What is the actual worst TV series you've ever tried to seriously engage with?
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The first season was pretty good. Then they fired the creator and made whatever the rest is supposed to be
If that was good, I can't imagine how it ever got as popular as it did.
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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.
Not liking it I understand, but actually worst show ever ? That's some big hyperbole.
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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.
The Acolyte was by far the worst live action SW ever made
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I never said it was the worst show ever. The question asked what was the worst show we ever tried to seriously engage with. For me it was The Walking Dead. I tried to give it a fair chance and it sucked massively. Sorry if my opinion upsets your delicate sensibilities.
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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.
Yeah, I was super amped for this one, but started getting weird vibes around episode 3 or 4. There are a hundred ways that you could have things go wrong bringing hostile alien species to earth, but the show just relied on people constantly treating them with less care than they would a pet iguana.
Slogged through the rest just in case, but it just felt like Jurassic Park with infinitely sloppier writing.
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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.
Probably an unpopular opinion but even after watching the entire 1st season of Welcome to Derry I don't think I'd watch season 2, season 1 didn't really pull me in.
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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.
Firefly.
Just some stinko-pee-yoo acting and writing.
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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.
True blood. I knew some people who were just obsessed with it and I watched a lot of it and just couldn’t stand it.
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What was that underwater SciFi series that had that Jaws guy as a captain?
Edit: it was Sea Quest
Counterpoint: Dolphin side-kick. Great show. I rest my case, your honor.
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I feel compelled to watch every episode of a series to the end. I'm so bad about this that I still try to catch up on Simpsons.
I gave up on Obi and never went back to finish it. That is despite Ewan being an amazing Obi Wan.
The world may never know if they ever finished filming Obi Wan, because we can't find anyone to try watching all the way through...
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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.
Ok, maybe a warm take, but Jordan’s books are not great.
The first 2-3 are great. But then it fucking drags. Sanderson does a decent job wrapping things up, but there is so much fucking fluff that was just unnecessary.I will, however, protest having Padin Fain be a Forsaken. That was a definite misstep imo. Fain is supposed to be a chaotic 3rd party who can use the tools of the Forsaken but is explicitly not aligned with them.
Otherwise, season 2 was a big step up from s1. Haven’t gotten around to s3, since it got canned.
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The Acolyte was by far the worst live action SW ever made
I actually watched The Acolyte and liked it better than Boba Fett and Obi Wan.
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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.
Also a soundtrack I can only describe as "baffling."
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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 Studio
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I never said it was the worst show ever. The question asked what was the worst show we ever tried to seriously engage with. For me it was The Walking Dead. I tried to give it a fair chance and it sucked massively. Sorry if my opinion upsets your delicate sensibilities.
Don't worry, you have not offended me.
I just can't can't believe it's the worst show you have ever watched.
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Ok, maybe a warm take, but Jordan’s books are not great.
The first 2-3 are great. But then it fucking drags. Sanderson does a decent job wrapping things up, but there is so much fucking fluff that was just unnecessary.I will, however, protest having Padin Fain be a Forsaken. That was a definite misstep imo. Fain is supposed to be a chaotic 3rd party who can use the tools of the Forsaken but is explicitly not aligned with them.
Otherwise, season 2 was a big step up from s1. Haven’t gotten around to s3, since it got canned.
Scorching hot take: I thought the first book was a terrible fanfic of the fellowship of the ring and was embarrassingly bad.
Then some friends told me that was the BEST book in the series until Sanderson took over
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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.
lol. If you thought the first season was boring, be glad you stopped. The second season on The Farm was soooo dull. For a show about zombies, there were barely any to speak of until the last episode. And then the show just got ridiculous and repetitive in later seasons.
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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.
It’s sad because The Obi Wan show got retooled repeatedly during production. Pretty sure exec meddling ruined it. “Baby yoda is a huge hit! Let’s add baby Leia to Obi Wan stat!”
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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.
You know the show is gonna be bad when not even the trailers look horrible. I distinctly remember cringing at some of John Bradley’s lines in the first couple of teasers. I think they must have realized that his dialogue was awful because they started cutting his character completely out of the later trailers.
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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.
I think the show works for some people, but I have a pet peeve about plots driven forward by stupid characters making obviously stupid decisions (Jesse Pinkman in this case). It was an immediate turn off for me.
You might check out “Better Call Saul” though. Many of the better written characters from Breaking Bad show up here, and the spin off stands on its own until you get to the last half of the last season. You don’t have to have watched the other show to enjoy or follow it.
