Better Call Saul for me. It felt like Breaking Bad but playing out at like 25% speed. Also Saul is a whiny bitch, I really lost patience with him when he gets to his “boo hoo being rich isn’t fun I don’t wanna work at a law firm anymore” phase.
If I reduce it to the shows where I watched more than a few episodes:
- La case de papel: The start of the second season quickly turned me off, because it seemed like everything just got bigger for the sake of it.
- Vikings: I tried many times and I did always like it, but for some reason I never felt the urge to finish the first season.
- Altered Carbon: It’s already an exception that I watched the first season despite not loving it that much from the very beginning. Therefore I didn’t even bother watching the second one. It’s also one of these Netflix shows that suffers from sex sells overload.
- Narcos: I think I stopped midway through the third season, simply because I wasn’t interested in that kind of big action, although obviously I shouldn’t have been surprised.
I tried many times and I did always like it, but for some reason I never felt the urge to finish the first season.
Ooh, me too. I got more than one season on my second attempt, but I’m honestly not sure how much more. Definitely didn’t get through 3 full seasons. I enjoyed it, but…just not enough to go out of my way to keep watching it.
I had allready seen a lot of documentaries about chernobyl, so the recent series did not cut it fir me. It was too dramatised
Tbf the hbo series was about soviet union and how stupid it was explored through yet another russian caused disaster rather than the disaster itself.
Of course it was dramatized, that’s kind of the entire point. As you said there are already countless documentaries about it, why would you want another one?
Lost was the tv version of clickbait. 3 concurrent story lines rotated from week to week. Every episode a cliffhanger that you had to wait 2 more weeks to resolve into a nothing burger. Even watching that shit on disc or streaming is annoying as fuck. I might have liked what was going on story wise, but I got too annoyed with the format to get past mid season 2.
Yeah. Lost was when I was intrugued by J J abrams style, and then completely turned off by his inability to tell a story or have a plan beyond the halfway point.
And then they involved him in seemingly every major movie franchise ever for the next two decades… and he kept doing the same crap. Lots of flash and dazzle and dramatic moments that ultimately mean nothing because the characters have no story to tell, no real arc, no consistent rules creating a believable universe for the watcher to be sucked in to - any rules can be thrown out the window anytime a dramatic cliche opportunity arises. Yet he still seems very popular.
There is a recut of it, still available via torrent, called Chronologically LOST. It is every scene, but in chronological order, and only once each. Really cool way to see the show and make sense of it.
Lost went on far too long and they backed themselves into a corner by saying that the big secret was what nobody had guessed, but this was right around the Internet getting popular to talk about tv shows, so everything good had already been suggested. If it had been me, I would have just picked the best one and gone with that…
Handmaid’s Tale.
Never got through even a single episode.
Would it be worth it? Is there vindication or is it just endless boring patriarchy?
Walking Dead. There’s like several shows and a dozen seasons each, although I actively avoided it since it started about, not into zombies shows.
Squid Game, never really like dubs and just didn’t get into listening Korean yet.
I thought Handmaid’s Tale was absolutely amazing. Really felt like I was witnessing late stage america with its path towards a christo fascist path
Yeah, but like, I watch shows to escape from the brutal crutch of reality.
Like Star Trek. Or something set in the past.
There’s a whole bunch or drug shows I haven’t watched which people think I would like, because I advocate for the legalisation of drugs. But that’s exactly why I don’t like them; they show the shitty reality that would be so easy to change.
Oh I never watched “man in the high castle” either. Well a lot of S1 but got bored of it.
Lmao I watch Star Trek to feel the brutal crutch of reality.
But… none of it is based in reality, nor do people really behave like that in reality?
Breaking Bad. Just lost interest half way through.
I gave up on it once, and then continued at a later date. I felt that the mid seasons were a bit of a grind, but the last season goes up to 11 with an extremely satisfying ending.
Same. Walt is an unlikeable person making bad decisions. I grave up after season 1.
You know what might help you power through?
Will it make my teeth fall out?
I was gonna suggest a little coffee, but yes if your caffeine is contained in a sugary soda it definitely has the potential to rot your teeth.
I made it one episode. Extremely well done show about a tragically terrible flaw of American society that frustrates me daily. Didn’t need a reminder of how terrible things are.
