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Everyone has at least one example of a very popular thing they just don’t get. From critically acclaimed films you don’t enjoy to popular music you can’t stand, the old adage that “you can’t please everyone” stands true.

Someone asked “What’s the most overrated TV show in your opinion?” and people shared their hot takes. From dislikable characters to just downright bad writing, get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote the examples you agree with and be sure to share your own thoughts in the comments below.

#1

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Keeping up with the Kardashians. Infact anything Kardashian!

mrmartinizor , E! Report

#2

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Wednesday. Outside of Jenna’s acting it’s pretty bad. It turned Addams Family into something it isn’t. With all the references to social media it really got on my nerves. The Addams Family is a classic that anyone from any age can enjoy. I’m sick of movies and shows trying so hard to appeal to us gen z. “You look like a real life instagram filter”. Like wtf is that dialogue. It’s terrible. No one in my generation talks like this. Why couldn’t the show makers just do what the makers of the Peanuts movie did for Peanuts but for Wednesday and the Addams Family instead. Introduce the Addams Family to new people but keep the charm of the original. Oh yeah and the romance sucked. I don’t understand why those two guys are so in love with Wednesday when she’s so unlikeable. There’s also Wednesday and Morticia having problems with each other when the whole point of the Addams Family is despite being a little weird they are a loving family and have no issues with each other.

Vegito315 , netflix Report

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#3

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Grey's Anatomy was interesting for a couple of seasons, but then it became more and more and more ridiculous. Everyone f**ked everyone, everyone had a clinical death, etc. (and that was by the 3rd and 4th seasons). I don’t even know what’s happening now.

romario77 , ABC Report

#4

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows The Walking Dead, I like it, but I feel like it's let down by s****y writing and each season basically having the same plot over and over again.

TheKnightsTippler , AMC Report

#5

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows 3 1/2 Men - how the f**k did that donkey s**t show stay on the air so long??? I mean it was pretty awesome when it started. Every single episode was funny, the timing was perfect, the laugh track was not annoying at all. But once I got older than 10 years old that opinion changed ;)

Howdysf , CBS Report

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#6

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Saturday Night Live. I keep waiting for it to be funny...It just feels cringe most times. Occasionally, they stumble across a joke or some witty insight...Probably on accident.

Dozinggreen66 , nbc Report

#7

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows 2 broke girls!! 6 seasons of that c**p!! Laziest writing I’ve ever heard.

Ducatirules , CBS Report

#8

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Lost. Just bad writing hand-waved away as mysterious and spiritual.

IgglesJawn , ABC Report

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#9

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows During its run, so many people I knew suddenly acted like they were missionaries for Game of Thrones. Practically going door to door, spreading the 'gospel,' and badgering others to pledge that they'd watch it. Even when I'd tell them that I gave it a shot and it wasn't for me, they'd insist that I didn't give it a good enough chance and would interrogate me every time we saw each other about why I didn't watch more of it yet. I spite 'NOT-watched it' even harder.

Abject_Presentation8 , HBO Report

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#10

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Seinfeld. Seinfeld is a show I watched the first time around and enjoyed it to a certain extent but it is completely unwatchable to me now. I hate all the characters on it. There is not a single redeeming character. You can also tell that the writers were completely full of themselves.

ilikebuck , NBC Report

#11

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Family Guy. It seems like especially in later seasons, the plot lines and characters were nothing more than vessels for each lame cutaway gag. Almost every episode feels like a bunch of cutaway gags lazily strung together.

mellowfellow261 , Fox Report

#12

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows My wife watched a lot of The Good Doctor. That show is horrendous.

We GET IT. He’s autistic. That can’t be the only plot point in your entire show.

Fantastic-Bit-6172 , ABC Report

#13

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Young Sheldon. I understand that Sheldon is supposed to be insufferable, but I swear I just want to punt the kid every single clip I see of that stupid show.

sharkfan619 , CBS Report

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#14

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows I’m gonna get hate for this, but This Is Us. The first two or three seasons were good, but I could only take so much weepy, pity party drama over and over again. Also, the character of Kate was so annoying.

