Call me a monster, but Breaking Bad. It is just feel bad and cringe, I hate it lol.
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I didn’t care for Breaking Bad, but I did enjoy “Better Call Saul” up until the last season. 🤷♂️
Some of the early episodes really show their age. It's definitely still worth watching in 2025, but it is an old show at this point.
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Really? Damn, I mean to each their own, but the show started getting really interesting in the episode where Walter brought in the fulminated mercury...
Yeah I couldn't stand it, and came to the comments because I was sure it would already be mentioned.
I stuck through season 1, pretending that the character's arcs were believable and fast forwarding through some of the brutality, then gave up.
A friend convinced me to try again, but the seconds time I gave up after the season with the shots of the pool debris at the start. The payoff on that felt cheap and vaguely a violation of chekovs gun. After that I had to tell the friend who wanted me to watch it that I was done and wouldn't be trying again.
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Big Bang Theory
Didn't work for me. So dull. Felt like it was made twenty years earlier than it was.
BBT is critically acclaimed in the same way the Big Mac is the world's most popular burger.
It's lowkey offensive to autistic people too. Young Sheldon did much better at that
Also mostly sex jokes disguised as smart people humor. It quickly gets old.
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the office. the documentary/handheld camera style cinematography is nauseating to watch. see also: parks & rec and similarly-shot titles.
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I tried to watch Downton Abbey with my wife. I can appreciate the acting, costumes, and sets, but I could really not have cared less about the minutiae of the lives of 1910s British upper class and their servants
For me, The Expanse.
The first couple of episodes drag, but it picks up later. You might try the books instead. Or even the audiobooks — the narrator for those does an excellent job.
I did try the first audio book and found myself unmoved. It wasn't awful, but I wasn't as impressed as most seem to be. I'm glad it was enjoyed, but I was ready for it to be over long before it was.
That was around six years ago, though. I might feel differently if I tried again today.
Thanks for the recommendations!
I can understand this one. I enjoyed the series enough to go back and read the books, but the acting overall was not great
I never could get into The Sopranos, and I don't think I'll ever get around to scratching it off my watchlist.
It took me a very long time before. I finally watched that show a few years ago. I didn’t care for it in the beginning, but towards the middle it got a bit more interesting. I didn’t care for the ending. Overall, it’s not gonna be one of those shows I go back to and binge again and again. But I was glad to at least have seen it once.
Boardwalk Empire. I really tried.
Also, house of the Dragon. I made it mostly through the first season, but then I just couldn’t take it anymore.
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The White Lotus. I got 2-3 episodes in and was just bored. None of the characters were likable so I just didn't care.
Same, why should I care about these people?
The only character that seemed like an actual character in S1 was the manager, and...
I mean, that's the point of the show.... Their problems are ridiculous and petty, the entire point is to show what rich people think problems are
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Breaking bad.
I caught the complete series 1 by accident in a TV marathon when I have never heard of it before.
I was glued to the screen the whole night until 6am. It was so good. Probably my most memorable TV experience after the twist in from Dusk Till dawn.
I never really finished the series, I quit on series 3 or 4.
Im sure I have watched all episodes by now, but I lost interest, because a lot of the story fehlt dragged out too much, when the first series was constant progress.
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Arcane. Despite all the writers effort to create emotional investment it was like someone's D&D backstory for their edgy rogue
Would you mind naming a couple shows you actually do like? As a huge Arcane fan, I'm intrigued to hear what you consider good.
Sure: JoJo's bizarre adventure, Delicious in Dungeon, Star Trek DS9, Bob's Burgers.
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I eventaully got into it, but Mad Men took me more than a few tries
That I watched it all the way through? The Expanse.
I watched the first season and then stopped? Stranger Things.
Have no interest in? Game of Thrones
Watching just the first season of Stranger Things was probably the right way to do it. The first season is a complete story, and all the other seasons just feel like Netflix milking its success for $$$.
Other shows where you can watch the first season and stop for similar reasons: Handmaids Tale, Westworld.
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The office and Big Bang Theory. The office wasn't funny at all, more of a boring, and same with BBT, too nerdish to keep going, Sheldon was somehow funny.
Same. Curated clips get the point across and are enough.
Peaky blinders - I love this era with movies and what not but this show just didn’t hit for me
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Arrested Development. I can’t do Bateman AND Howard’s narration.
Almost all of them.
Mad Men
Banshee. Went into it expecting something like Justified where it showed small town sheriff stuff but no. It was just flashbacks to before he became sheriff and constant sex scenes.
I mean, it had some Justified to it, but you can't beat some good old Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.
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" Breaking Bad - I had to force myself to watch 5 episodes. Just didn't get it.
" The Sopranos - I don't like mob stuff. I didn't like the godfather either.
" The Wire - this one surprised me because I generally like cop shows. Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind.
Mr. Robot. Finished season 1 and decided not my cup of tea. Hated every single character in it. Felt same way about White Lotus too.
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There is just not a single AMC show I can get into. I don't know if it's the style or what but I just none of them work for me.
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sex and the city , Seinfeld, and friends
Spartacus. I had never heard of it until I stopped by a friend's house and they had it on. They told me it was neat and showed me the scene they were watching. Like clockwork, the scene immediately changed to full frontal dick. My friend downplayed saying that happens once or twice, his wife piped up and said nah it happens every episode with a grin on her face. They continued to talk about how many dicks are in the show and i just couldn't be bothered to investigate on my own.
Breaking Bad. It's too painful. Jessie is so dumb I can't watch it. Walter's motivations are also so randomized… it all drives me banana nuts.
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