Game of Thrones. Just couldn't get into it.
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The last two seasons completely destroyed the show for me. I literally felt betrayed and have no intention of ever watching it again.
It's truly unbelievable how we got a masterclass in turning gold into a huge steaming pile of shit.
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Squid Game.
Bring on the down votes, I don't care, that show was garbage and I was baffled at the HYPE around it.
Full agree here, it's just shock factor. That's the only thing it has going for it. But hey, lowest common denominators exist for a reason 😂
Nah I definitely agree 😂
No downvotes from me. I don't believe the show would be as popular as it is if Korean media wasn't the current du jour.
Always Sunny and Arrested Development. Both shows are just people being really fucking stupid and it's somehow hilarious.
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Lost. I got about halfway through the first season back then until I couldn't shake the impression that it was a bunch of convoluted horse shit produced by hacks who thought they were bleeding edge. History proved my impression correct.
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Breaking Bad
Surprised to see so few mentions of For All Mankind, I really wanted to like it I did, but I only got about 2 episodes in. I realized the setting was the only thing that remotely interested me, the characters were bland at best, and absolutely incompetent at worst.
It was a series with the ripe call to the "competency porn" as I've seen described as, but the characters couldn't contrast the setting any further. I did spoil myself before I tried getting into it, a few moments stuck out to me. Firing on two unarmed cosmonauts, getting crushed between two interplanetary vessels while trying to covertly siphon fuel, and having a child on mars. Just did not feel very NASA by the end of it, tell me if you think I'm wrong and should give another chance however.
Oddly enough I think I found that aesthetic I was looking for in Stargate SG-1, I never really gave that franchise a chance until now, I'm almost surprised how well it seemed to age, especially how little I see it mentioned in comparison to Trek, or even Doc Who (which i know next to nothing of)
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Rick and Morty. My taste in humor just changed and it and other similar shows don't do it for me anymore
I felt similar to you, but the past two seasons really helped bring it into it's own. I highly recommend trying again. A struggle in seasons 3-5 but it comes back around I promise.
Most of the adult animated shows (Rick and Morty, inside job, ect.) they're like a 15 year olds idea of what adults are.
Breaking bad, narcos, the office, friends.
300+ posts and I only see about 13 or so, time for a new instance I think. Does lemm.ee really censor so much or is it my client.
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The News. Repulsive, unbelievable main characters; insane plots; waay too many subplots; you can't understand a story without reading the fucking Wiki or going two knuckles deep on a forum to get the backstory or just picking up on the mode esoteric hints; this whole annoying multi-platform thing where you only fully understand a story if you watch it on six different platforms (I had enough of that shit with the Matrix twenty-five years ago, thanks).
The Boys. First season had raw charm with some cool punk tracks, then season two sterilised it and it seemed to become another day time TV show. Had a similar experience with Black Mirror once that got the American/Hollywood treatment. Always Sunny lost its charm when the gang went to Ireland. Aweful end to what was otherwise a good series. But I mostly dislike American TV.
I liked that in the beginning of The Boys it was mostly normal humans approaching supers with creativity. In later seasons it seems more like superheroes against supervillains with some normal people on each side. Like a marvel series but with gore and obscenities.
You missed the dick scene then. I think it was season 3. Fucking brutal.
I really liked Black Mirror until every other episode was about infidelity.
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Banshee. There's only so many times you can watch a guy get the absolute piss bashed out of him
The Expanse but I'll try to give it another shot one day.
The first season shows 2 perspectives - detective in asteroid belt and some of the most bland, basic and incredibly uninteresting dude going somewhere. Just kept falling asleep during those scenes.
I heard the layer seasons are quite interesting so I hope to at least skim through it or read the books but tbh the first season feels like it ruined the world for me already.
Wheel of time just finished the latest season in the background and its fun just bad. I've tried reading the book before and it's pretty terrible nonsense too so my expectations were already quite low. I do find the main plot point of basically temu Buddhism and the Witcher cocktail very atractive but it's just so poorly executed. All characters are meaningless. The world has so many plot holes that the wheel might as well just stop rolling right there.
Carnival row - not sure if this counts but it really sucked past season 1. It felt like something was there but it was really ruined by poor writing and Cara Delevingne and her character are so incredibly bad it really ruined any chances the show might have had.
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Dr. Who
All of them
The sopranos. I got halfway through season 2 and decided I just didn't give a shit about finishing it.
I feel like it was a show that was greatly helped by the once a week group viewing era.
Walking Dead, House of the Dragon
Stranger Things. Gave up after the first season. It just felt like the show was trying too hard to feel like something nostalgic from the 80s without any of the substance or writing the things from the 80s it was trying to mimic had.
The walking dead. A good show with high production value I will admit.
But I found it to be souless morbid and honestly disgusting.
Ozark. It's super well done but I just got to the point that the violence was just too much.
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