Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • World
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse
Brand Logo

agnos.is Forums

  1. Home
  2. Ask Lemmy
  3. What's a really popular TV show you just couldn't get into?

What's a really popular TV show you just couldn't get into?

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Ask Lemmy
asklemmy
169 Posts 101 Posters 0 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.worldG [email protected]

    Severance. So. Goddamn. Slow.

    Y This user is from outside of this forum
    Y This user is from outside of this forum
    [email protected]
    wrote on last edited by
    #132

    I felt the same. I also think that we viewers have so much more information than the characters... so even though there's mystery, we see the mysteries coming like 2 full episodes in advance. Yawn

    grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.worldG 1 Reply Last reply
    0
    • Y [email protected]

      I felt the same. I also think that we viewers have so much more information than the characters... so even though there's mystery, we see the mysteries coming like 2 full episodes in advance. Yawn

      grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.worldG This user is from outside of this forum
      grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.worldG This user is from outside of this forum
      [email protected]
      wrote on last edited by
      #133

      Totally. I enjoy the premise of the show, but the delivery is sleep-inducing.

      1 Reply Last reply
      0
      • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.worldF [email protected]
        This post did not contain any content.
        L This user is from outside of this forum
        L This user is from outside of this forum
        [email protected]
        wrote on last edited by
        #134

        Firefly. I thought I could stomach sci-fi but I find it unwatchable for personal reasons. I wish I could but it's not for me.

        T 1 Reply Last reply
        1
        • L [email protected]

          Firefly. I thought I could stomach sci-fi but I find it unwatchable for personal reasons. I wish I could but it's not for me.

          T This user is from outside of this forum
          T This user is from outside of this forum
          [email protected]
          wrote on last edited by
          #135

          it only had 1 season, definitely wouldve been able to see the scope if it had mroe season.

          1 Reply Last reply
          0
          • R [email protected]

            To be fair, I have friends who love this show but also admit it hasn't aged well.

            L This user is from outside of this forum
            L This user is from outside of this forum
            [email protected]
            wrote on last edited by
            #136

            The only redeemable one is Phoebe. The rest feel like self-centered assholes, especially Ross and Rachael.

            1 Reply Last reply
            2
            • K [email protected]

              Andor. It feels so different and it is interesting because it builds the empire, but somehow it just felt too different. I watched a video essay about it recently, where the essayist made the point that he loves it for being more serious and darker in tone than most other Star Wars Media. I wonder if seen through this lens I'd enjoy it more during a rewatch.

              T This user is from outside of this forum
              T This user is from outside of this forum
              [email protected]
              wrote on last edited by
              #137

              post-disney buyout STar wars isnt that good.

              J 1 Reply Last reply
              0
              • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.worldF [email protected]
                This post did not contain any content.
                D This user is from outside of this forum
                D This user is from outside of this forum
                [email protected]
                wrote on last edited by
                #138

                Breaking bad, walking dead, any star wars show

                So uninteresting imo

                1 Reply Last reply
                2
                • C [email protected]

                  I mean, this is Lemmy, it's a show about making fun of us.

                  And honestly I'd respect that if they put effort into it, but "lol nerd" is like 90% of the plot.

                  H This user is from outside of this forum
                  H This user is from outside of this forum
                  [email protected]
                  wrote on last edited by
                  #139

                  Silicon Valley also makes fun of nerds, but it's for nerds. BBT just made nerds the butt of the joke.

                  T 1 Reply Last reply
                  1
                  • slvrdrgn@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                    Any and all "reality" TV.

                    T This user is from outside of this forum
                    T This user is from outside of this forum
                    [email protected]
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #140

                    reality has always been trash, and they cancelled shows just so they can have that slop because it brings in the lowest common denominators.

                    1 Reply Last reply
                    0
                    • C [email protected]

                      I fully don't get why people like that. It looks mean and dull and it's not even reality. The sexy ones also look like a shit stand-in for actual porn.

                      T This user is from outside of this forum
                      T This user is from outside of this forum
                      [email protected]
                      wrote on last edited by [email protected]
                      #141

                      they actively hire models, or attractive people on purpose. and many of them post show career, ends up as mlm, or worst on trumps administration, and of course porn too, sometimes they are pornstars before.

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • B [email protected]

                        Buffy
                        Supernatural
                        Smallville
                        The Arrowverse stuff

                        I 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.

                        T This user is from outside of this forum
                        T This user is from outside of this forum
                        [email protected]
                        wrote on last edited by [email protected]
                        #142

                        i think buffy is good for its time, but not post 2000s. Supernatural got wierd after 5th season, basically when kripke left the new showrunners decided to play into the parasocial fantasies of the fans and it made it all sexual and homo-erotic. i believe at one point (season 6) death threats were made against some of the guest cast(the ones that was dating DEAN in the show) and they couldnt come back. and you can see why how they act(the fans) when jensen ackles and jared does all these Conventions still. that is the reason why it continued for like 10 more years, past its lifespan. although there is at least 1 or 2 seasons (8 and 11)that were better than the rest.

                        smallville was intersting origin for superman, but if you look at all the superman/supergirl show that came out since then, its superior to those. michael rosenbaum was is a good lex luthor, but he gave up on the show at some point.

