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.
The wheel of time. I’m a huge fan of the book series, but that show was a travesty. They threw away large swaths of the story so that the show runner could write his own fanfic. I really wanted to like the show, I gave it multiple chances but it just wasn’t the wheel of time as written by Robert Jordan. It’s a shame because we probably won’t ever get a decent adaptation, at least not in my lifetime.
What did you expect from an amazon exclusive TV series? A faithful adaptation true to the original work, or some generic garbage churned out to appeal to the largest audience?
I’ll probably will be killed for this but it was breaking bad for me. Just so slow and boring. Could see where it was going miles ahead and Walt just kept making dumb decisions which pissed me off. Probably the point of the show or something but I really didn’t like it.
I know this will be unpopular but Three Body Problem was so attrociously reductive about basic aspects of humanity and what motivates people that I couldn’t stand it. It is a show entirely about aliens and automatons, there are no humans in it just mystery thriller tropes shambling around in a poor immitation of life.
Oh dear god that show is terrible. The pacing is all over the place and every character is at best annoying.
House of Dragon. The first season was great when Miley Alcott played Rheanary, (sp?). When she wasn’t around the show was so dull. Season 2 was terrible. It just went nowhere. I am done with it.
Rings of Power. Holy fuck the number of clumsy shitty scenes and story points in this show is out of control. Amazon has dumped close to one billion on the show and the writing is dogshit. I did s1 and s2e1 and I am just done with that crap.
The Stand (2020). OMFG… The only way I can describe how bad it is, is that a committee decided to take everything great in the book, throw that out and replace it with something else. Some of the casting was good and but the actors just had no chance. It is almost an achievement in how bd the show is.
Foundation. holy shit. what a trash heap.
the visuals are great though. maybe i’ll cut out all closups of actors and use it as animated wallpaper or something.
You didn’t even like the Empire Plot? How far did you get?
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Nooooo, I wanted to watch that! I wish we could have some good Asimov media.
oh, don’t let my opinion keep you!
One of my best fiends loves it. He is dumb as a frog, but, hey, maybe you’ll like it too :D
Oh my gosh, yes! As a fan of the books, I was so excited for the series. I was determined not to be put off by the changes to the story the producers made, so it took me a while to realize that the changed story lacked something. Like, being good? I should’ve just stopped after the terrorist attack that killed nobody, or tens of millions of people maybe, in the first episode just to advance the plot. Great visual effects, no emotional resonance. Why should I care? Nobody on-screen seemed to. I stuck it out until the episode that ended with the one character getting surrounded by the Anacreon landing party, but the show never established why I should care about her. So I didn’t, and never bothered with the next episode to resolve the cliff-hanger.
Did you like the Cleon-Empire plot?
I’m sure there’s worse, but the most recent one I can remember is Alien: Earth. I was forcing myself to finish it halfway through the season. The plot moves forward by way of people being stupid. I get that someone has to make a mistake (if not by malicious intent) to trigger events, but to have it used every single time something needs to happen is annoying. And it doesn’t help that the characters involved in the series are supposed to be geniuses, scientists, and engineers. Also, the facility of a trillion dollar company securing alien species has worse security than your typical office building.
Yeah, I was super amped for this one, but started getting weird vibes around episode 3 or 4. There are a hundred ways that you could have things go wrong bringing hostile alien species to earth, but the show just relied on people constantly treating them with less care than they would a pet iguana.
Slogged through the rest just in case, but it just felt like Jurassic Park with infinitely sloppier writing.
Gilmore girls, back when it was airing I had a reason to record the airings and check the quality and it was like if you designed a show specifically about nothing I can possibly care about.
Rings of Power and the ATLA live action remake.
Invasion on AppleTV.
I watched the first season all the way through. It’s like there’s a good idea there somewhere but I think the characters all pissed me off making stupid decisions and, I think, a lot of dumb plot choices.
I don’t really remember much other than being mad because it seemed like it could have been good but it just wasn’t and I kept going with it.
I’m surprised it got more than one season.
“there’s a good idea somewhere” So many shows don’t know how to come to grips with the main thesis, so the producers and writers just do what they know how to do; write soap operas.
I might get downvoted for this, but Breaking Bad. I made it into the second season, constantly annoyed at how massively unrealistic and terrible these people were to each other. People kept telling me it would get better later on and that I should stick with it, but after that failed to materialise I just gave up.
Same for me. I think I made it to season 3, but it was so annoying how everybody was just a massive asshole and over the top cruel.
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.
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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.
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.
True blood. I knew some people who were just obsessed with it and I watched a lot of it and just couldn’t stand it.
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.
The Willow one. Very by the numbers and nostalgia bait on one hand while throwing out a bunch of things from the original on the other.
