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My biggest problem with most of the shows listed is they have to outdo themselves and go on for too long.

Season one: Great premise!

Season Two: Same premise, but TWICE the danger!

Season three: I don't know, robot ninjas or something?

Never got the appeal of these ones. They aren't bad shows, but they did not do it for me.

Game of Thrones

Lost

Better Call Saul

Peaky Blinders

Breaking Bad

Big Bang Theory

Lost was the tv version of clickbait. 3 concurrent story lines rotated from week to week. Every episode a cliffhanger that you had to wait 2 more weeks to resolve into a nothing burger. Even watching that shit on disc or streaming is annoying as fuck. I might have liked what was going on story wise, but I got too annoyed with the format to get past mid season 2.

Friends.

Seems like everyone likes this show but I dont think I ever watched a full episode.

My humor is more like Scrubs, Seinfeld, IT Crowd.

Walking dead. I think I finished the second episode. But I'm not even sure about that one. It was utterly boring

Yellowstone. With shows like The Sopranos or Sons of Anarchy you know the characters are evil, but you can connect just enough for it to be compelling.

In Yellowstone it feels like they want you to see the characters as the heros, when they are mass-murdering, slave-owning oligarchs. They buy cops and politicians to gain power, but get bent on revenge if other powers don't "play by the rules". I didn't last too long, but everyone else seems to love it.

The Walking Dead. Felt more like the Talking Dead, the pacing was far too slow for me and it didn't seem like much was happening.

Rick & Morty. Then the whole szechuan sauce thing happened and I can't look at any content from that show without cringing. LOOK GUYS IM PICKLE RI-stop please it's not funny.

Friends

How I met your mother

Big Bang Theory

The Umbrella Academy: in the first couple of series like nothing happens and everyone is very sad.

Game of Thrones. To me it just came across as torture porn. Just a series of awful things happening to people from one scene to the next. The schtick about different kingdoms and families vying for the throne or whatever was just the backdrop and context to rape, abuse and murder, which was the star of the show.

I love fantasy but that show didn't do it for me in the slightest. Not interested in checking out any of that guy's books either.

Breaking Bad. Just lost interest half way through.

The Mandalorian

Noped out after season 1. They revealed his face during a filler episode, during a boring scene, instead of waiting an episode or two longer for the real gut punch reveal at the end of the last episode.

It was stupid. It killed what would have been one of the best face reveals in cinema history. I had no patience for the show after that. Almost didn't bother finishing the rest of the season. I don't really care what their reasons were. Contractual. Whatever. Don't care.

Game of Thrones - I'm not good with seeing sexual violence and it felt like it was happening every five minutes.

My Dress up Darling - I understand why people would like it, but I don't understand why it was so huge. But I'm getting old.

Beastars - my friend and I watched it in one day and it just didn't do anything for us. I found most of the characters kind of a annoying.

My Hero Academia - I mean this in the best way possible, but I could see myself loving this if I was a kid.

Mushoku Tensi - I know people love this one. I watched the entire first season and I found the protagonist so revolting. I didn't care that he was a cute kid now and gets better and what have you, I thought he was gross.

Friends - I could never get it. I found it boring and unfunny.

Stranger Things - I actually really enjoyed the first season, but I got tired of the kids as they got older. It felt like it was shifting into a teen drama and I found myself skipping through it before I let it go.

YOU - Weird guy stalks a girl. Glad someone enjoys it, but I got tired of it real quick.

Most of the popular ones. Especially Game of Thrones. As soon as the incestuous couple threw the little boy off the tower, I was outta there. I'm so tired of shows about horrible people doing horrible things.

Most anything in recently years, TBH. I always check out what's popular with the reasoning that something about it has to be good if so many people like it, and it used to work out pretty well. Not so much in the last 5 or 6 years.

The new version of Lost in Space just has people in danger constantly and then making the dumbest decision in that situation possible.

Same with 'suits', I really liked it in the beginning, until it was just too painful to watch. Each storyline was set up in a way that there was one path for the protagonists to take that would lead to certain disaster, and lo.and behold, at the end of every episode that path is exactly the path they took.

This happens until you start wondering if you're just looking at the dumbest lawyers or astronauts in existence.

Walking dead. The opening episode is so fucking stupid and poorly written. People were just desperate for any zombie show at the time.

I even asked a fangirl why they watch this shit ass show. She agreed it was shit but says she kept going cause your brain forgets the bad bits and remembers the good.

Sons of Anarchy

It's basically a soap opera. Over the top and with no real direction. The writers were pretty much making it as they go using all the old tricks to keep you hooked.

I watched it until season 2. Before I started watching the season finale I realized I didn't care how it ended and just dump it.

Walking dead. Only season one was good

Westworld. I started watching it twice, and both times I thought it was really good until I ran out of patience about not knowing what the hell was going on.

Masked Singer.

Panelists after every song: OMG that was unbelievable! That singing blew me away! Greatest singing in the history of music! I'm a changed person! Thank God I lived to witness this incredibly amazing performance!

Audience members: [gasping, staring in disbelief, open-mouthed amazement, verging on tears]

Dark.

First season was decent, but after a certain point the cognitive load required to keep track of the timeline(s) and character relationships just made it feel exhausting and not fun to watch.

Twin Peaks. Couldn't stand it.

Battlestar Galactica. Like a lot of the shows people have been mentioning, all it did was raise the stakes every episode. It didn't feel like it was building anything meaningful, just building up to something.

The most meaningful example of this (spoilers for like a twenty year old show) for me was when they're in the ship looking for water or whatever and the human cylon just ignores the indicator saying "Water here! Check here!" and the scene just. keeps. going. I swear it felt like half the episode.

Better Call Saul. I liked Saul in Breaking Bad and learning more about him and his past was great, but I hated knowing how low he has to be by the end for Breaking Bad to make sense. The higher he climbed in the show, the more of a tragedy it became. Just had to put it down some time near the end of Part 2 when he started doing stuff to his brother.

On the one hand I do still want to know what happens to his brother, but on the other hand I hate watching a car crash I know is about to happen before its shown the first signs of drifting into the wrong lane and (mentally) shouting at the screen to stop making stupid decisions.

Worth mentioning that although I acknowledge Breaking Bad would not really happen at all if not for Walter and his pride, but I still despise how much he lets his pride destroy him over and over again. As such I also don't particularly care for the later seasons of Breaking Bad, but at least with those I didn't really know the end so I didn't know how much it was going to keep going downhill beforehand. Oddly enough for this reason I feel like I may have enjoyed Better Call Saul more before having watched Breaking Bad.

I agree with a lot of the shows listed. I loved TWD but after the Negan stuff, I was so incredibly bored that I gave up, couldn't get into Parks and Rec. Tried 3 episodes before deciding it wasn't for me, etc.

But the one show I haven't seen listed yet is Supernatural. I was obsessed with that show for the first 5 seasons (which was how many the show creator wanted it to go on for) and then it just became so unbearable and ridiculous that I completely gave up by season 7. This one died, but not really. This one died and got brought back - 3 times. This one swapped bodies. This character is actually this character, but SIKE! it was THIS character all along!

Give me a break.

Then it went on for like 8 more seasons and I just cannot fathom that.