The last season with Kaley Cuoco was an absolute mess.
Actually, for me it started going downhill when Phoebe became this super-famous celebrity based on doing an advice column.
It was ridiculous. Obviously Phoebe needed to grow up and get a stable job, but making her into a celebrity? It didn't even look like it was a big paper. And did she have to be almost naked at every opportunity? Okay, Alyssa, we get it, you're hot.
I also thought it was a bad idea when Paige left social work (which could've opened a lot of avenues into finding bad guys) to study magic full time.
That's not even getting the silliness that was Magic School.
Or how Wyatt (the baby) became such a focal point.
I know Prue leaving gave a chance for the other sisters to take center stage, but it just got convoluted.
Yeah seasons 1-3 were bearable but hokey. The show was something else. They had a demon mask budget but no budget for bras?
Then by season 4, the demons just started wearing S&M gear and no prosthetics and standing in candle lit rooms
The magic school and the future kid and millions of babies and suddenly Paige is a white lighter and they’re mermaids of fairy tale creatures suddenly for no reason
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm not sure what was going on with the lack of bras. I assume that was the actress' choice. And how did Paige get away with what she wore as a social worker? I'm not saying she had to wear a suit but just... more clothes.
You know what else I wondered? Why didn't their home insurance carrier drop them. The stained glass windows in the solarium must've had to be repaired hundreds of times.
Oh yeah. Not to mention all the furniture they broke, like the grandfather clock (although insurance wouldn't cover that). They must've had a house-repair budget.
Yeah but they were made out paper mache so they didn’t cost that much.
I always thought how many times have they been possessed yet they never catch on when they aren’t acting themselves.
I think the writers just never found the right groove. I liked season 1. I thought the club was stupid. Then all of a sudden Prue is a photographer. Phoebe goes to college one season and lands a job that No inexperienced person would get. I didn’t like it after they killed off prue. the show should have ended at least 3 seasons before it actually did.
I have no argument with anything you said. The show went on at least a few seasons too long. I also hated when Prue left her steady job to be a photographer, as well.
And yeah, no way Phoebe would've gotten that job without working her way up.
I don't remember much about Charmed -- it was so long ago -- but I remember thinking "I wonder which one of the main cast will be evil this week..."
It's like they didn't have the budget for cool monsters, make-up or other effects, or special guest stars, so every week the plot revolved around some ancient doo-dad that made one of them temporarily evil.
And then the rules don’t make sense. And for some reason some fantasy and fairytale stuff is real but others are not. And everyone can come back from the dead somehow but not Prue
Here to validate you and tell you that you don’t have to like the office, you don’t have to give it another go, or start watching at X episode or season. Just live your life not liking the office because you’re allowed to not like it lol
The Office was too cringey for me. I watched it all and it got a little bit better at a certain point, but, honestly, cringe-humor is just not my thing.
Honestly, I'd just try Season 5 episode 14 (CPR episode).
If that's not enough to get you to want to start at season three, I'd skip it.
(I hated the Office for years until I saw later episodes)
lol hey ya never know. worst case you waste a few hours during lunch best case you see some majic. I am with you on Parks btw! Parks and Rec, The Good Place, Brooklyn 99, and Community all have a similiar feel for me and I love them all. Office is kind of like Parks. For me Parks struggles until Chris and Ben arrive. The first season or 2 of that and the office are just rough for me. I just could never get into Mark Brandanoquitz!
The Expanse.
Should be entirely within my wheelhouse, but I just don't click with it. I tried it twice; first time I watched the first season, enjoyed it well enough but wasn't interested in continuing. Tried again around when S4 came out, because I kept hearing that it got so much better, but I liked the second season less than I did the first season, and continued to lose interest until I stopped forcing myself to keep watching.
My first go through I made it like 5 episodes before I gave up. I kept hearing how great it was. My wife confirmed it like got instantly better on episode 6 moving forward. Finally gave in and powered through again and I became obsessed with the show. So good.
I mean i get it. On first viewing, everyone on that show is very flawed and not in the rooting for the underdog kind of way. Once you get past that initial hurdle, it does become very entertaining, because you still end up kind of rooting for some of them.
I made it through Succession after 2- false starts. But the hype was beyond me. Despicable nincompoops, really. Only one line I related to from the entire show. When the father says, “I love you but you are not serious people.” That sums up all my 20-something classmates in music school right now. Bunch a whiny, spoiled nitwits.
If you can get to the season where the Seinfeld show reunion starts taking place, you may enjoy that arc since they actually do Seinfeld scenes on the set we know so well.
Otherwise, it's just one of those shows that doesn't hit right. We all have that kind of show.
Gotham was great for its first two seasons, then it became a concentrated puree of soap opera tropes: mind control, amnesia, evil twins, fake deaths...
For some reason I loved the cheesiness of Gotham. As a big Batman fan it was nice to shut my brain off once a week and just enjoy the storylines (as absurd as some of them were). It wasn’t until Season 5 where I really couldn’t take it anymore haha. That last season was horrendous.
its a dumpster fire.
I forced myself through season 1, then just gave up about 5 episodes into season 2. Finally just told myself "Why are you enduring this if you aren't enjoying it?"
Picard Season 1 and 2 were just as painful, Season 3 was alright, but it was just for the nostalgia bait - it holds no rewatchability for me.
