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    2 months ago

    The Umbrella Academy: in the first couple of episodes like nothing happens and everyone is very sad.

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    My biggest problem with most of the shows listed is they have to outdo themselves and go on for too long.

    Season one: Great premise!

    Season Two: Same premise, but TWICE the danger!

    Season three: I don’t know, robot ninjas or something?

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      I miss when shows could just grow in the first season or two, and then you’d only get raising stakes two or three times a year (season finale/premier and sweeps). Otherwise they’re just stories.

      These days shows have to justify themselves right out of the gate.

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        3 months ago

        The most infamous example of this is Supernatural where the first few seasons were very episodic and exactly what you described. Then, after season 5 it keep escalating until dudes are fighting off the end of the world for the 6th time lmao

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    Game of Thrones. To me it just came across as torture porn. Just a series of awful things happening to people from one scene to the next. The schtick about different kingdoms and families vying for the throne or whatever was just the backdrop and context to rape, abuse and murder, which was the star of the show.

    I love fantasy but that show didn’t do it for me in the slightest. Not interested in checking out any of that guy’s books either.

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      Full agree here, it’s just shock factor. That’s the only thing it has going for it. But hey, lowest common denominators exist for a reason 😂

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    I agree with a lot of the shows listed. I loved TWD but after the Negan stuff, I was so incredibly bored that I gave up, couldn’t get into Parks and Rec. Tried 3 episodes before deciding it wasn’t for me, etc.

    But the one show I haven’t seen listed yet is Supernatural. I was obsessed with that show for the first 5 seasons (which was how many the show creator wanted it to go on for) and then it just became so unbearable and ridiculous that I completely gave up by season 7. This one died, but not really. This one died and got brought back - 3 times. This one swapped bodies. This character is actually this character, but SIKE! it was THIS character all along!

    Give me a break.

    Then it went on for like 8 more seasons and I just cannot fathom that.

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      If you ever want to retry Parks and Rec, I highly suggest starting at second last episode of the second season (S02E23) - which is the episode where Rob Lowe and Adam Scott join and round out the cast.

      If the show still doesn’t click for you then, then it’s definitely not going to - and you can ignore it forever more without any niggling doubts!

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    Friends.

    Seems like everyone likes this show but I dont think I ever watched a full episode.

    My humor is more like Scrubs, Seinfeld, IT Crowd.

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      There are quite a few edited ‘Friends without the laugh track’ videos on YouTube showing how creepy and unfunny some of the characters are. Its a bit of a meme theres so many of them.

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      Friends had Chandler and Joey bromance, which is a precursor to the Scrubs bromance.

      The rest of the show isn’t similar, but that part was spot on.

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    Game of Thrones - I’m not good with seeing sexual violence and it felt like it was happening every five minutes.

    My Dress up Darling - I understand why people would like it, but I don’t understand why it was so huge. But I’m getting old.

    Beastars - my friend and I watched it in one day and it just didn’t do anything for us. I found most of the characters kind of a annoying.

    My Hero Academia - I mean this in the best way possible, but I could see myself loving this if I was a kid.

    Mushoku Tensi - I know people love this one. I watched the entire first season and I found the protagonist so revolting. I didn’t care that he was a cute kid now and gets better and what have you, I thought he was gross.

    Friends - I could never get it. I found it boring and unfunny.

    Stranger Things - I actually really enjoyed the first season, but I got tired of the kids as they got older. It felt like it was shifting into a teen drama and I found myself skipping through it before I let it go.

    YOU - Weird guy stalks a girl. Glad someone enjoys it, but I got tired of it real quick.

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      Friends has to be the most overrated TV show of all time. I feel like an insane person whenever I hear people saying that it’s a funny show.

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        I dont k ow if you watched it when it was new, but today it’s not very funny. In the 90s, it was funny, but comedy has changed a lot since then, and some of the show is not very “woke” if you will excuse the term.

        I think there are still funny and quotable moments but i dont think any of it would resonate with a younger audience. Comedy today is so much better and different to then. And a lot of shows that have come along since friends have used plots and jokes from the show and done them to death so it seems unoriginal and derivative.

        I think this is all true of a lot of old shows. Tv is just a different beast now.

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          I watched it when it was new. It has never been funny.

          Seinfeld existed at the same time just to give some perspective.

          Frasier as well.

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            Yeah, i didn’t really like Seinfeld. I liked Fraiser, but preferred friends. At the time. I think Fraiser aged better though.

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    Severance - So. Goddamn. Slow. Every scene was slow. The lines were delivered slowly. From all the characters. Always. And somehow even the action scenes are slow?? Like when dude is in the hallway loop, that whole scene dragged on for way too long. I couldn’t get past the second episode. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

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      The creeping inertia is part of it. All good if not your thing, but that pacing is very much on purpose

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      That was exactly what I liked about it. My primary complaint about season 2 is that it’s faster paced. But if the pacing’s not your style then season 2 would not be worth the grind.

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    Most of the popular ones. Especially Game of Thrones. As soon as the incestuous couple threw the little boy off the tower, I was outta there. I’m so tired of shows about horrible people doing horrible things.

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      I completely understand and it took me three tries to get through the first few episodes… and then the biggest shock is that you end up partly understanding and feel these horrible people. At times, you may even root for some of them. It’s definitely taxing for most of us but that’s what makes it a great show.

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    GoT… Too much rape as a plot device, and general subjugation of female characters.

    Love… She was supposed to be the cool girl but she was just rude. I lost respect for the characters in episode 2.