Nutrek, most of the live series are were terrible, Kurtzman ruined the franchise. lower decks just got silly. ISAIP past season 12 were just plain awful, they shouldve gave up on the series long time ago.
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Dark. Sad thing is that I'm very intrigued by the overall narrative and atmosphere, but it's just so damn boring. I also thought Midnight Mass was bad but I did manage to force myself to finish that one.
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Battlestar Galactica. Like a lot of the shows people have been mentioning, all it did was raise the stakes every episode. It didn't feel like it was building anything meaningful, just building up to something.
The most meaningful example of this (spoilers for like a twenty year old show) for me was when they're in the ship looking for water or whatever and the human cylon just ignores the indicator saying "Water here! Check here!" and the scene just. keeps. going. I swear it felt like half the episode.
Yeah that show is a slow burner vibe thing and i think you were right to stop watching it because you gotta meet it where it's at - messy, creative, emblematic of the paperback sci-fi classics, not quite so neat as something like Expanse or Star Trek in terms of structure and plot and character taking a backseat to the themes, it's less Stellaris, more Solaris, less Mass Effect and more No Man's Sky.
This show to the original BSG is like Primer to Back to the Future.
What helped me through is I just enjoy military dramas so the standalone episodes like the one about the industrial workers and such just kept me engaged in the moment as episodic adventures and so I was in no hurry for a thread to follow, though the arc in S2 and onto the climax in Season 4.
It's not everyone's cup of tea but I do find this show beautiful in a way,
and more No Man’s Sky
Speaking of highly overrated things...
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Like 97% of them
Damn few shows are worth my time these days. Re-tread it's galore, with simplistic emotional appeal to get you to react and continue to watch. Essentially producers saw what worked for "reality" TV in the 90's and applied that same juvenile, transparent, boring approach to new shows.
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Got some anime for y'all
- Daily Life of Immortal King: There was so much vital force in the first episode, I kept watching hoping to see more love and care for the rest of the first season. Instead I got a bunch of flat characters that seemed to be walking plot coupons to be cashed in when the plot needed to happen.
- Attack on Titan: Everyone talks about how epic anime twists are. This is because they tend to make the twist about something core to the plot, so when the twist finally hits it could tear the whole story asunder and leave you with a whole different story to tell. The risk of this is that you (the viewer) might not like the story after the twist. This is what happened to me. The first twist hit, I spotted that it was a mecha anime in disguise, and promptly checked out because I had just watched a shit ton of gundam and was sick of mecha anime.
- Eminence in Shadow: I actually watched the whole series because I was momentarily down for some power fantasy junk food. I do not reccomend it. I feel like my life is worse for the experience
- Brothers Confict: This is among the ranks of "so bad it's good" anime. I simply could not deal with the pain and had to quit.
- Rising of Shield Hero: I just can't deal with the horny shield.
- Made in Abyss: I hated watching Riko constantly treat Reg like a machine. Couldn't get over that.
- Blue Exorcist: I have no idea why this didn't hit for me. I was in the target demographic and everything, and it did end up being a springboard for me into other anime once I got bored barely ten episodes in.
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The new version of Lost in Space just has people in danger constantly and then making the dumbest decision in that situation possible.
Same with 'suits', I really liked it in the beginning, until it was just too painful to watch. Each storyline was set up in a way that there was one path for the protagonists to take that would lead to certain disaster, and lo.and behold, at the end of every episode that path is exactly the path they took.
This happens until you start wondering if you're just looking at the dumbest lawyers or astronauts in existence.
It's such lazy writing, but it seems like almost everything is written this way these days. Characters make the dumbest possible decisions, and refuse to talk to each other or share important information.
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My biggest problem with most of the shows listed is they have to outdo themselves and go on for too long.
Season one: Great premise!
Season Two: Same premise, but TWICE the danger!
Season three: I don't know, robot ninjas or something?
I miss when shows could just grow in the first season or two, and then you'd only get raising stakes two or three times a year (season finale/premier and sweeps). Otherwise they're just stories.
These days shows have to justify themselves right out of the gate.
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Hah, yes!
Just finished season 3 of Yellowjackets and White Lotus and I just felt, meh. I'm hopeful for season 4 of both shows but I'll be living off the honeymoon phase from seasons 1 and 2.
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Breaking Bad. I made it part way through the first season before giving up. Everyone loves that show but I just couldn't enjoy it.
Breaking Bad. I tried twice, got a little farther each time but, just lost interest.
Sons of anarchy.
severance. just so boring... uneventful. i just cant bring myself to care about the characters in any capacity. ive said it in other threads, its just 'depression porn'
It’s nice to know there’s like 5 of us 🤣
Same. It’s not that it’s “uneventful”, it’s just that each “event” just adds more nonsensical mystery. It feels like Lost, which some people thought was twisty in a clever way. But instead the writers literally just kept throwing twists with no actual end in mind.
