Me personally? I did not care for Game of Thrones.
The Wire.
Really wanted to like it, but I didn’t watch it when it came out, and I just didn’t find it as “groundbreaking” as the masses felt it was. Didn’t even really find it that interesting/entertaining.
Christopher Nolan movies. I haven’t seen memento, but every other movie is not for me. They are either bad or pretentious as hell. I thought maybe i would like the Odyssey, but what a colossal waste of time that was.
I didn’t really care for memento while I do like most of his other work, so maybe that’s the only one you would like?
The good place, solid 6/10. Don’t hate it, just don’t care for it, I even rewatched it to see if I was missing something. It felt lazy af at the end.
These be fighting words good sir…
BORTLES!!!
Any and all dating shows or shows that play on the wider population’s interest in intimacy, innuendo and relationships: Love Island, Naked and Afraid, Big Brother, The Bachelor, Temptation Island, Love is Blind… You get the idea. And as for those few that happen to be somewhat genuine, for instance those that focus on marginalized people (on the spectrum, LGBTQI): I don’t need to be reminded of the reality that already plagues me.
The Rings of Power’s Galadriel and evil Sauron are hot af but the show itself… I find myself looking at my phone after a few minutes of trying to endure it. I only force myself through it for my love of Tolkien’s works.
I just never learned to like Family Guy. Team Groening all the way!
Titanic. But I’m sure it’s a good movie or whatever. My first encounter with it just sadly coincided with one of my most traumatic relationships ever, so it’s unfortunately tainted for me.
reality tv is what people watch, and ruins good shows, because they dont fund them as much.
No wonder I find myself pulled towards indie creators instead!
Friends: a celebration of hedonism and shallowness.
Seinfeld: basically the same.
I liked friends when i was a kid/teen. Bit re-watching it as an adult, not so much. Everyone but joey and chandler annoy me now
Dune.
Probably a big factor is that I had to watch it in German on TV instead of english but it felt very slow and the setting didn’t appeal to me in any way so I didn’t follow it and fell asleep every time.
i dint find boys very interesting, just that people were familiar with supernatural and kripke, i suspect people only watched it because of karl urban and kripke/supernatural. i dint find spn too exciting for me, and we can tell why after season 6-15. im not surprised 4-5 for boys was pretty bad, jensen tried to promote the next show, because he himself is struggling to get roles or have his own IP in hollywood , also the last season was strange, he was trying to make amends for the drama in 2021(he started the winchester series now cancelled after s1 and dint tell jared or misha about it, you can tell jared was hurt by it, and misha was disappointed), by including jared and misha in a cameo of the last season, totally irrelevant characters by the way.
nutrek, im not very fond of besides the animated series. just meddling by kurtzman, paramount exec must include such a broad audience, that it distracts from the bad writing and acting.
- The Office - wanted to see why it was referenced so much online. Did not find it funny or entertaining at all. Other shows usually had at least some redeeming qualities even if it wasn’t my thing, but I straight up hated this one.
- Everything Everywhere All At Once - It lost me because it tried too hard to be quirky and different, though I liked the choice of protagonist.
Took me a few tries with The Office as well but ended up loving it once I made it into seasons 2 and 3. The first season is a bit rough, and the show improves quite a bit after that in terms of its characters, writing, and humor. It’s hard to tell what makes up the magic of this show, but it’s a cringe-y tension that’s broken up with clever humor and some genuinely touching moments, and it’s the latter part that takes a bit longer to develop.
Thanks for sharing your take on it! I didn’t get that far in because I have a habit of switching shows when I’m not enjoying anymore instead of forcing myself to watch in the hopes that it will improve.
People recommend skipping season 1 often these days, just a different show lowkey
The Office - wanted to see why it was referenced so much online. Did not find it funny or entertaining at all. Other shows usually had at least some redeeming qualities even if it wasn’t my thing, but I straight up hated this one.
I think that you are referring to the US version, as it has all the memes. Do yourself a favor and try the British version. The point is the cringe and Ricky Gervais plays a very convincing David Brent. However, UK humor does not translate well into US sitcoms and after a few episodes, the US version gets its own voice, making it a lot more palatable (IMHO).
Yes, the US version of The Office was the one I saw. And thanks, I’ll give the UK version a try at some point since I try to keep an open mind and tend to enjoy British humor (for reference, I remember liking series such as Black Books, The IT Crowd, and Little Britain).
Seth MacFarlane feels so 1-note. Just can’t get into Family guy stuff, or any of the other shows that seem to be the same thing, with a different cast of characters.
