Unpopular Opinions about TV

[Ruin]

I think the reason why The Big Bang Theory ran as long as it did despite its detractors from the nerds is because the show called out nerds on their consoomer and coomer habits, which normies find hilarious. I don't actually consider it to be a bad show although there are better 90s sitcoms than it. People blame it for normies getting into nerd culture, but I'm not sure it was the cause, but a symptom of the popularization of comic book and fantasy media.

The big bang theory was barely even a nerd show. 90% of it was Friends style relationship drama with a "dude superheroes!" Joke thrown in once or twice an episode.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

The big bang theory was barely even a nerd show. 90% of it was Friends style relationship drama with a "dude superheroes!" Joke thrown in once or twice an episode.

As I said, it's a show that calls out the coomer and consoomer habits of nerdom. The show makes it pretty clear the nerds are obsessed with their otaku lifestyle and how it negatively affects their relationships. As we see in this one random clip, Sheldon equates sex with a Netflix password, which is both a(n anti-)*coomer and a consoomer joke, Penny secretly moving Leonard's things out of the apartment is a dig on Leonard's consoomer lifestyle and on her for doing the most annoying thing a wife can do, and I don't have to explain why the Klingon language is a joke. I will give a honorable mention to the Kuvac'h joke for being set up ahead of time.

So, yes, it is like Friends in that this cast is inexplicably dysfunctional and often talks past each other, but in this case, it's because nerd culture is a cause of their dysfunctional personalities.

*Sheldon's character is typically anti-coomer, but he stands in contrast to the rest of his friends who are absolutely obsessed with cooming.

 

[Wild Wild Wisteria]

-Orange is the New Black is utter dogshit. For some reason I felt like checking it out after the hype had died out a bit, and I was not pleased. From a quick google search I knew it suffered a major quality drop from S3 onwards, so I suffered through 2 seasons and watched the 3rd sped up just to observe the trainwreck. Horny multiracial lesbians and incessant virtue-signalling aside, I got really invested in some characters (mainly Red, Taystee and a handful few more) and wanted to see more of them, plus Orange is only ever "good" during its biggest and most plot-impactful moments (such as a character dying or a major reveal). Orange's biggest problem is how much it fucking meanders between those "good" scenes turning into the most obnoxious highschool drama where characters make the dumbest decisions just so it stretches itself into 59mins X 13 episodes. What merits it has are completely and utterly overshadowed by its abysmal writing.

Perhaps the most hilarious fuck up Orange writers unwittingly made was making the black characters seem like the most ghetto thugs during S2 when the intention was to empower them: they end up bullying other inmates, stealing, smugly cutting in line, threatening others to sell drugs and doing other thuggist nigger level shit - all because they felt they were owed special treatment due to slavery happening over 100 years ago. And I liked the black characters before this bullshit because they were lighthearted and funny (namely Taystee and Black Cindy).

The rest I read plot synopsis for until I reached a certain character's death and the prison riots that ensued. I thought, shit, at least I gotta see the drama for myself - and oh I wish I didn't. tldr; even when faced with a grim event, the show manages to fuck up its tone tremendously by having said dead character's friends cracking jokes the very next episode. It was a massively incompetent piece of shit that I can't believe gets this much praise just because of "muh inclusivity".
I hope Jenji Kohan gets AIDS for writing this sloppy soap-boxy trashfire.

-Dunno how much of an unpopular opinion this is, but I thought Squid Game was subpar. There have been an oversaturation in survival game based shows/movies/anime/etc that the appeal has been long lost to me. I didn't like how the main character always ALWAYS manages to win the games juuuuust as the timer is about to run out every. single. fucking. time. Those VIPs commentating over the games were grating and scream shounen anime trope where someone HAS to explain to the audience what's going on. I didn't feel using Fly Me To The Moon twice fit either scenes and I didn't like the ending. It's nothing new and honestly the people going bananas over it are probably zoomers who are seeing this concept for the very first time. To its credit tho, the cinematography was fantastic. (the memes are cool too)

-Bojack Horseman was awful. Came across like a huge pity party for a character that chooses to be miserable at every single turn. The whole time I was watching that show I kept thinking "but he brought it on himself!" whenever the sad music kicked in to let me know I was supposed to feel bad for Bojack making shitty decisions. It feels like the ultimate "written by whiny millennials" show ever.

