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

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.

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

mrmartinizor , E! Report

Final score:

323points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 5 months ago

I never got it either. I was literally like "What like the aliens from Star Trek?" Why are these people famous? None of them have accomplished anything. They're just rich entitled a-holes.

110points

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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

Final score:

128points

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Kari Panda 5 months ago (edited)

I agree. Especially about that romance part. Why can’t a heroine be good enough, be deemed interesting enough to viewers without some arbitrary love interest? And what also bothered me was how Wednesday time and again commented on Enid‘s looks/personality. The Addams Family was about accepting those who are different, yet here we are with Wednesday judging everyone and everything.

60points

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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

Final score:

115points

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SuperChicken 5 months ago

Wow! The censors must've been in deep sleep.🤫

59points

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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

Final score:

111points

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Carl Roberts 5 months ago

Early seasons were great. The entire franchise took a massive nosedive in quality after season 8.

32points

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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

Final score:

107points

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Sava Hax 5 months ago

Who's the third man?

36points

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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

Final score:

106points

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Green Tree 5 months ago

Weekend Update when Colin Jost and Michael Che make eachother read jokes they have not seen before is hilarious

59points

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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

Final score:

102points

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Maya Baggins 5 months ago

I liked it...

5points

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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

Final score:

87points

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Jack Burton 5 months ago

Worst ending ever

36points

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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

Final score:

87points

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Simona M. 5 months ago

Never watched it.

57points

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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

Final score:

83points

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Amelia Jade 5 months ago

The characters aren't supposed to be redeeming. They're all a$$holes. That is kind of the point. I've seen this show so many times through--I can't even count how many times. My brother and I can carry on text conversations with nothing but Seinfeld quotes.

92points

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#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

Final score:

82points

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sofacushionfort 5 months ago

The whole point is offensive gags. It’s not supposed to be another Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks

34points

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#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

Final score:

72points

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Dumb teenager 5 months ago

As an autistic person even I can pick up that there's a hell of a lot more going on then just "He's autistic". It goes through romance, childhood drama and trauma, family drama with that old guy (can't remember his name) and his guilt about whatever killed his daughter, and basic medical drama. I'd put it on equal footing with New Amsterdam personally

37points

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#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

Final score:

71points

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deejak 5 months ago

Just now started watching and so far, I enjoy the kid actor.

32points

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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

Final score:

68points

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Jack Burton 5 months ago

First season was cool but i lose interest really quickly with poor storylines.

7points

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#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

Final score:

68points

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SewingStaffy 5 months ago

The original UK Office is much better

42points

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#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

Final score:

67points

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Mama Penguin 5 months ago

I can't stand Rick and Morty. For an adult animated comedy show that's supposed to be more intelligent, it doesn't hold a candle to Futurama. The point is supposed to be nihilism, but it's about as subtle as a brick.

27points

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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

Final score:

66points

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Simona M. 5 months ago

I agree completey. I couldn't watch it, not even one episode. Talking like they are competing who can say things faster, not interesting, not funny, nothing.

18points

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#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

Final score:

63points

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 5 months ago

I haven't seen a new episode in 20 years for this exact reason. I remember one of the last episodes I ever watched, the one where Bart and Milhouse take over the Comic Book Guy's store and at the end of the episode Bart says "And we haven't been to school in weeks and weeks". The writers were self aware enough to know that the whole premise had dissolved into irrelevancy. Bart and Lisa never go to school and Homer never goes to work anymore. Nothing of consequence ever happens and it's just a bunch of gags with no payoff.

29points

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#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

Final score:

63points

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Islandchild 5 months ago

Tenant was the best of the new doctors, but I'll forever love Tom Baker

67points

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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

Final score:

54points

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Amelia Jade 5 months ago

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.

35points

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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

Final score:

53points

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Connie Wade 5 months ago

I loved this show and still watch reruns.

77points

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#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

Final score:

53points

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Mila Sliacka 5 months ago

The majority of TLC shows are modern day freaks shows.

6points

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#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

Final score:

47points

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Kari Panda 5 months ago

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).

9points

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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

Final score:

47points

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StellaTZH 5 months ago

I feel the opposite. The books are incredibly dated and play into a lot of sexist, toxic tropes. All the men are angry brooding brutes. Some romance scenes border on SA. The characters are basically all the same, especially the Bridgerton men. They hardly have enough personality to tell them apart. The show might not be perfect, but overall it's an improvement on nearly everything the books build.

19points

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#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

Final score:

40points

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Phobrek 4 months ago

Daredevil was phenomenal. First seasons of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones likewise. The rest descended into various levels of meh

6points

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#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

Final score:

39points

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keyboardtek 5 months ago

No one mentioned Friends. I was once insulted by a snarky young women for not having heard of the show. Insipid humor. Written for 20 year olds. She considered it the best comedy ever written.

5points

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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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Final score:

33points

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Sunny Day 4 months ago

It was 2021. They were desperate for "something" to talk about while avoiding the elephant in the room.

35points

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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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Final score:

22points

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HF 5 months ago

whoever said Succession is a comedy? It's much more a dark drama or tragedy , and if you watch it enough, you start to understand why the characters are like they are. Brilliant acting of all the cast as well.

12points

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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.

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Final score:

21points

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Manny 5 months ago

Love this. Can't wait for the return of season 5.

