americans has stalled out for me as well. It’s still good but it’s so drat slow so far. Paige is such an infuriating character How I met your mother ended so badly that it made me retroactively hate the entire series. Bismack Billabongo fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jun 23, 2022 |
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I could never get through a whole episode of How I Met Your Mother because Neil Patrick Harris's character was so unbelievably annoying and absolutely nothing else in the show made enduring him worth it.
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The last season makes me wish I stopped watching earlier. It might be one of the worst endings. Ozark really is just a Breaking Bad knock off. Feels like a show that was written by an AI program based off the gritty dramas from the past decade.
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Now that I think about it, I streamed all of Resident Alien season 1 after it aired. Maybe that's my problem? Solidarity to all L O S T quitters though. It was a good choice to give up on that one. Also I just remembered giving up on Leverage, both original flavor and sequel series. It hit a point where everything was so over the top and contrived I couldn't take it.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Strongly recommend giving this one another shot, the procedural stuff only lasts 5 or 6 episodes before it finds its groove in long-form character work That's good to hear. I tried starting it about a month ago and got to episode 4 or 5 before giving up because it seemed very formulaic. I will give it another chance. Sash! posted:Cotton Hill is a war hero. He killed fiddy men. I love this post. Recently for me, it was Madmen. I finally gave this show a shot and really enjoyed the first three seasons (outside of Don's secret life, I never gave a poo poo about it). Then the fourth season started and I just suddenly could care less. It really hit me when Betty was making out with her new husband in the front sit of there car while parked in the garage and my first thought was, "I really hope these two die from carbon monoxide poisoning". Then I just dropped the show.
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That’s a shame. Seasons 4 and 5 are the peak of the show!
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Escobarbarian posted:It was massively overrated. It was never a quality show at all, it was just kind of compulsively watchable despite being totally average. Probably cos of the performances. The performances felt really... typical though? Bateman or Laura Dern especially weren't really doing anything revolutionary or even novel considering their careers. Which is fine not every show has to reinvent the formula but it didn't help matters.
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Mad Men had a habit of getting rid of characters that were 100% more interesting than Don and others. Sal and Lane get the shaft but boring rear end Harry Crane gets 7 seasons? By the end the only person I cared about was Pete
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banned from Starbucks posted:Mad Men had a habit of getting rid of characters that were 100% more interesting than Don and others. Sal and Lane get the shaft but boring rear end Harry Crane gets 7 seasons? By the end the only person I cared about was Pete Oh my God, this is totally right.
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banned from Starbucks posted:Sal ... get the shaft 
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I guess this kind of fits the thread but it's more of a question. I remember liking S1 of Person of Interest but didn't stick with it past the Christmas break after the first handful of episodes. I remember getting impatient with the lack of serialization between episodes in the arching plot, and then life got busy and I never went back. I know it gets way more serialized later on, but does its ending stick the landing? I was thinking of going back to it at some point.
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That one is hard to recommend because while it was good behind the scenes stuff came out talking about how Jim Caviezel is a complete nutjob who was terrible to everyone on set.
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