What is the actual worst TV series you've ever tried to seriously engage with?
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
I wish I could remember. I usually try to give shows like 3 episodes and give up then but I know there have been a few where I pushed through a season for some reason and was like why did I do that. I think its more often that a series was good enough to start with and then goes south but I (sometimes we with my wife) am hoping it will turn around. So season 2 of american gods was like that. As we got to the end of the season it felt like alex watching the violence films in clockwork orange. Boys did not get that bad but its an example of many series where Im pretty glad to see it wrapped up and im no longer enthusiastic about seeing it. Don't even remember when I gave up with walking dead but it was around the time of neegan good.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
The Walking Dead. A friend kept telling me how great the show was, but it never really sounded like anything I would find interesting. Sure enough, when I agreed to check it out, it was just so... boring. I couldn't get past the first episode because nothing interesting was happening, despite trying on 3 separate occasions to do so. Finally had to tell my friend that I wouldn't be trying again.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
The wheel of time. I'm a huge fan of the book series, but that show was a travesty. They threw away large swaths of the story so that the show runner could write his own fanfic. I really wanted to like the show, I gave it multiple chances but it just wasn't the wheel of time as written by Robert Jordan. It's a shame because we probably won't ever get a decent adaptation, at least not in my lifetime.
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Obi Wan. Mandalorian was a little disappointing but cool and zeitgeisty, Boba Fett was worse, then the Obi Wan show was just unwatchable. Which is weird because Andor was so much better than it had any right to be.
I was telling a joke about the Obi Wan series. Obi Wan KeNoni
“Noni” is a way of saying “I'm sleepy” in Argentine Spanish. -
The wheel of time. I'm a huge fan of the book series, but that show was a travesty. They threw away large swaths of the story so that the show runner could write his own fanfic. I really wanted to like the show, I gave it multiple chances but it just wasn't the wheel of time as written by Robert Jordan. It's a shame because we probably won't ever get a decent adaptation, at least not in my lifetime.
In another turning, maybe.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
Invasion on AppleTV.
I watched the first season all the way through. It’s like there’s a good idea there somewhere but I think the characters all pissed me off making stupid decisions and, I think, a lot of dumb plot choices.
I don’t really remember much other than being mad because it seemed like it could have been good but it just wasn’t and I kept going with it.
I’m surprised it got more than one season.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
House of Dragon. The first season was great when Miley Alcott played Rheanary, (sp?). When she wasn’t around the show was so dull. Season 2 was terrible. It just went nowhere. I am done with it.
Rings of Power. Holy fuck the number of clumsy shitty scenes and story points in this show is out of control. Amazon has dumped close to one billion on the show and the writing is dogshit. I did s1 and s2e1 and I am just done with that crap.
The Stand (2020). OMFG.. The only way I can describe how bad it is, is that a committee decided to take everything great in the book, throw that out and replace it with something else. Some of the casting was good and but the actors just had no chance. It is almost an achievement in how bd the show is.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
What was that underwater SciFi series that had that Jaws guy as a captain?
Edit: it was Sea Quest
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Invasion on AppleTV.
I watched the first season all the way through. It’s like there’s a good idea there somewhere but I think the characters all pissed me off making stupid decisions and, I think, a lot of dumb plot choices.
I don’t really remember much other than being mad because it seemed like it could have been good but it just wasn’t and I kept going with it.
I’m surprised it got more than one season.
"there's a good idea somewhere"
So many shows don't know how to come to grips with the main thesis, so the producers and writers just do what they know how to do; write soap operas. -
I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
I know this will be unpopular but Three Body Problem was so attrociously reductive about basic aspects of humanity and what motivates people that I couldn't stand it. It is a show entirely about aliens and automatons, there are no humans in it just mystery thriller tropes shambling around in a poor immitation of life.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
Rings of Power and the ATLA live action remake.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
A Discovery of Witches was like a bad fan fiction. Every fan fic trope was present and accounted for.
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The Walking Dead. A friend kept telling me how great the show was, but it never really sounded like anything I would find interesting. Sure enough, when I agreed to check it out, it was just so... boring. I couldn't get past the first episode because nothing interesting was happening, despite trying on 3 separate occasions to do so. Finally had to tell my friend that I wouldn't be trying again.
I found the first episode so tropey and…. predictable isn’t the right word, but you knew who was about to get bit even through it didn’t make sense. Rote? Clumsy? Something something. I also didn’t make it past ep1
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
I’m sure there’s worse, but the most recent one I can remember is Alien: Earth. I was forcing myself to finish it halfway through the season. The plot moves forward by way of people being stupid. I get that someone has to make a mistake (if not by malicious intent) to trigger events, but to have it used every single time something needs to happen is annoying. And it doesn’t help that the characters involved in the series are supposed to be geniuses, scientists, and engineers. Also, the facility of a trillion dollar company securing alien species has worse security than your typical office building.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
I'll probably will be killed for this but it was breaking bad for me. Just so slow and boring. Could see where it was going miles ahead and Walt just kept making dumb decisions which pissed me off. Probably the point of the show or something but I really didn't like it.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
I might get downvoted for this, but Breaking Bad. I made it into the second season, constantly annoyed at how massively unrealistic and terrible these people were to each other. People kept telling me it would get better later on and that I should stick with it, but after that failed to materialise I just gave up.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
The Willow one. Very by the numbers and nostalgia bait on one hand while throwing out a bunch of things from the original on the other.
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The Walking Dead. A friend kept telling me how great the show was, but it never really sounded like anything I would find interesting. Sure enough, when I agreed to check it out, it was just so... boring. I couldn't get past the first episode because nothing interesting was happening, despite trying on 3 separate occasions to do so. Finally had to tell my friend that I wouldn't be trying again.
I held on for a good while, but I was finished when a whole fucking episode was in slow motion.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
The Mayfair Witches.
Interview with the Vampire is fantastic, and AMC paid a lot of money for all of Anne Rice's IP, but Mayfair was doooogggggshiiiiiit.
Still hyped for IwtV season three, though.
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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
Gilmore girls, back when it was airing I had a reason to record the airings and check the quality and it was like if you designed a show specifically about nothing I can possibly care about.
