Severance. So. Goddamn. Slow.
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.
Firefly. Amatuerish acting and plots that barely reached “Atomic Rifle” levels of sophistication don’t really sit well with me.
Buffy.
It was just a big sloppy plateful of Beverly Hills, 90210 with a small side salad of weird shit.
Big bang theory. Cannot stand the characters on that show, especially Sheldon
That show is literally trash.
The best concise description of that show I’ve heard was “it’s what people who aren’t nerds think nerds would like”.
I remember watching the pilot for the show, I was like, “oh this could be refreshing away from the stupidity of the rest of tv!”. I was already onto anime by that point and had entirely stopped watching cable.
But no. Apparently, when the actual show started airing, it was EXACTLY as you describe, and a massive disappointment. Xbox and bad quips and trying to get girls? Absolutely not.
When Sheldon says “Bazinga” I throw 10 metric tonnes of popcorn at the screen. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen /s
Mr.Robot
So much drugs, depression, late stage capitalism.
Idk wtf I was watching. Too dark and too confusing. I thought I was watching a WW2 Holocause movie, the vibes was depressing AF.
Did I mention the drugs?
So. Much. Drugs.
There were More Drug Scenes than Plot Scenes that I actually understood.
(Maybe I just have a smooth brain who knows 🤷♂️)
It’s a great series but I agree, there’s a lot of depressing vibes. I binged it recently and ended up being getting paranoid riding trains haha
I watched it cause it was interesting to explore a scenario where the top 1% was targeted, especially considering what’s happening in the world right now.
Friends.
Shallow, punchable people who made being dumb fucks a virtue.
people had problems with it being a white-centric show in NYC of all places.
To be fair, I have friends who love this show but also admit it hasn’t aged well.
I’m pretty sure that was every 20-35 year old in the 90s.
GOT
It gets so boring and does nothing for you to care about the starks
It gets so boring
It starts so boring. I barely made it through the first season and some of the second. It was sooooooo fucking dull that I gave up on it around the time what’s his name dies in the desert.
Yeah, I did attempt to watch it a couple of times when it was still airing new seasons, but those first couple of episodes were just so boring, I couldn’t get myself to continue.
And then of course it ended with the known flop and then I lost all interest in even attempting gain.
I gave up during season 3 and found season 1and 2 to be ok
Friends
Seinfeld
Yellowstone
The Office
This might be the only time in my life that I have ever heard someone say they didn’t like Seinfeld. Never thought I’d see the day.
I don’t think you’re supposed to like Yellowstone. I think you’re supposed to feel obligated towards it
The Office season 1 is dogshit
The rest is excellent
Altered Carbon. I couldn’t get past the first episode. I love sci-fi but this just feels pretentious.
Big Bang Theory, and all ‘reality’ shows.
How I Met Your Mother. Most laugh track comedies I found barely tolerable at best but that show fucking sucked major ass and I don’t trust the judgement of anybody who liked that show.
same. i stopped watching when i realised i didnt laugh at a single joke all throughout the first season
For reals. That show is so absolutely unfunny, it astounds me that anyone could enjoy watching it
I couldn’t take getting through half of the season (at least I think I made it halfway through)
The Office
It makes my skin crawl.
It’s cringe pretending to be humor.
Same. If you want some actually laugh out loud hilarious cringe humor, I highly recommend Peep Show with Mitchell and Webb.
I will never forget the dog episode. This show was singed in my mind. Also a favorite of mine.
I love how you can just say the dog episode and everyone who’s seen the show knows exactly what you mean
The turkey incident tho. (I need to do a rewatch.)
The original UK version of The Office is pretty good too.
The British will always win at police procedural/mystery/dramas and deadpan comedies.
Or the police procedural mystery deadpan comedy A Touch Of Cloth!
Loved the original, but US remake has just all the corners filed and padded.
The British original was even worse! I don’t want to feel bad when watching a comedy!