Aware_Fall_646 , NBC Report

#15

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows The Office is nine seasons long. And if you ignore the first one (which is pretty meh), it's only downhill with every season after Season 2. It's to the point where it almost starts feeling like different shows broken into different iterations. Like, Jim and Pam from Season 2 through Season 4 is reasonably realistic. Season 5 to Season 7 Michael is just a sitcom with talking head moments. Season 8 to Season 9...can we scrap every last dollar we can out of this?

ArmchairJedi , NBC Report

#16

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Rick and Morty isn't terrible. But, I’ve had several conversations with friends who insist it’s the most brilliant show on television and even better than peak-The Simpsons, South Park, and Futurama. The same themes and jokes get recycled endlessly. There is very little of the sharp-cutting social commentary I associate with the other excellent adult-animated shows, and I find the writing fairly pedestrian in general. It’s fun, but I also think many people believe it’s significantly overrated.

AlecHutson , Adult Swim Report

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#17

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Gilmore Girls...

My wife adores it, watches it all the time. It's a show about every day nothing topics, constant irritating tit for tat minor arguments, and the characters annoyingly and obsessively talking way too fast. I can't f*cking stand it!

Sipthecoffee4848 , Netflix Report

#18

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows So I'm probably going to get down-voted to hell for this but... The Simpsons. The Simpsons has 9 or 10 insanely good seasons but it's been mediocre to terrible for 24 years. That is to say the vast majority of the time the show has been on the air it's been average or even bad.

seanofkelley , FOX Report

#19

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Doctor Who has a cycle of being absolute trash and then having four of the best episodes you’ve ever seen. It’s mostly been downhill ever since Peter Capaldi had his best episodes. The constant rewriting of the canon lore is also extremely annoying. I will stand by David Tennant’s Doctor being peak British TV, though.

More-Cryptographer26 , Disney Report

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#20

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Of the shows I've watched in-depth, I'd say Stranger Things. The first season is very good, but I just stopped caring midway through Season 2.

Public_Abalone_6129 , netflix Report

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Amelia Jade
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I absolutely love this show. I would have been just a bit younger than them in the 80s. I love watching because it's like watching my childhood. Riding bikes, playing D&D, hanging out at the arcade. I remember my Gramps saying he liked watching A Christmas Story because he would have been about Ralphie's age during that time period. It was comforting nostalgia. Watching Stranger Things, I get what he meant.

Carl Roberts
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

. I enjoyed season 2, couldn't make it past the first episode of season 3. I gave up.

Con O Cuinn
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Couldn't get past the 2nd episode. Just thought to myself, I don't care how good this show is meant to be, these kids are annoying as f**k.

Petra Schaap
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i sat through the first season. I feel like they just tried to hard with the 80's vibe, like a big 80's commercial, and they also copied Stephen King (talking about vibes)

Okokok!
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a show mostly getting my attention because of the nostalgia bonus (even though my childhood differs a bit from the US guys) and honestly season 2 and 3 were bit hard to go through but season 4 rocked the hell out of it (that sword in the finale wielded by Hopper... damn, I partied hard on my couch when my mind put out the 80s trivia movie-match making!!!)

BrunoVI
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

100% agree with OP. Subsequent seasons were everything I loved the first season for NOT being: California-obsessed, totally fake 1980s sitcom material, just done as a horror show instead of as a sitcom. Season 1 was what the 1980s were REALLY like, in contrast to later seasons... and for that reason it inspired a nostalgia I had never before been inspired to by any TV show.

Stephanie A Mutti
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The first season was awesome and the second season was really good. Seasons 3 and 4 are LONG to watch but have some moments that fantastic that you struggle through. Season 4 could have just NOT had the russia story or made it a whole lot shorter and still had Hopper return. That being said,,, Season 5,,, where the heck are you??????

Angrykitten
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mid way through second is actually the lowest point of the series for me. It picks back up after it but there were 2 episodes maybe three that were really sub-par compared to the first season

DrBronxx
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's had its weak moments, and season 1 remains my favourite, but overall it's been pretty high-quality throughout, and season 4 was really strong, at least the kids' stories. The Hopper stuff I could take or leave.

Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This was a one season show. I dont blame the showrunners for taking the money and running with it, but its an overextended gag.

Mindaju
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's OK, but overrated for me. It's basically selling you 80s nostalgia

Maartje
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People tell me it is good but I only made it through 3 episodes.

KnightOwl
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Season 2 was the weakest season but I love the show and it definitely got better as it went on.

Michael None
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

YES! THANK YOU! It's just 80's fodder for kids born in the late 90's early 2000's.

Royal Stray
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I watched a season or so, but after a while it felt like the actors real personalities started to show through a bit too much, so it got difficult for me to get invested. As if they hadn't really given the characters enough through and just told the actors to do whatever with a few very loosely written character traits

H. Brown
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was excited for this at first because of the 80s references. But, then came the paranormal and monster stuff and it wasn't my vibe.

The Other Guest
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Season 4 would have been better with a timeskip - it was hard to believe those young adults were still in junior high. Noah Schnapp looked bad enough with that bowl haircut when he was 11 (*why* is that such a popular style for young male actors??), but it was ridiculous when he was 17.

Fat Harry (Oi / You)
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

....and after unrealistic dialogue, the second most annoying thing about US TV is not knowing when to quit. Too many seasons of too many episodes just means I end up not caring about any of it.

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WonderWoman
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Terrible, horrible show. I liked season one, but damn season 2 was just 'hey we got picked up but we lost our writers and mojo, but let's plow through and pretend'

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#21

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Big bang theory. Completely unwatchable, on every level. It’s designed to use some “big words” to make us feel in on the smart jokes. But the jokes themselves are not funny and Sheldon is the worst. Ug, I hate that show.

Funniest_person_here , CBS Report

#22

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows 90 day fiance. That show sucks sooo bad, & just about every woman I know watches it religiously.

Prior-Chip-6909 , TLC Report

#23

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows The Flash. Or any CW superhero show. I like superhero media, but I can’t get past the low quality visual effects and stilted dialogue of CW shows.

Witty-Stable2175 , netflix Report

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#24

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Bridgerton lost me after Season 2. I HATE that they had to spice it up and deviate from some of the plot. I refuse to watch Season 3 because it will always be the wrong book to have based the season off of, and I can’t get over it. Plus, spoilers for anyone who never read the books, but Eloise would NEVER be friendly with Cressida Cowper. Never, ever, ever. It’s a terrible disservice to that character.

ItsMeBoringBi5sh , netflix Report

#25

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows I’m going to be crucified for this but the Netflix Marvel shows. Don’t get me wrong, some parts are genuinely great, but a lot of the time it just isn’t my cup of tea. I couldn’t really get into it or find myself super invested into them. Not to mention some seasons are rather inferior to another.

edwpad , netflix Report

#26

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Euphoria. Disgusting show. I love the visuals, the makeup, the hair, the outfits. but the story itself? 1. incredibly unrealistic to high schoolers 2. ewwwwwwwwwwwww

Careful-Zucchini4317 , netflix Report

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#27

Yeah, Squid Game was good, but back in 2021, people were talking about it 24/7. Like, 90% of the internet was filled with it, and honestly, I don't think the series deserved to have the entire world talking about it for three months nonstop.

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#28

I don't think Succession is all that funny or witty. I need for someone to have at least ONE redeeming quality so I can root for them, even if I know rationally they're a 'bad guy.' For instance Tony Soprano from The Sopranos. He was awful, but damn, if there weren't moments where I was like, 'F**k yeah, Tony!' There isn't a shred of that for me in Succession. They all suck hard. I'd go so far as to say that the show is definitively not a comedy-drama, but rather a full-out tragedy on the pitfalls of parental child neglect and abuse. But, the one-liners serve to distract from that core tenet.

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#29

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Yellowstone. The first couple of seasons are fun and enjoyable as a “modern Western soap opera” type thing. But it really crashed and burned at the end.

DookieMcDookface , Paramount Network Report

#30

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Ozark, tried and tried again, far too outrageous to believe the plot to escape reality for me.

Manyworldsivecome , netflix Report

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