I’m sure Severance has some kind of plan, but it feels way longer than it needs to be. It’d make a good movie or limited series, but I’m not into this vibe for multiple seasons.
the show practically beats you over the head with the symbolism but failed to write the characters with any depth whatsoever. kinda like lost. no reason to care about what happens to anyone
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It's definitely not for everyone. It's a very complex show with a lot of symbolism, and you kind of have to think for yourself what's really the implications of what's going on.
I was hooked from beginning to end, but it's definitely pretty boring if you don't get the subtext, or simply want an easy sit back and relax kind of show.
Nah, it's that it's not as "deep" as it thinks it is.
Where's that copypasta about Rick & Morty...
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Yellowstone. With shows like The Sopranos or Sons of Anarchy you know the characters are evil, but you can connect just enough for it to be compelling.
In Yellowstone it feels like they want you to see the characters as the heros, when they are mass-murdering, slave-owning oligarchs. They buy cops and politicians to gain power, but get bent on revenge if other powers don't "play by the rules". I didn't last too long, but everyone else seems to love it.
I watched it for a while, but it just got stupider and stupider with every season. It's a very American show, and it feels like conservative pandering much of the time (even though the show runner isn't a conservative from what I hear).
it most catering to conservative circle jerking.
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Twin Peaks. Couldn't stand it.
Oh, God, such nonsense
Oh yeah. I heard all the hype online, and got two episodes in.
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- Dark
- The OA
- ST: Lower Decks
- The Office
- Parks and Rec
- Peaky Blinders
- I’m dragging my feet getting through seasons 2 of Silo and Severance.
Dark turned into nonsense unfortunately. It felt like Lost all over again. I never finished it.
I disagree, I think Dark was much more coherent. It was admittedly a bit convoluted, but I think it did a good job tying everything together.
Whereas Lost was them constantly creating new mysteries that they didn't have the answers too, and tying it up in the end with some random bullshit.
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Aww thats a shame about Dark, I got sucked in to that show 100% until the end.
The office is good background TV for when you're tired and just need to zone out and chuckle, its a very wholesome show, same with Parks and Rec.
Wholesome?
I don't see juvenile irresponsibility and adversarialism as "wholesome". If you wanna say funny, to each his own, but in no way is that show "wholesome".
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Almost every one?
yes
Most anything in recently years, TBH. I always check out what's popular with the reasoning that something about it has to be good if so many people like it, and it used to work out pretty well. Not so much in the last 5 or 6 years.
Have you tried Severance or Common Side Effects?
I liked common side effects, but I would rather have had s2 of scavenger's reign.
Also kind of wish that common side effects was live action with animated elements, I think that would have been cool visually.
Can't get past the trailers or previews. Awful.
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Never got the appeal of these ones. They aren't bad shows, but they did not do it for me.
Game of Thrones
Lost
Better Call Saul
Peaky Blinders
Breaking Bad
Shit. That's exactly my list.
- I didn't even watch GoT long enough to see Emilia Clark in the buff. But, then, I'd read the first two books and absolutely loathed them, and didn't find the TV series improved the story much.
- I liked the first season of Lost, but the second felt like the writers were like, "oh shit... we got a second season? Shitshitshit..." Like they were just making it up as they went, and the writing and plot was just... bad.
- I didn't watch BCS because I didn't like
- Breaking Bad. I mean, I like scenes from BB, but the show itself suffered (for me) from this tendency in the past decade to base entire shows on tense anxiety. Boardwalk Empires was another that used this mechanism, as did
- Peaky Blinders. Great writing. Great acting. But it's just constant tension, and it's simply not fun.
It's like directors got ahold of this one technique and just beat it into every fucking show in the past decade. It's tired, overused, and you'll notice it's a common trait of many of the shows you and agree on. You have to have tension, but I didn't need every god damned minute to be wondering if someone's going to get their throat graphically slashed with a straight-edge.
I'm not fond of the perpetual tension. Just awful.
Oh man! You just put to words why I couldn't stand Breaking Bad, and Boardwalk Empire.
I watched the first simply because a lot of people love it, and I try to watch everything that seems worth seeing. The second I saw some clips from that I really liked, but then I just didn't stick with the actual show.
In both cases, the series left me on constant edge, in a really bad way.
Now I realize that I kept waiting for the shows to grant me some kind of catharsis, but it just never happened. Or it happened rarely and in ways that quickly gets brushed away as inconsequential.
Y'all are trippin, the gus storyline in Better Call Saul/BB is likely my favorite villain of all time.
Fair enough though, I was scared I was gonna see these shows listed in here and here we are!
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I have watched any of those except the first couple of Breaking Bad. It was too real for me so I just couldnt.
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