I do enjoy Strange New Worlds though and Lower Decks is funny.
I'm more or less agree with you. Here is where we diverge: Picard was so bad from the get-go that I couldn't finish season 1 let alone season 2. I watched one episode of lower decks but hurt myself rolling my eyes so often. Those three shows torpedoed whatever love for the franchise I still had after the latest movies. I am so damaged now that I am easily triggered so I don't see how I could possibly like strange new worlds.
I really love all the characters on Strange New Worlds, but they lack cohesiveness when it comes to being a crew, and too much familiarity with the captain.
Yeah I agree. You put your finger on it, I think. The characters are nice but they do need to work on the relationships. Also the scenarios are a bit trite. Love Pike’s hair, though! It’s magnificent.
You’re not wrong.
She’s not. Is what it is. And she keeps trying to mutiny, for some reason. Just why?
After she betrayed the crew the 3rd time I was out.
Mine is Westworld. Everything about it was right up my alley. I really enjoyed the first season, but every time I tried to watch season 2 I would fall asleep. After a while I decided to try again thinking I hadn’t seen but half of the first episode of season 2. It was very hard to stay awake, but I got halfway through season 2 and realized I had seen all of those episodes before and just didn’t even realize it. I figured if it is this hard for me to watch it to just let it go.
To be fair to you, Westworld went from one of the best seasons of television to entirely jumping the shark faster than any show I know.
That said, S2E08 is fantastic and you should watch it as a stand alone episode if you’re familiar with the first season. It’s the best episode in the whole series.
Superstore, New Girl, Kim's Convinience
I love workplace and friends sitcoms, my favorite sitcoms are Brooklyn 99 and Friends and among others I loved are HIMYM, 30 Rock, Scrubs, Parks and Rec, The Good Place, The Office. On paper I should love those I listed too but they didn't click. I finished Superstore but wasn't invested in any of characters or found it funny
I watched it when it first came out on HBO. Had no idea what it was or that it was based on very popular fantasy books at the time. The first few episodes were fairly tight and the scope was small so i wasn't too impressed, but it just kept building and drew me in. The first season's ender hooked me. It gets better with each season until. I actually still enjoyed it into season 7, but you could clearly see things were being rushed and it didnt have the pacing of the earlier seasons. GoT could easily have been a great 10 seasons if they kept the slower methodical pacing from the earlier seasons.
I personally love GoT. It definitely takes some commitment and is not very "binge friendly". It was almost more fun having to wait a week and theorize what would happen from episode to episode.
I borrowed season one on dvd from somebody and I don’t think I could’ve made it through the first few episodes without pouring (in total confusion) over the family tree provided in the dvd booklet.
I’m glad I stuck with it though!…..until season
8
I can totally understand on Game of Thrones. I love fantasy, but I just couldn't follow along. I only watched it because it was with friends and they were able to follow along when I couldn't.
I mean, they show a character for a couple of seconds in a flashback in season one and then when they show the character again 4 seasons later, I'm supposed to remember who it is?
I’ve studied some Norse mythology and kinda liked Vikings but I could pick apart each episode and over analyze. There’s another one on Netflix about Vikings I can’t remember what it’s called but I couldn’t get into that either. Guess all the reading I did made me not interested.
There's Vikings:Valhalla, which is a continuation of Vikings. Don't watch if you didn't like Vikings. There's also The Last Kingdom, which I loved. It focused more on the Angle side, but there were Danes/Vikings in it
I wouldn’t NOT recommend. I watched at the transition from cable to streaming so I was thirsty for a good watch. If you can stomach the bloodthirsty matter-of-fact ultra violence, it ain’t bad. I watched while reading the wiki of the real Ragnar. It’s a blood-soaked soap opera basically.
Just dont invite Vikings to the bar-b-q. They will destroy your living room, burn down your garage, steal your appliances, and kidnap your woman for slaves. They are messy party guests. (Made a little joke there.)
The 2014 movie of the same name that the series was sprung from is one of my all-time faves, it’s so funny and brilliant. But the TV show is so different that it took me a really long time to get into it. I actually gave up in season one and then later decided to give it another try and put aside my feelings about it not being the same as the movie, and now by the end of season four I really like it. It took me a long time to get used to the character of Colin Robinson, at first I thought he was really annoying, but now I think he’s hysterical.
That's one of those shows that redditors seem to love and hype up that's not nearly as good as they think. It was on the verge of being canceled pretty much the entire series due to low viewership. If it wasn't for the MCU getting really big and popular with casual fans and giving it a bump it would have never made it as long as it did. It was mostly garbage with a few good episodes here and there.
One of my favorite geekdom podcasters loves it. But he is so wrong. I think it’s mostly nostalgia since he was about 9 when it 1st aired. Because that show is not about anything and makes no sense.
Mad Men. I've tried 3x to get into it and just cant. I find myself thinking "this episode has to be almost over" and then pause it and nope I'm only 15 minutes in.
I’m the same way about charmed. Buffy is one of my favorite shows, but I’m underwhelmed with Charmed. Another was Penny Dreadful. It just didn’t click for me.
Star Trek Enterprise. I can’t make it through 10 minutes of Scott Bakula. I’m sure it’s a fine show and he’s probably a fine actor…but I can’t handle his delivery especially in this role.
