What is the actual worst TV series you've ever tried to seriously engage with?
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Well I made it through it's abysmal season 2 so I didn't check out, but Helix from SyFy might take the cake for me as far as time wasted (on season 2). I liked season 1 quite a bit but in typical SyFy fashion of 15 years ago or whenever it was they had paid for season 1 and then waited to see how it did before deciding to purchase season 2. By that time a lot of the actors had moved on and I'm guessing a lot of the creative talent behind season 1 as well and season 2 was a shark jumping affair from the get go.
Season one was amazing. You have to wonder what went wrong.
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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.
I will never understand how this show got renewed past season one.
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The Studio
This show is written for people who work in Hollywood/the industry. Lots of navel gazing, cameos, and inside jokes. So of course it’s nominated for a slew of awards.
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Foundation. holy shit. what a trash heap.
the visuals are great though. maybe i'll cut out all closups of actors and use it as animated wallpaper or something.
You didn't even like the Empire Plot? How far did you get?
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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.
Inside Man (2022) was probably the worst thing I've attempted to watch. I bailed in the first episode, it was absolutely dreadful. The decisions being made by the characters were so far from realistic/believable that it made the drama feel completely contrived and tedious.
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Don't worry, you have not offended me.
I just can't can't believe it's the worst show you have ever watched.
Either, as I said you are exagereting, or you haven't watched a lot of things.Again, I feel like you're reading things that I'm not saying. The Walking Dead, although I didn't enjoy it at all, is not the worst show I've seen. I'm saying that it's the worst show I've seen with the intention to try and watch it. I've seen much worse trash like the Kardashians and all those other reality shows. But I hate shows like that and would never attempt to sit down and enjoy them. Does that make things clearer?
Edit: Maybe if I said it's the show that disappointed me the most? That I tried to enjoy but just couldn't?
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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.
Kind of not answering the question but I still feel it applies.
The whole premise of Suits was bullshit and meant while I enjoyed the show I was constantly getting pissed off by the "Mikes Secret" storyline.
Definitely one of the most prestigious law firms in New York, Almost certainly the country and known worldwide is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NEVER going to knowingly hire someone without a law degree and allow them to practice law not even if that man is the smartest legal mind alive.
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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 watched the first season when I was in university. But then they moved it over to cable which we couldn't get and so I never watched any of the rest of it. After I finished university I think I dipped into it again and was just so completely bored by the characters that I just stopped watching again.
The main plot arc on the first season was him carrying around that damn grenade. Which was ultimately used to blow up some, bulletproof glass. Wow.
I can't remember the names of any of the characters but at one point one of the characters is having it off with one of the other characters, but in secret for some reason even though both of their spouses are dead so I don't see the problem, anyway they go into the woods all alone, in a zombie apocalypse, for some privacy, (again why) and get attacked by a zombie. Talk about stupid decisions.
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Firefly.
Just some stinko-pee-yoo acting and writing.
I felt the same. It's a poorly written space western with a lead actor who cannot act.
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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
Nobody ever told you the first book was the best. Literally nobody says that.
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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 watched 8 seasons and read the comic. There was a turning point that where the theme changed from the decay of the old world toward building a new one... and the theme song needed to change to incorporate this. Then I realized the theme song was the best part.
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Foundation. holy shit. what a trash heap.
the visuals are great though. maybe i'll cut out all closups of actors and use it as animated wallpaper or something.
Oh my gosh, yes! As a fan of the books, I was so excited for the series. I was determined not to be put off by the changes to the story the producers made, so it took me a while to realize that the changed story lacked something. Like, being good? I should've just stopped after the terrorist attack that killed nobody, or tens of millions of people maybe, in the first episode just to advance the plot. Great visual effects, no emotional resonance. Why should I care? Nobody on-screen seemed to. I stuck it out until the episode that ended with the one character getting surrounded by the Anacreon landing party, but the show never established why I should care about her. So I didn't, and never bothered with the next episode to resolve the cliff-hanger.
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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.
Game of Thrones really went from having plot so intriguing and culturally iconic that it inspired fan theories across multiple decades, to the show with lesbians and dragons.
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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.
Pluribus.
I binge watched it starting on Ep3, because Red Letter Media was gushing about it.
It is not slow, it is boring. Nothing happen in an Episode, except one tiny event at the end so you can get excited for next episode.. but then nothing happen again.
The main character is unlikable. She was funny in her "bitchy" ways, until she decided to not do anything anymore about the virus for a while.The Spanish dude was cool in his no-compromise approach, then do a 180 at the end for no reason.
So they start with cool characters and undermine them by changing their motto operandi for no reason, except dragging the serie for 1 more episode.
The only way the whole virus premice would make sense, is if it is an alien ploy to invade the earth. But then it will become a totally different show.
I'm only still invested because i want to know the explanation for the virus.
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The show is only good for the Empire plot.
I mean.. rebellion poison-cloning Dawn and getting close to him to get him on their side, and then Day figuring it out, and ruthlessly squashing all of it!
Totally new, and very well crafted, with great character. I suspect Day actor chop is holding the show on his shoulder.
In last season, when they dude-fied him, I was thinking it was over.. and then he make it work somehow.The foundation side is indeed very bad character, and serviceable plot.
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The Studio
I started watching it yesterday, and managed 10 minutes into episode 3 before the cringe overwhelmed me, and I had to rage-quit. That show is not for me.
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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.
Same for me. I think I made it to season 3, but it was so annoying how everybody was just a massive asshole and over the top cruel.
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I was very excited too. My love for Alien universe content carried me through the series.
The actors having to portray child geniuses that were sheltered children with deadly diseases now being in super android adult like bodies led to some weird acting choices I think. I rolled with it though because I thought how the fuck should I know how that kid would’ve acted right there.
Loved the aliens, androids, cyborgs, and retro-future tech. They will bring me back to watch season 2 probably.
For me, it wasn’t even the children in adult bodies that were the problem. Kids are dumb, so their choices and the way they reacted to events could be given a pass. It’s how dumb the supposedly smart adults were that was the problem.
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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.
Evil. I tied, I really tried. But the writing was atrociously bad. After 3 episodes, I had to move on.
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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.
but I have a pet peeve about plots driven forward by stupid characters making obviously stupid decisions (Jesse Pinkman in this case)
Do you remember what decision that was? One of the things I really like about BB is that every character behaves fairly sensibly and realistically, so I'm a bit surprised.
