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.
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.
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.
Scavengers Reign. I liked the story, but the acting was so dull. So never finished it.
Gangs of London. The Gentlemen. Game of Thrones.
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Big Bang Theory
Didn’t work for me. So dull. Felt like it was made twenty years earlier than it was.
BBT is critically acclaimed in the same way the Big Mac is the world’s most popular burger.
They may as well call it The Big Gangbang Theory because it portrays nerd/geeks the same way porn portrays sex.
Also mostly sex jokes disguised as smart people humor. It quickly gets old.
Haha xbox means nerds means smart means genius
" Breaking Bad - I had to force myself to watch 5 episodes. Just didn’t get it.
" The Sopranos - I don’t like mob stuff. I didn’t like the godfather either.
" The Wire - this one surprised me because I generally like cop shows. Maybe I wasn’t in the right frame of mind.White Lotus. Just couldn’t care about anything happening.
Ditto. Just didn’t do it for me
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 didn’t become worth watching until season 3, imho and even then it has 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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
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.
Mr. Robot. Finished season 1 and decided not my cup of tea. Hated every single character in it. Felt same way about White Lotus too.
I got a through a few episodes but just couldn’t go further. I never wanted to see any of the characters ever again
Every reality series.
Peaky blinders - I love this era with movies and what not but this show just didn’t hit for me
