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Shows that you binged watched, but didn't feel worth it on hindsight
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Actually, I binge watched Silicon Valley and Veep as well.
Also totally #worth
Also totally #worth
Season 3 totally lost me. Claire was so out of character, everyone seemed so incompetent. I was binge watching it but stopped about 3/4th of the way through. I just skipped to Season 4 episode 4 and kept watching from there (ep 1-3 were just a continuation of horrible season 3).
Alcoremortis
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Heroes, Season 1. Everyone kept on saying the first season was amazing, so I kept waiting for it to get amazing and instead it just made me angry.
Arrow, Season 1 and 2. Same story really. There were some okay bits that made me keep going, but all the forced melodrama just really started getting to me and after the second season finale I couldn't keep going.
Flash, Season 1. Again the same. Thought it would become amazing due to all the Gaf reactions, but the characters that annoyed me in the first few episodes continued to do so for the rest of the show.
Battlestar Galactica. At the beginning I enjoyed watching mainly for Baltar, but then the show seemed determined to make me hate every single character. I kept going because my friend told me the series finale was the best bit of TV he'd ever watched and after watching it, all I could assume is that he hadn't watched much TV.
Arrow, Season 1 and 2. Same story really. There were some okay bits that made me keep going, but all the forced melodrama just really started getting to me and after the second season finale I couldn't keep going.
Flash, Season 1. Again the same. Thought it would become amazing due to all the Gaf reactions, but the characters that annoyed me in the first few episodes continued to do so for the rest of the show.
Battlestar Galactica. At the beginning I enjoyed watching mainly for Baltar, but then the show seemed determined to make me hate every single character. I kept going because my friend told me the series finale was the best bit of TV he'd ever watched and after watching it, all I could assume is that he hadn't watched much TV.
Yeah you fucked up. I regret the last few seasons and I only watched it once.
Like Friends, it got really bad towards the back end of the show but unlike Friends, which had a great redemptive final season, the final season of HIMYM was pure shite.
I also binged a bunch on Homeland before I realised that I didn't like anything about the show any more.
Don't worry, I'm just taking a break. Wait till I catch my breath and start reaping again.
Samurai G0SU
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Dexter. That ending. Wow
superfriar19
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Deadwood. Don't get me wrong it was a great show. How it ended though made me feel like I wasted my time. Knowing what I know now I wouldn't have watched it.
Ampersands
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Daredevil. It actually soured my opinion of all the Marvel media. Just made me see how formulaic and safe they play it.
HighResTomato
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Every House of Cards season after 1.
kavanf1
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This for me as well. Wish I had stopped after season 5 but I kept hoping it would get back to the excellent standard of the first four seasons. Instead they turn Dexter into a fucking
lumberjack
ghostofsparta
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Weeds. Started good, ended wtf
IISANDERII
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Arrow, Son of Anarchy, Prison Break, Flash
I actually just binged seasons 1 and 2 with #noragrets, but I'm probably not going to go binge any further. Will still watch episodes here and there.
Jessica Jones is probably the only show I binged and felt like it wasn't worth it at the end. Only one season though, I typically won't follow a show any further if I'm not interested.
i hate-watched a netflix show called 'love'
it was without a doubt one of the most insufferable/unlikeable shows i've ever decided to sit through. even now just thinking about it makes me unreasonably angry.
i sat through to the very end due to some morbid curiosity of how annoying and shit the show could get. i guess i also felt like i needed some sense of closure after watching a few episodes since the story hadn't felt like it had gone anywhere yet
. or maybe i'm just masochistic.
i kinda feel compelled to make a thread about it to get it off my chest anyways.
it was without a doubt one of the most insufferable/unlikeable shows i've ever decided to sit through. even now just thinking about it makes me unreasonably angry.
i sat through to the very end due to some morbid curiosity of how annoying and shit the show could get. i guess i also felt like i needed some sense of closure after watching a few episodes since the story hadn't felt like it had gone anywhere yet
(and literally never does 🙃
i kinda feel compelled to make a thread about it to get it off my chest anyways.
The Artisan
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jessica jones
honestly just binged it to see if matt murdock would've showed up
honestly just binged it to see if matt murdock would've showed up
Walking Dead. Caught up to season 2 finale a few years back and felt like I didn't really need to see anything to understand the characters
I feel the same all these years later. Anyone can just join in at this point and "get it" show is the ultimate waste of time
I felt like
half the time
I feel the same all these years later. Anyone can just join in at this point and "get it" show is the ultimate waste of time
I felt like
Monocle
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I started Arrow S1 intending to binge watch the whole thing, but the show left a lot to be desired with all of its petty melodrama. Lots of actors standing around acting deadly serious while making silly faces. I had to struggle to finish the season.
