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.
- 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.
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.
Many moons ago, I dropped Supernatural and Smallville somewhere in the middle of their runs. Those are some looong runs, and that was enough.
I watched more Supernatural than I should have…
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.
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.
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.
The final season was fucking awful. It was really, really, REALLY bad. I was relieved when it was over
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.”
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.
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
Doctor Who. I was pretty checked out in the middle of Capaldi’s run and when Clara left, so did I.
Who needs to go on a looooong hiatus and maybe reboot in ten to fifteen years.
CW Flash
All the cw superhero shows :*[
Sons of Anarchy, once I realized & tired of the formula of “always have three overlapping existential crises, introduce a new one every time one is resolved”.
Especially after the main cast spent time in prison, during which there were apparently zero existential crises for the MC.
Orphan Black when the scifi series became about… getting elected to a suburban school board?
Monster: The Ed Gein Story. Wow. Huge pile of shit there.
I just picked up Netflix again after dropping Disney and noticed this one being pushed on the start page.
Looked interesting but you’re saying it’s not even worth starting?
Not OP but I enjoyed it, all of the Monster seasons are well done.
Lucifer
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I tried to give The Acolyte a chance. It was so unbelievably bad I couldn’t make it past 3 episodes
That’s the way I felt about Ahsoka. Waste of an interesting character. I couldn’t finish it.
You made it one episode longer than me. I have absolutely no words for the dumpster fire of a show. There’s no redeeming points for it. The fact that a 4.3 IMDb score feels too high says a lot.
I would say the combat scenes are somewhat redeemable. Otherwise, trash bin.
But when you see a dude Force Pull three Jedi onto his lightsaber in one go? That kept me interested. :::
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.