South Park lost me during the “Stunning and Brave” cut your dick off haha funny stuff. Further reflection made me feel not so great about laughing at, or at least not thinking about, all of the other stuff that in retrospect looked like punching down. Either it’s all OK to make fun of, or none of it is. I’d imagine some other groups of people felt similarly as I did when they were “made fun of”. There are still some jokes that I find hilarious, and some parody they did that respected those that it made fun of. It’s just easier to not watch.
Try the orville, family guy is great, but its spamming a joke every 5 seconds, the whole formula is basically if the joke doesnt land it doesnt matter because you’re already on to the next one
The Orville is better Star Trek than most modern Trek as well.
Its less Utopian, but in a way almost more realistic.
the early season were written by him, the later ones are all by writers they hired, so seth had no input with the rest of the series past like 8 or 10 even, he was definitely struggling to get other IP out.
Jaws. It’s a stupid concept, stupid characters, stupid execution.
Check out Cruel Jaws. An Italian spiritual successor to Jaws. Its just… Something else.
Marvel / superhero movies. I just have no interest in it as a genre.
Mcu build up to endgame was pretty peak, iron man movies are really entertaining and hold up so well, pretty much all of them do from then, post endgame is where it lost direction. Agents of shield was hella entertaining too, rewatched it recently.
mcu slop, from what ive seen, thier shows and movies are just promoting the next show or movie, nothing more. MCU works better as standalone series/ movies, with occasional crossovers. by why crossover every single release. x-men spinoffs prior to disneys buyout were better than what mcu has put out.
I was a teen during the peak avengers era and loved them then. Nowadays there’s maybe 1 superhero movie every 2-3 years that I actually watch and enjoy. It’s amazing how quickly the genre has gone the way of the western.
I don’t enjoy anything by the Coen Brothers. Just… doesn’t click with me. I’m sure it’s great art but it’s lost on me.
Honestly, most sitcoms. They’re just … not funny.
Um but they tell us when to laugh… what more do you want?
My wife has a habit of running sitcoms in the background all day long. An individual episode of just about any sitcom isnt going to be great. There are some good ones, but they usually rely on character development that a first time better just wouldn’t get.
Sitcoms are decent background noise because they don’t require attention.
If I say Big Bang Theory am I just preaching to the choir?
I liked it the way people enjoy fast food as a guilty pleasure. It’s best to enjoy it without expecting anything substantial.
I abhor BBT. Community was kind of its rival and I absolutely loved it. I saw a quote about the two they said “Big Bang Theory is a dumb show about smart people and Community is a smart show about dumb people.”
Community just got to be way to meta. In the beginning it was really good but then none of the episodes worked together to tell a story. It became a show with characters in a sandbox and nothing overarching.
The episodes stopped being connected but the characters still had growth and the individual growth became the narrative thread. It didn’t begin that way but we saw each character have their own arc which sometimes pulled them away from an assumed narrative. I thought that was brilliant since life works like that. It did have a lot of meta references at times, though. Most of them I felt were charming, not all. Would have liked to have seen more Luis Guzman.
I really don’t like big bang theory. Weirdly though I find young Sheldon somewhat compelling.
i thought sheldon was more well recieved as an origin story, basically grown up sheldon(now a professor) telling the story of his past. BBT Played more into stereotypes and caricatures. also some female audiences dint like the female leads were dumbed down to make them stupider than the men.
My hot take is that season one was actually good. In season one it seemed more like a show for nerdy people, after season one it was for a general audience
You are, but I still sing with it
It is my understanding that it gets a lot of hate in here, so yes. I’m not here to claim that it’s a good show, but I watched the entire series. It was, at least, entertaining. But I understand a lot of the hate; It felt like “commission-written jokes for focus groups”, similar to Friends (which I also have watched every episode of… yeah, when you’re stuck on a ship you tend to binge watch things)
The Big Bang Theory is Friends. The primary difference being that the characters in TBBT aren’t a bunch of generic yuppies. (“How I Met Your Mother” stole that trope)
I can’t stand 5 minutes of BBT but Friends is one of those shows that could run 24/7 and I’d probably be ok with it.
they tried remedy the dissatisfaction people had with BBT, with the sheldon spinoff.
24/7 friends seems like a version of hell that could convince me to be religious again just to avoid the possibility of heaven and hell being real.
Lord of the Rings. The pacing is absolutely untenable. And it’s not the wide shots; it’s the constant close up reaction shots. Just endless seconds wasted on people staring at each other.
The Dark Knight is overrated. The ending makes no sense. The people would lose hope if they knew Harvey Dent went crazy, but they’re still perfectly hopeful believing he was murdered by Batman? Come on.
Also, Batman voice is stupid. It’s a silly creative choice, and I just can’t take it seriously.
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