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        1
                        • R [email protected]

                          To be fair, the scene where Penny gifts Sheldon something like the glass Leonard Nimoy drank out of, for Christmas, had me crying with laughter. That's about it, though.

                          Edit: The napkin he used, and then signed with a note.

                          T This user is from outside of this forum
                          T This user is from outside of this forum
                          [email protected]
                          wrote on last edited by
                          #143

                          i remember the sub that was discussing big ban theory how they turned penny into a stem professional into a total "bimbo" by the end of the series.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          0
                          • C [email protected]

                            These negative reviews make me really want to watch it. Most TV glosses over all uncomfortable truths.

                            T This user is from outside of this forum
                            T This user is from outside of this forum
                            [email protected]
                            wrote on last edited by
                            #144

                            some shows might jive with other people better than others. and many are as bad as the reviews.

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            0
                            • R [email protected]

                              I don't think you're supposed to like Yellowstone. I think you're supposed to feel obligated towards it

                              T This user is from outside of this forum
                              T This user is from outside of this forum
                              [email protected]
                              wrote on last edited by
                              #145

                              thats why conservatives love it, its a circle jerk show for them.

                              1 Reply Last reply
                              0
                              • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.worldF [email protected]
                                This post did not contain any content.
                                O This user is from outside of this forum
                                O This user is from outside of this forum
                                [email protected]
                                wrote on last edited by
                                #146

                                The Office

                                S 1 Reply Last reply
                                6
                                • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.worldF [email protected]
                                  This post did not contain any content.
                                  I This user is from outside of this forum
                                  I This user is from outside of this forum
                                  [email protected]
                                  wrote on last edited by
                                  #147

                                  Sopranos.

                                  The Mafia and gangster genre has just never appealed to me. I always find the characters annoying and one-dimensional.

                                  S 1 Reply Last reply
                                  4
                                  • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.worldF [email protected]
                                    This post did not contain any content.
                                    F This user is from outside of this forum
                                    F This user is from outside of this forum
                                    [email protected]
                                    wrote on last edited by
                                    #148

                                    Lost - for some reason I just could't bring myself to care about any of the characters or the premise.

                                    I S 2 Replies Last reply
                                    1
                                    • C [email protected]

                                      I fully don't get why people like that. It looks mean and dull and it's not even reality. The sexy ones also look like a shit stand-in for actual porn.

                                      A This user is from outside of this forum
                                      A This user is from outside of this forum
                                      [email protected]
                                      wrote on last edited by [email protected]
                                      #149

                                      I like one category of reality tv and even then only a small subsection of them: Game Shows. The subsection in particular seems to be Japanese game shows subbed in English, the only ones I know so far tbh are Sasuke and Takeshi's Castle. As to why, Sasuke is just cool and Makoto Nagano rules, plus it's fun with the silly competitors. Takeshi's Castle is just plain hilarious. Conversely I hate basically all american versions, American Ninja Warrior was ass and Wipeout was too, yet both were just stolen rebrandings of their Japanese counterparts with all the whimsy and fun sucked out.

                                      And I'm mainly posting this to solicit recommendations for more Japanese game shows like that which I can pirate.

                                      slvrdrgn@lemmy.worldS C 2 Replies Last reply
                                      1
                                      • frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.worldF [email protected]
                                        This post did not contain any content.
                                        hurlingdurling@lemmy.worldH This user is from outside of this forum
                                        hurlingdurling@lemmy.worldH This user is from outside of this forum
                                        [email protected]
                                        wrote on last edited by [email protected]
                                        #150
                                        • Attack on Titan
                                        • The walking dead
                                        • Vinland Saga
                                        • Game of Thrones
                                        • Arrested Development
                                        • Curb your Enthusiasm (can't get past the first episode)
                                        1 Reply Last reply
                                        2
                                        • A [email protected]

                                          I like one category of reality tv and even then only a small subsection of them: Game Shows. The subsection in particular seems to be Japanese game shows subbed in English, the only ones I know so far tbh are Sasuke and Takeshi's Castle. As to why, Sasuke is just cool and Makoto Nagano rules, plus it's fun with the silly competitors. Takeshi's Castle is just plain hilarious. Conversely I hate basically all american versions, American Ninja Warrior was ass and Wipeout was too, yet both were just stolen rebrandings of their Japanese counterparts with all the whimsy and fun sucked out.

                                          And I'm mainly posting this to solicit recommendations for more Japanese game shows like that which I can pirate.

                                          slvrdrgn@lemmy.worldS This user is from outside of this forum
                                          slvrdrgn@lemmy.worldS This user is from outside of this forum
                                          [email protected]
                                          wrote on last edited by
                                          #151

                                          Haha okay I love Japanese game shows but I almost can't call them reality. 😛
                                          I recommend Silent Library. An older show but great.

                                          A 1 Reply Last reply
                                          1
                                          Reply
                                          • Reply as topic
                                          Log in to reply
                                          • Oldest to Newest
                                          • Newest to Oldest
                                          • Most Votes


                                          • Login

                                          • Login or register to search.
                                          • First post
                                            Last post
                                          0
                                          • Categories
                                          • Recent
                                          • Tags
                                          • Popular
                                          • World
                                          • Users
                                          • Groups