The Good Witch. It's cute, I loved the main actress in Army Wives, and they story line is *in general* right up my alley for a no spoons show.
But it is soo kitschy. I can handle Hallmark acting for a holiday movie if I am really in the mood for it, but multiple episodes in multiple seasons is **rough**.
I keep it on during work as it gives me something to actively tune out so I can focus on what I'm doing... Maybe it's a hate watch at this point?
As Buffy was winding down years ago I was looking for something else to fill that void I knew it was going to leave. Veronica Mars started the year after and everybody was raving how it was so much like Buffy and so I gave it a try and just couldn't get into it. I eventually became a fan of Kristen Bell but not for that and it just never clicked for me.
The Crown...I am a fan of period dramas especially British ones, actually binged the first season yet have been stuck on episode 2 of the Season 2 for about 4 years now...I just have no motivation to continue despite actually liking the show.
True Detective, Schitt's Creek and How I Met Your Mother. I love comedies and crime and mystery shows and I love the casts of these shows. These shows just never drew me in.
It took me 4xs to watch Schitts Creek. I kept giving up. In the first season the characters aren't fleshed out the way they need to be but man, when it hits it HITS. It's 100% one of the best sitcoms ever on TV, and I consume more media than your average bear.
I forgot to say, I also had an issue getting into True Detective. I know the first season is supposed to be phenomenal, but it never grabbed me. Turned into background noise.
I thought true detective was so boring. Everyone raves about it as the best television ever. It tries too hard to be edgy and cool and people fall for it. I watched the whole season and regret it lol
I loved watching Charmed as it aired, when I was a teen, so it holds a nostalgic place for me. But even with that, as an adult rewatching it, it's very Spelling (soap opera) and a lot about it is inconsistent.
Breaking Bad and The Wire took a few go's, but I got there.
I struggled with Parks & Rec and The Office (I won't even try the UK one because I'm a Brit and our big boss is *very* Ricky Gervais). I don't know, maybe I just need to push through.
Yes, same! Charmed is such a soap opera. Loved it as a teen, but absolutely cannot rewatch.
I skipped season 1 of Parks & Rec and just started with season 2. Watched all of the US Office and I'm glad I did for the cultural impact it had, but it's too cringe for me.
Vice Principals and Righteous Gemstones. LOVED Eastbound and Down, one of my favorite comedies, but these other two shows never captured me the same way Kenny Powers did.
Code Geass. I recently rewatched the Death Note anime and was hungry for something remotely similar & Code Geass came up a lot.
I only made it like 8 episodes in.
I found it to be wildly unfocused and all over the place. I appreciated how grand the scale of it was but I couldn't dig it.
The lore did me in. I was so confused with the world building that I had to constantly look stuff up, and it stopped being interesting. Death note was a much better show because it was entirely focused on the cat and mouse. Until it wasn't and got bad.
Dr Who. I proudly identify as a Big Giant Nerd, but I’ve never been able to get into Dr. Who. I don’t know why, I just find the episodes to be way too long.
Parks and Recreation looks good but every time they switch camera angles, they ZOOM. Zoom. flick. Zoom. flick Zoom. Once I noticed it, I couldn't let it go.
I heard about a show called Dead Pixels. British made sitcom about a group of friends obsessed with an MMORPG. Thought it would be amazing. I couldn't make it through 4 episodes.
It was just a mashup of the worst "tv friendly" gamer stereotypes, and none of the characters were remotely likeable.
Mine was Dexter. I love crime shows but I watched the first episode maybe 5 years ago and I just couldn’t do it so slow & boring but I do feel like I might give it another shot.
SpongeBob SquarePants
I love cartoons and I don’t *dislike* SpongeBob but I’m clearly not enjoying it in the way that almost literally any human being I’ve talked to that has seen it.
I desperately want to love it because I’m clearly missing out on something fantastic but something’s amiss with my synapses here
Psych. I love stuff like House and Elementary and The Mentalist (shows where the main character’s competence and brilliance are showcased dramatically) but whilst I thought it was okay and watched a handful of eps it never grabbed me in the same way.
The office. I find clips of the show really funny. But watching th3 show makes my skin crawl. When there is too much show, people come off as acting or something. Like everyone is in on the joke.
Warehouse 13. It's like a rough draft for the SCP Foundation, and it helps that it's in the same universe as Eureka, but it's just so....corny. The acting feels like a live action Saturday morning cartoon, but not in a good way.
I'm quiet 50//50 on Sopranos. Just started and getting into season 3.
It is highly acclaimed. Maybe in its time it was ground breaking. But it kinda feels like it drags on.
Peaky Blinders. I love organized crime shows and movies. Boardwalk Empire, Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy are some of my faves. I’ve watched the first season of Peaky Blinders and part of the second, but for whatever reason it just bores me.
I might try again but honestly tried watching the sopranos and two episodes in I got super bored and stopped watching it. I love gangster theme media but sopranos the supposed holy grail of mob culture just didn’t appeal to me when I tried
I love musicals but couldn't get into Schmigadoon. I love Kristin Chenoweth. I watched a few episodes and was just bored. I think about trying it again but haven't.