-As someone who didn't grow up with MST3K and is now in their mid 20s, I couldn't get into it. I tried watching some episodes, but it felt like lying to myself by pretending to like something I'm not that into. Sorry MST3K fans.

-Fargo was pretentious and ham-fisted in its messaging. I remember liking it a lot when it first came out, but a recent rewatch of S1 proved otherwise. It was trying too hard to be the next Breaking Bad and I was having none of it. I do like the opening theme a lot though. No idea how good/bad the other seasons are and I don't care to find out.

-Ghost Adventures is a funny guilty-pleasure that's made more fun to watch while playing GA Bingo.

 

[BullDogsLipBrandClamjuice]

The best season of the office are after Andy becomes boss. It has a very fall of Rome vibe to it. It has all the Caos of Berlin April 1945. I couldnt give you examples (been a while since I watched it).

The new Scooby Doo movies (when they meet batman/ the 3 stooges) are the worst Scooby related media to date. Surpasses a pup named scooby doo by bounds. Thoguh I do like how you can see the brush strokes in the backgrounds.

 

[Polexia Aphrodisia]

The rest I read plot synopsis for until I reached a certain character's death and the prison riots that ensued. I thought, shit, at least I gotta see the drama for myself - and oh I wish I didn't. tldr; even when faced with a grim event, the show manages to fuck up its tone tremendously by having said dead character's friends cracking jokes the very next episode. It was a massively incompetent piece of shit that I can't believe gets this much praise just because of "muh inclusivity".

The show completely tanks after that character dies. It becomes "ripped from the headlines" bullshit garbage that would put even Special Victims Unit to shame. It wasn't anything massively special to begin with either.

 

[Stuck Pooh]

I rarely watch any show past the first season anymore.
Even though I might have thoroughly enjoyed said season I always loose interest in continuing watching the show.
It feels like in later season all story building, established themes and character development gets derailed in order to prolong the runtime of the show, and it starts being fragmented and disjointed instead of telling a whole and rounded story.
Last thing I watched past the first season that I can remember was Stranger Things. Good first season, built like a mini series, told the story it wanted to tell, they put a lot of though into it and did it well - and then the later seasons came along and started pulling plot points out of hot air to force out more episodes. It stopped feeling like what the original season set out to be.

I realize that this is not necessarily the fault of the creators but that of how studios/streaming services operate, I just fucking hate it.

 

[Kulee Baba]

I think the reason why The Big Bang Theory ran as long as it did despite its detractors from the nerds is because the show called out nerds on their consoomer and coomer habits, which normies find hilarious. I don't actually consider it to be a bad show although there are better 90s sitcoms than it. People blame it for normies getting into nerd culture, but I'm not sure it was the cause, but a symptom of the popularization of comic book and fantasy media.

I used to think Sheldon Cooper was an absurd completely unrealistic parody of a person in the autism spectrum.

Then I found Kiwifarms.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Issa Rae’s Insecure is basically the pseudo “uWu I’m so quirky, I’m not like those other girls” TV show, but for black women who try too hard to tell you how insecure they are.

 

[thegooddoctor]

I find the US office painfully dry and boring, I’m sorry maybe it’s just the delivery, or the mockmumentary format I find a little pretentious and overdone now but it just didn’t grab me. Also Steve Carell Is just annoying actor In general, I didn’t like Michael Scott and thought he was just awkward and Unlikable as a boss, I understand that’s the writings intent but having him as a lead really just grated on me and made me stop watching by season 3. It’s nowhere near the UK Office Quality at all.

 

[Ruin]

I find the US office painfully dry and boring, I’m sorry maybe it’s just the delivery, or the mockmumentary format I find a little pretentious and overdone now but it just didn’t grab me. Also Steve Carell Is just annoying actor In general, I didn’t like Michael Scott and thought he was just awkward and Unlikable as a boss, I understand that’s the writings intent but having him as a lead really just grated on me and made me stop watching by season 3. It’s nowhere near the UK Office Quality at all.

