Me personally? I did not care for Game of Thrones.
Movies >>> TV shows for me. Maybe episodic shows I can enjoy like standalone short movies
Almost all of them lol
The Cabin in the Woods. I know so many horror fans who are enamoured with all the references in this movie. And yeah, the references are cute. But do they understand that it’s shitting on every movie it references, and shitting on horror fans for liking them? The plot is built around the idea that every movie it references is formulaic, contrived pablum. Kinda hard for me to get past the sneering superiority of it all.
Ted Lasso
I was a background actor in that one. It got some awards that season too, I heard. I still didn’t watch it, cause I’m not a sports fan and figured I wouldn’t get anything out of it. I like Sudeikis though. I’m an SNL fan. I should probably check it out someday
Breaking Bad
I really wasn’t a fan of Mork and Mindy. I love Robin, but couldn’t get into it.
Walking dead Lost All Marvel and DC movies
The office. Just don’t get what’s funny or good about it. I tried giving it an honest chance about 6 episodes and didn’t laugh once. 0/5
US or UK? I really didn’t find the US version funny in the slightest. And I dont mean in an elitist sense, I’m hardly the greatest fan of the office UK either, but there is something about the absurdity levels of many popular US sitcoms which never feel right to me. Like the characters are just so silly that they would never have been in those jobs in the first place. Scrubs and Brooklyn 99 are similar in that aspect for me, I just don’t find the ungrounded absurdity funny
Try Community, it’s like the office but with humour
I have tried to start the office no less than 5 times. I even tried someone’s suggestion of skipping season 1.
I just can’t get into it or find it funny.
Also something about Steve Carrel annoys me the moment I see him. Along with Ben Stiller, who’s not in it but same effect
Cowboy Bebop is really… okay? It feels like nothing is happening, although Samurai Champloo is the same but still entertaining enough that I’ve made it halfway through
Basically any kind of “reality TV”.
The Walking Dead. You may now proceed with my execution.
They spent like 3 whole episodes looking for a little girl who wandered off the road she was explicitly told not to wander off and that’s when I fell off
Ex-wife and I were really into it for several years, then overnight, we just didn’t give a shit anymore.
Isn’t that universally considered garbage? I mean it’s so bad even people who watch it can’t deny
Mr. Robot. I can’t tell if this is good or terrible.
Breaking Bad. I didn’t start it until maybe S4 or early in S5 so I marathoned everything and it got really cyclical really fast. Jesse does something stupid, they scream fight saying they don’t need each other, goes separate ways he fucks up more then they realize they need each other and get back to cooking then Jesse does something stupid…plus Walt says he needs just a little more money then suddenly it’s gone so he starts over again…
I experienced this too!! But BB, chief among TV Shows, you can’t be critical of or people will crawl down your throat about it.
I once had someone tell me that the reason I didn’t like it was because I’m “still young” . I’m in my mid thirties.
The Princess Bride. Only USians care about that movie, which is absolutely not the most quotable movie (that goes to Commando).
Woah I guess if the point of this post was unpopular takes, the Princess Bride DEFINITELY wins lmao. May you rest well, and dream of large women.
In a US-filled environment for sure.
I also don’t think most movies Americans remember with nostalgia/familiarity are bad: It’s a wonderful life is a masterpiece, wonderfully aged, surprisingly educational and with a masterful direction.
The Princess Bride is just a mess. If sitcoms are comfort food, that is the cold pizza you forgot out of the fridge 2 days ago.
Friends: a celebration of hedonism and shallowness.
Seinfeld: basically the same.
‘Seinfeld’ is intentional about that and makes it funny. ‘Friends’ is just hypocritical: the characters are awful, but the show tries to claim that they’re actually human and caring now and then, and that excuses the rest. They even have the audio of the audience going ‘aww’ at such moments, which really adds to the cringe.
Seinfeld had much better writing than Friends
Seinfeld I thought had a lot of clever and funny parts. Even though I like Jerry less and less as the years go on, there were so many great supporting characters.
Friends though, any time that show is playing I feel like intelligence is being sucked from my brain. And not in a “so stupid it’s funny” way, it’s just empty and stupid.
What made Seinfeld funny was the situations they set up, like the one where Jerry and George pretend to be the people listed on the sign held up by a limo driver in order to get a free ride home from the airport, only to discover that the people they’re impersonating are white supremacists on their way to speak at a rally at Madison Square Garden (for good measure, Kramer and Elaine are at MSG to protest the white supremacists). But watching Curb Your Enthusiasm all these years has made it clear that it was really Larry David that was creating these situations, and his show does it a lot better.
The other thing that made Seinfeld funny was the copious amounts of weed I was smoking at the time. These days, it just isn’t really that funny, and the
soundtrack(I meant laugh track – the soundtrack with the funky bass line was great) just makes it worse. There was never anything funny about Friends. I watched it because I was in love with Courtney Cox.
I liked friends when i was a kid/teen. Bit re-watching it as an adult, not so much. Everyone but joey and chandler annoy me now
