300+ posts and I only see about 13 or so, time for a new instance I think. Does lemm.ee really censor so much or is it my client.
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The Boys. First season had raw charm with some cool punk tracks, then season two sterilised it and it seemed to become another day time TV show. Had a similar experience with Black Mirror once that got the American/Hollywood treatment. Always Sunny lost its charm when the gang went to Ireland. Aweful end to what was otherwise a good series. But I mostly dislike American TV.
The News. Repulsive, unbelievable main characters; insane plots; waay too many subplots; you can’t understand a story without reading the fucking Wiki or going two knuckles deep on a forum to get the backstory or just picking up on the mode esoteric hints; this whole annoying multi-platform thing where you only fully understand a story if you watch it on six different platforms (I had enough of that shit with the Matrix twenty-five years ago, thanks).
Always Sunny and Arrested Development. Both shows are just people being really fucking stupid and it’s somehow hilarious.
Always sunny is very hit or miss, and I haven’t properly enjoyed a season since 2018 I don’t think, but the ones that do hit knock out out of the park for me. My spouse and I quote it frequently
Both shows are just people being really fucking stupid and it’s somehow hilarious.
They are more than just stupid, usually also selfish or downright evil. And it is hilarious. So why did you drop them? Both are gems. Always Sunny get’s a lot better in S2 as well (Danny DeVito joins the cast).
The Expanse but I’ll try to give it another shot one day.
The first season shows 2 perspectives - detective in asteroid belt and some of the most bland, basic and incredibly uninteresting dude going somewhere. Just kept falling asleep during those scenes.
I heard the layer seasons are quite interesting so I hope to at least skim through it or read the books but tbh the first season feels like it ruined the world for me already.
Wheel of time just finished the latest season in the background and its fun just bad. I’ve tried reading the book before and it’s pretty terrible nonsense too so my expectations were already quite low. I do find the main plot point of basically temu Buddhism and the Witcher cocktail very atractive but it’s just so poorly executed. All characters are meaningless. The world has so many plot holes that the wheel might as well just stop rolling right there.
Carnival row - not sure if this counts but it really sucked past season 1. It felt like something was there but it was really ruined by poor writing and Cara Delevingne and her character are so incredibly bad it really ruined any chances the show might have had.
I enjoyed season 1, but it took me so many attempts to watch it and explainer videos.
I’ll try season 2 eventually
Same here on The Expanse. I hope to get back to it someday because my friends say it gets better.
Wish you and me luck then as I’ve been dodging spoilers for years now in hopes of getting this done eventually lol
Surprised to see so few mentions of For All Mankind, I really wanted to like it I did, but I only got about 2 episodes in. I realized the setting was the only thing that remotely interested me, the characters were bland at best, and absolutely incompetent at worst.
It was a series with the ripe call to the “competency porn” as I’ve seen described as, but the characters couldn’t contrast the setting any further. I did spoil myself before I tried getting into it, a few moments stuck out to me. Firing on two unarmed cosmonauts, getting crushed between two interplanetary vessels while trying to covertly siphon fuel, and having a child on mars. Just did not feel very NASA by the end of it, tell me if you think I’m wrong and should give another chance however.
Oddly enough I think I found that aesthetic I was looking for in Stargate SG-1, I never really gave that franchise a chance until now, I’m almost surprised how well it seemed to age, especially how little I see it mentioned in comparison to Trek, or even Doc Who (which i know next to nothing of)
Dr. Who
All of them
Game of Thrones. Just couldn’t get into it.
The last two seasons completely destroyed the show for me. I literally felt betrayed and have no intention of ever watching it again.
It’s truly unbelievable how we got a masterclass in turning gold into a huge steaming pile of shit.
Same! I gave up after season 1. That s1 finale just pissed me off.
Most of the adult animated shows (Rick and Morty, inside job, ect.) they’re like a 15 year olds idea of what adults are.
Walking dead. Only season one was good
There’s a reason for that. Frank Darabont was the director who made season one great. After season one’s strongly positive reception, AMC decided that they wanted to double the episodes, hack the budget, and then halfway through season 2 they let Darabont go and replaced him with some piss poor other director who couldn’t hold a candle to Darabont. YMS does a great job explaining it and shitting mightily on AMC.
I made it through season two. Zombie Operas get old real fast for me.
I couldn’t make it past the first episode, i thought it was a corny tv version of dawn of the dead with no balls. I saw bits of it as my wife was watching but it only got worse and cheesier
Star Trek Discovery
Squid Game.
Bring on the down votes, I don’t care, that show was garbage and I was baffled at the HYPE around it.
Full agree here, it’s just shock factor. That’s the only thing it has going for it. But hey, lowest common denominators exist for a reason 😂
Nah I definitely agree 😂
Most recently, Yellowjackets and White Lotus. I watched the first 2 seasons of Yellowjackets because the premise was interesting, and I wanted to see what happened (how the rescue happened) but it turned into a hate watch for me by the end of the second season. It all felt pointless and super depressing with no moments of hope or levity at all. The introduction of random supernatural elements and magic felt like they were drifting into Lost territory, and I couldn’t force myself to watch the third season after that.
White Lotus I tried rewatching because everyone seems to love it but I could never get past the first episode in the first season, everyone was so unlikeable and awful or totally ridiculous that I couldn’t stomach spending more time with them.
I watched the first season of White Lotus and it’s ok at best, I have no wish to watch more of it.
You made the right choice with yellowjackets, season 3 sucks just as much as season 2
Yeah I really liked the first season but sort of lost interest… honestly I felt like the whole modern-day arc was a waste of time. I thought they had plenty to work with with a lord of the flies type story just set in the wilderness.
Breaking Bad because of the color tone. I don’t like desert environments and they leaned into that hard.
