Shows you just couldn't stomach watching.

I understand American Horror Story is pretty gay at points, but so is most media these days so I could look past it. The NYC series, however...
 
A lot of what passed for wacky comedy on Adult Swim was legit trash. Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil was awful. Xavier: Renegade Angel was terrible. 12 oz. Mouse was aggressively unfunny.

One of the few shows I've genuinely hated was the law drama The Practice. The cast is good, but the characters are all terrible and unlikeable people in an amoral universe. You can do that in a movie, but a fucking series?
 
A lot of what passed for wacky comedy on Adult Swim was legit trash. Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil was awful. Xavier: Renegade Angel was terrible. 12 oz. Mouse was aggressively unfunny.

One of the few shows I've genuinely hated was the law drama The Practice. The cast is good, but the characters are all terrible and unlikeable people in an amoral universe. You can do that in a movie, but a fucking series?

Early AS was funny, but some of the later stuff really is legit garbage.
 
The Big Bang Theory is the ultimate 1-question IQ test. If you answer "yes" to the question "Do you like The Big Bang Theory?", you fail.

I hate the fuckwads who love that show almost as much as I hate the show itself, along with the faggots who made it.
I wouldn't call it good, but I can imagine far worse things to watch than every harmless idiot sitcom Chuck Lorre has ever made. Sure, it made nerd shit mainstream, who cares, it would've happened either way. Two and a Half Men didn't turn people into womanizing alcoholics with AIDS. It's decently watchable when there's nothing on and you need background noise while eating with a normie family.

I'm never going to stomach watching certain variants of some cooking shows. Anything with trannies or drag queens is obvious, but I refuse to watch Masterchef Argentina and Mexico, they're extremely grating and are clearly rigged. Any version of The Great X Bakeoff that isnt British is guaranteed to be shit. As someone said above, I don't think I can watch any of Adult Swim's comedy shows, they're not just unfunny, they're aggressively boring.
 
fargo season 4
couldn't even make it through the first episode, the drop in quality compared to the previous seasons was insane
Yeah, Fargo was the first thing that came to mind for me, too; The first 3 seasons were great; One of the best shows on modern tv... and then s4 just completely shat the bed, right from episode 1.

The most insanely dramatic case of a show fucking itself over, that I've seen.
 
the office. I know people love it, and thanks to women over the years I have suffered through many random episodes but I just can't do cringe humor like that. it's weird because I can see actual videos of people in cringe ass situations exactly like the humor of the office and think it's kinda funny but I can't do the show. I'm not sure if it's because it's scripted, or if instead of a video of a irl situation that lasts 3 minutes an episode lasts 20 minutes, but I can't do it. I've tried multiple times. it might just be I don't like any of the cast. who knows.

also stranger things, I tried when it was new. it's not a secret, they aren't hiding the fact it's just an homage to 80s teen horror movies and stephen king books, and comics of the era. I tried watching it and decided I'd rather engage with any of the stuff they're riffing on. I didn't get more than 2/3 episodes in and didn't think it sucked exactly, but it felt like the diet coke to shit I had already seen and liked.
 
The most insanely dramatic case of a show fucking itself over, that I've seen.

Irvine Welsh's Crime did it in one season. S1 is pretty great, with Dougray Scott finally allowed to do something decent. He hates everyone, everyone deserves to be hated, he catches and destroys a pedo (well actually the other, better cop destroys the pedo), rescues a kid, cusses out everyone from his family to the mother of a missing girl.

15 minutes into the first episode of S2, he's earnestly consoling a tranny teen because he got yelled at for being a faggot at dinner. I dropped it at that point.
 
I didn't get more than 2/3 episodes in and didn't think it sucked exactly, but it felt like the diet coke to shit I had already seen and liked.
I liked the first season when there was genuine mystery over wtf was going on. When they added shipping, faggots, and overt niggardy that tried too hard to be cool for Milennial retards I dropped it.
 
fargo season 4
couldn't even make it through the first episode, the drop in quality compared to the previous seasons was insane
Yeah, Fargo was the first thing that came to mind for me, too; The first 3 seasons were great; One of the best shows on modern tv... and then s4 just completely shat the bed, right from episode 1.

The most insanely dramatic case of a show fucking itself over, that I've seen.
I'll back this up, Season 4 felt like they didn't want to make another season, COVID restrictions fucking up the production and a splash of identity politics all coming together to make a really dumb season. Season 5 felt it they asked an AI to come up with a Fargo season, it's so half-assed.
 
A lot of what passed for wacky comedy on Adult Swim was legit trash. Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil was awful. Xavier: Renegade Angel was terrible. 12 oz. Mouse was aggressively unfunny.

One of the few shows I've genuinely hated was the law drama The Practice. The cast is good, but the characters are all terrible and unlikeable people in an amoral universe. You can do that in a movie, but a fucking series?
This sounds like a network made exclusively for people who want to tick off their church-going parents.

I haven’t seen any of this, but just the description makes me roll my eyes all the way to the ceiling.


“Poor Things.”

