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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

#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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Kari Panda
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That didn‘t bother me, but superhero shows somehow have the talent to always make the character I like most either die or become evil (or both).

T'Mar of Vulcan
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved Lex in Smallville. I didn't even care when he became evil, LOL! But the reason I couldn't get into "Arrow" was it was basically a Smallville clone. And I couldn't forgive Oliver for living in Lex's house!

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James Frail
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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And let's put up a picture that is not the show in question. Even a failure in using a shot from the original John Wesley Shipp show would have been closer.

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

man, Legends of Tomorrow was awesome! it was good, cheesy fun and i hate that it got cancelled.

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

It was great that the beginning, took a dip in the middle, and if I remember the last season or two were getting fun again but felt like they just lost the momentum by then and no one cared anymore.

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xolitaire
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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's Ezra Miller... Anyway, the first season was kind of fun, EXCEPT for the whole Barry and Iris growing up as siblings, that gave the entire relationship an icky undertone, blargh

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

I'm more annoyed by the editor of this using the wrong Flash for the image than this show being on here...

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

The crappy visuals are really hard to get passed. Too bright or the colors are over saturated.. but sure what but looks so cheap and off

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

I gave The Flash TV show two seasons before tapping out. I realised I was laughing at bits that were supposed to be cool or serious, and complaining about the terrible writing and acting. People seem to love Grant Gustin, and that's great, but I just don't see it; he's really terrible. That there have been people campaigning for him to make an appearance in the new DCU is baffling to me.

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

I feel like shield started the avalanche with that purple crystal nonsense.

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

Ill agree with OP on this. There was some great writing on Early seasons of the Arrow and The Flash, but the FX work makes me want to drink because its so bad (I blame Warner Brothers for making ALL of the DC properties - Pennyworth and Gotham being the exception- look like a horribly badly rendered video game

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

I liked Arrow at first, and then it started getting silly after a couple of seasons. The same thing with The Flash. I think the CW should just make two-season shows and then call it quits, because they lack the ability to continue to develop characters for more than two years before the show devolves into wackiness.

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

The Flash (and Arrow) were both great for a couple of seasons, but ended up getting worse and worse. Grant Gustin was a good Barry but even he couldn't carry it once we got to the point of Cecile and her magic wavey hand stuff and Flash's annoying kids. Photo is Ezra Miller in the Flash movie, not Grant Gustin in the show, btw.

Becca not Becky
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Flash was good but got repetitive (but Grant Gustin did a great job). I loved Arrow; great cast and references to the original comics at first, though it ran itself into the ground in season 4. The Canaries spin off had so much potential but then didn't happen. Supergirl...just a hot mess.

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

this sounds too stupid to even be on tv. I rather watch old episodes of judge Judy on Pluto.

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

I really liked the Flash season 1 and 2, and Arrow season 1-3 . After that it became unwatchable. I don't think I've made it past the flash season 5 to this day, and I've tried. It's superheroes, it's going to be a bit edgy and weird motivational speeches, but at least they tried for a bit. The later seasons have horrible dialogue, terrible plotlines, they destroy their own characters, and that's not even starting on the fighting choreography or special effects.

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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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