I stopped watching TV in like 2002 then the reality TV really took off. Family started watching American idol and I realized I hated this whole thing. It’s just a vehicle to feed you as many adds as they can get away with.
I don’t watch ads with my TV.
The Walking Dead.
The pacing was shambolic.
Find a place to settle down.
There’s some dickhead nearby which makes a peaceful life there a pain in the ass.
Our home gets over run with zombies and we need to bail.
Repeat until the heat death of the universe.
Ya this, the writing became so repetitive.
Stopped after 3rd season. Too much drama and barely any zombies for a zombie show. My friend begged me to come back cause “4th season is soo goood you should check it out”. Wasted my time for 4th season. Never again.
Same, shortly after Negan. I was hate-watching it every week. Once I realized I was only watching weekly so I didn’t have to watch two episodes in a row I quit it.
Exactly my answer. Ex-wife and I were huge fans, bailed sometime before Negan was (presumably) defeated.
Yeah, i dont remmember exactly when I quit watching, but somewhere along the way, negan started bothering me and the trash people creating their own language in less than 3 years and keeping zombie gladiators to fight people, i just couldnt take any more of the shows garbage…
I left after they decided to do like half a year cliff hanger for who Negan would kill. I read the comics so already knew what would happen, but was so annoyed with their decision to make do a months long cliff hanger on such a big moment I dropped the show.
I also stopped watching around that point but apparently Negan & Maggie go to New York City for one of the spin-off tv shows.
One Piece - specifically the Wano arch. It was so long and drawn out. I just kept waiting for something to happen but the whole Oden backstory just drug on and on. Once they got back to the straw hats I completely lost interest. This was after making it through over 900 episodes.
CW Flash
All the cw superhero shows :*[
Lost. It just got weirder without ever really answering any questions
I was watching it as it came out and remember that the show was utter shit, especially due to how it ended. Then, last year I thought to rewatch with my wife. Fuck! It made sense in every aspect. Also, “Chronologically Lost” helps with understanding things even better.
In reality, they did answer all the questions. And writing was top notch. In interviews they say that they were coming up with plot on the fly but I will never believe that. I’ll die on the hill defending a theory that they did wrote most of the show from start to finish before they began filming.
I mainly enjoyed it but yeah by the last season or so it was not so easy to keep going. I did complete it though. Definately not worth it.
Mad men
Severance. It just became noise. One weird thing after another with no answers.
I thought it was the world most boringest acid trip. Just beige nonsense.
Season 2 literally has answers for most questions from season 1.
- Once Upon a Time
- Stranger Things
Both of these started off pretty decently for me, got me into the series for some reason or another. Then the writing and/or direction actually made the “chore” come out in trying to continue to watch these shows.
Man, my wife and I were super into the first season of Stranger Things. The nostalgia factor and old school horror movie feel really came together. But after watching Season 2 it was clear they were just going to keep amping up the action scenes at the expense of the plot and atmosphere. So disappointing.
I caught a glimpse of a recent episode somewhere and it was just dozens monsters running around getting shot at by an army of guns and Eleven doing some overpowered Jean Grey shit. Yawn…
Yeah, sometimes a smaller scope makes stories better. Seen lot of shows where when the stakes are raised and it becomes some galactic level boss type threat it starts feel less tense with how cartoony things start coming off if previously the show felt more grounded with some smaller elements of the supernatural.
The writers of Once Upon a Time had no clue what they were doing after a few seasons. Just floating along without direction.
I got these on my list of watched some of it.
The Walking Dead. I started needing recovery periods after episodes of that show, and then I also realized “I’m not really enjoying these that much.”
Game of Thrones. I enjoyed it at first, then realized about halfway through I had really lost interest and was just watching through intertia. Eventually I stopped and still haven’t seen the last few seasons. From context, it seems like I wasn’t missing much.
This is the correct way to watch GoT.
That seems to be the prevailing opinion. I can’t complain. As far as I definitively know, the Parks & Rec version of the series finale is completely correct. Sounds like it really went off the rails there toward the end.
When they deviated from the books the whole thing went to shit. They lost any good banter and actually deep plots.
