For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.
I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.
His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.
Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.
The Office (All versions) because the movie “Office Space” exeedingly outshines the humor and plot of any of the TV shows.
As with most “comedy” shows it’s actually a drama disguised with a specific setting and a couple of meme characters to make it look like a comedy.
I’m convinced people only watched that stuff because they were all in on office drama at work/school but didn’t want to admit to that fact.
postal games.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Its not just that the humor is unfunny (and basically just bigotry porn with a side of cringe), its that none of the “friends” in the show are even friends with each other. The whole show is just a bunch of assholes being bigoted assholes and then you are supposed to think that its funny.
This is a style that I first noticed with Archer, and it is very hard to do well. I enjoyed Archer, I enjoyed some of Rick and Morty, but I also recognize that I’d refuse to engage with someone like that in real life. Iasip takes it to the extreme of being genuinely unpleasant.
Kinda surprised I didn’t see breaking bad already listed. I guess I’m one of the few who dislikes it. I don’t like tragedies in general. Life is already a tragedy.
I’m sure it was extremely well executed and totally worth making, but it’s not my flavor of ice cream.
Oh man. I really love the British version of the office and Gervais. It’s so much better than the american one. He’s done some shows too. After Life and Extras are great.
All new Star Wars movies and tv shows
I’m curious if you’re from the UK, OP, because I think this colours your perception of the The Office very much. For the record I loathe both, but The Office UK is a typical British comedy of taking the absolute piss of the characters, who are irredeemable fools one and all. You re not supposed to find them funny, or like them. You’re supposed to laugh at them. That’s the usual expectation, with British comedy.
Americans seem to have great difficulty with that concept, and can’t seem to handle a protagonist that is made fun of.
Again, not defending the show itself. Just saying you need to be aware of this approach when you watch British comedy in general. The common language should not make you forget the ocean of cultural differences in between.
Letterkenny. Absolutely zero laughs out of me and something about it just induces a headache. I wanted to like it, gave the entire first season a watch, but my god it was painful.
Dave Matthews band. Also, any “jam” band in general.
Dont forget what they did on the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago.
That is the stuff of legend.
100% with you on this.
I just don’t get the appeal at all. I knew a couple that were all about String Cheese Incident. Finally listened to their stuff…fucking 15 minute long songs of fairly standard 90’s ironic music zapped by bloat ray. Hard pass.
You gotta be taking some psychedelics and want to dance, I’m not into it either. But I have plenty of friends who are and it makes them happy to have a show that lasts for long sets and they can get their freak on
An Officer And A Gentleman. Absolute sexist garbage.
The Narnia books. Silly, thinly disguised evangelical propaganda.
Star Trek: Enterprise. I just never got into that one.
Star Wars. I really wanted to like it, I’m a huge nerd, but I just am not into it. I watched 4 and 5 and got maybe an hour into 6 and got up and walked away. I was so bored with the whole thing.
Save for most of the original trilogy, Star Wars turned into actual dogshit halfway through Return of the Jedi.
I have friends who are into jam bands and I’m glad they go to live music shows. However, I’m the type of person that likes movies that are a tight 90 minutes long, and one of my favorite songs of all time is less than 2 minutes long. My time is worth money, treat it like it is. I don’t need to listen to a 15 minute guitar solo.
I’m lead tou nderstand that drugs are often involved in developing appreciation for jam bands.
Are you currently on drugs? No disrespect if you are, but it took me awhile to unpack that sentence.
“I’m going to need you to write a concise sentence before I let you go.”–Cop about to perform the Strunk & White sobriety test
Sadly, no, stone cold sober.
VH1
Also known as “rich trashy people being rich and trashy.” Who the actual fuck watches that garbage?
I mean, celebrity news is a thing. Not something I’m into, but there’s been demand for a long time.
They used to play music videos on that channel you know.
Fuck I’m old.
Including Pop Up Video.
Pop Up Video was the best.
Have a few in mind:
Catcher in the Rye. Holden is insufferable and I found it baffling that adults expected me to relate to him as a teen.
Grease aged very poorly and I do not understand the hype (is it because John Travolta is wearing tight pants?)
Family guy. The ship that launched a thousand cringe as fuck “adult animation” shows. Yes, I’m salty as hell about it.
A lot of the hype about Grease is nostalgia, no doubt about that.
But a lot of the rest is that a loooot of the songs are both catchy and very easy to understand. The movie also forms a social dynamic that is easy to understand for kids.
We learned to sing “Summer Nights” in school, and then friends and I would sing the song over and over, adding more and more childish humor that we found hilarious (because…kids). We also instantly got the implied social dynamic (boys just want to get sex, girls want to have mushy romance).
It terrifies me that there are people walking around out there who feel seen by Holden Caulfield.
Anything anime. Lots love it, I hate it.
Not liking anime is so isolating as a nerd because people find out I’m into nerdy stuff and all they want to do is recommend anime to me and talk about anime and I have to explain that I don’t like anime and won’t be watching that show they love (insert show here).
Ya’ll be talking about anime like it’s a genre but it’s a medium
Yeah, but come on. Sure, you could depict anything with it, but in practice, it’s correlated with content.
Chinese ink painting is a medium too, but people talking about it probably are not going to it for cyberpunk stuff.
Not liking “anime” is just saying “I watched a few hours of popular anime, didn’t like it, assumed it’s all like that and now I’ll never be able to correct my opinion.”
Personally, it’s the art form I don’t like. I couldn’t say why, but there’s something about the style of drawing people that I just can’t get past.
I accept that I’m in the minority, and I’m not criticizing it or talking down on it in any way. I understand there’s an incredible amount of love and talent that goes into it, it’s just not for me. Think of it as someone who says they don’t like the Mona Lisa, they aren’t saying it isn’t a famous painting or shouldn’t be well known, they’re just saying they prefer other styles of art.
Even with the wide variability of art styles, something about that anime gene creeps you out? That’s fair, but a little sad that keeps you out of it.
I was speaking mostly from personal experience. I used to think all anime was adolescent violent wish fulfillment and tits, so I didn’t explore too much, and found plenty of incidenthl confirmation bias.
Yeah but some people just can’t stand the medium. Me included.
