that is the only good thing that happens
― imago, Sunday, 17 January 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
i watched all of smallville
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
ohhhh wait, you mean the younger guy who had a false confession extorted on tape? yeah he gets freed from prison
― 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
It has to be True Blood
― Dinsdale, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
that was so bad that most of us now pretend to have even ever had a vampire series.
― calzino, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
*never*
i don't even own a vampire
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link
did anybody ever watch the US version of Life on Mars?
keep wondering how pissed off the average viewer was at the final reveal
I gave up on Vikings a couple of years back, Hitler would have loved the consistently very hot cast!
― calzino, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:13 (three years ago) link
have a feeling Stranger Things might show up in this thread a bunch next year
― frogbs, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
Vikings seemed like Svens of Anarchy to me
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:18 (three years ago) link
the first season of Norsemen > Last Kingdom >>>>>>> Vikings AFAICT
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
Alf
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:09 bookmarkflaglink
I did and yes that would probably be my nomination for this thread
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
I gave up on Vikings at its logical endpoint - Ragnar's death. Everything revolving around his asshole sons, I could care less about.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
isn't Vikings still going?
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
yeah the sons of Ragnar were all quite tedious to start with. I don't doubt they just got worse to the death!
― calzino, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
xp
Odin knows!
― calzino, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
nah there was some cool stuff later on, Floki accidentally led a colony to Greenland instead of Iceland and there's good early UK history political drama iirc, it's been a while
― Überschadenfreude (sleeve), Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:47 (three years ago) link
IRLLOL!
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 18 January 2021 00:04 (three years ago) link
oh i remembered one that’s much worse than pretty little liars
fucking glee
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 18 January 2021 00:06 (three years ago) link
yeah i avoided that one :D
― imago, Monday, 18 January 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
my roommate was into it and i was like “whatever” but it was truly the worst
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 18 January 2021 00:17 (three years ago) link
being a theater dude, I had to suffer through everybody I knew talking a bout it. that and Smash
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Monday, 18 January 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
Vikings was great until Ragnar died & then that shit nosedived directly into the ground - i never caught up bc every time i tried i was like oh hey turns out I DONT CARE American Horror Story has been that vibe for me every season without fail, I dont why I keep trying to watch it. I think Season 1, and Hotel are maybe the only ones I could hang with.Usually it: episode 1-2: I think I could maybe get w this? episode 3: flames & smoke pull the chute peace out NOPE
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 January 2021 00:21 (three years ago) link
Im really good at never going back once a shows writer's reveal their lack of preparation for having gotten *this far*, or once a show turns into x-of-the-week, end result being i never actually watch complete runs of anything because no shows has avoided this in history afaict
Struggled through a couple where i was convinced it would be worth it and didnt regret it, but couldn't in conscience offer them for this list. Sopranos, Friday night lights,twin peaks, which were all worth the odd trough (or whose troughs had their charms)
Shows im glad where i stopped when i did, consider them 'complete' wire after season 4, deadwood (not the movie, does this count?), Boardwalk empire end season 2
Notable "shouldve stopped sooner": breaking bad, cant recall exactly but think jesse was in buddhist rehab or some shit after wednesday adams had kicked the bucket. Show was nonsense.
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Monday, 18 January 2021 00:34 (three years ago) link
NONSENSE I SAY
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Monday, 18 January 2021 00:35 (three years ago) link
Unsure if comedy shows can be considered here rly, few enough attempt ongoing plot developments, few that i wouldve watched
But boosh/conchords could be added to "completed, didnt regret" if so
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Monday, 18 January 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
Deadwood was awesome to its end, I wish it had continued
I’m in season 5 of 6 with The Americans, I’m still interested and am hopeful it will have a good ending
― Dan S, Monday, 18 January 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
Season 5 of The Wire is worth watching. I don't think it could have continued for another season, having burned up a lot of its credibility for realism, but it ended at a good spot.
― jmm, Monday, 18 January 2021 00:49 (three years ago) link
I loved the last season of The Americans
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Monday, 18 January 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
Even more than Killing Eve, that's my future #1 answer unless there's a sudden turnaround.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 January 2021 01:02 (three years ago) link
embarrassed that I watched one season of The League, much less all of it, but here we are.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Monday, 18 January 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
― calzino
I admit to watching all of this too, and liking it well enough, though it a kind of guilty pleasure.
ER is a show I felt obliged to watch to the end, as I had watched from the start and it never got bad (imo), just maybe extended its natural end date by a year or two.
― nickn, Monday, 18 January 2021 01:56 (three years ago) link
lol I’ll cop to watching way more Supernatural than I should’ve (stopped two eps into season 7) but maintain that it was good for at least half of seasons 2-5, when Eric Kripke was showrunner. Sure there were a ton of dire filler episodes but it also always had a couple of good standalone horror/meta/comedy episodes per season, a few decently scary villains, and the main plot was well-thought out and ended on a genuinely good note in the s5 finale. afaict even hardcore fans seem to agree this is where it should’ve rightfully gone out instead of limping on for 10 more seasons, jesus.
― Roz, Monday, 18 January 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
The OC was kind of trashy but I loved it and watched it to the end. Watched Gossip Girl through all 6 seasons up until the last half dozen episodes, when my communal experience watching it fell apart. I haven’t gone back to it yet, and still haven’t found out the identity of gossip girl
Killing Eve has been slightly disappointing over its three seasons so far, but there are a lot of worse tv shows
― Dan S, Monday, 18 January 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
xp The Americans gets great again in S6 and has one of my favorite TV show endings. Worth sticking with it
― Vinnie, Monday, 18 January 2021 06:59 (three years ago) link
Game of Thrones tbh
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 18 January 2021 07:13 (three years ago) link
I'm working my way through The Office (US) at the moment. I'm only up to S3 but I've already learned that Steve Carell isn't in the final two seasons so I'm planning to bail at the end of S7. Can't imagine how the show could possibly work without him.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Monday, 18 January 2021 07:15 (three years ago) link
He should have left earlier.
― shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 18 January 2021 07:38 (three years ago) link
The end of season 5 is the best place to bail.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 18 January 2021 07:38 (three years ago) link
"I admit to watching all of this too, and liking it well enough, though it a kind of guilty pleasure."
the science was bad, but at least the fascist dystopia where people do civil war militia cosplay and look very foolish was spot on.
― calzino, Monday, 18 January 2021 08:02 (three years ago) link