Loved every second of it until somewhere near the end of season 6. Easy enough to finish and start 7, but that’s where it really gets to be a slog.
Such a weird experience. Glued to the screen year after year, then suddenly just not caring anymore. Walking Dead was much like that, but my interest faded much slower.
Many moons ago, I dropped Supernatural and Smallville somewhere in the middle of their runs. Those are some looong runs, and that was enough.
At the 10th season of Supernatural, I just thought “Why am I watching this?” Not that the show is bad. But it certainly overstayed its welcome and was not the same at s10 that it was at s2.
I watched more Supernatural than I should have…
I completed them both with little complaints. Was closer to stopping with smallville but made it to the nerdgasm.
Tru Blood became egregiously bad.
Sookah, Sookah, I love you.
Sowwy Mr vampire, I have to emotionally run into danger fow no purpose now! Look at me not listening to anyone! Oh no my fairy powers that I wasted are withering away, I hate them!
Fuck you could play that show as torture.
The final season was fucking awful. It was really, really, REALLY bad. I was relieved when it was over
Such a disappointment. There was some decent material to pull from the books, but the show just chose to devolve the longer it went on. That first season is still great though.
I didn’t get too far into Breaking Bad. Loved it right out the gate, suddenly realized I just didn’t care what happens with those people.
I started Breaking Bad and stopped after season 2.
Then I watched Better Call Saul many years later and loved it. Went back to watch Breaking Bad and absolutely loved it. Its one of my all time favourites now. It’s one of the few shows that end really well and the character arcs really mature. Jesse ends up giving Walter real perspective on how he really is the bad guy. It really resonated with me anyway.
Mr.Robot - The plot sounds great on the Wikipedia summary and I like it conceptually but it drags so hard in S2 and S3 it’s unreal.
Same goes for Better Call Saul with it dragging on and on.
Man in The High Castle falls off a cliff in Season 3, I couldn’t follow anything and everything has a weird brown(?) filter on it and i gave up when there was a scene with the nazi son guy in like a hotel or something and it was literally impossible to see what was going on. I didn’t think that’s what was meant by the show being dark ba-dum-tss
Every Nu-Trek (Discovery onwards) is not even entertaining enough to be so-bad-its-funny most of the time.
Even Strange New Worlds?
Discovery was sooo boring, Picard was… rocky. I’m behind a season on SNW, but I think it’s fun!
Yeah. The writing is just as shit, it’s just served by being more episodic. I don’t care about Pike or Kirk or Spock or Picard.
I just want good sci-fi with well written and clever stories with attention to detail, produced and made well by people who care.
That’s why I liked Star Trek, it’s the depth and the fact you can engage with it actively by thinking about the stories and the characters and the premise and the message, not because it was specifically star trek or because they say certain catchphrases or because it has a ship called enterprise in it or whatever else.
I enjoyed TOS when it was clever, and not so much when it wasn’t, much the same as I enjoyed many episodes of the original Twilight Zone or some episodes of the X-Files.
Nu-Trek is dumb on every level, not just the obvious utterly nonsensical stories and the plot or the confused tone and messaging, it is dumb on every level - from the graphic design of all the ship controls on each and every panel to the ship designs themselves all the way up to the internal lore and logic of the world it’s portraying.
Stargate SG-1 (haven’t finished it yet so no spoilers), Firefly, BSG 2005, The Expanse and For All Mankind are all a lot more like Star Trek than anything with the label on it these days, heck two of those involve lots of TNG/DS9 era people behind them from Ron D. Moore to Joe Menosky to the wonderful Michael & Denise Okuda.
Bad Robot, JJ, and Alex Kurtzman and CBS/Paramount/whatever-the-fuck do not give a flying fuck, they are peak Hollywood nepo babies and if I were a conspiratorial type i’d honestly say them running Star Trek into the ground was done on purpose to crush the spirit of the people so they don’t get too uppity when our incoming corpo dystopia is fully formed.
But I will always remember.
Ironically I felt discovery was better after it went to a timeline where it fit in more. Still dropped it after second season I think. Maybe it was third.
