What's a really popular TV show you just couldn't get into?
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Buffy.
It was just a big sloppy plateful of Beverly Hills, 90210 with a small side salad of weird shit.
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If you haven't already, you should give the spin offs a chance. Neither my wife or I can stand Yellowstone (we struggled through the first season and then gave up), but 1883 and 1923 are both fantastic shows.
What made the difference for you for the spin-offs?
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How I Met Your Mother. Most laugh track comedies I found barely tolerable at best but that show fucking sucked major ass and I don’t trust the judgement of anybody who liked that show.
same. i stopped watching when i realised i didnt laugh at a single joke all throughout the first season
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Game of Thrones. I stopped watching when Aquaman raped the blonde.
Then I started reading the books. the rape scene was written slightly different, so...whatever. Then I got to the part where the brother/sister threw the boy out the window. Done. Violence against kids is my line.
spoilers but if you had stuck around you get to see the guy who pushed him out the window get his comeuppance. he spends the next season as a prisoner of war and gets his sword hand cut off. it changes him almost completely
but then again thats not the only scene in the series with violence against kids so maybe it was best to stop there
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Friends
Seinfeld
Yellowstone
The Office
I don't think you're supposed to like Yellowstone. I think you're supposed to feel obligated towards it
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Firefly. Amatuerish acting and plots that barely reached "Atomic Rifle" levels of sophistication don't really sit well with me.
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Buffy
Supernatural
Smallville
The Arrowverse stuffI dunno man. I just couldn't get into the serialized urban fantasy pretty people vs monster of the week genre, even thought it feels like it should be right up my ally. I used to play a TON of V:tM and WW:tA, and Im all about camp and community theater energy. I liked some of the other Whedon stuff at the time, like Firefly. And I'm a life long fan of all things super heroes and I even respect Arrowverse from a far for its commitment to its status as a multimedia project (before the MCU, even).
More recently, some similarly themed shows have been made and I got into them way more; What We Do In The Shadows and Stan Against Evil, and I think maybe the magic sauce was that I would have liked the energy paired something less earnest and more tongue in cheek. All of these shows also had the issue of really annoying fandoms. Its probably the reason I couldn't lower my hackles around Doctor Who.
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The Orville.
I'm sorry! I'm a trekkie so I really wanted to love it. I can't stand Seth McFarlane, though, and apparently it isn't just his animated shows like Family Guy or American Dad that I hate.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Just to make sure, you didn't only watch season 1 episodes, right? The show gets a lot better and leans less on the Family Guy humor as it goes along.
EDIT: I saw you said you watched up until s1e7 in another comment. That episode in particular annoyed me for being a worse version of the Black Mirror s3e1 episode Nosedive. It's worth trying some later season episodes if you ever get the chance to see if you like them any better. And check out Nosedive as well!
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I really liked Orville, I was going to try star trek at some point
Its biggest influence is Next Generation, but Strange New Worlds is the closest modern Trek in that style if you don't like old 90s shows.
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I started watching Star Trek because I loved The Orville. I didn't know people had such hatred for it.
Some do, but I think The Orville is a much better Star Trek show than Discovery in particular.
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Severance. So. Goddamn. Slow.
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The best concise description of that show I've heard was "it's what people who aren't nerds think nerds would like".
I remember watching the pilot for the show, I was like, "oh this could be refreshing away from the stupidity of the rest of tv!". I was already onto anime by that point and had entirely stopped watching cable.
But no. Apparently, when the actual show started airing, it was EXACTLY as you describe, and a massive disappointment. Xbox and bad quips and trying to get girls? Absolutely not.
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Attack On Titan ( basically all the Anime )
I guess you're the opposite of a weeb, a beew.
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Game of Thrones.
The incest didn't bother me, but pushing a child out a window hit the wrong note with me and my wife.
To clarify, the incest didn't SHOCK me. Kids out of windows did.
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Big bang theory. Cannot stand the characters on that show, especially Sheldon
That show is literally trash.
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Friends
Seinfeld
Yellowstone
The Office
This might be the only time in my life that I have ever heard someone say they didn't like Seinfeld. Never thought I'd see the day.
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How I Met Your Mother. Most laugh track comedies I found barely tolerable at best but that show fucking sucked major ass and I don’t trust the judgement of anybody who liked that show.
The last 2 seasons of that show were total and utter dogshit. The earlier seasons are great though.
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The Sopranos
Might be the only person I've ever seen in my life who disliked the Sopranos. I assume you don't eat Gabagool?
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Game of Thrones. I stopped watching when Aquaman raped the blonde.
Then I started reading the books. the rape scene was written slightly different, so...whatever. Then I got to the part where the brother/sister threw the boy out the window. Done. Violence against kids is my line.
In the books he was such a caring guy. The rape scene was just sensationalist claptrap.
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Maybe. I think I stopped watching after the social credit episode in the first season. Maybe I'll check it out again if I ever have another reason to get Hulu.
Thanks ^^
The first season, like all trek, is desperately trying to find its footing. That episode and 1-2 others could probably just straight up be skipped like how when I was looking for the best way to watch TNG for the first time the top ways I saw were "watch the first and last episode of season 1 and skip the rest".
Once the show gets its footing it gets really good really quickly.