Better Call Saul. I liked Saul in Breaking Bad and learning more about him and his past was great, but I hated knowing how low he has to be by the end for Breaking Bad to make sense. The higher he climbed in the show, the more of a tragedy it became. Just had to put it down some time near the end of Part 2 when he started doing stuff to his brother.
On the one hand I do still want to know what happens to his brother, but on the other hand I hate watching a car crash I know is about to happen before its shown the first signs of drifting into the wrong lane and (mentally) shouting at the screen to stop making stupid decisions.
Worth mentioning that although I acknowledge Breaking Bad would not really happen at all if not for Walter and his pride, but I still despise how much he lets his pride destroy him over and over again. As such I also don’t particularly care for the later seasons of Breaking Bad, but at least with those I didn’t really know the end so I didn’t know how much it was going to keep going downhill beforehand. Oddly enough for this reason I feel like I may have enjoyed Better Call Saul more before having watched Breaking Bad.
Its a real shame. The part with his brother is, in my opinion, the worst part of the show. It gets better and better.
Not to say its a bad part, i liked it. Its just that it gets better and better as the show goes on, and the ending is great.
It’s very satisfying. You get a proper ending that’s bittersweet.
Also, Kim is an awesome character. And Rhea Seehorn
can get itis a very attractive young lady.
I’m almost afraid to ask… What are these time stamps of?
Friends.
Seems like everyone likes this show but I dont think I ever watched a full episode.
My humor is more like Scrubs, Seinfeld, IT Crowd.
I love Scrubs and IT Crowd, but Friends also. I don’t, however, like Frasier. People seem to fall into either the Friends or Frasier camp, and never the twain shall meet.
Friends or Frasier camp, and never the twain shall meet.
I didn’t cate for either.
I weirdly like both.
But I like a lot of random shit.
There are quite a few edited ‘Friends without the laugh track’ videos on YouTube showing how creepy and unfunny some of the characters are. Its a bit of a meme theres so many of them.
Oh I want to check those out… Thanks!
Friends had Chandler and Joey bromance, which is a precursor to the Scrubs bromance.
The rest of the show isn’t similar, but that part was spot on.
One Piece - with One Pace i got through the alabasta arc. The characters all have good back stories and motivations. I mean it is well written, but with how the stakes and emotional depth are managed it just feels like a sit-com. I want to like it more, but i just don’t foresee myself throwing it on again.
Most of that stuff is better handled in the manga. One Pace can’t fix the bad soundtrack, animation and such that plagued the series from the start. It doesn’t turn into a character drama or anything, I think the online fandom exaggerates that aspect of the series to get people to start watching… But it is better
The animation and soundtrack actually didn’t bother me after the first couple arcs. I think it has a lot to do with how the show engages with emotions. It’s not meant to dig too deep. It’s supposed to be a sort of all ages work and it achieves that. I can totally see how people enjoy it btw. Not knocking it, it’s a really big accomplishment in its own right. It just lost my interest after a while. If it evolves beyond there, it wasn’t fast enough for me. Which is weird, because i usually like slow burns.
The Orwell
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Ironically, I couldn’t stand Expanse’s pilot and I don’t think I got past the first few episodes. It was just so slow and nap-inducing…
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Man, I wish I could just skip S1, then. If I can’t then I may never see it as there is so much else out there!
If you can wade through the sludge (like ST:TNG S1), it really becomes incredibly thought-provoking in especially season 3.
Orville?
Yeah, that. Thanks.
Big Bang Theory
I’ve been called “Sheldon” for my autistic traits in a degrading manner. The show plays autism for laughs plenty of times, and also ridicules the “nerds” all the time for no reason. It’s like a bunch of self proclaimed high school “jocks” wrote it
Same here. I always felt they were making fun of my fellow nerds and geeks as opposed to celebrating our intelligence and quirkiness. The writers obviously got the humor and nuance but chose to poke fun so that the rest of the world could laugh at it. I mean I understand why but I didn’t really like it for that reason.
GoT… Too much tape as a plot device, and general subjugation of female characters.
Love… She was supposed to be the cool girl but she was just rude. I lost respect for the characters in episode 2.
This is going to sound very hipster, but pretty much anything that becomes super popular is too shallow or lowest-common-denominator to pique my interest. There are exceptions, but that’s the general rule I’ve come to realize.
Prison Break
American Horror Story