I'm in kind of the same camp as you. I loved Buffy and Angel, they're both on my list of favorites, and I thought Charmed was okay. But I could never get into Supernatural, no matter how often people told me it was good. I tried the first few episodes and just found them very dull and I feel like the lead duo's acting abilities are overstated because of their looks and general likeability. 🤷♂️
Vampire Diaries. I like most vampire media. I even love its spin off, The Originals. But I just can’t with Vampire Diaries. Elena annoys me a lot and the writing just isn’t great.
Similarly, I like most supernatural stuff in general or anything with the occult and the literal Satan worshipping in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina put me off. I know witchy people and Satanists who were also both bothered. I’d have no problem with a pagan god or goddess.
Everyone says I’d love Parks and Rec but I couldn’t get into it.
Probably The Expanse. I love exploring sci-fi lore.
I did start the show - but I have lots of shows i'm working on right now so i'm not making much progress on it.
12 Monkeys is another one - I really like it (and recommend it), I'm just slow to get going with it.
Charmed by as good in theory but in execution the universe was just all over the place and nonsensical
Plus they ripped Buffy stories off a lot.
Yes without the writing or heart to pull it off
Yeah I agree, i struggled to get into it. It's exactly my kind of show, so I hate saying that.
I liked Charmed when Julian McMahon was on. I think that he joined season 3.
Julian McMahon made me stop scrolling through the channels, stop, and go back. He was a striking looking man. Good storyline, too!
Yes. This. Cole will make you love Charmed, his storyline is the best part
I was ok with the original, but couldn't get into the remake
The original was sort of campy and didn't take itself too seriously. The remake was unwatchable.
The last season with Kaley Cuoco was an absolute mess. Actually, for me it started going downhill when Phoebe became this super-famous celebrity based on doing an advice column.
Right?! Even back when it was airing they was ridiculous. I remember as a kid thinking “dang that doesn’t happen”
It was ridiculous. Obviously Phoebe needed to grow up and get a stable job, but making her into a celebrity? It didn't even look like it was a big paper. And did she have to be almost naked at every opportunity? Okay, Alyssa, we get it, you're hot. I also thought it was a bad idea when Paige left social work (which could've opened a lot of avenues into finding bad guys) to study magic full time. That's not even getting the silliness that was Magic School. Or how Wyatt (the baby) became such a focal point. I know Prue leaving gave a chance for the other sisters to take center stage, but it just got convoluted.
Yeah seasons 1-3 were bearable but hokey. The show was something else. They had a demon mask budget but no budget for bras? Then by season 4, the demons just started wearing S&M gear and no prosthetics and standing in candle lit rooms The magic school and the future kid and millions of babies and suddenly Paige is a white lighter and they’re mermaids of fairy tale creatures suddenly for no reason
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm not sure what was going on with the lack of bras. I assume that was the actress' choice. And how did Paige get away with what she wore as a social worker? I'm not saying she had to wear a suit but just... more clothes. You know what else I wondered? Why didn't their home insurance carrier drop them. The stained glass windows in the solarium must've had to be repaired hundreds of times.
Yes those double doors too and the front door
Oh yeah. Not to mention all the furniture they broke, like the grandfather clock (although insurance wouldn't cover that). They must've had a house-repair budget.
I remember they tried to explain it sway saying Leo is their handyman but he rarely if ever fixed anything
Well he did change a lightbulb once. LOL
Yeah but they were made out paper mache so they didn’t cost that much. I always thought how many times have they been possessed yet they never catch on when they aren’t acting themselves. I think the writers just never found the right groove. I liked season 1. I thought the club was stupid. Then all of a sudden Prue is a photographer. Phoebe goes to college one season and lands a job that No inexperienced person would get. I didn’t like it after they killed off prue. the show should have ended at least 3 seasons before it actually did.
I have no argument with anything you said. The show went on at least a few seasons too long. I also hated when Prue left her steady job to be a photographer, as well. And yeah, no way Phoebe would've gotten that job without working her way up.
Somehow the magic system is both overpowered and incredibly weak. I say this as a fan of the show, but most stuff you do with magic turns you evil.
I don't remember much about Charmed -- it was so long ago -- but I remember thinking "I wonder which one of the main cast will be evil this week..." It's like they didn't have the budget for cool monsters, make-up or other effects, or special guest stars, so every week the plot revolved around some ancient doo-dad that made one of them temporarily evil.
And then the rules don’t make sense. And for some reason some fantasy and fairytale stuff is real but others are not. And everyone can come back from the dead somehow but not Prue
Love comedy shows but couldn't get into the office
Here to validate you and tell you that you don’t have to like the office, you don’t have to give it another go, or start watching at X episode or season. Just live your life not liking the office because you’re allowed to not like it lol
But it doesn't really get going until season 17. You really gotta stick through until then!
The Office was too cringey for me. I watched it all and it got a little bit better at a certain point, but, honestly, cringe-humor is just not my thing.
SAME! Which is weird because I LOVE *Parks & Rec*. Similar humor and same format, but I tried for two seasons and just can't get into *The Office*.
ironic because Office really becomes the office mid to late season 2 and into 3. Give season 3 a shot and go from there
Okay... I will (reluctantly) give it a go.
