For me:
-The Expanse - The beginning was confusing AF and the politics didn’t make sense and seemed boring, so I quit. But then eventually after like a year or two, went to reddit and it was recommended again, so I just read some light spoilers and that helped me got through the first season. And then it has been an intriguing and thrilling journey.
Ah, expanse. Wonderful series once you got past Holden being such a goody two shoes. It blew my tiny little mind when they got to the realistic space gun play. That one part where the Roci spin around for point defense, that scene made a man out of me.
This doesn’t even make sense to me as a question. I don’t know why I would watch hours of a show I don’t like on the off chance it might get better. There is so much entertainment available these days. Why would you torture yourself with something showing direct evidence of poor writing over something that could easily be better just by being ‘okay?’
I’m trying to find shows like the Expanse, which I initially passed over, but then upon the second watch, I understood what was happening. It’s one of my favorite shows. I would’ve been missing out if I didn’t give it anotber try. I’ve read over like hundreds of TV show plots and I’m so picky that if it looks boring, I skip it. I’m trying to see if there was something that I’ve judge too harshly like the famous phrase "don’t judge a book by its cover.
Or another way to phrase it is: “What show’s synopsis or first season seems boring/confusing at first, but is actually a good show overall?”
Arcane.
It didn’t grab me for some reason, but then I wanted to give it a second chance one night when I was bored and ended up getting hooked. Still need to watch season 2 though.
I didn’t watch Better Call Saul back when it was airing because I thought it was a soulless cash garb riding on the popularity of Breaking Bad. Years later I started watching it randomly and now I think I might like it even more than Breaking Bad
The Good Place - It’s a great show. But the character of Eleanor put me off in the beginning. I didn’t care about her at all. She was depicted as garbage of a person and that made it really hard for me to even just sit through the episodes. Until episode 8, which is when she makes her first good decision. I got really invested in it after that point.
The Good Place for me too but not the same reason. I just didn’t find it that entertaining, so quit after 3 episodes. But I saw it recommended so much alongside shows I do love and went back to it for a second chance and ending up loving it.
When I read the premise, I was instantly hooked, on the plot not characters, but eventually characters too. Never even turned it away. I was dealing with an existential crisis at the time and that why I loved it.
BORTLES 🍾🔥
Well, that’s the point of much of the show. Seeing them improve themselves.
Parks and Rec. It copied The Office too much in season 1. Came back after a few years and couldn’t believe how different season 1 and 2 were.
Took me 3 tries to get past the first season. I recommend people just start with season 2 and then go back and watch season 1 if they want to know why I recommended they start with season 2.
I’ll probably get a lot of flak for this, but initially I did not get Community at all. I have low tolerance to cringe though, after I got through that I was all in
I felt the same way, but haven’t continued the show. I also have a low tolerance for cringe.
The cringe is gradually replaced with a more zany/ridiculous humor as the series goes on which vastly improves the comedy without losing the core themes of the show.
That’s good to hear, I might try to get back into it. I noped out of The Office shortly after Scott’s Tots as the humour just seemed to be getting more and more cringe.
Adventure Time for me. The first two, IIRC, seasons are explicitly “anti canon” per the creator and drove me away as a result. At a friend’s insistence, I persisted until season three and it ended up being among my favorite shows, it just kept getting better and better.
The Owl House.
In my defense, the first episode was kind of a let down. I remember ranting about it in my long nuked Twitter account, comparing it with Amphibia, which was my favorite show back then. One day, however, I came across with one of those “cartoons moments” compilation centered in lumity, the main ship of the show, I was hooked. By the end of the first season I was totally invested cuz, beyond the ship, the show was really good.
So I can confirm that Ships, if done right, do sell shows.
Yeah the first half of S1 is definitely a bit rough as it felt like they were still figuring out the characters and what they wanted the show to be. It’s one of my favorite shows though.
On the flip side, I haven’t been able to get myself to finish Amphibia.
Me neither! I have Amphibia in my backlog for god knows how long 😅
Person of Interest. A friend recommended it and I bounced off the first season hard (s1 is kind of a crime-of-the-week thing which is very not my jam). Twice. On the third try (the friend was very persistent) I got to the second season and the character of the show changed radically and became about AI and shit and that was directly up my alley and I loved it.
Loved this show. Don’t look up anything about Jim Caviezel until you finish the show, or it might become hard to relate to his character there. 😆
Yeah, good point.
Oh maybe I’ll try again. I was kinda turned off and stopped before the end of season one.
Yeah, season 1 is pretty much just setup for the real story in later seasons, and that story is pretty interesting.
I quit Yellowstone after 2 episodes but then later got back into it and ended up loving it. It’s quite hard to pinpoint what it is exactly that I so loved about it but probably has something to do with the beautiful scenery, slow pace, good vibes and the realism.
