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Banshee. Went into it expecting something like Justified where it showed small town sheriff stuff but no. It was just flashbacks to before he became sheriff and constant sex scenes.
I mean, it had some Justified to it, but you can't beat some good old Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.
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the office. the documentary/handheld camera style cinematography is nauseating to watch. see also: parks & rec and similarly-shot titles.
It took me several attempts to watch parks & rec. It ended up being one my favorite. I've tried The Office a couple times and couldn't do it. Same with Sunny.
The office had to happen to open the door for the genre to the general public. So I say thanks to it, we got the more refined parks and rec. Watching the office back in the day was hilarious, but now it's clear that it only walked so parks and rec could run.
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Arrested Development. I can’t do Bateman AND Howard’s narration.
The White Lotus. I got 2-3 episodes in and was just bored. None of the characters were likable so I just didn't care.
Same, why should I care about these people?
The only character that seemed like an actual character in S1 was the manager, and...
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That I watched it all the way through? The Expanse.
I watched the first season and then stopped? Stranger Things.
Have no interest in? Game of Thrones
So, S1 of the expanse was my favorite season by far, mostly because I loved the introduction to the belter ethos, it set a tableau for the rest of the season which was much more action oriented.
S1 was so cool! The whole detective, noir thing I absolutely loved!
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Watching just the first season of Stranger Things was probably the right way to do it. The first season is a complete story, and all the other seasons just feel like Netflix milking its success for $$$.
Other shows where you can watch the first season and stop for similar reasons: Handmaids Tale, Westworld.
Don't agree for HT, agree for Ww
I tried to watch Downton Abbey with my wife. I can appreciate the acting, costumes, and sets, but I could really not have cared less about the minutiae of the lives of 1910s British upper class and their servants
For me, The Expanse.
The first couple of episodes drag, but it picks up later. You might try the books instead. Or even the audiobooks — the narrator for those does an excellent job.
I did try the first audio book and found myself unmoved. It wasn't awful, but I wasn't as impressed as most seem to be. I'm glad it was enjoyed, but I was ready for it to be over long before it was.
That was around six years ago, though. I might feel differently if I tried again today.
Thanks for the recommendations!
I can understand this one. I enjoyed the series enough to go back and read the books, but the acting overall was not great
Game of thrones, tried and failed at least twice
My dad is always stunned that I never really got into GoT. I tuned in for a couple of seasons at the beginning, but life just got too busy for these kinds of big shows.
Hey, at least you didn't have to suffer through the ending.
I only had to suffer through the ending, still makes me mad.
The story, if anyone is bored...
I was on a work retreat/hack-a-thon and the final episode was being broadcast that night. I'd tried and failed to find any part of game of thrones interesting in the past, I'd never seen a complete episode.
Everyone is there glued to the TV, I'm at the dinning room table trying to get some kind of work done, but ended up watching most of the episode.
What a massive pile of crap I thought to myself, no idea what these people are on about.
I'm glad everyone agreed it sucked, but really annoyed that is the only episode I've seen, and I will never waste my time on it.
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Call me a monster, but Breaking Bad. It is just feel bad and cringe, I hate it lol.
I can't even start it. It just sounds so "omg gotta sell drugs so quirky!!"
It's also one of those shows that every dude with bad taste loves to love hahaha
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Yeah I couldn't stand it, and came to the comments because I was sure it would already be mentioned.
I stuck through season 1, pretending that the character's arcs were believable and fast forwarding through some of the brutality, then gave up.
A friend convinced me to try again, but the seconds time I gave up after the season with the shots of the pool debris at the start. The payoff on that felt cheap and vaguely a violation of chekovs gun. After that I had to tell the friend who wanted me to watch it that I was done and wouldn't be trying again.
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Some of the early episodes really show their age. It's definitely still worth watching in 2025, but it is an old show at this point.
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I didn’t care for Breaking Bad, but I did enjoy “Better Call Saul” up until the last season. 🤷♂️
Really? Damn, I mean to each their own, but the show started getting really interesting in the episode where Walter brought in the fulminated mercury...
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Boardwalk Empire. I really tried.
Also, house of the Dragon. I made it mostly through the first season, but then I just couldn’t take it anymore.
What could you not take?
it
I never could get into The Sopranos, and I don't think I'll ever get around to scratching it off my watchlist.
It took me a very long time before. I finally watched that show a few years ago. I didn’t care for it in the beginning, but towards the middle it got a bit more interesting. I didn’t care for the ending. Overall, it’s not gonna be one of those shows I go back to and binge again and again. But I was glad to at least have seen it once.