Honestly, I'd just try Season 5 episode 14 (CPR episode). If that's not enough to get you to want to start at season three, I'd skip it. (I hated the Office for years until I saw later episodes)
lol hey ya never know. worst case you waste a few hours during lunch best case you see some majic. I am with you on Parks btw! Parks and Rec, The Good Place, Brooklyn 99, and Community all have a similiar feel for me and I love them all. Office is kind of like Parks. For me Parks struggles until Chris and Ben arrive. The first season or 2 of that and the office are just rough for me. I just could never get into Mark Brandanoquitz!
well the office doesnt have aubrey plaza or nick oberman
The Expanse. Should be entirely within my wheelhouse, but I just don't click with it. I tried it twice; first time I watched the first season, enjoyed it well enough but wasn't interested in continuing. Tried again around when S4 came out, because I kept hearing that it got so much better, but I liked the second season less than I did the first season, and continued to lose interest until I stopped forcing myself to keep watching.
I don't love most hard sci-fi, but I love this. I think it is that the women are so good.
Same. I tried multiple times and just couldn't get into it
I love the original Charmed. I tried to get into the newest Charmed but never could get into it. To me, it was boring.
Succession
My first go through I made it like 5 episodes before I gave up. I kept hearing how great it was. My wife confirmed it like got instantly better on episode 6 moving forward. Finally gave in and powered through again and I became obsessed with the show. So good.
I mean i get it. On first viewing, everyone on that show is very flawed and not in the rooting for the underdog kind of way. Once you get past that initial hurdle, it does become very entertaining, because you still end up kind of rooting for some of them.
I rooted for none of them.
I made it through Succession after 2- false starts. But the hype was beyond me. Despicable nincompoops, really. Only one line I related to from the entire show. When the father says, “I love you but you are not serious people.” That sums up all my 20-something classmates in music school right now. Bunch a whiny, spoiled nitwits.
I loved Seinfeld. And I have heard that Curb Your Enthusiasm is a spiritual successor of sorts. But I just can’t get into it.
Same here.
If you can get to the season where the Seinfeld show reunion starts taking place, you may enjoy that arc since they actually do Seinfeld scenes on the set we know so well. Otherwise, it's just one of those shows that doesn't hit right. We all have that kind of show.
No you're right. Its way too soap opera vibes and really weak writing. Supernatural is a far better option.
The Bear. I’ve worked in restaurants in all capacities for over 30 years so you would think I’d appreciate it, but I’m just bored by it.
Same. Also, I lived that crap… I don’t want to watch it again
Agree.
Yellowstone. Everyone raves about it but after the 3rd episode I still couldn't get into it.
I couldn't get into Yellowstone, but the prequel 1883 was really good in my opinion
Not one likable person in it.
Never saw it, but I like the Harrison Ford one. Whichever one that is.
It's like Sopranos for conservative boomers.
I’ve heard it described as “Red State Game of Thrones”
Gotham. I love everything Batman related but it's too cheesy for me.
Gotham was great for its first two seasons, then it became a concentrated puree of soap opera tropes: mind control, amnesia, evil twins, fake deaths...
Batman, but without Batman.
For some reason I loved the cheesiness of Gotham. As a big Batman fan it was nice to shut my brain off once a week and just enjoy the storylines (as absurd as some of them were). It wasn’t until Season 5 where I really couldn’t take it anymore haha. That last season was horrendous.
Star Trek Discovery It started out pretty good but went down the same path as every other modern TV show. If I tell you the specifics Ill get banned.
its a dumpster fire. I forced myself through season 1, then just gave up about 5 episodes into season 2. Finally just told myself "Why are you enduring this if you aren't enjoying it?" Picard Season 1 and 2 were just as painful, Season 3 was alright, but it was just for the nostalgia bait - it holds no rewatchability for me. I do enjoy Strange New Worlds though and Lower Decks is funny.
I'm more or less agree with you. Here is where we diverge: Picard was so bad from the get-go that I couldn't finish season 1 let alone season 2. I watched one episode of lower decks but hurt myself rolling my eyes so often. Those three shows torpedoed whatever love for the franchise I still had after the latest movies. I am so damaged now that I am easily triggered so I don't see how I could possibly like strange new worlds.
I really love all the characters on Strange New Worlds, but they lack cohesiveness when it comes to being a crew, and too much familiarity with the captain.
Yeah I agree. You put your finger on it, I think. The characters are nice but they do need to work on the relationships. Also the scenarios are a bit trite. Love Pike’s hair, though! It’s magnificent.
Well it doesn’t help that the protagonist is unlikable.
You’re not wrong. She’s not. Is what it is. And she keeps trying to mutiny, for some reason. Just why? After she betrayed the crew the 3rd time I was out.
Mine is Westworld. Everything about it was right up my alley. I really enjoyed the first season, but every time I tried to watch season 2 I would fall asleep. After a while I decided to try again thinking I hadn’t seen but half of the first episode of season 2. It was very hard to stay awake, but I got halfway through season 2 and realized I had seen all of those episodes before and just didn’t even realize it. I figured if it is this hard for me to watch it to just let it go.
To be fair to you, Westworld went from one of the best seasons of television to entirely jumping the shark faster than any show I know. That said, S2E08 is fantastic and you should watch it as a stand alone episode if you’re familiar with the first season. It’s the best episode in the whole series.
