I’ll go first:

Breaking Bad.

I can’t do it. I’ve seen the first season! I know what you’re going to say next: oh but it gets better after the first season you HAVE to watch it.

The Walking Dead.

Can’t do it. There is so much walking dead bullshit I simply can’t watch it.

Battlestar Galactica.

I know its good. I’ve been told over and over and over again. I simply can’t!

None of these shows are going to live up to the hype I can feel it in my bones.

Andor might be in that boat but I did watch it all the way through. Probably won’t again. I liked it, but if you haven’t seen it yet I can’t imagen it lives up to the hype. Maybe a little.

  • peeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    22 hours ago

    walking dead was never good and I don’t know how it caught on… that said we watched it for like 3 seasons but even after the first few episodes of the first season i was checked out and only kept watching it because my partner got real into it. After the 3rd season I just couldn’t force myself to watch it anymore

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    171·
    1 day ago

    i don’t base my media consumption choices on spite for people, so i get to watch good shows instead of running a test against some mental list of things I won’t watch because “that will show em!”

    ill also watch just about any pilot/first episode, because in theory it’s a team coming together to lead off with their dramatic/emotional hook and A-material for production value. so if they can’t sell me on it and there’s no other compelling, external reason to stick around after the first ep, i move on.

    i also don’t recommend shows to people unless they specifically ask my opinion on what to watch, and then i tailor it to them and what they’re looking for in terms of story telling.

    because a lot of people have weird hangups where they refuse to watch anything with Peter Falk because their uncle’s piano tuner looked like him and he farted too much one day during hockey practice… and I’d just as soon not know any of this.

  • kristina [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    Andor, already hated GoT enough for the prestige TV shock jock use of treating women terribly to be seen as a ‘serious’ and ‘hard hitting’ show. Its a truly terrible meta that has proliferated and forces many women with PTSD to avoid media and media discussions (a wide part of our culture). Its so bad that many survivors I know stick almost exclusively to children’s shows, e.g. Adventure Time, Owl House, etc.

        • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          the guy just loves to keep opening new plotlines without ever resolving shit. “now that I’ve set up five different crises, I’ll spend 300 pages introducing new characters and subplots!” fuck off. it got so annoying that I just quit halfway through one of the later books

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

      a massive bullet dodged, i do dislike when some nerds make comparisons to historical figures or events by referencing the show still though. like i dont know what the “red wedding” or “barethian” or “danerys” was and i dont give a fuuuuuck

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      I had a good time as a book reader who kept seeing absolutely unhinged shit they came up with for the show and laughing at how stupid it was.

  • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    I know its good. I’ve been told over and over and over again. I simply can’t!

    People have lied to you. The showrunners basically admitted they had no plan and were making shit up as they went along, resulting in plot twists that rendered previous twists nonsensical.

      • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        By like the halfway point of the series they’d ran out of ideas for twists, so

        spoiler

        they just started making random people cylons even when it didn’t make sense. They literally admitted they didn’t even think about how it would function and got the math wrong and had to retcon an explanation for the number of Cylons. They also turned a character’s religious belief correct, as in they were canonically a messenger of actual capital G God…

  • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    2 days ago

    Battlestar Galactica.

    lol. lmao, even. This one had such a strong start, but then it devolves into some kind of Mormon version of Salman Rushdie-style magical realism (magical sci-fi?) starting in the third season and just kind of spirals out of control from there. It’s up there with Star Trek: Enterprise for “if you watch this in 2025, you’re torturing yourself” factor.

    • MarxusMaximus [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      1 day ago

      I loved Battlestar Galactica when I saw it when it first came out but I rewatched it recently and even that strong start is kinda meh. It’s incredibly “American military is awesome”-coded and despite the fact that it’s about the last 50 000 people in the world who are all living as refugees actively fleeing a pursuing military, they talk about how they have to focus on keeping their free market economy alive and thriving. The only man who questions this and points out that humanity has been wiped out so money shouldn’t be a priority is portrayed as deranged and gets called a terrorist.

      • wideopenarms [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        11·
        1 day ago

        The “strong start” was Adama’s retirement speech from the uh … prequel/pilot episode? I forgot how it works, cause episode 1 actually starts with the aftermath of the nukes being fired.

        Regardless, it gives you the false sense that it’ll be an anti-imperialist/America-critical kind of show in the aftermath/midst of GWOT. And then the nukes fly and it’s like that speech never happened (I still think it’s a good speech tbh).

        My conspiracy theory is that the shows production was captured by the NVIXM cult (a surprising amount of the actors/actressess were members, including Sharon’s actress), which was probably controlled by intelligence, and that derailed any sort of progressive message the story might have ended up having.

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    Friday Night Lights.

    Good god, people, you know I loathe football. I don’t care if it’s not “about” football, it’s “about” small-town America, or whatever… I don’t like that, either.