discussion Acclaimed TV shows that you couldn't get into?

[Orsay]

The Wire is too straight male coded for me, it just couldn't hold my interest

[Mordecai]

Breaking Bad - it's SO slow and honestly outside of Pinkman and Gus none of the characters are that interesting. Can't believe I watched this for 4 seasons just bc people called it amazing

Succession - should've been right up my alley but I didn't find it that interesting

Westworld - amazing concept, poor execution

Veep - not funny at all

and pretty much every sitcom ever, none of them are funny enough to be worth watching

[lillavend3r]

Covid still a thing? Cause there's a lot of tasteless b¡tches here! 

[Bloo]

Fleabag

[Park Jinyoung]

White Lotus

[DoubleRainbow!]

The Witcher 

[PatrickGray.12]

Great forum topic.

 

Mine are

 

Succession

The Crown

The Handmaid’s Tale

Game of Thrones

[fememeist]

Only Murders in the Building after S1. It really should’ve been just a limited series.

[LustSpell]

Breaking Bad. AWFUL and slow. Painful watch and I literally gave up at the beginning of S4.

[Into The Void]

Game of Thrones - just too many characters

 

Orange is The New Black - i saw like seasons 1 & 2 but episodes became so long and tiring and I gave up

 

Legion- this show is such a mindfuck i tried 3 episodes but had no idea what was going on

 

[Karla Cabello]

mad men. breaking bad

[Karla Cabello]

1 hour ago, DoubleRainbow! said:

The Witcher 

acclaimed

[Into The Void]

54 minutes ago, PatrickGray.12 said:

Great forum topic.

 

Mine are

 

Succession

The Crown

The Handmaid’s Tale

Game of Thrones

Id add Handmaid Tale i tried a few episodes but it was very odd

 

[Odette Violet]

GOT

[Angelo]

42 minutes ago, fememeist said:

Only Murders in the Building after S1. It really should’ve been just a limited series.

Season 3 is nice

[Navy4Life]

I tried to watch Breaking Bad about 5 times and I always just randomly stop somewhere in the middle. Will never understand why are people so obsessed with it. 

[GraceRandolph]

Friends. I don't really watch a lot of prestige TV though.

[TROJAN]

AHS. I’m confident that had it not been Emma on Delicate, they would’ve potentially casted me since I was literally in LA for auditions and I could’ve stopped by had my agent not insisted otherwise.

[genetic fail]

The Bear. I watched three episodes and was bored af

[Wicked]

On 10/5/2023 at 7:03 PM, vale9001 said:

From recent series definitely succession. Probably is too american to be really appreciated. His International success hasn't been that big 

 

Then sopranos and breaking bad, i enjoyed It and i can understand they were a new kind of production for television, but they seems to me like the film Bros of television, these serie overrated cause they are basically the inspired by Scorsese and coppola and tarantino TV shows. A Rip off of the new Hollywood cinema without anything really new from what that cinema already made. 

 

I have loved more mad men or the wire. 

It's funny you're saying this, because my issue with that show is its too English lmfao. The writing courtesy of the creator is definitely more rooted in Englands style, they are even using British slang, and they are first generation Anglo-Americans, with a Scottish father and English mother. I found there was a disconnect with that show for me, but I did like it.

 

I kind of get what you're saying, and I do think The Wire and Mad Men did more as far as what the medium of television is capable of (Twin Peaks as well), but I think you being a bit hard on The Sopranos lmfao. It still holds up because of the writing and character work, although its definitely influenced by those earlier Mob works, its serialized nature + James Gandolfini's nuanced performance will always be relevant. Sopranos writers room is responsible for Mad Men directly.

[midnightdawn]

Veep. The shtick of the stupid and incompetent politician got old after a couple of episodes.

[dussel_06]

The final season of The Leftovers. Ugh

I can’t even get through the first two episodes. Bu somehow it’s just one of the most acclaimed hbo show ever.

[Chemist]

The Americans and Homeland. Maybe spy thrillers are not my thing

[Jaguarqueef]

Parks & rec, The Office, Friends. The only sitcom I’ve ever liked was probably Modern Family and even then I only watched it because I was severely depressed.

 

Game of Thrones is too medieval and dim to be interesting for me, The Walking Dead never went anywhere, Rick and Morty’s voice acting irked me, South Park’s animation is so rubbish.

 

I do think more gays should give The Sopranos a chance, it’s surprisingly nuanced for what I thought would be a simple gangster series. I especially like the therapy scenes.

[Topmaster 2]

Breaking Bad the most boring and obvious TV series ever made