What wildly popular show did/do you dislike?

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Anonymous wrote:Friends and Seinfeld although at least Seinfeld had a few funny episodes but I never understood the appeal of Friends.

Jen Aniston’s nipples should get half the royalties.

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Anonymous wrote:99% of American shows are terrible. I can’t watch them.
I have to find European shows to watch.

This was not really an answer to the question.

Well, no, but pp gets off on reminding people how insufferable they are.

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Anonymous wrote:Outlander. So rape-y, damn.

+1
The sex scenes in that show were SO over-the-top and gratuitous. It's a shame because otherwise I might have liked it. I have a friend who is obsessed with that show and can't for the life of her understand why I hated it.

The prison torture/rape scene was extremely hard to watch, even as a hetero woman.

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Anonymous wrote:The Wire.

I have tried SO MANY TIMES. I have even made it to Season 2, but there are so many characters I can't stand and also so many that I don't care about.

Same here. Everyone raves about it but I did not get the appeal. It was weirdly very slow and not interesting.

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GOT, outlander, anything shown on cbs that’s allegedly a comedy, any crime show.

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Anonymous wrote:The Wire.

I have tried SO MANY TIMES. I have even made it to Season 2, but there are so many characters I can't stand and also so many that I don't care about.

Same here. Everyone raves about it but I did not get the appeal. It was weirdly very slow and not interesting.

And 20 years after the show ended, B-more remains a violent hopeless dump. I guess that was the point of the show? Nothing really matters, nothing changes for the better in these de-industrialized hellhole cities. "McNulty" (Dominic West) and mayor Carcetti thought they were going to transform the city but their efforts are futile.

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Game of Thrones.
Schitt's Creek
The Swans, about Truman Capote's gang. Not sure it was wildly popular but it was dreadful.

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I think a lot of people make certain shows part of their personality which actually annoys me more than if I don’t particularly like the show.

This is definitely true for the office, friends, stranger things and some others. It’s also true obviously for Star wars even though those are movies.

The merchandise with the office and friends is probably the most annoying to me- the stupid obsession with the “pivot” episode of friends (that is on t-shirts etc…) Like honestly, it’s really not that funny. And the dunder mifflin shirts too-like get over it. It’s a tv show.

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of people make certain shows part of their personality which actually annoys me more than if I don’t particularly like the show.

This is definitely true for the office, friends, stranger things and some others. It’s also true obviously for Star wars even though those are movies.

The merchandise with the office and friends is probably the most annoying to me- the stupid obsession with the “pivot” episode of friends (that is on t-shirts etc…) Like honestly, it’s really not that funny. And the dunder mifflin shirts too-like get over it. It’s a tv show.

I agree with all of this. I have a certain family member who is constantly quoting "funny lines" from TV shoes/movies that most of us have never seen and he thinks it's just hilarious. The truth is that we all think this is annoying behavior and wish he would stop doing this.

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Didn't check to see if it's already been mentioned but I couldn't get through Severence after 1.5 or maybe it was 2.5 seasons. Reminded me of WestWorld where every other episode the "big reveal" was that an innie was actually an outie (or in West World, a human was actually a robot). And the office lighting, and drab office stuff, was just not something I could make myself look forward to watching after a day at work.

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Anonymous wrote:The Wire.

I have tried SO MANY TIMES. I have even made it to Season 2, but there are so many characters I can't stand and also so many that I don't care about.

Same here. Everyone raves about it but I did not get the appeal. It was weirdly very slow and not interesting.

So I actually started with Season 4 of The Wire because I watched that season as it came out with my then boyfriend, who had seen the previous seasons. I didn't find it hard to follow since Season 4 basically pivoted from the gangs featured in season 1, and didn't have much to do with the dock stuff in season 3 (seasons 3 and 5 were kinda bad IMO). I LOVED season 4. It broke my heart. Now that I have kids I don't think I could watch it, though. Anyways it inspired me to go back and see 1 and 2 and I liked them too, but don't think I'd have gotten into them if I hadn't loved 4 so much. I honestly think people could watch season 4 as a standalone and they might not get some nuances about some of these kids' backstories and their families backstories, and things like that, but it doesn't make a difference.

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^^oh, and the only part of season 5 that I even really liked was when they touched on the lives of the kids from season 4 to show what they were all up to 1-2 years later. It was breathtakingly sad and unfair to see who had been given a second chance, who had been abandoned, who actually became a hardened criminal vs who didn't, etc.

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Modern Family. It's subversive, anti white (straight) male propaganda.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't check to see if it's already been mentioned but I couldn't get through Severence after 1.5 or maybe it was 2.5 seasons. Reminded me of WestWorld where every other episode the "big reveal" was that an innie was actually an outie (or in West World, a human was actually a robot). And the office lighting, and drab office stuff, was just not something I could make myself look forward to watching after a day at work.

I loved Severence (the last 10 minutes of Season 1, wow) but certainly understand how it might not be for everyone. Your complaint is odd, though, because the only time it isn't clear who is in/out is when she is faking being an innie during the "retreat" episode by the lake.

Side note - Westworld qualifies as one of the shows that fell off the hardest from a great Season 1.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't check to see if it's already been mentioned but I couldn't get through Severence after 1.5 or maybe it was 2.5 seasons. Reminded me of WestWorld where every other episode the "big reveal" was that an innie was actually an outie (or in West World, a human was actually a robot). And the office lighting, and drab office stuff, was just not something I could make myself look forward to watching after a day at work.

I loved Severence (the last 10 minutes of Season 1, wow) but certainly understand how it might not be for everyone. Your complaint is odd, though, because the only time it isn't clear who is in/out is when she is faking being an innie during the "retreat" episode by the lake.

Side note - Westworld qualifies as one of the shows that fell off the hardest from a great Season 1.

Omg agree about Westworld. I was so completely into the first season. The second season I could not follow at all, made no sense and didn’t even seem like the same show anymore. I was so bummed.