Really? Damn, I mean to each their own, but the show started getting really interesting in the episode where Walter brought in the fulminated mercury...

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some of the early episodes really show their age. It's definitely still worth watching in 2025, but it is an old show at this point.

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah I couldn't stand it, and came to the comments because I was sure it would already be mentioned.

I stuck through season 1, pretending that the character's arcs were believable and fast forwarding through some of the brutality, then gave up.

A friend convinced me to try again, but the seconds time I gave up after the season with the shots of the pool debris at the start. The payoff on that felt cheap and vaguely a violation of chekovs gun. After that I had to tell the friend who wanted me to watch it that I was done and wouldn't be trying again.

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[–] QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

I'm so with you. I don't think I know a single person who has seen Breaking Bad and didn't like it. Meanwhile I hated it.

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[–] essell@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Big Bang Theory

Didn't work for me. So dull. Felt like it was made twenty years earlier than it was.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 12 points 1 week ago

BBT is critically acclaimed in the same way the Big Mac is the world's most popular burger.

[–] rojo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also mostly sex jokes disguised as smart people humor. It quickly gets old.

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the office. the documentary/handheld camera style cinematography is nauseating to watch. see also: parks & rec and similarly-shot titles.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It took me several attempts to watch parks & rec. It ended up being one my favorite. I've tried The Office a couple times and couldn't do it. Same with Sunny.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The office had to happen to open the door for the genre to the general public. So I say thanks to it, we got the more refined parks and rec. Watching the office back in the day was hilarious, but now it's clear that it only walked so parks and rec could run.

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[–] iamericandre@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Game of thrones, tried and failed at least twice

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, at least you didn't have to suffer through the ending.

[–] carbs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I only had to suffer through the ending, still makes me mad.

The story, if anyone is bored...

I was on a work retreat/hack-a-thon and the final episode was being broadcast that night. I'd tried and failed to find any part of game of thrones interesting in the past, I'd never seen a complete episode.

Everyone is there glued to the TV, I'm at the dinning room table trying to get some kind of work done, but ended up watching most of the episode.

What a massive pile of crap I thought to myself, no idea what these people are on about.

I'm glad everyone agreed it sucked, but really annoyed that is the only episode I've seen, and I will never waste my time on it.

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[–] MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago

I tried to watch Downton Abbey with my wife. I can appreciate the acting, costumes, and sets, but I could really not have cared less about the minutiae of the lives of 1910s British upper class and their servants

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never could get into The Sopranos, and I don't think I'll ever get around to scratching it off my watchlist.

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 8 points 1 week ago

It took me a very long time before. I finally watched that show a few years ago. I didn’t care for it in the beginning, but towards the middle it got a bit more interesting. I didn’t care for the ending. Overall, it’s not gonna be one of those shows I go back to and binge again and again. But I was glad to at least have seen it once.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For me, The Expanse.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first couple of episodes drag, but it picks up later. You might try the books instead. Or even the audiobooks — the narrator for those does an excellent job.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I did try the first audio book and found myself unmoved. It wasn't awful, but I wasn't as impressed as most seem to be. I'm glad it was enjoyed, but I was ready for it to be over long before it was.

That was around six years ago, though. I might feel differently if I tried again today.

Thanks for the recommendations!

[–] stankcheez@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I can understand this one. I enjoyed the series enough to go back and read the books, but the acting overall was not great

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Boardwalk Empire. I really tried.

Also, house of the Dragon. I made it mostly through the first season, but then I just couldn’t take it anymore.

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[–] TheCelticPirate@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The White Lotus. I got 2-3 episodes in and was just bored. None of the characters were likable so I just didn't care.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same, why should I care about these people?

The only character that seemed like an actual character in S1 was the manager, and...

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, that's the point of the show.... Their problems are ridiculous and petty, the entire point is to show what rich people think problems are

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Every reality series.

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[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

White Lotus. Just couldn't care about anything happening.

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[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That I watched it all the way through? The Expanse.

I watched the first season and then stopped? Stranger Things.

Have no interest in? Game of Thrones

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Watching just the first season of Stranger Things was probably the right way to do it. The first season is a complete story, and all the other seasons just feel like Netflix milking its success for $$$.

Other shows where you can watch the first season and stop for similar reasons: Handmaids Tale, Westworld.

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[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So, S1 of the expanse was my favorite season by far, mostly because I loved the introduction to the belter ethos, it set a tableau for the rest of the season which was much more action oriented.

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

S1 was so cool! The whole detective, noir thing I absolutely loved!

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[–] proper@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Arrested Development. I can’t do Bateman AND Howard’s narration.

[–] iamjackflack@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Peaky blinders - I love this era with movies and what not but this show just didn’t hit for me

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[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Breaking bad.

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[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Arcane. Despite all the writers effort to create emotional investment it was like someone's D&D backstory for their edgy rogue

[–] dgbbad@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Would you mind naming a couple shows you actually do like? As a huge Arcane fan, I'm intrigued to hear what you consider good.

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[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Mad Men

[–] BarrierWithAshes@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Banshee. Went into it expecting something like Justified where it showed small town sheriff stuff but no. It was just flashbacks to before he became sheriff and constant sex scenes.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, it had some Justified to it, but you can't beat some good old Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mr. Robot. Finished season 1 and decided not my cup of tea. Hated every single character in it. Felt same way about White Lotus too.

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[–] SteveDinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

" Breaking Bad - I had to force myself to watch 5 episodes. Just didn't get it.
" The Sopranos - I don't like mob stuff. I didn't like the godfather either.
" The Wire - this one surprised me because I generally like cop shows. Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is just not a single AMC show I can get into. I don't know if it's the style or what but I just none of them work for me.

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[–] roserose56@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The office and Big Bang Theory. The office wasn't funny at all, more of a boring, and same with BBT, too nerdish to keep going, Sheldon was somehow funny.

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Almost all of them.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Breaking Bad. It's too painful. Jessie is so dumb I can't watch it. Walter's motivations are also so randomized… it all drives me banana nuts.

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

Spartacus. I had never heard of it until I stopped by a friend's house and they had it on. They told me it was neat and showed me the scene they were watching. Like clockwork, the scene immediately changed to full frontal dick. My friend downplayed saying that happens once or twice, his wife piped up and said nah it happens every episode with a grin on her face. They continued to talk about how many dicks are in the show and i just couldn't be bothered to investigate on my own.

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