Unpopular Opinions about TV

Ruin said:
Criminal Minds has been had had a more consistent level of quality than either CSI or NCIS.

Breaking Bad is boring

Supernatural is almost fan fiction tier bad

American Horror Story was never good.
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I thought almost everyone agreed that Supernatural is shit?
 
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After hearing a lot of good things about it and liking the premise I watched Russian Dolls and wow it was shit. All of the characters were extremely unlikable and although I know that's the point it doesn't make them any more tolerable. I kept watching for the mystery but the ending was trash. Unless I missed something it was "multiverse or w/e lolz" and I feel like I wasted my time.

I can't really think of a single positive thing to say and I have no idea why everyone keeps praising it because it's a garbage show.
 
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I liked Fringe, Fox's attempt at doing a X-Files for the 2000's (before the actual reboot). I feel like this show has also become forgotten. Unfortunately, I cannot compare the two, since I've never seen much of the latter, actually (my impression: the X-Files had better individual episodes, particularly the monster-of-the-week episodes, while Fringe has a better overall overarching story).

I really like Community's third season and would rank it alongside the second season in quality. But the show's best episode is Season Five's Cooperative Polygraphy. I also believe that Dan Harmon is a good television writer. However, his shows tend to attract crazy and delusional fandoms, he is a terrible producer/showrunner and overall terrible human being to boot.
 
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Glad I couldn't help said:
I liked Fringe, Fox's attempt at doing a X-Files for the 2000's (before the actual reboot). I feel like this show has also become forgotten. Unfortunately, I cannot compare the two, since I've never seen much of the latter, actually (my impression: the X-Files had better individual episodes, particularly the monster-of-the-week episodes, while Fringe has a better overall overarching story).
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I never saw Fringe, but you've reminded me of my own unpopular TV opinion that echoes your post: The X-Files's core mythology became a confusing mess relatively early in the show's run, and that stuff got worse the longer the show ran. In contrast, the monster-of-the-week episodes were usually great and, I believe, really defined the show as a classic for most viewers.
 
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frozenrunner said:
I never saw Fringe, but you've reminded me of my own unpopular TV opinion that echoes your post: The X-Files's core mythology became a confusing mess relatively early in the show's run, and that stuff got worse the longer the show ran. In contrast, the monster-of-the-week episodes were usually great and, I believe, really defined the show as a classic for most viewers.
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That's not an unpopular opinion in the slightest and everyone who's ever watched it accepts it as fact.
 
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I don't know if Netflix counts, or if this is even an unpopular opinion. The new MST3K Netflix reboot is great, despite the perceived left-leaning attitudes and celebrity cow status of some of the cast members (Felicia Day). SJW politics haven't infected it, and the only poor thing about it is the new actors for the robots. I can't blame the new robot actors, though.
 
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frozenrunner said:
I never saw Fringe, but you've reminded me of my own unpopular TV opinion that echoes your post: The X-Files's core mythology became a confusing mess relatively early in the show's run, and that stuff got worse the longer the show ran. In contrast, the monster-of-the-week episodes were usually great and, I believe, really defined the show as a classic for most viewers.
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Fringe had a lot of potential but began shark jumping in earnest during the second or third season.
Its most interesting character was a very flawed one and they coulda done a lot more with that but descended into nonsense, IIRC. They did do the 'monster of the week' thing justice for a while tho.
I liked that old guy, he was fun.

Venus said:
Okay so I got to season seven of Game of Thrones and am just about ready to give up on it. This is coming from someone who likes the books mind you.

I don’t know if I’m alone on this one but it’s starting to get really stale for me and the plot twists are starting to feel lazier as time goes on.
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I really felt that way about the books, too. George RR Martin (the extra R is for Rape) used to write soap operas/daytime tv (the new yorker had a good interview with him about it back in the day) and as we all know, if the narrative form of a soap opera was an animal it would be a million snakes eating their own tails. There's a tendency to develop a plot & character right to the point where shit starts getting captivating and then BAM! Switch to a new protagonist. That's why events in daytime tv shows take forever to play out. It's all some measured narrative style that shares traits with a skinner box.
When I started noticing this pattern, it spoiled the whole thing for me.
 
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Malcolm In The Middle will always be Bryan Cranston's greatest television role over Breaking Bad.

The biggest one I can think of recently:

The Conners is better than the Roseanne reboot. It shows that the show could be successful by getting rid of Roseanne and still do well without her. Jackie still carries the show and it's better off being about the kids and their families.
People are only angry because of the way Roseanne got kicked off.
 
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Stab You in the Back said:
The less familiar you are with Harmon's work, the smarter he seems. Dan has a very small bag of tricks that he uses on his shows. Once you've seen them all, you quickly realize just how lazy, predictable and repetitive a writer he is.
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Doesn't that apply to most television writers? In any case, are there any good examples of good television writers?
Recon said:
Fringe had a lot of potential but began shark jumping in earnest during the second or third season.
Its most interesting character was a very flawed one and they coulda done a lot more with that but descended into nonsense, IIRC. They did do the 'monster of the week' thing justice for a while tho.
I liked that old guy, he was fun.
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I think they sort of dropped the 'monster of the week' as the moved further along, in service of the main plot. My biggest complant about the show was those episodes tended to end way too happily, when more should have ended more tragically. And while the third season finale did do something really dumb, the fourth was okay enough to watch it anyway. Haven't seen the final season, plot summaries are good enough for me.

I agree that John Noble was great as Walter Bishop, a crazy old mad scientist. He definitely should be up there on a list of best mad scientists.
 
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Glad I couldn't help said:
Doesn't that apply to most television writers? In any case, are there any good examples of good television writers?
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I don't understand. You're asking if there are talented writers working in television? Quite a lot of them, yes.

Most of Hollywood's best writers are working in TV now, IMO. Or always were.
 
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