Me personally? I did not care for Game of Thrones.
Friends: a celebration of hedonism and shallowness.
Seinfeld: basically the same.
Seth MacFarlane feels so 1-note. Just can’t get into Family guy stuff, or any of the other shows that seem to be the same thing, with a different cast of characters.
South Park lost me during the “Stunning and Brave” cut your dick off haha funny stuff. Further reflection made me feel not so great about laughing at, or at least not thinking about, all of the other stuff that in retrospect looked like punching down. Either it’s all OK to make fun of, or none of it is. I’d imagine some other groups of people felt similarly as I did when they were “made fun of”. There are still some jokes that I find hilarious, and some parody they did that respected those that it made fun of. It’s just easier to not watch.
Jaws. It’s a stupid concept, stupid characters, stupid execution.
I don’t enjoy anything by the Coen Brothers. Just… doesn’t click with me. I’m sure it’s great art but it’s lost on me.
- The Office - wanted to see why it was referenced so much online. Did not find it funny or entertaining at all. Other shows usually had at least some redeeming qualities even if it wasn’t my thing, but I straight up hated this one.
- Everything Everywhere All At Once - It lost me because it tried too hard to be quirky and different, though I liked the choice of protagonist.
Star Trek Picard. Gave up on it after 4 episodes. I had intended to go back, but I caught a serious case of the MEH.
“The Boys” irks me on a FUNDAMENTAL level. A test tube baby is granted superpowers and turns into an asshole that abuses them is SO ORIGINAL that I’m sure Alan Moore wants to shake your hand. Also, the casual mass murder and body horror gore that just gets shrugged off by the general public completely breaks any nascent immersion I might have had. (see also “Squid Games,” and “The Hunger Games.”)
As a rule, I find ANY media that deals with the cannibalistic undead to be also DOA in my interest. A “zombie apocalypse” would never achieve that kind of scale. Even Covid was a flash in the pan compared to some of histories’ big viral killers, and the vast majority of humanity pulled through that. Zombies rot. Rotten muscle no longer functions, and bones cannot move them selves without them so the “zombies” would exist in a state of constant weakening until there was nothing left. Also, Vultures would be EVERYWHERE. (I do like how it was framed in the “last of us” btw, but I never played the game, and so I have no interest in the show.)
While we are on the topic, I also could NOT get into Fallout (the games). I like Oblivion, but Fallout just does not have the same sauce, and it’s early game is absolute trash beyond the tutorial level. Oblivion at least gives you a direction to travel and some general clues about what you might want to do next. Fallout is just an excuse to wander around some ruins that look like suburbia, and when you are not doing that, it’s a simulator showing you exactly how fucked you are until the game actually bothers to drop a decent weapon at you. Except it always seems to do so when the weapon has already been horribly outclassed.
There’s a bunch of movies from the 90’s that I’ve never watched and as they were a product of their Zeitgeist, I probably never will due to the emotional impact of the film being lost on me or the humor missing beats because it assumes things the audience is aware of that may or may not be wildly prophetic or equally so incredibly incorrect that a powerful scene or somber scene is rendered into comedy, when that’s not the tone attempting to be converged. Most of Quentin Tarantino’s early work is Particularly egregious in this regard, and so I probably will never watch any of it.
Another type of movie I try to avoid is/are films like “Titanic.” James Cameron hasn’t made a decent movie IMHO since Terminator 2. All of his current films are 2 hours of key jingling to basic romance novel reading suburbanites who just like pretty explosions.
To be clear, all the fallout games or only number 4?
Interesting perspective if you have this take from fallout 1.
Fallout one and two are the real deal, three and four are in the same vein but given 3d and pulled back to more standard gaming fare, and four is a walking simulator through an area that resembles a fallout game.
Marvel / superhero movies. I just have no interest in it as a genre.
I was a teen during the peak avengers era and loved them then. Nowadays there’s maybe 1 superhero movie every 2-3 years that I actually watch and enjoy. It’s amazing how quickly the genre has gone the way of the western.
The Foundation. I tried starting it 3 different times. Just couldn’t get into it.
It was just an awful adaptation of the books. I couldn’t get past the second episode. The books don’t have a central character around which everything revolves around because it’s supposed to take place over a thousand years. I don’t even want to know how they butchered the Mule.
I mean, it’s not like there was a lot there. The first season of the TV show was like 4 pages in the book, and the characters are pretty bland in the book.
Rick and Morty
I watched the first couple seasons and I laughed but it’s just stupid and I couldn’t smoke enough weed to enjoy it
Honestly, most sitcoms. They’re just … not funny.
Um but they tell us when to laugh… what more do you want?
My wife has a habit of running sitcoms in the background all day long. An individual episode of just about any sitcom isnt going to be great. There are some good ones, but they usually rely on character development that a first time better just wouldn’t get.
Twin Peaks
Ahh, Twin Peaks. The show I’ve never watched but have intended to watch for the last like 20 years.
It’s David Lynch, so like you have to be there for his style of show. My wife watches it over and over. It’s complex and supernatural with lots of silly. If you’re interested in soap opera style turned inside out and Eraserhead on top. It’s a fun experience. Good luck trying to understand it, it’s purposely a mind twisting experience
*35. The show came out in 1990.
If I say Big Bang Theory am I just preaching to the choir?
I liked it the way people enjoy fast food as a guilty pleasure. It’s best to enjoy it without expecting anything substantial.
I really don’t like big bang theory. Weirdly though I find young Sheldon somewhat compelling.
I abhor BBT. Community was kind of its rival and I absolutely loved it. I saw a quote about the two they said “Big Bang Theory is a dumb show about smart people and Community is a smart show about dumb people.”
You are, but I still sing with it
My hot take is that season one was actually good. In season one it seemed more like a show for nerdy people, after season one it was for a general audience
It is my understanding that it gets a lot of hate in here, so yes. I’m not here to claim that it’s a good show, but I watched the entire series. It was, at least, entertaining. But I understand a lot of the hate; It felt like “commission-written jokes for focus groups”, similar to Friends (which I also have watched every episode of… yeah, when you’re stuck on a ship you tend to binge watch things)
The Big Bang Theory is Friends. The primary difference being that the characters in TBBT aren’t a bunch of generic yuppies. (“How I Met Your Mother” stole that trope)
I can’t stand 5 minutes of BBT but Friends is one of those shows that could run 24/7 and I’d probably be ok with it.
Lord of the Rings. The pacing is absolutely untenable. And it’s not the wide shots; it’s the constant close up reaction shots. Just endless seconds wasted on people staring at each other.
The Dark Knight is overrated. The ending makes no sense. The people would lose hope if they knew Harvey Dent went crazy, but they’re still perfectly hopeful believing he was murdered by Batman? Come on.
Also, Batman voice is stupid. It’s a silly creative choice, and I just can’t take it seriously.
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Dr. Who
I tried three different doctors. It’s clearly just not for me.
Dr. Who is long spans of the worst television ever made punctuated by some of the best moments ever in television. Some of those moments last longer than others.
I fucking love the shit out of Doctor Who and I am sorry you couldn’t find the magic.
From the old series or the mid 2000s reboot?
There’s also the Disney series which got canned pretty quickly.
Yes.
If you want to give it the best try jump right to the first David Tennant season
Walking Dead. I really tried but I just don’t like it.
I read the comics before the show came out and I tried to watch it but it ruined my taste for both