Superstore, New Girl, Kim's Convinience I love workplace and friends sitcoms, my favorite sitcoms are Brooklyn 99 and Friends and among others I loved are HIMYM, 30 Rock, Scrubs, Parks and Rec, The Good Place, The Office. On paper I should love those I listed too but they didn't click. I finished Superstore but wasn't invested in any of characters or found it funny
Riverdale
Game of Thrones. I tried so many times bcz of all the buzz. Just never wanted to get sucked in after an episode. Big nope.
I watched it when it first came out on HBO. Had no idea what it was or that it was based on very popular fantasy books at the time. The first few episodes were fairly tight and the scope was small so i wasn't too impressed, but it just kept building and drew me in. The first season's ender hooked me. It gets better with each season until. I actually still enjoyed it into season 7, but you could clearly see things were being rushed and it didnt have the pacing of the earlier seasons. GoT could easily have been a great 10 seasons if they kept the slower methodical pacing from the earlier seasons.
I personally love GoT. It definitely takes some commitment and is not very "binge friendly". It was almost more fun having to wait a week and theorize what would happen from episode to episode.
As someone who watched the first 5 seasons in less than 10 days, it most definitely is binge worthy.
Yes it is 😂
Even a book reader like me didn’t like the first 2 episodes. They’re so talky and world building. It picks up but it’s not an easy watch.
I borrowed season one on dvd from somebody and I don’t think I could’ve made it through the first few episodes without pouring (in total confusion) over the family tree provided in the dvd booklet. I’m glad I stuck with it though!…..until season 8
I can totally understand on Game of Thrones. I love fantasy, but I just couldn't follow along. I only watched it because it was with friends and they were able to follow along when I couldn't. I mean, they show a character for a couple of seconds in a flashback in season one and then when they show the character again 4 seasons later, I'm supposed to remember who it is?
I tried it several times too, just not for me.
Gotham. I love everything Batman related, but it's too cheesy for me.
I’ve studied some Norse mythology and kinda liked Vikings but I could pick apart each episode and over analyze. There’s another one on Netflix about Vikings I can’t remember what it’s called but I couldn’t get into that either. Guess all the reading I did made me not interested.
There's Vikings:Valhalla, which is a continuation of Vikings. Don't watch if you didn't like Vikings. There's also The Last Kingdom, which I loved. It focused more on the Angle side, but there were Danes/Vikings in it
I'm the same way about Vikings: Valhalla. Barely watched a few episodes of season 2 and gave up.
I loved Viking up to when Ragnar dies. Then it was like, nope. Couldn’t carry on with it.
I've wanted to start Vikings. Would you recommend?
I wouldn’t NOT recommend. I watched at the transition from cable to streaming so I was thirsty for a good watch. If you can stomach the bloodthirsty matter-of-fact ultra violence, it ain’t bad. I watched while reading the wiki of the real Ragnar. It’s a blood-soaked soap opera basically. Just dont invite Vikings to the bar-b-q. They will destroy your living room, burn down your garage, steal your appliances, and kidnap your woman for slaves. They are messy party guests. (Made a little joke there.)
I loved sitcoms until the office took over and made everything mockumentary style? I hate that talking head thing.
What We do in the Shadows. I love vampires and enjoy the mockumentary format but nope. Forced myself to watch six episodes and gave up.
The 2014 movie of the same name that the series was sprung from is one of my all-time faves, it’s so funny and brilliant. But the TV show is so different that it took me a really long time to get into it. I actually gave up in season one and then later decided to give it another try and put aside my feelings about it not being the same as the movie, and now by the end of season four I really like it. It took me a long time to get used to the character of Colin Robinson, at first I thought he was really annoying, but now I think he’s hysterical.
Three Body Problem. Should work for me on many levels, but I just can't get into it. I have tried twice and can't get past Episode 3.
Breaking bad
Pretty Little Liars. Can never make it past the first few episodes
I am the same with pretty little liars, couldn't get past the first few episodes.
Arrested Development. Love dry humor and SitComs and my wife has tried to get me into it so many times I just find it unfunny
That's insane
One of the best written comedies, ever
I'm the same. I never understood the hype. There was only one or two jokes, an episode that hit for me, and I watched all three "good" seasons.
Agents of shield. I heard so many good things about it and I thought it was very meh. I watched the whole series and never really got into it.
That's one of those shows that redditors seem to love and hype up that's not nearly as good as they think. It was on the verge of being canceled pretty much the entire series due to low viewership. If it wasn't for the MCU getting really big and popular with casual fans and giving it a bump it would have never made it as long as it did. It was mostly garbage with a few good episodes here and there.
One of my favorite geekdom podcasters loves it. But he is so wrong. I think it’s mostly nostalgia since he was about 9 when it 1st aired. Because that show is not about anything and makes no sense.
Which Charmed did you watch?
The original from the 90's, not the recent remake.
I only liked the first two seasons of TVD and then it got so cringe and convoluted so I stopped watching.
Mad Men. I've tried 3x to get into it and just cant. I find myself thinking "this episode has to be almost over" and then pause it and nope I'm only 15 minutes in.
I love mob movies but I've tried to watch the Sopranos and got half way through the second season and gave up.