“In Victorian London,[n 1] medical student Max McCandles becomes an assistant to eccentric surgeon Godwin Baxter. He falls in love with Godwin's ward, Bella, a childlike young woman. Godwin reveals that the woman, who was pregnant, killed herself by leaping off a bridge. He replaced the woman's brain with that of her unborn fetus, resulting in her having an infant's mind, and named her Bella Baxter.

With Godwin's encouragement, Max asks for Bella's hand in marriage. Bella accepts, but as her intelligence rapidly develops, she becomes curious about the outside world and herself. By exploring her own body, she discovers masturbation and sexual pleasure. She runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a debauched lawyer whom Baxter hired to overhaul the nuptial contract. Deciding to let her go, Godwin starts a new experiment with a young woman, Felicity, who matures much more slowly than Bella.

Bella and Duncan embark on a grand journey, starting in Lisbon, where they have frequent sex. When Bella becomes difficult for him to control, Duncan smuggles her onto a cruise ship. Bella befriends passengers Martha and Harry, who open her mind to philosophy. Duncan attempts to stunt her growth to no avail. He becomes exasperated and indulges in drinking and gambling. During a stop at Alexandria, Bella witnesses the suffering of the poor and becomes distraught. She entrusts Duncan's winnings to unscrupulous members of the crew, who falsely promise to give it to the needy. Unable to afford the rest of the trip, Bella and Duncan are dropped at Marseille and make their way to Paris. Seeking money and accommodation, Bella begins working at a brothel. Duncan, enraged, has a breakdown and Bella abandons him. At the brothel, she comes under the tutelage of Madame Swiney and befriends another prostitute, Toinette, who introduces her to socialism.

Godwin, now terminally ill, asks Max to bring Bella to him. Max locates her after tracking down Duncan, who has been institutionalized. In London, Bella reconciles with Godwin and renews her plans to marry Max. The wedding is interrupted by Duncan and General Alfie Blessington. Alfie, addressing Bella as Victoria, declares that they were married before her disappearance and that he has come to reclaim her. She abandons Max to learn of her past life, but discovers Alfie's violent and sadistic nature and realizes Victoria killed herself to escape him.

Alfie confines Bella to his mansion. He threatens her at gunpoint to submit to genital mutilation, demanding she drink a sedative. She tosses the sedative in his face, and after a struggle, Alfie accidentally shoots himself in the foot before passing out. Godwin dies peacefully with Bella and Max at his side. Bella decides to follow Godwin's footsteps by becoming a surgeon with the help of Max and Toinette, while Alfie has a goat's brain transplanted into his head.”
 
Just couldn’t get into Stranger Things. Had so many of my friends and family raving about it to me “you like D&D! You like 80s horror movies! This show was MADE for you Jason Wynn!”

@Hembruh said it best, it’s like the Diet Coke or the cheap Chinese knockoff version of the things I enjoy, a Buzzfeed listicle of “hey older millennials and young Gen Xers! here’s things only YOUR generation will understand! Memba rotary phones and Blockbuster video?”

Show was made for normies who didn’t actually grow up enjoying D&D or 80s culture but want to LARP as though they did.
 
The Last of Us.

Joel and Ellie look nothing like themselves. In my opinion, it's because Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are too distinctive-looking/they always almost completely look like themselves (if that makes sense. I had the same problem with Margot Robbie, when she was Tonya Harding, and then Sharon Tate. Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass is an exception, because the only pictures of Glass were sketches). Yammer, yammer, yammer, it's hard to form any decent immersion.

Just couldn’t get into Stranger Things. Had so many of my friends and family raving about it to me “you like D&D! You like 80s horror movies! This show was MADE for you Jason Wynn!”

@Hembruh said it best, it’s like the Diet Coke or the cheap Chinese knockoff version of the things I enjoy, a Buzzfeed listicle of “hey older millennials and young Gen Xers! here’s things only YOUR generation will understand! Memba rotary phones and Blockbuster video?”

Show was made for normies who didn’t actually grow up enjoying D&D or 80s culture but want to LARP as though they did.
All this wanking off over '80s crap annoys the life out of me.
 
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The Last of Us.

Joel and Ellie look nothing like themselves. In my opinion, it's because Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey are too distinctive-looking/they always almost completely look like themselves (if that makes sense. I had the same problem with Margot Robbie, when she was Tonya Harding, and then Sharon Tate. Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass is an exception, because the only pictures of Glass were sketches). Yammer, yammer, yammer, it's hard to form any decent immersion.
I call it the Tom Hanks problem. Every movie he stars in where he plays a real person (Jim Lovell, Walt Disney, Captain Phillips, Mehran Nasseri (kinda), James Donovan, Ben Bradlee, Sully, Mister Rogers, etc) it just looks like Tom Hanks playing Tom Hanks with different haircuts.
 
This sounds like a network made exclusively for people who want to tick off their church-going parents.
For the record, Xavier: Renegade Angel has nothing to do with biblical stuff. It's a bunch of absurdist psychedelic nonsense partly making fun of vapid new age spiritualism.
The rest of it is uh...
It was probably made by druggies.
 
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