What is the actual worst TV series you've ever tried to seriously engage with?
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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.
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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 love zombie media, and Walking Dead season 1 was really good, thrilling even. And then it changed to really thick drama with occasional zombie somewhere and I lost interest. Then my SO was watching it and they were.. herding zombies?
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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 timeI binge watched it starting on Ep3, because Red Letter Media was gushing about it.
You skipped the first 2 episodes?
The Spanish dude was cool in his no-compromise approach, then do a 180 at the end for no reason.
What? Manousos? No he didn't.
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Nobody ever told you the first book was the best. Literally nobody says that.
The friend who introduced me to the series does!
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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.
Andor. I still have yet to finish the first season. It's ok. It insists on itself. While the premise isn't bad, and the story is ok. I just cannot get into it.
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Andor. I still have yet to finish the first season. It's ok. It insists on itself. While the premise isn't bad, and the story is ok. I just cannot get into it.
This is one of the very few times I think "well, you're entitled to your opinion, but you're dead wrong".
In my head the only Star Wars canon consists of IV,V,VI, the bare plot of the prequels, Clone Wars, Andor, and Rogue One. All else is tacky gold decoration.
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Counterpoint: Dolphin side-kick. Great show. I rest my case, your honor.
"Darwin object!"
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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.
95% of all the shows listed came out in the last 5 years. Interesting trend, that.
I'll break the mould with Sons of Anarchy. It's just so hokey. The crappy music, the dorky "fight" choreography, the annoying characters.... Hard pass.
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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.
Add a fucking spoiler warning, I'm only on book 7!
Fucking damn it! Here I was thinking Taim would turn out to be Demandred. Fuck!
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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.
What did you expect from an amazon exclusive TV series? A faithful adaptation true to the original work, or some generic garbage churned out to appeal to the largest audience?
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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.
I used to feel the same way when it came out. Big fan of the books and was immediately put off by how much was changed in the first few episodes. But my wife got curious and we watched it again together a few months ago, finishing the three seasons and loved it all.
Yes things are different, but those things work if you let em. It's less an adaptation of the books and more of a musician of a different genre doing a cover song. You do you, but maybe give it another shot. I'm glad I did.
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I binge watched it starting on Ep3, because Red Letter Media was gushing about it.
You skipped the first 2 episodes?
The Spanish dude was cool in his no-compromise approach, then do a 180 at the end for no reason.
What? Manousos? No he didn't.
::: spoilers Pluribus season 1
Nah, he did. But the writers and characters are aware of that. His eventual willingness to compromise his values for the greater good is very on-topic for the themes of the series.
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