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.
Supernatural, I watched 8-ish seasons. Younger me had bad standards
I can’t figure out if Future Man is the worst show I’ve ever seen…or kind of charming.
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.
All my group wtched every episode, pure vibe soapy shit.
Every season was the same, new bad guy oh he is ruthless but wait all my guys arrived an hour ago in a van so actually fuck you. Dont take my vest or stupid slow bike that I can only transport two handguns at a time on.
Peaky Blinders is similar.
Ugh, and the shit editing to make it look like they’re driving over 15 mph on the back lots.
The witcher.
Wtf
Under The Dome. Terrific Stephen King epic, with a huge cast of characters, including one of his best villains, and I was really looking forward to the series.
It opened okay, and they did a good job of showing the Dome coming down, but a few episodes in they introduced some weird supernatural nonsense that didn’t exist in the original, and I was out.
It really pissed me off. It was a great story, all they had to do was tell it, but they had to get “creative” and fuck it up.
I’ve heard it was only supposed to be a mini series. About 4 episodes. But then the studio noticed the buzz after it was announced and they told the production team to turn it into a running series, which is why it got padded with extra story elements and stretched out.
They flogged it for 3 seasons.
The Walking Dead. A friend kept telling me how great the show was, but it never really sounded like anything I would find interesting. Sure enough, when I agreed to check it out, it was just so… boring. I couldn’t get past the first episode because nothing interesting was happening, despite trying on 3 separate occasions to do so. Finally had to tell my friend that I wouldn’t be trying again.
I love zombie media, and Walking Dead season 1 was really good, thrilling even. And then it changed to really thick drama with occasional zombie somewhere and I lost interest. Then my SO was watching it and they were… herding zombies?
The first season was pretty good. Then they fired the creator and made whatever the rest is supposed to be
If that was good, I can’t imagine how it ever got as popular as it did.
I have to disagree. I agree on the whole that it isn’t a satisfying or good show as a whole. But the first few seasons were great. It just failed later.
lol. If you thought the first season was boring, be glad you stopped. The second season on The Farm was soooo dull. For a show about zombies, there were barely any to speak of until the last episode. And then the show just got ridiculous and repetitive in later seasons.
You guys we have to find Sophia
I held on for a good while, but I was finished when a whole fucking episode was in slow motion.
I watched 8 seasons and read the comic. There was a turning point that where the theme changed from the decay of the old world toward building a new one… and the theme song needed to change to incorporate this. Then I realized the theme song was the best part.
I found the first episode so tropey and…. predictable isn’t the right word, but you knew who was about to get bit even through it didn’t make sense. Rote? Clumsy? Something something. I also didn’t make it past ep1
I watched the first season when I was in university. But then they moved it over to cable which we couldn’t get and so I never watched any of the rest of it. After I finished university I think I dipped into it again and was just so completely bored by the characters that I just stopped watching again.
The main plot arc on the first season was him carrying around that damn grenade. Which was ultimately used to blow up some, bulletproof glass. Wow.
I can’t remember the names of any of the characters but at one point one of the characters is having it off with one of the other characters, but in secret for some reason even though both of their spouses are dead so I don’t see the problem, anyway they go into the woods all alone, in a zombie apocalypse, for some privacy, (again why) and get attacked by a zombie. Talk about stupid decisions.
Not liking it I understand, but actually worst show ever ? That’s some big hyperbole.
I never said it was the worst show ever. The question asked what was the worst show we ever tried to seriously engage with. For me it was The Walking Dead. I tried to give it a fair chance and it sucked massively. Sorry if my opinion upsets your delicate sensibilities.
Don’t worry, you have not offended me.
I just can’t can’t believe it’s the worst show you have ever watched. Either, as I said you are exagereting, or you haven’t watched a lot of things.Again, I feel like you’re reading things that I’m not saying. The Walking Dead, although I didn’t enjoy it at all, is not the worst show I’ve seen. I’m saying that it’s the worst show I’ve seen with the intention to try and watch it. I’ve seen much worse trash like the Kardashians and all those other reality shows. But I hate shows like that and would never attempt to sit down and enjoy them. Does that make things clearer?
