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List of Best Rated TV Series as voted by the Fediverse

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I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.

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[–] yessikg@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

Supernatural, I watched 8-ish seasons. Younger me had bad standards

I can’t figure out if Future Man is the worst show I’ve ever seen…or kind of charming.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

95% of all the shows listed came out in the last 5 years. Interesting trend, that.

I'll break the mould with Sons of Anarchy. It's just so hokey. The crappy music, the dorky "fight" choreography, the annoying characters.... Hard pass.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

All my group wtched every episode, pure vibe soapy shit.

Every season was the same, new bad guy oh he is ruthless but wait all my guys arrived an hour ago in a van so actually fuck you. Dont take my vest or stupid slow bike that I can only transport two handguns at a time on.

Peaky Blinders is similar.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Under The Dome. Terrific Stephen King epic, with a huge cast of characters, including one of his best villains, and I was really looking forward to the series.

It opened okay, and they did a good job of showing the Dome coming down, but a few episodes in they introduced some weird supernatural nonsense that didn't exist in the original, and I was out.

It really pissed me off. It was a great story, all they had to do was tell it, but they had to get "creative" and fuck it up.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Supernatural and Smallville were… too long. I can’t even remember where I dropped them, but it was way too far in already.


I do have a hotter take:

NATLA (Netflix Avatar, the last Airbender) is fine. It’s not bad! It’s like an AU with scenes we never got to see.

I see some people rage that they suffered through the whole season, and don’t get the fuss.

[–] adaveinthelife@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Firefly

There are worse shows, but this was one of the first where I should have liked everything about it, but instead I hated the campiness.

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I watched the full season and the movie, but I walked away not feeling much. People claim it’s one of the best shows of all time and deserving of a comeback, but I just can’t see it.

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[–] locahosr443@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

The witcher.

Wtf

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Andor. I still have yet to finish the first season. It's ok. It insists on itself. While the premise isn't bad, and the story is ok. I just cannot get into it. 

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

This is one of the very few times I think "well, you're entitled to your opinion, but you're dead wrong".

In my head the only Star Wars canon consists of IV,V,VI, the bare plot of the prequels, Clone Wars, Andor, and Rogue One. All else is tacky gold decoration.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Honestly, I can understand that opinion. The first half wasn't great; all the critical acclaim was about the 2nd half of the season.

If you didn't get to the part with the prison, maybe go back and try to stick it out. That's where it really picks up

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[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

The last ship. I loved it in the beginning. It started out as high quality drama/mystery. It had some issues but was overall really good. Or at least the concept was good enough to overlook issues. But then the issues backed up like a toilet. It got to the point where you're groaning multiple times an episode and the sparkle of the concept dies. I can't remember how far I got into the series, but it was somewhere early in season three. And I don't remember TOO much from it as I feel like I've blocked out most of it.

They even brought in Tania Raymonde who I absolutely love, and I just couldn't. I hated how lazy and dumb the writing turned and how quickly it happened. It should have been more of an exploratory show than action/drama. Like, it should have been about trying to find peoples and encounter new groups to vaccinate, and less about having all these big bads. Yeah some small time bad guys should be there time to time, but it should have been more like the first Star Trek series and less like the walking dead. "God damnit, that guy again?"

And it was so inconsistent. Just about everyone is dead! Society is over! Wait, society is still there in pockets. Nah, some places were basically unscathed. It basically became an action/mystery soap opera. Create as much drama as humanly possible, and make the viewer feel like they're constant victims that somehow overcome everything because they're badasses, then immediately become victims again.

It was absolute trash, and it could have been the most epic adventure show ever. If I had the reigns, I'd have made it stay hard to find civilization. There would be groups and areas that are better at surviving, and have smart solutions to things. But it would be rare. It'd use that same setting, but the feel would be more like Star Trek/fallout-the comedy. The end of the final episode would have the ship struggling with a skeleton crew finally succumbing to a really big storm and sinking. Then it would switch to a view of the earth spinning with a timelapse. The night side would be dark for a long time, 4-8 years or so. Then you see lights again somewhere. And it stays maybe a small area for a while but it picks back up exponentially as they share knowledge/vaccine, and you see society start to reestablish itself, making the ships mission having ultimately successful.

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