Hard disagree on better call Saul. It’s one of my all-time favorites. Such a good character study into corruption, deceit and redemption.
Watching Mr. Robot right now. Oh shit. Just began S2 and you say S3 gonna be also boring? Also, I still cant accept that Elliots father is an imagination but his friends are not. Elliots whole plot is not to be trusted after numerous “HAHAHA THAT WAS A DREAM/IMAGINATION, AND YOU BELIEVED! FU VIEWER!!1!!111!” moments.
At this point I am just watching cause of inertia + I can just watch videos while working.
I agree with the OP you’re responding to, but I still love the show. The middle seasons felt a little out of place and slow moving while I was watching the show, I almost didn’t make it to season 3. But they actually wrap it all up really well into a great ending IMO, and then the middle seasons kind of make sense.
I loved the show and will probably watch it again someday to pick up on things I didn’t notice the first time!
Can you explain me something?
I see the show s 8.5 on imdb, and 90something on rottentomatoes. I am at S2E10 right now and I am really fucking tired of the “That was all imagination” shtick. Is this somehow enjoyable? Will it stop in future?
Like the first half of S2 was “Hey, I am trying to get rid of my father in my head, got myself a friend, doing stuff on schedule, being harrassed by couple of people here and there” Then it switches to “Oh, these people are not good actually”, then it switches “Remember these people? - They are actually real people/workers of the jail I been all that time in.” Like, okay, I get it. Elliot is mentally unstable. But why does it have to be “Haha, we got you again. This is not real!” all the time?
The way I see it, is that Elliot is the narrator of this story, so that storyline comes with everything pretty much as he sees it when he sees it, which is pretty jarring sometimes considering that he’s fuckin crazy. It does make for a tough watch in season 2, being fully honest. I was wondering why they are doing all this crazy shit all the time, not progressing the story at all and was definitely like wtf am I watching. It felt slow and tedious, almost like I was watching a totally different show all of a sudden.
But I kept on with season 3 because my curiosity had to know what happened, and it started picking up again. Then I realized it makes a lot of sense to tell the story in this way and take the time to do it like that so you can kind of fully be in the journey with Elliot. I appreciated season 2 a little more in hindsight after I saw it that way.
Man in The High Castle
Yeah, I dropped mid Season 2, I think. It was a really interesting premise that felt like it was getting stretched, carried by just a few characters.
Yeah.
If you’re a fan of strategy games and like the premise and alt. history in general, definitely check out the Hearts of Iron IV mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe. It’s a similar premise sans the films and…
spoiler for MITHC
Interdimensional travel
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(God when will Lemmy Devs make inline spoilers possible this is ridiculous.)
…done in a super detailed fashion, even if not a gamer, I’d read the TVtropes page on it just because of how wild the mod is.
Ohhh. I’ve been into Stellaris, but never touched HOI IV yet. I like the more ‘cold war’ premise of this.
Definitelty going into my queue, thanks.
finished mr. robot but not breaking bad and did not even start better call saul. not that they are bad but just not availalable and not motivated enough to buy really anything anymore.
Just pirate it?
nah. most stuff is not worth me even getting into it. I mean sure breaking bad but I just have not been watching media anyone wants to keep gated.
The Righteous Gemstones.
I started watching expecting to see Christian evangelicals portrayed as the ghouls they are. Instead, it was just a generic sitcom about a relatively wealthy dysfunctional family. They could have been in oil or real estate or finance or TV stars and the show, at least the first season and a half that I watched, would not have been any different.
Lil Dicky is another one. I liked his comedy rap and was excited to see that sort of character fleshed out in a TV show, but in practice it seemed like they just took a generic pre-written sitcom about a hapless dude trying to balance his relationships and slapped a Lil Dicky sticker on it.
Its worth finishing The Righteous Gemstone if only to watch Walton Goggins kill it as Baby Billy.
Teen-jus!
Pure comedy gold
I’d agree with the other person that said to watch Gemstones through the second season just for Goggins as Baby Billy. I enjoyed Dave through the end. There were some weird as hell episodes with some interesting guest stars. Gata has a couple episodes where he shines the brightest