I don't like The Office either. Every single character is an insecure obnoxious lolsorandum women/manchild. I unironically prefer The Big Bang Theory because at least with that show there's a chance bazinga man will say something so retarded it makes me laugh. That never happens with the Office.

 

[Akumaten]

Disney will never make a show like Gargoyles ever again.

 

[Dysnomia]

I was stuck in the ER back in August for an eternity and was forced to watch The Big Bang Theory. It was so awful. Everyone is an autist playing fake nerd for TV. It was an episode where Johnny Galecki had sad feels because no one was interested in his laser. Then there was some really excruciating plot about building permits. That might have been a different episode. They bled together into an hour of torture as I waited for my cab that was four hours late.

 

[Kulee Baba]

I was stuck in the ER back in August for an eternity and was forced to watch The Big Bang Theory. It was so awful. Everyone is an autist playing fake nerd for TV. It was an episode where Johnny Galecki had sad feels because no one was interested in his laser. Then there was some really excruciating plot about building permits. That might have been a different episode. They bled together into an hour of torture as I waited for my cab that was four hours late.

I think that everything bleeds together on TBBT is the main appeal/staying power.

It's in effect White Noise entertainment. Just like how people nowadays will just put on a Twitch streamer to unwind.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I wish anthology horror shows would make a comeback. Good anthology shows (looking at you, Peele)

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I was stuck in the ER back in August for an eternity and was forced to watch The Big Bang Theory. It was so awful. Everyone is an autist playing fake nerd for TV. It was an episode where Johnny Galecki had sad feels because no one was interested in his laser. Then there was some really excruciating plot about building permits. That might have been a different episode. They bled together into an hour of torture as I waited for my cab that was four hours late.

I watched half of one episode once.

The entire plot revolved around the fact that now they have a girl to play Wonderwoman in the Halloween Cosplay Contest they are SURE To win because nobody else has a real woman to play wonder woman.

Edit : there was also "LUL AQUAMANSUX HE IS SO LAME HE TALKS TO FISH! " which is such a dead horse meme that only retard normies who know nothing about comic books bring it up.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

I watched half of one episode once.

The entire plot revolved around the fact that now they have a girl to play Wonderwoman in the Halloween Cosplay Contest they are SURE To win because nobody else has a real woman to play wonder woman.

Edit : there was also "LUL AQUAMANSUX HE IS SO LAME HE TALKS TO FISH! " which is such a dead horse meme that only exceptional individual normies who know nothing about comic books bring it up.

An earlier episode the nerds decided to shit on a handsome guy (that Penny dated) for simply liking "Archie" comics and basically acted like high school girls mocking the clueless guy.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

An earlier episode the nerds decided to shit on a handsome guy (that Penny dated) for simply liking "Archie" comics and basically acted like high school girls mocking the clueless guy.

So...I be young (93) was..that ever a thing that actually happened? Is there ever a real world example of a nerd making fun of someone for reading Archie comics?

Didn't Archie have a Crossover with The Punisher?

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

So...I be young (93) was..that ever a thing that actually happened? Is there ever a real world example of a nerd making fun of someone for reading Archie comics?

Didn't Archie have a Crossover with The Punisher?

Don't know about bullying over Archie iRL, but the company did make their own Superheroes at one point (One very similar to Captain America) and they were prominent in the early comics industry.

And yes, that happened.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Don't know about bullying over Archie iRL, but the company did make their own Superheroes at one point (One very similar to Captain America) and they were prominent in the early comics industry.

And yes, that happened.

See, from all my experience..if someone brings up Archie..a real nerd would be like "You ever read the time he helped the punisher?"

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

See, from all my experience..if someone brings up Archie..a real nerd would be like "You ever read the time he helped the punisher?"

To be blunt, Archie has had a lot of crossovers, even with their own comics.
Like Sabrina meddling with Archie pining over Veronica