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Shows you love, but would never defend as good
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I love Tim and Eric, Steve Brule, On Cinema, T&E Nite Live, Bed Time Stories, etc, but I could never defend it as "good" because if you don't get it you don't get it. I feel like a lot of people who dislike it still think they get it but they still don't see all the levels. But you can't tell people that without sounding like an asshole. It's hard to explain even the technical film making ways it's brilliant.
It speaks to you or it doesn't. It's the same with the podcast Hollywood Handbook.
That said, T&E and Absolutely have been majorly influential on comedy, for better AND for worse, and you can't deny that.
I also enjoy some other Adult Swim shows, like Aqua Teens, Eagleheart and Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell, but even I don't think of them as "brilliant." Just a special kind if dumb that I find hilarious.
However, some Absolutely programs, Like Jon Benjamin Has A Van and Review, I will defend to the death.
It speaks to you or it doesn't. It's the same with the podcast Hollywood Handbook.
That said, T&E and Absolutely have been majorly influential on comedy, for better AND for worse, and you can't deny that.
I also enjoy some other Adult Swim shows, like Aqua Teens, Eagleheart and Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell, but even I don't think of them as "brilliant." Just a special kind if dumb that I find hilarious.
However, some Absolutely programs, Like Jon Benjamin Has A Van and Review, I will defend to the death.
blame space
Banned
all the shows i love are de facto good.
Unmasked Ferret
Member
Dark Matter and Firefly.
I wouldn't say I love Flash or Arrow, but I'm not going to stop watching either any time soon. Supernatural I do love, but I'm not going to defend it.
I wouldn't say I love Flash or Arrow, but I'm not going to stop watching either any time soon. Supernatural I do love, but I'm not going to defend it.
madprofessormentley
Neo Member
Lexx! Very weird and fun.
I used to defend Firefly. The last time I watched it I was like "oh... I can see why people don't like this..."
blame space
Banned
in what world is Reba not good
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
Dr. Phil
Nemesis121
Member
Stargate Atlantis thread?
The show was not good by any standard metric. Poor writing. Mediocre characters. But man was that show just campy fun. I really enjoyed it.
oh shit Khal Drogo, i liked Atlantis, it was better than Universe...
This too
Rhomega Beta
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Power Rangers
Freeza Under The Shower
Member
You take that back, boy!
Seriously, Universe is so much better than Atlantis ever was. It just didn't know how to properly escape the Shlockverse of Atlantis. The first season of Atlantis was solid, but then it just... oh my god it made Voyager look like the most exciting piece of television ever, and both shows are "resets 'r us".
also: what's bad about Space: Above and Beyond? For a late 90s show that's about as good as it could get. Sure, it's wonky, but everything was wonky back then(particularly the fact that they didn't share the measurement units of distances in space with other writers, so every episode, someone uses a difference measure of distance leading to some really funny effects. Or: how competent is the writer? Look for their understanding of scale! Only the last episodes switch to the proper norm of AU, or Astronomical Units as any kind of way to understand distances between planets).
There's a huge amount of time and changes between that one and say, the BSG reboot.
Also: once upon a time I had a lot of free time, and watched the entirety... of Charmed, a show that is godawful beyond S2 but I watched it anyway.
Psychoward
Banned
Idk I think most of it is pretty good.
blame space
Banned
at its peak, aqua teen hunger force is the greatest television show ever made.
lem0n
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Fistbump
PepperedHam
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Lol I'm sitting down to watch last week's The Strain as I enter this thread. My answer as well. The show is pretty friggin stupid but it's fun to watch, I look forward to it.
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Deleted member 1235
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I used to like the alien TV show Roswell. Pretty sure it was fucking terrible as most of em never worked again, but I tuned I'm every week. The main girl is pretty great on the unreal show
Andrew Korenchkin
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Drake and Josh.
xcharles718
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IGPX.
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Stargate Atlantis had Kahl Drogo team up with a Power ranger to fight a knockoff terminator. It had its moments of being legitimately good.
Especially The storm/the eye 2 part episode in season 1. Those episodes are legitimately good TV. It's just a shame that the rotting corpse that was SG1 S9/10 kept jumping to Atlantis and making it worse
Especially The storm/the eye 2 part episode in season 1. Those episodes are legitimately good TV. It's just a shame that the rotting corpse that was SG1 S9/10 kept jumping to Atlantis and making it worse
shawnbuddy
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Smallville is not good. It's actually very stupid and repetitive. Sometimes infuriatingly so. But I love it anyway.
theSlacker
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People rate it on potential, which it had tons of. Mostly because it had so few episodes it wasn't yet given the chance to suck. I agree it is overrated because of that, but it still could have been a great show if it continued. It just as easily could have turned into drawn out garbage though. What we got was a promising start.
Anyway, for me it would be Highlander. I loved the fuck out of that show, but even when I was into it I knew it was schlock.
Oh, that's another good one: classic Doctor Who. As someone who's been watching the show since early childhood and has pretty much the entire classic series on DVD, boy is there a lot of trash in there. Just tons of dull stuff, hammy stuff, nonsensical stuff and everything in-between.
Heaps of great stuff too, but yeah. Couldn't fault a modern viewer for totally not getting the appeal.
Heaps of great stuff too, but yeah. Couldn't fault a modern viewer for totally not getting the appeal.
NoblesseOblige
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I don't think I'd defend any show I enjoy as good because I'm not very qualified to make that decision.
FullMetalx117
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Entourage and Scrubs (is this one actually considered not good?)
firebricks3
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Diners Drive-Ins and Dives would be a great show except for Guy. But it wouldn't be that show without him, so I dunno.
DeaconKnowledge
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Maury.
It's such trash TV and there are only 3 variations to the episodes (Paternity/Cheating/I was derpy, but Look at me now!) But it NEVER fails to deliver hilarious moments.
It's such trash TV and there are only 3 variations to the episodes (Paternity/Cheating/I was derpy, but Look at me now!) But it NEVER fails to deliver hilarious moments.
torre_avenue
Banned
Factually incorrect.
Drake & Josh is amazing. It'll get its moment in the nostalgia sun, just like early Spongebob has.
SigmasonicX
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Not so much "love", but I often watch shonen anime past the point where many say they get bad. Naruto, Bleach, and especially Fairy Tail
The_Hitcher89
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Flashforward 
umop_3pisdn
Member
I couldn't think of anything until I recognized that this is probably the one for me. I don't even really know why I like it to be honest.
malingenie
Member
Hemlock grove s1
umop_3pisdn
Member
Maybe it is, I don't really have any frame of reference for it, but I wouldn't ever recommend it to anyone or take the effort to defend my choice to watch it.
Everything about the manga and the show I just can't watch.Baki The Grappler
My greatest guilty pleasure in anime. It is one of the most enertaining martial arts anime ever, but I realize the appeal for this series is niche lol.
I mean, just look at this:
That tells you everything you need to know.
It has to be the most offputting art style I've ever seen and the mangaka has been doing Baki for so fucking long now.
Plus it comes across like a power fantasy pills dream for the mangaka.
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