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Is there a TV show you've ever watched that failed, that would've been handled better on another network? (piefed.social)
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For instance, I watched Brave New World in 2020. It was on Peacock. One of their early releases. It was cancelled after one season. It wasn't bad, but I feel like it had Apple TV written all over it now.

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[–] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Under the Dome very nearly transcended its shittyness, but only with some outside context.

It wouldn't be any fun to re-watch I expect, but at the time it was live, the weekly Reddit discussion threads trying to predict the next atrociously dumb stunt the writers would pull (and then somehow still being surprised when they came up with something even worse) made it worthwhile.

It was for sure some hot garbage though, the ham-fisted Microsoft Surface product placement was a particular "highlight", but just bad in general.