4points

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#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

Final score:

21points

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Fart Barfunkle 5 months ago

Worth a watch just for Ruthie

32points

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#31

House of the dragon. No politics, no action, c****y CGI. Just bicker bicker bicker with a confusing cast change that means you can't tell the players without a program.

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Final score:

16points

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Shawn Adams 5 months ago

Welcome to Game of Thrones. Literally only two ways that Martin deals with his characters F*%k it or kill it. No political intrigue at all.

7points

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#32

Charmed. I know so many people that loved that show but I just thought it was so corny. I usually enjoy sci-fi/ fantasy movies and shows too.

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Final score:

14points

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whineygingercat 5 months ago

Is this the original Charmed or the more recent remake? The original was good. The remake, terrible

8points

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#33

La Casa de Papel. I found it too unrealistic (but not in a funny or clever way) and thought it was a series that took itself too seriously.

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Final score:

13points

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Annik Perrot 5 months ago

Loved the first two seasons (first heist). And then... "let's f*ck them all up and do more of the same". Nah, without me, guys.

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#34

Season 1 of Big Mouth was kind of great. It really captured what it felt like to be a hormonal teen full of self-shame. Then it got really weird and gross. The pillow f******g, the copious and unnecessary underage nudity, the incest, and so much vulgarity for the sake of vulgarity. It was like browsing 4chan.

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Final score:

9points

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DetriMentaL 5 months ago

It was a hard hurdle to jump with how far they go with uh.. The in your face sexuality. But once you get used to that basically being the core purpose of the show-it ain't that bad

2points

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#35

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Unpopular opinion but: THE BEAR. I believe it conspiratorially submits itself as a "comedy" to make itself more competitive for awards.

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Final score:

7points

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Berlytea 4 months ago

I couldn't get past the first episode. It's annoying to see an actor pigeonholed into the exact same character over and over. We get Jeremy Allen White, we get "stressed out, stretched thin, angry, brooding white guy tries to do a good job."

2points

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#36

For me its the boys. They use "shock value" in such a cheap way by the time you get to season 2 its just completely tedious.

(They are also trying to pass it on as humor that every single character contantly bullies and humiliates the main guy. Whats up with that? Is anybody laughing?).

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Final score:

5points

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Skara Brae 5 months ago

This show is metaphorical. Interview with the creator: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-boys-showrunner-erik-kripke-interview-trumpism-1235914642/

2points

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#37

Might be controversial on Reddit, but Scrubs.

I watched it sporadically during its run and really enjoyed it, thought it was really funny.

Went back a couple years ago (during the pandemic lockdown maybe?) to try and watch it all the way through and lasted like half a season. JD is one of the most annoying, obnoxious, try-way-too-hard TV characters out there.

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Final score:

2points

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Kari Panda 5 months ago

JD has his bad moments, but he‘s also trying very hard to be a good and caring doctor. That said, I remembered Scrubs as a comedy with some occasional sad moments and then went back to watch it someday. I was not prepared for the depth and tragedy it contained. The episode about everyone’s first patient dying on them to name one of the earliest examples.

16points

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#38

Parks and recreation for sure. Very similar to The Office but nothing intriguing going on.

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Final score:

2points

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Anya Beboop 5 months ago

Thought it was adorable, but it's not for everyone.

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#39

I hate to say this because my family’s Italian and I usually love shows like this, but The Sopranos just didn’t pull me in like I expected it to.

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Final score:

-1point

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Christos Arvanitis 5 months ago

Loved this show

7points

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#40

Netizens Are Confused How So Many People Liked These 30 TV Shows Peaky Blinders. The first season was great but then it went downhill. Too much filler. Like, for example, the episode where the father magically enters their lives again, like he's been lurking all along but nobody ever mentioned that in the season and a half prior to that episode. And then he's out of the picture again. Totally felt like a writer's tactic.

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Final score:

-10points

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Nea 5 months ago

Are you kidding?

13points

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What do you think ?

Say No to Downvoting 5 months ago (edited)

I can never understand the hype over any reality show. I just don’t get it. I just feel like it’s the same stories over and over again, totally predictable, totally obvious manipulation in the production and editing, SO MUCH whining and bitching and chattering nonsense and so little actual doing the thing they are supposedly doing. I find it insufferable.

Papa 4 months ago

For the most part I agree with you, but I've enjoyed watching the various shows like North Woods Law. They are basically Cops, but with game wardens instead of regular police.

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Aerial (Any pronouns/Canadian/Jewish) 5 months ago

Yeah, some reality shows aren't fun, but my mom and I really enjoy watching the Great Canadian Baking Show together, all of the contestants are nice, they help each other out sometimes, and we've experimented with new desserts because of it!

Squirrel Chaser 4 months ago

I see it as escapism for those who don't have a life of their own.

0points

Hphizzle 5 months ago

The common denominator for majority of these posts is they went/are going on way past their time. Like a lot of these shows would have been excellent had they stopped around season 3.

gmf 4 months ago

I guess the tendancy for series to turn into soap-operas is partly because they're usually only commissioned one or two seasons at a time, so a tightly written story arc is only prepared for the first season (or two if you're lucky). After that, it's per-season or per-episode scripting following a "more of the same" approach.

Fabian Bernard 4 months ago

Nothing about Friends ? Lame jokes, unreallistic, not funny at all. I really don't get the cult around it

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