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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Dr. Who

All of them

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Breaking Bad. I tried twice, got a little farther each time but, just lost interest.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I really wanted to like Firefly, but the characters felt too silly and two dimensional.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Expanse

Stranger Things

Deep Space Nine

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[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

The Boys. First season had raw charm with some cool punk tracks, then season two sterilised it and it seemed to become another day time TV show. Had a similar experience with Black Mirror once that got the American/Hollywood treatment. Always Sunny lost its charm when the gang went to Ireland. Aweful end to what was otherwise a good series. But I mostly dislike American TV.

[–] kalipixel@reddthat.com 3 points 6 days ago

I liked that in the beginning of The Boys it was mostly normal humans approaching supers with creativity. In later seasons it seems more like superheroes against supervillains with some normal people on each side. Like a marvel series but with gore and obscenities.

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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Succession. I stopped watching somewhere in the 2nd season.

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I watch quite a lot of series and enjoy some of them. TV has never been too good, and nowadays its the most obvious that write-as-you-go model has blatant flaws. Storytelling is difficult enough already, but it's worse when you don't know how many episodes you actually have to tell the story, and you have to argue with other writers to include your scenes and plot lines.

I constantly find myself enjoying miniseries the most. The ending makes the story. So, the second best shows are those where every season or series has a self-contained opening and ending arcs. Cliffhangers bore me, most hooks are lost on me. Usually when characters seem to meander and roam aimlessly is because the writers are lost as well. And plots of convenience (where magically something just happened by chance to create or resolve a new plotline, or deus ex machina) just completely bore me.

So, anyways, to answer the question. True Blood lost me completely midway second season. Awesome world, but the writers didn't know how to write for shit.

[–] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Manifest. Holy shit, I tried. But wow, just mind numbing.

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