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[NightmareFarm]

Mine is that I didn't like True Detective season 1 much. I LOVED the mid portion of the show when it focused on drama between the main duo and their families but the rest of it just felt like a boring endless goose chase. The detective work is mostly just go to point a to talk to someone who has a lead then go to point b to get the next lead, rinse and repeat. It could have done with more moments like when Cohle infiltrated the bikers gang to find a lead, which were much more exciting since they were putting themselves in danger. But those moments are far and few in between. The finale kind of felt weird and anticlimactic as well.

Oh and also, Prison Break Season 2 is peak TV.

 

[March Climber]

A part of me misses procedural shows where the cast would have an entirely new case every week. There are still a few good ones around, like The Rookie with Nathan Fillion, but for the most part they have been replaced with reality TV, contest shows, shows trying to be the next GoT or Breaking Bad, or people adapting popular books into limited series.

I feel like because of this, we will never have a new Star Trek that comes close to what TNG managed to do, because they’re either too silly or way too serious, both missing the point.

The Orville was the closest a show ever came to being TNG-like.

 

[Valedix]

Probably a popular opinion idk lol but Disney+ ruined the MCU.

 

[bitbydeath]

Parks and Rec just isn’t that funny…
Superstore is a much better comedy sitcom.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Probably a popular opinion idk lol but Disney+ ruined the MCU.

Far from unpopular if you're a sane person.

 

[Hrk69]

Not sure of it's unpopular but I absolutely hate flashback episodes/series. I'm dropping the series if it's too frequent

One of the reasons I couldn't care less about Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

 

[bender]

Beyond Omar's "arc", Season 5 of The Wire is complete garbage.

 

[Goss Harag]

Will Smith is by far the worst thing about Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The rest of the cast is great, but he's an overacting unfunny, annoying little scrote. And THAT scene that everyone points to about him being great is a load of old toss.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I watched 5 minutes of that Blue Eyed Samurai show on Netflix and I noped out

That was cringe as fuck, not to mention, woke and Feminazi too. I was rolling my eyes during those 5 minutes

 

[bender]

I watched 5 minutes of that Blue Eyed Samurai show on Netflix and I noped out

That was cringe as fuck, not to mention, woke and Feminazi too. I was rolling my eyes during those 5 minutes

I don't really care one way or the other about "woke", I just hated how predictable the episode was.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I don't really care one way or the other about "woke", I just hated how predictable the episode was.

It was just cringe for me

I couldn't last for 5 minutes lol

 

[eddie4]

Friends is not funny at all.

 

[GymWolf]

I know people love that lol arcane show but i thought it was a piece of shit with terrible protagonists, the crazy little sister was downright terrible, i couldn't even finish it when i realized that the little crazy bitch was the actual protagonist.

Great art design tho.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise are all superior to the original Star Trek.

Star Trek Enterprise is also a really good show.

 

[FunkMiller]

Mad Men was dull shit that people pretended to like to sound smart.

 

[bitbydeath]

Friends is not funny at all.

 

[CGNoire]

Welp....there it is.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

If you think Breaking Bad is great TV you need to watch more fiction.

 

[Porcile]

Beyond Omar's "arc", Season 5 of The Wire is complete garbage.

It's overtly meta and much sillier for it, and obviously David Simon had a massive axe to grind but I think it resolved every character's story pretty much perfectly.

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

1.) A lot of the “Great tv” is not all that “great”. The majority of content is either garbage or barely passable that releases annually. It is heavily influenced by media outlets and not letting tv show’s stand on their own merits.

2.) Most tv show’s seasons should only be 5-10 episodes a season. They go on too long and I believe it dilutes the quality of the seasons.

3.) Even if a show is procedural then it needs better writing. Creators have too many “throw away“ episodes.

 

[AJUMP23]

Lost season 1 is good, the rest is pretty bad, the ending ruins all enjoyment of the series.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Lost season 1 is good, the rest is pretty bad, the ending ruins all enjoyment of the series.

The only reason I watched Lost was to watch crazy shit happen. That's all lol

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

Show’s like Lost, 24, Halt and Catch Fire, Nip Tuck, and many more are carried by a great first season, and a specific “shock moment” in later season that carries it.

 

[Papa_Wisdom]

TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise are all superior to the original Star Trek.

Star Trek Enterprise is also a really good show.

Agreed I loved ds9 and enterprise was cut short just as it was getting into its groove.

Also Babylon 5, Farscape and battle star galactica are amazing

Drawn together is superior to American dad and family guy. Though South Park is still the best hands down.

Daria was also fucking amazing.

 

[AJUMP23]

HBO has not surpassed ROME as a series.



Except for Band of Brothers.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

HBO has not surpassed ROME as a series.



Except for Band of Brothers.

I've been watching Carnivàle. It's a good show

After I finished watching that, I'll be watching Deadwood and Band of Brothers/The Pacific next

 

[DKehoe]

I think I've mentioned this here before. But that Avatar The Last Airbender cartoon isn't remotely close to being one of the best shows ever. I don't get why some talk about it like it's on that level.

 

[AJUMP23]

and Band of Brothers/The Pacific next

BoB is the greatest show of all time. I have seen it about 20 times. You should also read the book.

The Pacific is good, but it is not BoB good. I think there is a disconnect between the characters compared to BoB. They also focus one whole episode on a romance. It is also based on 2 books. It doesn't feel as cohesive.

 

[Toots]

Drag Race France is better than the original

 

[WhiteWaterM00se]

I think I've mentioned this here before. But that Avatar The Last Airbender cartoon isn't remotely close to being one of the best shows ever. I don't get why some talk about it like it's on that level.

I bought this for my kids. Is it a good anime?

