Friends.
Shallow, punchable people who made being dumb fucks a virtue.
people had problems with it being a white-centric show in NYC of all places. also unrealistic as it was an expensive city and they dont look like they can afford the places.
To be fair, I have friends who love this show but also admit it hasn’t aged well.
The only redeemable one is Phoebe. The rest feel like self-centered assholes, especially Ross and Rachael.
I’m pretty sure that was every 20-35 year old in the 90s.
The Office
UK, US, or Aussie?
Literally every country on the planet.
Any and all “reality” TV.
I fully don’t get why people like that. It looks mean and dull and it’s not even reality. The sexy ones also look like a shit stand-in for actual porn, too.
I like one category of reality tv and even then only a small subsection of them: Game Shows. The subsection in particular seems to be Japanese game shows subbed in English, the only ones I know so far tbh are Sasuke and Takeshi’s Castle. As to why, Sasuke is just cool and Makoto Nagano rules, plus it’s fun with the silly competitors. Takeshi’s Castle is just plain hilarious. Conversely I hate basically all american versions, American Ninja Warrior was ass and Wipeout was too, yet both were just stolen rebrandings of their Japanese counterparts with all the whimsy and fun sucked out.
And I’m mainly posting this to solicit recommendations for more Japanese game shows like that which I can pirate.
I would put those in a completely separate category, actually. They’re both older and more real than the “engineered compilation of random unscripted moments” type of thing.
I have no recommendations, unfortunately, haha.
Well people consider Survivor reality tv, so idk I figured it was towards that genre. But whatever we consider it, I like it haha.
Haha okay I love Japanese game shows but I almost can’t call them reality. :P I recommend Silent Library. An older show but great.
I figure if Survivor counts (and people say it does) than those would too, but I feel you lol. I’ll check it out, thanks! The older the better tbh! Takeshi’s Castle was what like 1986ish?
they actively hire models, or attractive people on purpose. and many of them post show career, ends up as mlm, or worst on trumps administration, and of course porn too, sometimes they are pornstars before.
reality has always been trash, and they cancelled shows just so they can have that slop because it brings in the lowest common denominators.
Big bang theory. Cannot stand the characters on that show, especially Sheldon
The best concise description of that show I’ve heard was “it’s what people who aren’t nerds think nerds would like”.
I remember watching the pilot for the show, I was like, “oh this could be refreshing away from the stupidity of the rest of tv!”. I was already onto anime by that point and had entirely stopped watching cable.
But no. Apparently, when the actual show started airing, it was EXACTLY as you describe, and a massive disappointment. Xbox and bad quips and trying to get girls? Absolutely not.
To be fair, the scene where Penny gifts Sheldon something like the glass Leonard Nimoy drank out of, for Christmas, had me crying with laughter. That’s about it, though.
Edit: The napkin he used, and then signed with a note.
i remember the sub that was discussing big ban theory how they turned penny into a stem professional into a total “bimbo” by the end of the series.
I mean, this is Lemmy, it’s a show about making fun of us.
And honestly I’d respect that if they put effort into it, but “lol nerd” is like 90% of the plot.
Silicon Valley also makes fun of nerds, but it’s for nerds. BBT just made nerds the butt of the joke.
They’re not nerds. They’re geeks at worst and really just programmers.
That show is literally trash.
When Sheldon says “Bazinga” I throw 10 metric tonnes of popcorn at the screen. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen /s
Game of Thrones. To much a period drama.
- Attack on Titan
- The walking dead
- Vinland Saga
- Game of Thrones
- Arrested Development
- Curb your Enthusiasm (can’t get past the first episode)
Sopranos.
The Mafia and gangster genre has just never appealed to me. I always find the characters annoying and one-dimensional.
Agreed; Tony has a problem. Tony gets angry. Tony solves problem by killing/having killed said person responsible for the problem was very much the dominant and highly repetitive story line. There was some nuance, sure, but not enough for my liking.
Lost - for some reason I just could’t bring myself to care about any of the characters or the premise.
I never watched lost in it’s heydays, i watched it much later. The cgi and everything seems so outdated. Then i got interested and understood why so many people liked it. But it all falls apart pretty quick.
It went from interesting to frustrating to enraging that I wasted my time. I watched it all. I wish I could have that time back.
Lost.
god help me it was so fucking boring and riddled with holes. I still don’t understand how it was so popular.