Gotta laugh or else you’ll cry-ahh humour
I feel this for some British comedy shows. I love British comedies like IT Crowd, Black Books, Fleabag. But man, those shows that think making people cringe really hard is funny like the original Office doesn’t do it for me.
They’re meant to be more funny in a sense that you can relate to them as you’ve been in such situations and can now have the catharsis that you’re not alone in those experiences. And as people usually do with such situations that are awful in the moment, you laugh at them in hindsight.
That’s the intention of such cringe humour. Maybe the ones you listed have elements that relate more to your life than the ones you dislike? Or maybe they remind you of moments where the above just cannot apply to your emotional experience of them, and so they cannot be funny.
I’ve seen so many memes of it but I just couldn’t get into it either!
The memes are funny though lol. Just not the show.
same.
The Orville.
I’m sorry! I’m a trekkie so I really wanted to love it. I can’t stand Seth McFarlane, though, and apparently it isn’t just his animated shows like Family Guy or American Dad that I hate.
Just to make sure, you didn’t only watch season 1 episodes, right? The show gets a lot better and leans less on the Family Guy humor as it goes along.
EDIT: I saw you said you watched up until s1e7 in another comment. That episode in particular annoyed me for being a worse version of the Black Mirror s3e1 episode Nosedive. It’s worth trying some later season episodes if you ever get the chance to see if you like them any better. And check out Nosedive as well!
It started out being a Seth McFarlane show but quickly became a pretty legit sci Fi show. McFarlane has always been a Trekkie, he was even in Enterprise, so he actually tries to do right by it once he gets most of the Family Guy type humour out of his system
I’m convinced that the only way he got it greenlit was by selling it as “family guy in space” even though that’s not what he wanted to do. So he hammed that up for the first couple of episodes to make the suits happy before phasing it out and making the show he actually wanted.
That…makes a lot of sense lol. That’s exactly how it plays out, yeah. I think it’s a wonderful addition to Trekkie-type show catalogues, personally.
Yeah, or that it wasn’t even sneaky, they just all agreed a couple of those episodes up front would broaden the appeal, and felt confident people would stick around once they got attached to the characters and into the sci-fi
if it wasnt in the show it wouldve been fine, but him being part of the cast makes the series questionable, hes not that good as actor, hes better at writing. ALso problems around him being involved with the writing has caused the series to barely make seasons in general, this has caused financial problems for some of the actors, and production too. having 36 episodes in 6 years is pretty bad. this was all from pallacki interview on michaels podcast.
I started watching Star Trek because I loved The Orville. I didn’t know people had such hatred for it.
Some do, but I think The Orville is a much better Star Trek show than Discovery in particular.
I really liked Orville, I was going to try star trek at some point
Its biggest influence is Next Generation, but Strange New Worlds is the closest modern Trek in that style if you don’t like old 90s shows.
nutrek is pretty bad to be honest. the animated series is much better than thier 3 series.
Would it help if I told you that his particular brand of humour stops being the focal point after a bit? Iirc it doesn’t last into the second season and is then replaced by actually thoughtful storytelling with light humour sprinkled on top.
Maybe. I think I stopped watching after the social credit episode in the first season. Maybe I’ll check it out again if I ever have another reason to get Hulu.
Thanks ^^
I’ll be honest: I haven’t made it past (or even to the end of) that episode either. I’ve tried a couple of times, but end up stopping after a few minutes just from the sheer cringe.
And I really like the rest of the show, to the point where I don’t want to skip any episodes, but that one I really ought to skip.
Yellowstone. I wanted to like it because Americans riding horses and doing cowboy gun things is a vibe, and I wanted to get that without actually having to travel there and be around Americans. It’s just so bad though.
conservative white people love the show.
It didn’t intrigue me but the old white guys at work like it so I knew there was something wrong with that show
If you haven’t already, you should give the spin offs a chance. Neither my wife or I can stand Yellowstone (we struggled through the first season and then gave up), but 1883 and 1923 are both fantastic shows.
What made the difference for you for the spin-offs?
