Dark.
First season was decent, but after a certain point the cognitive load required to keep track of the timeline(s) and character relationships just made it feel exhausting and not fun to watch.
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I enjoyed Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, but I just couldn't get over how hamfisted the series was with the whole "It's gory, but isn't it bEaUtIfUl?!" thing. I don't normally like using the word "pretentious" as criticism, but I can't think of any other word to describe it.
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Masked Singer.
Panelists after every song: OMG that was unbelievable! That singing blew me away! Greatest singing in the history of music! I'm a changed person! Thank God I lived to witness this incredibly amazing performance!
Audience members: [gasping, staring in disbelief, open-mouthed amazement, verging on tears]
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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.
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The Walking Dead. Felt more like the Talking Dead, the pacing was far too slow for me and it didn't seem like much was happening.
I gave up in the first episode when a pair of cops drew their firearms, and the one said to the other "safeties off". And the other cop just brushes the slide release because he was holding a Glock, which famously does not have a safety. I just couldn't take it seriously after that.
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Westworld. I started watching it twice, and both times I thought it was really good until I ran out of patience about not knowing what the hell was going on.
The show was good but so hard to follow. Every time I'd watch an episode, I'd have to watch the Alt Shift X video to explain wtf I just watched: https://www.youtube.com/@AltShiftX/search?query=westworld
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I gave up on Silo early on in Season 2, don't know how popular it is in truth but the Reddit hive mind (or bots) downvote you almost immediately if you even say you don't love it.
I bailed after the first season, holy shit did that show move slow. I wasn't invested enough to go along with the jump the shark plot only 5 episodes in. Oh no the main character needs to go stop the big machine from blowing up the entire silo and killing everyone and ending the story, will she succeed or fail?! I had somebody spoil the story for me and it actually is pretty cool and sci-fi, but I can't spend that much time getting to it.
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As much as I tried to get into it, I couldn't get myself into Game of Thrones.
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.
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The Expanse
Stranger Things
Deep Space Nine
The Expanse starts a little slow, it picks up after the first couple episodes. I'm sure you've heard others gush about it, it's worth another try :)
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The Mandalorian
Noped out after season 1. They revealed his face during a filler episode, during a boring scene, instead of waiting an episode or two longer for the real gut punch reveal at the end of the last episode.
It was stupid. It killed what would have been one of the best face reveals in cinema history. I had no patience for the show after that. Almost didn't bother finishing the rest of the season. I don't really care what their reasons were. Contractual. Whatever. Don't care.
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Most of the popular ones. Especially Game of Thrones. As soon as the incestuous couple threw the little boy off the tower, I was outta there. I'm so tired of shows about horrible people doing horrible things.
!So that kid end up basically being the bad guy. Pretty much everyone would have been better off if he died!<
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I completely understand and it took me three tries to get through the first few episodes... and then the biggest shock is that you end up partly understanding and feel these horrible people. At times, you may even root for some of them. It's definitely taxing for most of us but that's what makes it a great show.
Jaime was a great story, till they done him shitty in the end
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Vikings. It started off okay. I just wanted to see vikings do cool viking stuff. But it became a drama about Christianity taking over, which might be historically accurate, but didn't interest me at all. I straight up didn't like any of the characters at a certain point.