• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Firefly. I thought I could stomach sci-fi but I find it unwatchable for personal reasons. I wish I could but it’s not for me.

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      7 hours ago

      I felt the same. I also think that we viewers have so much more information than the characters… so even though there’s mystery, we see the mysteries coming like 2 full episodes in advance. Yawn

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      18 hours ago

      The best concise description of that show I’ve heard was “it’s what people who aren’t nerds think nerds would like”.

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        7 hours ago

        To be fair, the scene where Penny gifts Sheldon something like the glass Leonard Nimoy drank out of, for Christmas, had me crying with laughter. That’s about it, though.

        Edit: The napkin he used, and then signed with a note.

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        14 hours ago

        I remember watching the pilot for the show, I was like, “oh this could be refreshing away from the stupidity of the rest of tv!”. I was already onto anime by that point and had entirely stopped watching cable.

        But no. Apparently, when the actual show started airing, it was EXACTLY as you describe, and a massive disappointment. Xbox and bad quips and trying to get girls? Absolutely not.

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    15 hours ago

    Firefly. Amatuerish acting and plots that barely reached “Atomic Rifle” levels of sophistication don’t really sit well with me.

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    17 hours ago

    Buffy.

    It was just a big sloppy plateful of Beverly Hills, 90210 with a small side salad of weird shit.

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    22 hours ago

    Mr.Robot

    So much drugs, depression, late stage capitalism.

    Idk wtf I was watching. Too dark and too confusing. I thought I was watching a WW2 Holocause movie, the vibes was depressing AF.

    Did I mention the drugs?

    So. Much. Drugs.

    There were More Drug Scenes than Plot Scenes that I actually understood.

    (Maybe I just have a smooth brain who knows 🤷‍♂️)

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      10 hours ago

      I just love how the Elliot is like “I’m so lonely and depressed” and has like 8 close friends and gets a girlfriend and immediately gets intimate.

      I would think it a bit more immersive if they made his depression about something else entirely from the start.

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      20 hours ago

      It’s a great series but I agree, there’s a lot of depressing vibes. I binged it recently and ended up being getting paranoid riding trains haha

      I watched it cause it was interesting to explore a scenario where the top 1% was targeted, especially considering what’s happening in the world right now.

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    1 day ago

    Lost.

    god help me it was so fucking boring and riddled with holes. I still don’t understand how it was so popular.

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      1 day ago

      They did 2 things well (from an economic perspective) in my vaguely shit memory:

      • built of the success of castaway a few years earlier and survivor
      • marketed the absolute hell out of it pre-release. I remember hundreds of ads showing in the months leading to to it.

      It paved the way for a lot of long running, high budget tv shows like heroes, supernatural etc…

      I also severely disliked it.

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    1 day ago

    Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones

    Couldn’t get past a season and the fandoms are just obnoxious.

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      I really like (most of) game of thrones, but it’s a tough watch at times for sure. Breaking Bad on the other hand seemed to be nothing but a tough watch. Stopped watching when the mom starts smoking while pregnant. It was just too much, unrelenting misery for me. I can see it’s a really well made show, that deserves the praise, but I just can’t stomach it.

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      The first season of breaking bad is pretty slow, and the show runners really like the pattern of a slow start with an intense finish to each season. It gets better, but if you don’t like a slow burn it’s not worth the effort.

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      15 hours ago

      I don’t think you’re supposed to like Yellowstone. I think you’re supposed to feel obligated towards it