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oh no, why have they done that? WHY!
― calzino, Saturday, 16 January 2021 21:53 (three years ago) link
American Gothic
― octobeard, Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
I bought a bootleg DVD set a of Six Feet Under at my corner store so I had to keep watching because I had money in it. Good finale, though.
Streaming took away that investment angle so these days I won’t even remember to finish seasons and series I like.
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
xpost how dare u
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:43 (three years ago) link
I watch lots of bad TV that's probably time better spent doing something else but the only show as of late that I hated myself for finishing is Ted Lasso
cannot tell you how bored I am of these shows about holding hands with everyone and hugging away our anxieties
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 16 January 2021 22:59 (three years ago) link
I think Weeds was the last time I tortured myself like that. Never Again.
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:02 (three years ago) link
First season of the OC was great! 3rd and 4th season were definitely pretty bad, though.
Agree with sic that the X-Files kept having good episodes even in the reboot, and I'm a pretty big fan of S7 as well. The mytharc had tanked by then but otherwise I think the main problem with S7 was just that it wasn't the last season of the show. It had an interesting winding-down energy to it that could have made for a satisfying ending if Chris Carter had been willing to wrap things up.
I deliberately quit watching Homicide, Life on the Street at the end of S5, and I'm happy about that decision.
― Lily Dale, Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link
I would just like to go on the record saying that I thought the ending of BSG was Actually Good
― the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Sunday, 17 January 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
xxxpost how dare you!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 17 January 2021 00:56 (three years ago) link
I figured out that the Dexter writers didn't know what they were doing early on in season 2. Season 1 had such a perfect ending, making it clear that the show is a power fantasy, and then season 2 started with all the characters pondering whether the serial killer killer is good or evil -- ugh. I think I finished that season and then quit.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 17 January 2021 09:17 (three years ago) link
Regarding Doctor Who -- The Chibnall era (2018- ) is awful but I'll probably keep watching it for completion's sake. I made it through the Colin Baker seasons, I can make it through this.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 17 January 2021 09:26 (three years ago) link
I deliberately quit watching Homicide, Life on the Street at the end of S5, and I'm happy about that decision
Then you missed "Subway", which is probably the greatest H:LotS episode ever.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Sunday, 17 January 2021 09:35 (three years ago) link
there's an incredible amount of really bad shows on netflix these days, but the umbrella academy is probably a recent one
― Punster McPunisher, Sunday, 17 January 2021 10:01 (three years ago) link
The first season is weighed down a bit by what it's adapting, but the second season is the best thing I watched last year.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 17 January 2021 10:10 (three years ago) link
I'm terrible for bailing on TV shows. It's the fatigue, maaan. Recently: abandoned Dark in S3, Hannibal early S3, Whitechapel S2 (one of the seasons of television I think I've ever seen), Staged early S2. I'm currently 8 episodes into American Horror Story S1 and am already considering the off. Eck.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 17 January 2021 10:25 (three years ago) link
I think I'd mostly moved on to other things by the ninth season of Rentaghost but probably caught the occasional episode and I do remember it ending. Nine. Seasons.
Definitely watched the original BSG until it was sadly, as I only learned once the www was invented, unceremoniously yoinked from the production schedule mid season.
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 17 January 2021 11:07 (three years ago) link
I only had a vague inkling that Galactica 1980 was "bad". They wee going around on futuristic motorbikes in those helemts with lights inside, what's to complain about?
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 17 January 2021 11:09 (three years ago) link
I loved Hannibal S3, although I get how it's not for everyone.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 17 January 2021 11:56 (three years ago) link
And season 2 is one the better seasons! Really, I'd only recommend season 1 and maybe season 4
― Vinnie, Sunday, 17 January 2021 12:20 (three years ago) link
In terms of wasted potential, I rarely saw anything go downhill as fast as Sleepy Hollow. Only morbid fascination kept me going till the end.
― trishyb, Sunday, 17 January 2021 12:37 (three years ago) link
i watched all of smallvillei’ve seen horrors you people wouldn’t believe
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 17 January 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
pretty little liars, which is mostly a real bore with some outrageously campy intervals
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 January 2021 01:05 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
made it far, far, far, far further along this than I should have
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
think I made it 6 and a half of the 7 seasons, it definitely needed to end at the latest at the mid-S6 break
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
i watched all of smallville
lmao i didn't want to admit this but so did I. what's sad is that Alison Mack/Chloe was just about the only tolerable actor/character on it and then well, NXIVM happened...
other contenders: Dexter, LOST (it was good until season 5 though), Gossip Girl. Homeland somehow got better after season 3 and ended surprisingly well, but it was definitely mostly bad throughout.
