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MMarston · May 30, 2016

We've all binge watched one show on Netflix or BluRay in some form or another for a variety of reasons - whether legit getting hooked or trying to catch up with other people. However, one thing I'm wondering for anybody else: has there ever been a time were you committed yourself to a long grind, but didn't feel like it was worth doing so in the end?

For me, it was Doctor Who - the newer ones of course. A couple of years ago I binged on Eccleston's run all the way to the end of Matt Smith's. The reasons I kept going generally involves the fact that there was always something new every corner and that it was fascinating to watch the character of The Doctor given who he is and how he evolved.

However, by the time I got caught up in time for Capaldi's run, I just suddenly dropped the show altogether. For me, although there were some pretty great things for a sci-fi show of its kind, it's very nature and universe felt very inconsequential and this is especially since the older series were canon. That and it did start to feel redundant tonally despite being refreshing in terms of content. And even that started to feel a little bit recycled towards the end of my watch. In effect, all that time sunk into the show just seems silly now.

So that's my story. Anyone else?

comedian · May 30, 2016

Daredevil (S1 and S2) and House of Cards s3.

commedieu · May 30, 2016

Heroes. 1/2.

hydrophilic attack · May 30, 2016

The only show I ever truly binge watched was The Wire.

So #worth

Spring Drive · May 30, 2016

Marseille

Sotha_Sil · May 30, 2016

The Following. I'm still not sure why I watched two seasons. Maybe I just wanted to see how many crazies Kevin Bacon would kill by the end of it.

Kenzodielocke · May 30, 2016

Jessica Jones. So bad to be honest. Had the hope it would get better, but it didn't.

Redd · May 30, 2016

Sons of Anarchy the thread.

TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared · May 30, 2016

Probably true blood. God that was trash.

Ladekabel · May 30, 2016

There were a few but I don't remember their names anymore.

Shaffield · May 30, 2016

HIMYM. Twice. Biggest regret of my life

Richie · May 30, 2016

Whenever I binge watch a show it's one that's already gotten lots of praise from friends and overall critics...and I'm usually very very LTTP, so that praise holds more weight, on account of being there after the dust has settled. So far it's worked out for me, Rick and Morty, Bojack Horseman, Archer, Trailer Park Boys, all have proven their worth. Next on the list is Madoka Magica, Community and Arrested Development.

I did once advise my brothers not to watch Dexter past season 4. They did. To the bitter end.
They listen to whatever I tell them nowadays.

brawly · May 30, 2016

House of Cards S2. First one was alright but this one I just switched off my brain and still watched it for some reason.

Arrow S3. Bad. Really bad.

Arrested Development S4. Upon rewatching the previous three seasons I was already pretty gassed but this one is pretty bad.

smokeandmirrors · May 30, 2016

How I Met Your Mother

backflip10019 · May 30, 2016

Shaffield said:
HIMYM. Twice. Biggest regret of my life

Why the second time if it was so bad?

echoshifting · May 30, 2016

Entourage.

Beginning to end

Yyyyyep

jb1234 · May 30, 2016

Lost.

backflip10019 · May 30, 2016

echoshifting said:
Entourage.

Beginning to end

Yyyyyep

I think you mean OH YEAH OH YEAH

SJRB · May 30, 2016

comedian said:
Daredevil (S1 and S2) and House of Cards s3.

Just started season 3 of House of Cards just yesterday after binging the masterful season 2. I take it 3 is a disappointment?

Only watched two episodes, but not sure if I'm feeling the drastic shift of tone.

Ontopic: Jessica Jones. Waste of time, mediocre in almost every way.

Mortimer Brewster · May 30, 2016

Arrow, two great seasons to start retroactively ruined by Uncle Guggie listening to the idiot Olicity shippers on Twitter and turning Arrow into Felicity and a Friends with special guest Stephen Amell as Green Arrow.

ExVicis · May 30, 2016

Prison Break, IDK why I did it but goddamn that show gets stupid.

Lucky Seven · May 30, 2016

Lost. Just skipped to the end and said, "I bet this show doesn't do much does it." I guess it's just one of those shows that has a good first season and falls over after.

Servbot24 · May 30, 2016

smokeandmirrors said:
How I Met Your Mother

This one here.

I've also binge watched Always Sunny multiple times when I got really depressed and just needed to turn off my brain. Great show but I kinda ruined it for myself.

Discotheque · May 30, 2016

Jessica Jones. Everything else I binge watched have been some of my favorite shows down the line such as twin peaks, wire and fnl. But man I just did not like Jessica Jones. After like 2 promising episodes it just falls off a cliff. Acting, writing, everything.

Edit: Actually that's not true. I forgot I binged the first 3 seasons of person of interest. That was pretty fun. But then when I watched season 4 live i got pretty bored of the arc and just the show in general and quit the series.

Brakke · May 30, 2016

I watched Daredevil S1 over a weekend. It like... gestured at being good but wasn't actually good. Really dragged in the middle, ultimately just a stock standard superhero story. I also watched a ton of Jane The Virgin after a friend recommended it. In hindsight I wish I had only watched the Rogelio parts. It's sweet and good but basically trite.

Joni · May 30, 2016

True Blood. Should have put a pallette cleanser in there instead of doing seven seasons straight. I knew what I was getting into when I binged Prison BReak and Heroes, they just were as bad as I remembered.

Einchy · May 30, 2016

Vikings and The Man of the High Castle.

Brakke · May 30, 2016

SJRB said:
Just started season 3 of House of Cards just yesterday after binging the masterful season 2. I take it 3 is a disappointment?