 

[ChazAshley]

Seinfeld is not funny. The main characters just come off as obnoxious (I know that's part of the schtick, but it fails to be humorous)

Big bang theory is in the same boat

 

[Davesky]

Lost is actually a great tv show if you think of the plot as a metaphor for the karmic cycle of death and rebirth and eventually reaching enlightenment. The island is actually an analogy of the reality we percieve within three dimensional space-time. Desmond’s story makes perfect sense with the well researched links between Near-Death Experiences and precognition.

 

[DKehoe]

I bought this for my kids. Is it a good anime?

From what I watched it seems like a decently made kids show. So it's not like it's terrible. It's just that I don't get people talking about it like it's up there alongside The Wire, The Sopranos etc.

 

[TGO]

Seinfeld is not funny. The main characters just come off as obnoxious (I know that's part of the schtick, but it fails to be humorous)


Big bang theory is in the same boat

Simon Helberg is actually funny though.
And would be the first one to get cancelled if it was still airing

 

[EverydayBeast]

I wouldn’t write off a Blacklist comeback, Dexter proved that how shows come back for another season.

 

[belmarduk]

The ending of The Sopranos was just fine.

 

[Quasicat]

The Office is a terrible show. It doesn’t matter whether it‘s the British version or the American version.

 

[Doom85]

Friends is not funny at all.

I would love to see a cut of just the scenes of Joey and Chandler together. The times I had to watch the show, those two’s interaction with each other was the only stuff I found funny, like their hijinks in London. The ladies are fine but not particularly funny, and Ross is insufferable.

 

[PaddyOCanager]

If you think Breaking Bad is great TV you need to watch more fiction.

I've tried to get through the series 3 separate times.

I honestly think the show is unbearable. A few of my friends say it's their favorite of all time and I just don't see it.

 

[bender]

It's overtly meta and much sillier for it, and obviously David Simon had a massive axe to grind but I think it resolved every character's story pretty much perfectly.

To the detriment of his established characters which lead to unbelievable motivations combined with all that was being new being largely uninteresting. The only thing I consider perfect, is Omar's resolution.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I watched 5 minutes of that Blue Eyed Samurai show on Netflix and I noped out

That was cringe as fuck, not to mention, woke and Feminazi too. I was rolling my eyes during those 5 minutes

But it is the favorite tv show of Hideo Kojima, the master of masters of Metal gear.

 

[BossLackey]

Mine is that I didn't like True Detective season 1 much. I LOVED the mid portion of the show when it focused on drama between the main duo and their families but the rest of it just felt like a boring endless goose chase. The detective work is mostly just go to point a to talk to someone who has a lead then go to point b to get the next lead, rinse and repeat. It could have done with more moments like when Cohle infiltrated the bikers gang to find a lead, which were much more exciting since they were putting themselves in danger. But those moments are far and few in between. The finale kind of felt weird and anticlimactic as well.

I could not agree more. I really enjoyed the beginning and middle of TD S1, but when it wrapped up, I simply couldn't understand how over the moon everyone was. It felt like the final quarter of the show was the writers trying to break out of the corner they had painted themselves into. Some lazy/sloppy stuff, especially in the last two episodes.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Not only is the big bang theory entirely unfunny but its fucking insulting.

 

[lifa-cobex]

Always Sunny in Philadelphia isn't that funny.

In fact I think it's really tame.

 

[Trunx81]

The first two seasons of Coupling are the best sitcom ever produced.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

But it is the favorite tv show of Hideo Kojima, the master of masters of Metal gear.

 

[Happosai]

Fawlty Towers in all it's shortness (and only 2 short seasons) was better than all of Monty Python: Flying Circus. Flying Circus skits were hit or miss. Some landed well and others seemed to appeal more toward shock or dark humor of the day. Fawlty Towers could have easily been a team project but it was evident that only Booth was interested in writing the exhaustive scripts with Cleese. Therefore, it really became their show and kept short; it never burned out or became repetitive.

In animation I have dozens. I'll say this if unpopular hot takes are welcome. He-Man and any other nostalgia people have for made-by-night, recycled model sheets and some of the poorest animation implementation of the 1980's is all evidenced that the show was a failure. Folks only remember it as 'great' because they (or their parents) were part of the merchandising cash cow it became. Filmation was known for mishandling anything that fell into their hands. Their animators hated them (and I've discussed this with a few), model sheets were some strange recycled outdated style from H/B or Ruby-Spears influence which looked more late-60s than anything 80s, outsourced studios were the absolute worst ones and mistakes can be linked all the way back to the boards. This was animating cartoons for toy companies who knew nothing about animation but were funding everything.

 

[Mossybrew]

Avatar The Last Airbender

At times I feel like the only person who has never seen a single episode of this cartoon.

This thread is good for a chuckle, a few reasonable opinions but some really awful ones too.

Superstore is a much better comedy sitcom.

Superstore is super underrated, by far the best and funniest workplace sitcom.

 

[Putonahappyface]

HBO has not surpassed ROME as a series.



Except for Band of Brothers.

How about The Sopranos or Boardwalk Empire? I agree with you on Band of Brothers and The Pacific.

 

[Happosai]

Here's another one. Tales from the Crypt the comic was okay. Tales from the Crypt the English movie was the best. Tales from the Crypt the 1989 TV series from HBO was sub-par.

And another. The Twilight Zone remake in the 80s was okay (there was a thread on this). The Twilight Zone the movie (1981) was sub-par mostly due to choppy editing (no pun intended respectfully to Vic). The Twilight Zone the original series is greater than all of those.

And one last one. Tales from the Darkside the movie was just a cash-in on anthology films like Creepshow. Tales from the Darkside the TV show even with it's low budget was great. Monsters (the likely forgotten TV spin-off of Tales from the Darkside TV) was awful and is nearly unwatchable.