• bitjunkie@lemmy.world
      17·
      2 months ago

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

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        2 months 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.

      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months 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.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • janonymous@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      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.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    Lost.

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

    • oneser@lemmy.zip
      5·
      2 months 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.

  • Splount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago

    Game of Thrones.

    The incest didn’t bother me, but pushing a child out a window hit the wrong note with me and my wife.

    • Ydna@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months 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

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      2 months ago

      I love the Mandalorian, but the people on succession were all just so horrible that I couldn’t stomach watching it anymore. I didn’t wanna be around thoseawful awful people.

    • triptrapper@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      I won’t try to change your mind, but I rewatch all of Succession like every 6 months. As soon as I finish I have to stop myself from starting over right away. God it’s so good.

    • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I found succession easier to watch from the second season onwards. Something about season 1 made me very uncomfortable, I’m not sure if it’s the program that changed after that, or maybe I got used to the style of it.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      2 months ago

      In your defense the mandalorian only has about 1 season worth watching, and most of that is pretty repetitive.

    • ddawg@lemmynsfw.com
      5·
      2 months 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.

    • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 months 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.

  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
    71·
    2 months ago

    Arrested development and it’s always sunny.

    I really don’t care for cringe humor where everyone is an idiot.