26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group

Knowing how many TV shows there are, it gets hard to pick that one funny or interesting show that is really worth watching. Have you ever experienced that situation when someone recommended you watch something and after you did, you were disappointed and questioning why people like this series so much? Having this in mind, one Reddit user was curious to find out which TV series that seem to receive the most praise are actually overrated.

The post with 30.2k upvotes was soon turned into a list of various old and new TV shows that a lot of viewers saw as masterpieces, but some people found them to be overvalued and not that good. It included some of the all-time favorites such as Friends and Game of Thrones. Some users explained why some of the series are not so good, stressing some details of the plots.

Which one of these series do you find overrated? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts and names that haven’t been mentioned in the comments down below!

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Bust out the downvotes folks: The Super Bowl.

No continuity. They keep changing the main characters every god damn year, the central romantic arc between Tom Brady & everyone on Earth got stale real quick. Weirdest laugh track of any show on this list, guaranteed. The lack of female representation is beyond cringe.

Besides Tom Brady there isn’t a single female character for almost 30 seasons.

But the final straw for me was the way they killed off Kaepernick, finally get a character with real substance & kill him off b/c cancel culture has no f**king boundaries.

Ugh.

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Final score:

402points

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Best. Summary. Ever. (And I love US football)

87points

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

That show needed to end when it started showing sexual hijinks as the primary concern of interns, residents, and doctors. No. Seriously, no. Sure, some hanky-panky may occur, but trust me, we're not sitting on the floor maundering on about what to do with our lives. We're reading another chart, putting on the game face, and dreaming of uninterrupted sleep. (From my days as a med student -onward, anyway.)

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The walking dead is something that always baffled me how it went beyond ~2 seasons.

They had the same loop of storyline repeated in every season - they run, they find shelter, they go out for food, someone gets bitten, they get overrun, they have to find somewhere new. Rinse and repeat for like 10 seasons.

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Bill Evs 3 years ago (edited)

I had exactly the same feeling with this show (i.e. the rinse and repeat). It got to the stage where I thought it didn't even need to be a zombie show, it could've just been any generic post apocalypse scenario as the zombies became just an afterthought. I made it to the mid point of season 5 then ended up missing a few episodes. I kept telling myself I'd go back and watch them but as the weeks rolled on and more and more episodes kept building I found that I didn't really care anymore. That to me is when a show is on it's way out, not love or hate for it rather total indifference. Sad really as when it started it was one of my "can't miss" shows.

58points

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group How I Met Your Mother. Every episode glorifies Ted’s toxic behavior and makes it look romantic. I get so triggered watching that show

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Final score:

236points

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Supernatural 3 years ago

Then why watch?

84points

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group If no one else will say it, I will. Squid game is WAY overhyped. I’ve seen people say it’s the best Netflix show or even the best Korean show. If people give other Asian media a chance they’ll find way better than automatically assuming that the first Asian show they see on Netflix is the best thing ever.

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203points

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H Edwards 3 years ago

Just doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

72points

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Gilmore Girls. Rory is a horrible person

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Ksenia M 3 years ago

Agree about Rory but I loved Lorelai

53points

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group FRIENDS!

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Final score:

181points

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Could you BE more wrong?!

189points

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Most doctor/hospital shows. They can be ok for a while but they get predictable quickly and run for way too long.

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177points

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

ER. That show was done after two-three seasons. Just soap opera.

32points

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The Big Bang Theory

I cannot stress this enough.

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173points

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Ozacoter 3 years ago

Sexism, racism, homophobia, gatekeeping nerd culture. I loved the premise but the series is really bad.

55points

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#10

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165points

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Erika Jones 3 years ago

Ugh, yes. My daughter was obsessed with it. A show that basically glorified teen suicide!

57points

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#11

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Game of thrones hands down, it left good threads hanging but never really stitched them into anything.

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148points

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TitanFoxX 3 years ago

Mostly it was murder, betrayal, tits and an occasional penis.

77points

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#12

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Suits - Most of the episodes consists of these high and mighty lawyers consistently running into ‘dead ends’, not knowing what to do, but they will be having a side conversation and the person they’re talking to makes one remark about something AND THAT’S IT, they have found their answers. Onto the next episode to do the same exact thing! It’s cheap writing and office drama, he said she said stuff.

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Final score:

127points

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Pascale Pierloot 3 years ago

Maybe you have got a point, but I really loved the Harvey character. 🤗

12points

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#13

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. In reality, neither of them are funny.

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Final score:

121points

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Pat Bond 3 years ago

Watched the first episode of the new season of Curb last night. Funny as hell, was chuckling away at bits this morning.

54points

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#14

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group This is Us.

Intense emotional sensations to get your weekly cry in which is healthy sure but not the masterpiece everyone’s Mom makes it out to be.

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Final score:

99points

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Pezor Zass 3 years ago

too blatantly emotionally manipulative for me.

33points

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#15

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Rick and Morty. It gets waaaay too much credit for a show filled with nonsense and fart jokes.

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Final score:

99points

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Ivy 3 years ago

I love the show, but agree about the fan base. There’s an egotistical current that runs through it. Fans always talk about how only intelligent people like the show, and if you don’t it’s because you’re not as gifted as them. (They’ll usually use big words to accentuate their intelligence while doing it). Not a good look.

25points

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#16

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group This is coming as someone who loves anime and who’s favorite show is naruto. But it’s naruto. That show is great, and 45% filler episodes, do I need to say more?