They did 2 things well (from an economic perspective) in my vaguely shit memory:
- built of the success of castaway a few years earlier and survivor
- marketed the absolute hell out of it pre-release. I remember hundreds of ads showing in the months leading to to it.
It paved the way for a lot of long running, high budget tv shows like heroes, supernatural etc…
I also severely disliked it.
Severance. So. Goddamn. Slow.
I felt the same. I also think that we viewers have so much more information than the characters… so even though there’s mystery, we see the mysteries coming like 2 full episodes in advance. Yawn
Totally. I enjoy the premise of the show, but the delivery is sleep-inducing.
Buffy Supernatural Smallville The Arrowverse stuff
I dunno man. I just couldn’t get into the serialized urban fantasy pretty people vs monster of the week genre, even thought it feels like it should be right up my ally. I used to play a TON of V:tM and WW:tA, and Im all about camp and community theater energy. I liked some of the other Whedon stuff at the time, like Firefly. And I’m a life long fan of all things super heroes and I even respect Arrowverse from a far for its commitment to its status as a multimedia project (before the MCU, even).
More recently, some similarly themed shows have been made and I got into them way more; What We Do In The Shadows and Stan Against Evil, and I think maybe the magic sauce was that I would have liked the energy paired something less earnest and more tongue in cheek. All of these shows also had the issue of really annoying fandoms. Its probably the reason I couldn’t lower my hackles around Doctor Who.
That’s too bad about Buffy, it really grows into something very unique. It’s also pretty much the originator of that horror/comedy genre, and one of the first serialized prime time shows, along with X-Files.
i think buffy is good for its time, but not post 2000s. Supernatural got wierd after 5th season, basically when kripke left the new showrunners decided to play into the parasocial fantasies of the fans and it made it all sexual and homo-erotic. i believe at one point (season 6) death threats were made against some of the guest cast(the ones that was dating DEAN in the show) and they couldnt come back. and you can see why how they act(the fans) when jensen ackles and jared does all these Conventions still. that is the reason why it continued for like 10 more years, past its lifespan. although there is at least 1 or 2 seasons (8 and 11)that were better than the rest.
smallville was intersting origin for superman, but if you look at all the superman/supergirl show that came out since then, its superior to those. michael rosenbaum was is a good lex luthor, but he gave up on the show at some point.
Mr.Robot
So much drugs, depression, late stage capitalism.
Idk wtf I was watching. Too dark and too confusing. I thought I was watching a WW2 Holocause movie, the vibes was depressing AF.
Did I mention the drugs?
So. Much. Drugs.
There were More Drug Scenes than Plot Scenes that I actually understood.
(Maybe I just have a smooth brain who knows 🤷♂️)
I just love how the Elliot is like “I’m so lonely and depressed” and has like 8 close friends and gets a girlfriend and immediately gets intimate.
I would think it a bit more immersive if they made his depression about something else entirely from the start.
It’s a great series but I agree, there’s a lot of depressing vibes. I binged it recently and ended up being getting paranoid riding trains haha
I watched it cause it was interesting to explore a scenario where the top 1% was targeted, especially considering what’s happening in the world right now.
These negative reviews make me really want to watch it. Most TV glosses over all uncomfortable truths.
some shows might jive with other people better than others. and many are as bad as the reviews.
The Sopranos
Same! I gave it way more time than it deserved because so many people raved about the show. For me, it was like a snail-paced soap opera about the least likeable people in the world.
Might be the only person I’ve ever seen in my life who disliked the Sopranos. I assume you don’t eat Gabagool?
I assume you don’t eat Gabagool?
Gabagool? Now that’s a word I had to look up, but luckily Wikipedia once more was able to come to the rescue:
The pronunciation gabagool has been used by some Italian Americans in the New York City area and elsewhere in the Northeast US, based on the Neapolitan language word capecuollo (pronounced [kapəˈkwollə]) in working-class strata of 19th- and early 20th-century immigrants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capocollo#Etymology
So it turns out that I do like to eat it, but I normally just call it coppa.
Altered Carbon. I couldn’t get past the first episode. I love sci-fi but this just feels pretentious.
Attack On Titan ( basically all the Anime )
One Punch Man is good. I enjoyed it
Also Mob Psycho 100 (same studio I think)
I watched Attack on Titan and thought it was ok. If you want to watch some good anime I thoroughly recommend the above
AOT took way too long to finish such a short series, no need to extend like almost 10years.
I guess you’re the opposite of a weeb, a beew.