3 was definitely a low point but S4 is more on track. For me, 1 = 2 > 4 >>> 3.

Jeffolation · May 30, 2016

Binge on every season of House of Cards. Always a mistake.

VeryGooster · May 30, 2016

The Man in the High Castle

Good looking show, but there was something about Juliana where I just didn't like her. I liked the premise but I got bored in a lot of places.

And yeah I binged HIMYM on Netflix two years back and the last few seasons weren't good.

kavanf1 · May 30, 2016

Redd said:
Sons of Anarchy the thread.

I struggled through the first few seasons of SOA (especially the terrible Northern Ireland stuff), but I felt it got better as the seasons went on and the character development improved.

Loxley · May 30, 2016

I just marathoned my way through the first two seasons of Justified, and while I haven't regretted doing so yet, I haven't been "wow'd" yet either. The writing is sharp and the performances are on-point, but it hasn't been anything mind-blowing. I decided to take a break before continuing on with it.

SMG · May 30, 2016

Community, also ran Arrested development wannabe that uses being metatextual as an excuse for not being great.

.JayZii · May 30, 2016

I waited and watched all of Lost on Netflix streaming in the month or so before the final season started.

Joke was on me.

darkwing-buck · May 30, 2016

HIMYM, at one point this would've been one of my fav sitcoms ever as I binged 1-8 with friends for 2 weeks. Then the ending happened in season 9......wish I hadn't been so invested.

erawsd · May 30, 2016

TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared said:
Probably true blood. God that was trash.

Same. I was watching it then stopped for years because it got so dumb. Then when I heard it was ending I decided to binge watch everything i missed. Even now I cant explain why I kept hitting play to watch the next video, some weird obligation to finish what I started maybe.

blamite · May 30, 2016

Why the fuck did I get talked into watching Jericho

Airola · May 30, 2016

True Detective S1

Should've know after the first episode that it's not going to get any better.
To be fair though, I loved the final scene of the season. And there was one point in episode 5 where I thought it finally gets some steam.

But most of it was me having to force myself to endure it. All because everyone told it's the best thing ever and I wanted to believe it.

This was before the second season aired. Ended up watching that one too, but it was a much more tolerable experience.

EDIT:
I guess S2 wasn't worth it either, even if it was more tolerable.

subrock · May 30, 2016

Battlestar Galactica

/hides

Zakalwe · May 30, 2016

Power Season 1-2.
Person of Interest Season 1-2, then 3.
Homeland Season 4

I can't say I really enjoyed any of these, I mean there were aspects of each show I appreciated, but overall there was more I disliked than enjoyed. Sometimes after a big project or period of study I need a few days to let my brain go into neutral mode, and these were on Netflix within easy reach.

March of the Crabs · May 30, 2016

House of Cards. ESPECIALLY season 3.

milanbaros · May 30, 2016

Airola said:
True Detective S1

Should've know after the first episode that it's not going to get any better.
To be fair though, I loved the final scene of the season. And there was one point in episode 5 where I thought it finally gets some steam.

But most of it was me having to force myself to endure it. All because everyone told it's the best thing ever and I wanted to believe it.

This was before the second season aired. Ended up watching that one too, but it was a much more tolerable experience.

EDIT:
I guess S2 wasn't worth it either, even if it was more tolerable.

Oh dear. This post is going to be rather controversial.

Malcolm9 · May 30, 2016

Hannibal.

I enjoyed the first season but it slowly got on my nerves in the second season.

Falling Skies.

Started off ok but it went off on a tangent and the story took a massive nose dive, the ending was pure rushed crap as well.

Chuckl3s · May 30, 2016

Sons of Anarchy. Went all the way to final season with only maybe 4 or 5 episodes left. Didn't finish it and I regret starting the last season. It didn't help that I read about the rest of the episodes so I know how it ends and I was disappointed.

RoyaleDuke · May 30, 2016

House of Cards kinda lost me after Season 3, I also tried watching Lost but that show is garbage.

Louie, even though most of it was pretty good, it wasn't as incredible as everyone made it out to be.

EDIT: Bob's Burgers, it was only mildly funny.

Archer · May 30, 2016

Luther.

DS9.

Lost.

Modern Family.

Duck Tales.

JC Lately · May 30, 2016

Smallville. We were moving at the time wound up with a dead zone between when the Internet (and thus all our TV streaming options) would be cut off at our old place and turned on at our new place. Found the first 5 seasons on DVD for a ridiculously good price at a Sam's, so I thought it would fill the void.

Well, it did, in the sense that eating packaging peanuts would fill your stomach if you're starving. But there is no nutrition to be found there. Only pain.

Hissing Sid · May 30, 2016

Falling Skies.

Not quite bad enough to risk wrestling the remote from the wife's hands.

Not good enough to warrant more than an occasional glance at the telly whilst browsing the net.

I'm especially gonna miss the parts where the actors are sneaking up on an enemy at night.

Dark clothing? Check.
Hand signals? Check.
Crouching? Check.
Silent movement? Check.
Whispering? Check.
1000000 lumens searchlights strapped to each weapon lighting up the area like New Year's Eve thereby providing an excellent early warning to the enemy that some dick-heads are sneaking up on their position? Check! Er.

So tactical.

A waste of my precious, precious life.

FairyD · May 30, 2016

All of them?

Don't get me wrong, I love watching shows and movies, but sometimes I feel like I'm just playing a never ending game of WoW where I'm just pumping in hours and hours into television and generally staring at a screen digesting entertaining programs.

I have to sometimes sit back and ask, when will I be done?

Makai · May 30, 2016

Prison Break

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