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93points

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Thay 3 years ago

Ugh. How old is this one? And Dragon Ball. The beginning of both is fantastic and full of character development and creates a whole story. But by now both have over stayed their welcome and its all just filling fights and drama. Same crap over and over. Like its been too long either stop or re write

28points

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#17

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group How has noone said Sons Of Anarchy? It's ridiculous. We are supposed to believe that their "club" is the most important thing to them all and they would do anything for their "brothers". But they just kill each other.

It almost never shows why someone would want to be in that life.

We're supposed to root for the main character because everyone loves him but all I could think was get those children away from this.

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85points

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Kelli Girouard 3 years ago

It was just a soap opera for macho guys who don't like soap operas.

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#18

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group BoJack Horsemen. People act like it’s some kind of masterful psychological deep dive. But it’s just another cheep adult comedy animated show.

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61points

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juice 3 years ago

see, i really enjoyed the show and found it meaningful, but the meaning didn't really start to show until the 2nd or 3rd season. so i'd agree that the beginning was kind of "cheap", but i think the rest was really well done. i especially appreciated the depictions of depression throughout. i suppose it's entirely subjective though.

37points

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#19

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Every character is deplorable and it just isn’t funny.

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52points

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Carrie B 3 years ago

It's funny. It's a specific kind of funny.

74points

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Euphoria. It has impressive cinematography and is well acted. But the plot is all over the place and the characters are shallower than a shower . The only characters that have any depth and don't come off too stereotypical is rue and Jules.

Its a poor man's UK skins and a rich man's US skins.

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Final score:

39points

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Jess Thompson 3 years ago

Never heard of it

19points

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#21

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Firefly. I haven't heard a single good thing about any season after the first.

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Final score:

38points

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J Rob 3 years ago

Ha ha, only one season and a movie. Lot's of talk about shooting more but Joss Whedon never got around to it. I loved the first and only 14 episodes.

110points

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Oh, come on…there’s no debate here. I mean, does anyone beat ‘Money Hiest’?

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Final score:

38points

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nicole warnecke 3 years ago

Who?

19points

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#23

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Controversial opinion probably: Dexter. Outstanding 1st season. Then meh all the way to the end.

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Final score:

29points

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Alaska 3 years ago

Nope sorry this is hands down one of the best ever

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Community

Edit: Dean-alings! I never said I don't like the show, just that it is overrated in it's praise! I love the first couple of seasons.

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Final score:

9points

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BorPand8 3 years ago

My first exposure to it was the paintball episode. I sat enthralled from beginning to end, and that doesn't usually happen to me.

23points

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The West Wing. S**t writing, frequently misogynistic, racist, homophobic and anti-progressive, and the milquetoast political takes have influenced an entire generation of liberal politicians to be a bunch of wieners that never accomplish anything. Admittedly the cast is great, except for Bradley Whitford, but everything else about that show is disgusting and to see it heralded as a political masterpiece makes me want to barf.

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Final score:

-16points

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Becky Klebe 3 years ago

Did Josh Malina write this?

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The Mandalorian. Actors are bad, it's always the same thing every single episode. Mando arrives at a planet, needs something from from the inhabitants, they agree to give it to him in exchange of a mission, he agrees, it doesn't go smoothly, and eventually gets what he needed while baby Yoda does something unexpected (whether it be disappearing or using the force to prevent Mando from being killed).

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Final score:

-43points

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Ian Kelly 3 years ago

Who actually watched mandalprian for the plot?

45points

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Breaking Bad.

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Final score:

-68points

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Dash Blue 3 years ago

Ohhhhh. I knew someone would go there. Breaking Bad is so good.

30points

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What do you think ?

Andrew 3 years ago

I find this list puzzling. Of course shows can't appeal to everyone's tastes. And the people who don't gravitate to a popular show will no doubt label it overrated. But I think the sitcom business model is quite simple. If enough people watch the show, Networks will pay! In theory you could perhaps only capture 5-10% of a target audience to have a profitable successful show. Meaning every single show that's ever been created is overrated to a large majority of a target audience.

36points

Jane (Eleven) Ives 3 years ago

Exactly! No show is going to appeal to everyone.

11points

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Bill Evs 3 years ago

I think the title of this article is wrong to be honest. The shows listed here are all massively popular and well received to the majority of people. Taste is subjective after all. Perhaps a better title might be "Popular shows people find overrated" or something like that.

4points

Most of these aren’t sitcoms and sadly, classic sitcoms are becoming more and more rare.

1point

Memere 3 years ago

It's not the networks who pay, it's the advertisers!

0points

keepgoing 3 years ago

Perhaps some of these shows went on for too long but I would not say they were bad or overrated. Maybe overhyped. People nowadays are far too critical about everything because people expect far too much. We have way too many options to choose from and in the day of social media it is easy for everyone to give their 2 cents.

21points

Briana Kessler 3 years ago

God. Yes. Cancel culture is ridiculous. Times were different back then..times are different now. Shows have adjusted, but that doesn't mean the older shows are garbage. You just have to be aware of the times they were recorded in.

7points

Rose the Cook 3 years ago

It takes really talented writers to keep a show interesting when it runs f- o- r- e- v -e- r. Most of those mentioned started out well but slipped into mediocrity for lack of creative writing.

14points

I think sooner or later the writing comes to a point where all possible plot configurations have been extinguished. And then they jump the shark.

10points

And then they throw in the sudden romance between two characters who don't belong together just to heat things up! Or throw in a deep dark conspiracy that takes the show in a whole new direction that just doesn't work.

Daria B 3 years ago (edited)

I agree and, I have to point out Eiichiro Oda is one of these talented writers. No, seriously. One Piece is taking forever, yet it never gets old. Sure, the character design might not be to everyone's taste, but the characters and the plots keep making sense. And the world in the series is so big and intricate, and it's way more than just the main characters. And all this written and projected by one single man. What a mind he has.

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