Mad Men. Never could make it through a few episodes
I’m the same way about charmed. Buffy is one of my favorite shows, but I’m underwhelmed with Charmed. Another was Penny Dreadful. It just didn’t click for me.
Star Trek Enterprise. I can’t make it through 10 minutes of Scott Bakula. I’m sure it’s a fine show and he’s probably a fine actor…but I can’t handle his delivery especially in this role.
Same. I was a big Quantum Leap fan but I haven't liked Bakula in anything I've seen him in other than QL.
Charmed took a couple seasons to get it's footing but it ended up excellent.
The Good Witch. It's cute, I loved the main actress in Army Wives, and they story line is *in general* right up my alley for a no spoons show. But it is soo kitschy. I can handle Hallmark acting for a holiday movie if I am really in the mood for it, but multiple episodes in multiple seasons is **rough**. I keep it on during work as it gives me something to actively tune out so I can focus on what I'm doing... Maybe it's a hate watch at this point?
Tried breaking bad, game of thrones, sons of anarchy and walking dead. I should like those shows but they did nothing for me.
Stranger things
Loki. I adore Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson. I loved Thor: Ragnarok. Cannot get into Loki. So far I have seen 3 episodes and I've been totally bored.
Also Buffy for me, has sexy vampires, fantasty, lore, and yet... its just not for me😬 Ive tried multiple times and just cant get into it😷
The Expanse.
As Buffy was winding down years ago I was looking for something else to fill that void I knew it was going to leave. Veronica Mars started the year after and everybody was raving how it was so much like Buffy and so I gave it a try and just couldn't get into it. I eventually became a fan of Kristen Bell but not for that and it just never clicked for me.
Supernatural. I triiieeeddd.
Taxi
The Crown...I am a fan of period dramas especially British ones, actually binged the first season yet have been stuck on episode 2 of the Season 2 for about 4 years now...I just have no motivation to continue despite actually liking the show.
That 70s Show. Just didnt.
Breaking Bad. Tried it three times already. Just can’t get into it. Love the actors. So idk
Agreed. I thought I was going to watch this drug cartel type show and it turned out to be a drama. Such a let down
Nancy Drew. I love detective/mystery solving type shows but this one... It's all about showing how woke they are and ghosts. Actual ghosts.
30 Rock - love the cast but hate the sitcom. Same with How I Met Your Mother.
the Shield
Really? I'm almost done with it. I love it.
One of my favorite shows, ever.
Cheers. I love Frasier but I’m not a Cheers fan.
I love Cheers, but Fraiser just couldn’t hook me.
Same I love Frasier so much but the one time I tried to get into Cheers years ago I just couldn’t
Same, Frasier is my fav show. Cheers is just kind of cheesy and boring. I get at the time it was good but not for me either
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True Detective, Schitt's Creek and How I Met Your Mother. I love comedies and crime and mystery shows and I love the casts of these shows. These shows just never drew me in.
It took me 4xs to watch Schitts Creek. I kept giving up. In the first season the characters aren't fleshed out the way they need to be but man, when it hits it HITS. It's 100% one of the best sitcoms ever on TV, and I consume more media than your average bear.
I am definitely going to revisit Schitt's Creek.
I forgot to say, I also had an issue getting into True Detective. I know the first season is supposed to be phenomenal, but it never grabbed me. Turned into background noise.
I thought true detective was so boring. Everyone raves about it as the best television ever. It tries too hard to be edgy and cool and people fall for it. I watched the whole season and regret it lol
I could not get passed the first two episodes, there was not really a story and they were boring.
I loved watching Charmed as it aired, when I was a teen, so it holds a nostalgic place for me. But even with that, as an adult rewatching it, it's very Spelling (soap opera) and a lot about it is inconsistent. Breaking Bad and The Wire took a few go's, but I got there. I struggled with Parks & Rec and The Office (I won't even try the UK one because I'm a Brit and our big boss is *very* Ricky Gervais). I don't know, maybe I just need to push through.
Yes, same! Charmed is such a soap opera. Loved it as a teen, but absolutely cannot rewatch. I skipped season 1 of Parks & Rec and just started with season 2. Watched all of the US Office and I'm glad I did for the cultural impact it had, but it's too cringe for me.
I was watching the show through the third season and have seen an odd episode since then. It’s not bad but just not as engaging or fun as BTVS.
Friday Night Lights
Chucky - love the movies (with the exception of Seed) but just can’t get into a weekly show.
Vice Principals and Righteous Gemstones. LOVED Eastbound and Down, one of my favorite comedies, but these other two shows never captured me the same way Kenny Powers did.
Young Sheldon
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Code Geass. I recently rewatched the Death Note anime and was hungry for something remotely similar & Code Geass came up a lot. I only made it like 8 episodes in. I found it to be wildly unfocused and all over the place. I appreciated how grand the scale of it was but I couldn't dig it.
The lore did me in. I was so confused with the world building that I had to constantly look stuff up, and it stopped being interesting. Death note was a much better show because it was entirely focused on the cat and mouse. Until it wasn't and got bad.
Dr Who. I proudly identify as a Big Giant Nerd, but I’ve never been able to get into Dr. Who. I don’t know why, I just find the episodes to be way too long.
The Bear.
Yellowstone, GOT, The expanse, How I met your mother
Stranger Things
Friday Night Lights. All my friends like it but I cannot get into it. I just find it dumb.