― Roz, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
Terrace House. Started out so great and the last few seasons were just absolute toxic dreck.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 16 January 2021 03:30 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
:(
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
I didn't even realise how much so until the very end
Anyway my actual answer to this is kind of a weird one: Rex The Runt. Only two seasons. S1 was brilliant and a pinnacle of Aardman. Then a few years later they subbed out the entire writing team and did an S2 that was unendingly disappointing, and yet which I watched all of in the hope of something being recaptured. It hardly was.
Making A Murderer also a singularly abusive experience, albeit not badly-made
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
BSG is a good choice, getting stuck on that planet really killed the momentum of the show and took away all the cool spaceship dogfights that were the heart of the show.
No one will agree with me on this, but I hated the last season or two of The Sopranos so much that I've never wanted to revisit it. Sticking Tony in a coma for the better part of a season was also a terrible momentum killer.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
yeah it was great
late sopranos > early sopranos
― Left, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
i was dreading the moment someone mentioned gossip girl bc gossip girl is amazing
i think my defense of the o.c. upthread prob accounts for why i think that
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
The first few seasons of Gossip Girl were amazing! And then all the characters, including mf-ing Blair Waldorf, forgot how to scheme and then the whole Dan/Blair thing happened, and Nate kept dating horrible women, and Serena was just the WORST, aaannnd the final reveal was just... lol
― Roz, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
i actually stopped watching the show when dan/blair happened the first time. i’ve gotten over it
anyway show is too good to qualify for this thread still imo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
lol just remembered I also watched all of The Vampire Diaries, another show that started out great and then petered out in later seasons
― Roz, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
tbh i'm dreading the gossip girl reboot, that i will no doubt end up watching
― Roz, Sunday, 17 January 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
Didn't know there was a second season. Can someone summarise it in two or three sentences?
― shivers me timber (sic), Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
the gang does a law; they get nowhere
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
do you feel any closer to concluding that blokey (Brendan?) dunnit or nah
― shivers me timber (sic), Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
oh the brother theory? that kind of recedes throughout S2. just continues to be very obvious that the whole thing was a stitch-up and yet there is no catharsis or let-up
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link
ohhhh wait, you mean the younger guy who had a false confession extorted on tape? yeah he gets freed from prison
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
that is the only good thing that happens
Who will roll in and trump this with all of Supernatural?
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
I did watch this.
(Invasion 2005)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460651
Unshockingly it only ran a single season, although an ambivalent take on body snatchers isn't the worst premise.
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
i liked Invasion! corny but enjoyable. Bill Fichtner is great, i like him in pretty much anything. also i realized i dont hang w a lot of terrible tv - if it’s actually bad then i bail.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
I started watching Supernatural when I noticed it was on Netflix. I stopped after maybe four episodes, when I realized that a) it sucked and b) there were fifteen goddamn seasons, twenty-some episodes per season. That's more than 300 hours carved out of a finite human lifespan.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
I watched both seasons of Revolution until it was cancelled. It was all built on the dodgy af plot foundation of: what happens if all the leccy stops working and loosely held electrons stop moving from one to atom to the other by the push of electromotive force ..lol!
― calzino, Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
Gossip girl was classic, and the ensuing fame of Blake Lively and not Leighton Meester is an eternal mystery
The first season is actually good-good, and the rest of the seasons are trashy-good but still good
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
Twin peaks
― calstars, Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
challop thread is thataway
― shivers me timber (sic), Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
bahahaha we are currently hate watching Supernatural but are def not gonna make it through 15 seasons
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
― imago, Sunday, January 17, 2021 2:28 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Brendan Dassey is still in prison in Oshkosh, which I think is bullshit. I've probably mentioned this before but I know this family, when the whole case went down a lotta people in my community were shocked that they were pinning a life sentence on a guy who was coerced and clearly wasn't all there. it's still surreal to me.
the fact that ultimately nothing changed makes S2 a failure, too bogged down in obscure legal proceedings and I think there is kind of a desperation to spin not very significant developments into major breakthroughs. plus there's that fucked up mannequin scene. ultimately it feels a lot like the OJ case, the cops screwed up big time but they still almost certainly got the right guy
― frogbs, Sunday, 17 January 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link