The Walking Dead is the worst though. The show consists of a handful of great character moments and entertaining twists buried in a rancid compost pile of brain dead writing (haha, but seriously), where characters make idiotic decisions with deadly consequences, and take way too long to develop common sense survival skills. Nearly every episode has lame contrived situations that set people up for zombie attacks. Line them up, knock them down, over and over and over again. The show would be much better if it compressed its story into half as many seasons and didn't insult its audience's intelligence by having characters wander alone into zombie buildings or venture outside the zombie fence or go check out the zombie forest.
I'm surprised to see so many quality shows mentioned negatively in this thread: House of Cards, Daredevil, Jessica Jones? What? But Hannibal takes the cake.
The Walking Dead is the worst though. The show consists of a handful of great character moments and entertaining twists buried in a rancid compost pile of brain dead writing (haha, but seriously), where characters make idiotic decisions with deadly consequences, and take way too long to develop common sense survival skills. Nearly every episode has lame contrived situations that set people up for zombie attacks. Line them up, knock them down, over and over and over again. The show would be much better if it compressed its story into half as many seasons and didn't insult its audience's intelligence by having characters wander alone into zombie buildings or venture outside the zombie fence or go check out the zombie forest.
I'm surprised to see so many quality shows mentioned negatively in this thread: House of Cards, Daredevil, Jessica Jones? What? But Hannibal takes the cake.
the second time was with an ex-girlfriend. I think I got head cancer from rewatching the
Katie Holmes
kavanf1
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Indeed, Hannibal was amazing. My wife had to stop watching it as it freaked her out so much.
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StalkerUKCG
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Sons of Anarcy is the big one.
Breaking Bad just really does not float my boat and watching it does nothing for me so that to but It's controversial because everyone loves to say it's the best show ever made
Breaking Bad just really does not float my boat and watching it does nothing for me so that to but It's controversial because everyone loves to say it's the best show ever made
Constantine. What I watched was enjoyable enough but it's abrupt cancellation is so obvious and the show just hangs there, unfinished and unresolved. I thought it would be worthwhile to see how it ties into the Arrowverse, but ultimately the crossover was largely inconsequential and I could've done without the whole lot.
Liberty4all
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Dexter
Monocle
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Absolutely. I tried to get a couple of people into it. They both excused themselves after episode 5.
TarpitCarnivore
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Lost was a show that was a product of it's time. When you binge watch it you can find it falling apart much easier. This show was built on suspense and luring the viewer back in each week.
Gave up on this after 3(?) episodes. It just felt so....plain?
Side note: noticing more Netflix/High Praise shows than I expected on here.
Lights and Waves
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HIMYM
A Link to the Past
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Did you watch it again? Not that it will necessarily make it better for you, but it's a much better show on a second viewing.
Same, kinda. I really disliked
the direction they were taking Piper. She's just so boring, and frankly, trying to develop her character didn't do much at all besides make me roll my eyes.
Joe Caputo's somewhat face-heel turn to be interesting, and I'm curious how Bennett will develop.
Me watching this show.
"kill him now... Just kill him... Why are you waiting... Stop being a dumb dumb!"
which one?
Morrigan Stark
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Alias
Not even sure why. Shit was terrible
Not even sure why. Shit was terrible
Generally as a series goes on it grows into it's own, so often times when people talk about an "amazing" show they're talking about like mid season 1 or 2, so a lot of people try to get there, only to find out that the show isn't for them.
mysocksarepink
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Lost: the thread
I wish I stopped watching after the 3rd season
I wish I stopped watching after the 3rd season
TheChewyWaffles
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House of Cards. Not nearly enough "holy shit" moments to justify its existence.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Narcos, maybe?
The show isn't super terrible or anything, I'm just certain I would have dropped it if it was a weekly program. Being able to quickly move to the next episode definitely contributed to me finishing it. I still enjoyed it a great deal, I just didn't really that much from it. I would have been better off watching a two hour documentary and getting the full story with less embellishment.
Maybe House of Cards Season 3. But I watched it over an entire year in spurts. Was there the minute it got added to Netflix, watched a few, dropped for a few months, watched some more, dropped, finished it. I probably enjoyed it more than most people because of that.
I regret binging Outlander. I wanted to get caught up for the second season and had only watched a few episodes of the first. So I powered through the entire first season in one sitting. That show is so emotionally dense that I think it's better suited for week to week watching so you can let things marinate. I'm watching Season 2 week to week and loving it.
The show isn't super terrible or anything, I'm just certain I would have dropped it if it was a weekly program. Being able to quickly move to the next episode definitely contributed to me finishing it. I still enjoyed it a great deal, I just didn't really that much from it. I would have been better off watching a two hour documentary and getting the full story with less embellishment.
Maybe House of Cards Season 3. But I watched it over an entire year in spurts. Was there the minute it got added to Netflix, watched a few, dropped for a few months, watched some more, dropped, finished it. I probably enjoyed it more than most people because of that.
I regret binging Outlander. I wanted to get caught up for the second season and had only watched a few episodes of the first. So I powered through the entire first season in one sitting. That show is so emotionally dense that I think it's better suited for week to week watching so you can let things marinate. I'm watching Season 2 week to week and loving it.
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