Edit: Maybe if I said it’s the show that disappointed me the most? That I tried to enjoy but just couldn’t?
Yeah that I get. And actually now that I re-read the OP, your answer is actually closer to the intended question. So the confusion is on me, sorry about that :o
Supernatural and Smallville were… too long. I can’t even remember where I dropped them, but it was way too far in already.
I do have a hotter take:
NATLA (Netflix Avatar, the last Airbender) is fine. It’s not bad! It’s like an AU with scenes we never got to see.
I see some people rage that they suffered through the whole season, and don’t get the fuss.
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.
In another turning, maybe.
Ok, maybe a warm take, but Jordan’s books are not great. The first 2-3 are great. But then it fucking drags. Sanderson does a decent job wrapping things up, but there is so much fucking fluff that was just unnecessary.
I will, however, protest having Padin Fain be a Forsaken. That was a definite misstep imo. Fain is supposed to be a chaotic 3rd party who can use the tools of the Forsaken but is explicitly not aligned with them.
Otherwise, season 2 was a big step up from s1. Haven’t gotten around to s3, since it got canned.
Scorching hot take: I thought the first book was a terrible fanfic of the fellowship of the ring and was embarrassingly bad.
Then some friends told me that was the BEST book in the series until Sanderson took over 😬
Nobody ever told you the first book was the best. Literally nobody says that.
The friend who introduced me to the series does!
Yeah. I think I read WoT too late. It is the template of modern YA literature and since I had read and seen other YA products, WoT was lost on me. I did do three of the books and all three were so repetitive.
Add a fucking spoiler warning, I’m only on book 7!
Fucking damn it! Here I was thinking Taim would turn out to be Demandred. Fuck!
The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
Blood and bloody ashes!
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?
That’s not universally true. What about Fallout, The Boys, Invincible, Vox Machina/Mighty Nein? And more that escape my mushy brain.
See, I don’t know how to answer that because I’ve never watched any of those, since I don’t give money to Jeff Bezos; he already has enough.
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.
Jesse is the foil. Walt makes decision after bad decision and never feels the consequences – Jesse does.
I think the show works for some people, but I have a pet peeve about plots driven forward by stupid characters making obviously stupid decisions (Jesse Pinkman in this case). It was an immediate turn off for me.
You might check out “Better Call Saul” though. Many of the better written characters from Breaking Bad show up here, and the spin off stands on its own until you get to the last half of the last season. You don’t have to have watched the other show to enjoy or follow it.
but I have a pet peeve about plots driven forward by stupid characters making obviously stupid decisions (Jesse Pinkman in this case)
Do you remember what decision that was? One of the things I really like about BB is that every character behaves fairly sensibly and realistically, so I’m a bit surprised.
Also by the end of the show, Jesse is one of the only characters making sense. I’d argue he does start there (not sure of the specifics they’re referring to), but his character dynamics with the world and Walt sort of flip.
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.
I loved the books. It didn’t matter that the characters were 1 dimensional representations of a concept or political viewpoint, because it was about the ideas amd the setting and the events. Then I struggled thru the Chinese TV series of it because the books were so cool, and the Wang Miao and Da Shi actors were good together. But I think I’ve had my fill of this story and will never get around to watching the Netflix version.
I tried the books because I liked the concept. I tried 3 times to read the books. Couldn’t get into it. Then I heard they got a show and I tried again, hoping I could get into it for the show. Again, I couldn’t. And so I watched the show, hoping that would get me into it enough to finish. It wasn’t. I think I saw 5 episodes. And I just gave up on everything from all of it. I realized I couldn’t get into any aspect.
Yeah, the books have a certain personality that can be hard to get into. Im not sure if it was a translation issue or what. I found the first one a bit of slog, but the 2nd and 3rd got increasingly better. And that’s surprising for a sci-fi book trilogy because usually all the fun creative world building stuff is in the first one.
Would you recommend the adaption at all? I wnt the story
Oh dear god that show is terrible. The pacing is all over the place and every character is at best annoying.
