What is the actual worst TV series you've ever tried to seriously engage with?
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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 wasnât 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.
And if there is no explanation for such a weird virus, it is a waste of time -
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 wouldâve 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 wasnât 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. Itâs 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 âBetter Call Saulâ 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 donât 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.
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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.
This was the last Star Wars thing I watched and was the final straw for me. Made a resolution then and there to never watch this shit ever again, no matter how many times people say "it's actually really good though" about the latest Disney Star Wars thing (exactly what they said about the Obi-Wan show).
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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?
Yeah that I get. And actually now that I re-read the OP, your answer is actually closer to the intended question. So the confusion is on me, sorry about that
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This was the last Star Wars thing I watched and was the final straw for me. Made a resolution then and there to never watch this shit ever again, no matter how many times people say "it's actually really good though" about the latest Disney Star Wars thing (exactly what they said about the Obi-Wan show).
Andor is actually really good though. Totally unlike the other Disney Star Wars slop.
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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.
First season was weak. Later seasons gradually improve.
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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.
I loved the books. It didn't matter that the characters were 1 dimensional representations of a concept or political viewpoint, because it was about the ideas amd the setting and the events. Then I struggled thru the Chinese TV series of it because the books were so cool, and the Wang Miao and Da Shi actors were good together. But I think I've had my fill of this story and will never get around to watching the Netflix version.
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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
There are worse shows, but this was one of the first where I should have liked everything about it, but instead I hated the campiness.
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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.
You guys we have to find Sophia
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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.
Oh dear god that show is terrible. The pacing is all over the place and every character is at best annoying.
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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
Yeah. I think I read WoT too late. It is the template of modern YA literature and since I had read and seen other YA products, WoT was lost on me. I did do three of the books and all three were so repetitive.