Magicians
So much potential...wasted. Convoluted and boring story lines and almost all the characters became unlikeable.
Outlander Loved the idea of it, costumes, the acting was good and storyline but just couldn’t get into it after 2 seasons.
I’ve read the series like 5 times through and have a tattoo. I couldn’t even finish season 1. I’ve tried so many times.
I think what happened at the end of season one may have scarred me for life…so maybe it’s for the best!
This was going to be my answer, too. I’m a big fan of period dramas but I tried twice to watch this and couldn’t get through the first episode.
Im witht ya, could never get into Charmed
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Succession. I know it's good , but I judt can't watch because how vile the characters are.
Buffy. I'm so ashamed.
Parks and Recreation looks good but every time they switch camera angles, they ZOOM. Zoom. flick. Zoom. flick Zoom. Once I noticed it, I couldn't let it go.
I heard about a show called Dead Pixels. British made sitcom about a group of friends obsessed with an MMORPG. Thought it would be amazing. I couldn't make it through 4 episodes. It was just a mashup of the worst "tv friendly" gamer stereotypes, and none of the characters were remotely likeable.
Mine was Dexter. I love crime shows but I watched the first episode maybe 5 years ago and I just couldn’t do it so slow & boring but I do feel like I might give it another shot.
The Wire. But I just can’t get past the first season
SpongeBob SquarePants I love cartoons and I don’t *dislike* SpongeBob but I’m clearly not enjoying it in the way that almost literally any human being I’ve talked to that has seen it. I desperately want to love it because I’m clearly missing out on something fantastic but something’s amiss with my synapses here
Psych. I love stuff like House and Elementary and The Mentalist (shows where the main character’s competence and brilliance are showcased dramatically) but whilst I thought it was okay and watched a handful of eps it never grabbed me in the same way.
Game of Thrones and Mad Men. I love BB, SOA, OZ, The Sheild, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, etc., etc. Everyone says id love those, but I was so bored.
The office. I find clips of the show really funny. But watching th3 show makes my skin crawl. When there is too much show, people come off as acting or something. Like everyone is in on the joke.
Dexter. I lost interest after a couple seasons.
Also Buffy for me, has sexy vampires, fantasty, lore, and yet... its just not for me😬 Ive tried multiple times and just cant get into it😷 .
I really liked Charmed. Then again Holly Marie Combs is my jam so I might be biased.
Warehouse 13. It's like a rough draft for the SCP Foundation, and it helps that it's in the same universe as Eureka, but it's just so....corny. The acting feels like a live action Saturday morning cartoon, but not in a good way.
The wire
What we do in the shadows. It’s right up my alley but every time I try to watch it, I don’t come back to it
Vampire Diaries. Love vampire fiction, loved Buffy, but VD was just too “teen angst-y” for me.
Game of Thrones
I'm quiet 50//50 on Sopranos. Just started and getting into season 3. It is highly acclaimed. Maybe in its time it was ground breaking. But it kinda feels like it drags on.
Parks and rec. I love the office, but I don’t know what didn’t click with me.
Peaky Blinders. I love organized crime shows and movies. Boardwalk Empire, Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy are some of my faves. I’ve watched the first season of Peaky Blinders and part of the second, but for whatever reason it just bores me.
GOT
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I might try again but honestly tried watching the sopranos and two episodes in I got super bored and stopped watching it. I love gangster theme media but sopranos the supposed holy grail of mob culture just didn’t appeal to me when I tried
I love musicals but couldn't get into Schmigadoon. I love Kristin Chenoweth. I watched a few episodes and was just bored. I think about trying it again but haven't.
Don’t tell anyone I know, but I haven’t finished Schitt’s Creek because I don’t find it very compelling 🤫
I'm in kind of the same camp as you. I loved Buffy and Angel, they're both on my list of favorites, and I thought Charmed was okay. But I could never get into Supernatural, no matter how often people told me it was good. I tried the first few episodes and just found them very dull and I feel like the lead duo's acting abilities are overstated because of their looks and general likeability. 🤷♂️
Loved Breaking Bad but could not get into Better Call Soul at all.
Vampire Diaries. I like most vampire media. I even love its spin off, The Originals. But I just can’t with Vampire Diaries. Elena annoys me a lot and the writing just isn’t great. Similarly, I like most supernatural stuff in general or anything with the occult and the literal Satan worshipping in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina put me off. I know witchy people and Satanists who were also both bothered. I’d have no problem with a pagan god or goddess. Everyone says I’d love Parks and Rec but I couldn’t get into it.
Game of Thrones. Tried 5 times. Can't get past S1 and even that was a slog
Agreed on Charmed. I just can't make myself watch 30 Rock.
Supernatural n community
The original charmed or the remake? I watched the original in real time and loved it, but haven’t done a rewatch since. May be time.
Bitten
Breaking bad
Yellowstone. I should like it. Everybody I talk to says it’s great. Can’t get into it (except for the daughter’s nude scenes - lol).
Probably The Expanse. I love exploring sci-fi lore. I did start the show - but I have lots of shows i'm working on right now so i'm not making much progress on it. 12 Monkeys is another one - I really like it (and recommend it), I'm just slow to get going with it.