You know the show is gonna be bad when not even the trailers look horrible. I distinctly remember cringing at some of John Bradley’s lines in the first couple of teasers. I think they must have realized that his dialogue was awful because they started cutting his character completely out of the later trailers.
Obi Wan. Mandalorian was a little disappointing but cool and zeitgeisty, Boba Fett was worse, then the Obi Wan show was just unwatchable. Which is weird because Andor was so much better than it had any right to be.
It’s sad because The Obi Wan show got retooled repeatedly during production. Pretty sure exec meddling ruined it. “Baby yoda is a huge hit! Let’s add baby Leia to Obi Wan stat!”
The Acolyte was by far the worst live action SW ever made
I actually watched The Acolyte and liked it better than Boba Fett and Obi Wan.
Eh yeah orobably to be fair, Boba sucked. Obi Wan had cool moments same as Acolyte. That helmut headbut to the lightsaber was fantastic
I feel compelled to watch every episode of a series to the end. I’m so bad about this that I still try to catch up on Simpsons.
I gave up on Obi and never went back to finish it. That is despite Ewan being an amazing Obi Wan.
The world may never know if they ever finished filming Obi Wan, because we can’t find anyone to try watching all the way through…
Obi Wank Enobi
This was the last Star Wars thing I watched and was the final straw for me. Made a resolution then and there to never watch this shit ever again, no matter how many times people say “it’s actually really good though” about the latest Disney Star Wars thing (exactly what they said about the Obi-Wan show).
Andor is actually really good though. Totally unlike the other Disney Star Wars slop.
Mandalorian was far better than andor tho.
Mando was a grear two season run. 1 season of motw type and season 2 for the last episode.
I was telling a joke about the Obi Wan series. Obi Wan KeNoni “Noni” is a way of saying “I’m sleepy” in Argentine Spanish.
Kind of not answering the question but I still feel it applies.
The whole premise of Suits was bullshit and meant while I enjoyed the show I was constantly getting pissed off by the “Mikes Secret” storyline.
Definitely one of the most prestigious law firms in New York, Almost certainly the country and known worldwide is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NEVER going to knowingly hire someone without a law degree and allow them to practice law not even if that man is the smartest legal mind alive.
Harvey was my fancast for Reed Richards.
It’s kind of hard to go back to USA network shows from the time. Except for Psych. I’ll always be here for Psych.
Oh, you know that’s right.
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.
I watched the full season and the movie, but I walked away not feeling much. People claim it’s one of the best shows of all time and deserving of a comeback, but I just can’t see it.
This is fair.
Firefly is straight up my alley, and I liked it, but it’s not in my top sci fi TV.
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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.
Game of Thrones really went from having plot so intriguing and culturally iconic that it inspired fan theories across multiple decades, to the show with lesbians and dragons.
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?
No. I was out the second a robot murdered someone.
I, Robot was a better adaptation of Asimov.
Are there any good adaptations of Asimov besides Fantastic Voyage and Bicentennial Man?
Besides the seminal I, Robot? Not that I know of. Does Data’s positronic brain count?
The show is only good for the Empire plot. I mean… rebellion poison-cloning Dawn and getting close to him to get him on their side, and then Day figuring it out, and ruthlessly squashing all of it! Totally new, and very well crafted, with great character. I suspect Day actor chop is holding the show on his shoulder. In last season, when they dude-fied him, I was thinking it was over… and then he make it work somehow.
The foundation side is indeed very bad character, and serviceable plot.
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
First season was weak. Later seasons gradually improve.
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.
I used to feel the same way when it came out. Big fan of the books and was immediately put off by how much was changed in the first few episodes. But my wife got curious and we watched it again together a few months ago, finishing the three seasons and loved it all.
Yes things are different, but those things work if you let em. It’s less an adaptation of the books and more of a musician of a different genre doing a cover song. You do you, but maybe give it another shot. I’m glad I did.
It’s a remix of the foundation, understand why they did it because otherwise they’d have to switch of the cast every few episodes. The series is set up to make people that didn’t read the books like it and I personally think a lot of what they did makes sense. Some of the changes are good, some are bad, all unfaithful but given how hard it is to put this book on screen I can see why.
Did you like the Cleon-Empire plot?
