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office (us), it’s cringe
It’s supposed to be
It’s a shame too because the UK version is so good. NBC was like what if we took this really unique idea and turned it into a generic-ass American sitcom and sadly it worked for them.
This one took me a long time to get into but was ultimately worth it
Seinfeld. It’s just not funny.
Same with Friends, the laugh track is doing a lot of heavy lifting
There are some clips with the laugh track removed, and they really illustrate how not funny that show is. It’s just a long slew of broken conversations with awkward pauses.
I have the same opinion of any show that relies on a laugh track - if you have to trick my brain into laughing because ‘everyone else is doing it’, then your shit isn’t funny.
I actually chuckled at quite a few of those jokes
Fully agree, no laugh track is a positive selling point for me. Happy Endings is a similar show set in Chicago and since they don’t rely on canned laughs the jokes and characters are actually written rather well, shame it didn’t get as much attention for more seasons
I agree that Seinfeld is terrible but all other main actors save the show.
Came here to say this. I love it’s always sunny and people insisted it’s similar but I just can’t. I’ve tried so many times.
Don’t hate me, but Breaking Bad
Same here. Tried it once, didn’t care for the pilot episode and lost interest. A couple years later, some people encouraged me to give it another try after hearing that I tend to love character dramas. I made it partway through season 2 before I stopped and realized this show just isn’t for me.
The subject matter holds no interest to me, and the characters aren’t likeable or compelling enough for me to get invested.
I can appreciate that Breaking Bad is a well made show, but I don’t understand all the universal love it’s garnered.
I love that show but it is kinda designed to be hard to watch. I don’t blame anyone for not being able to commit to it.
First season is some of the best TV I’ve ever seen. After that the story lines get more and more unbelievable and the characters get less and less tolerable. Possibly the most overrated show of all time, imo.
I agree with that.
I feel like I could already sense the “holy fuck, this thing’s popular, let’s stretch this fucker out as long as we can” vibes in the writing and overall direction in early S2
Honestly by the end of it I was just so thrilled it was over, it was sort of a show that my wife and I watched together but I was fully disinvested by S3
I’m with you. I was with it until Skylar just got unbearably annoying. I’ve tried 4 times now to make it through
Internet turned around from hating her to thinking hating her isn’t allowed because it’s problematic
The first season is pretty bad. It feels so low budget, low stakes and boring.
I wonder if Better Call Saul would be a better entry point and then you’d be more invested in these characters and situations so you could deal with the slow pace of season one of BB
BCS knew what they were doing and had a larger budget from the get go, so you can feel the storylines immediately without revealing too much about the end of BB
If pacing is a problem with Breaking Bad’s first season, Better Call Saul offers no relief there. I love it, much more than I liked Breaking Bad, but the plot was a very slow crawl.
Same. I made it all the way to season 3 but really couldn’t continue.
Same. It’s just not bingeable and I struggle to stick to any show that isn’t.
Maybe it’s a product of its time, but I had a week off in 2009 and went through the first two seasons very quickly that week. IIRC, it being on Netflix in the early days let people binge it and contributed to its success while it was still airing which made it very popular. I’d venture to say it may be one of the first bingeable shows, but because that wasn’t a thing at the time, it didn’t follow the bingeable formula, so maybe that’s why it doesn’t feel like modern bingeable shows?
It wasn’t the format but the content that makes it hard for me to binge. It’s just so heavy, it becomes overwhelming after a while. I have to step back because it starts impacting my mood negatively.
I know it’s a crowd favorite but The Bear.
I have watched three episodes. All of them get my anxiety to the roof. I asked my friends if it didn’t make them anxious, too and they replied ‘yes, but that’s the fun’.
Maybe I’ll watch it when I’m done with my studies… See if I miss my anxiety.
Agreed, I only made it two episodes. Anxiety as entertainment ain’t for me
If just the first three episodes had your anxiety going stop trying. When Jamie Lee Curtis starts popping up, my anxiety started going up, and I’ve never had that issue with any TV or movie I’ve ever watched! I love her as an actress and she kills the role in The Bear, but the role is a seriously messed up mom.
I heard that it only gets worst and I am like noooope
The mom is Jamie Lee Curtis???
Seriously. It’s obvious now than I know, but I haven’t seen her or thought about her since A Fish Called Wanda and wow.
She looks older than she did 40 years ago. Surprisingly enough.They make her look more frazzled in Bear, but yeah that’s her. I hate her role, but she’s amazing in it.
I watched the first season. Loved it, but yeah the anxiety is a LOT.
I only made it about two episodes into the second season. Still very very good TV, but it really is quite a burden to feel all that anxiety.
I’ve never seen The Bear. I want to watch The Bear, but at the same time I don’t want to watch it. I used to work in food service when it first came out and had a few coworkers recommend it, but I told them then that I probably couldn’t handle it cause it would send my anxiety skyrocketing.
And they said “yeah, but it’s SO good!”
Dr Who. People with similar tastes to me love it. I’ve seen episodes with several different iterations of the Doctor (please don’t @ me with your fave). It just doesn’t strike a chord with me.
I like Doctor Who, but acknowledge it’s entirely BS. He says, “Time travel doesn’t work that way.” You must accept that no plot holes can be filled by a time machine that can go anywhere, anytime. There would never be a plot if he could go back and fix it anyway, so we are stuck in a world where everything happens for maximum drama only. I can see why it’s exhausting.
Breaking bad. I’ve tried multiple times. Can’t do it. I just don’t like shows where they’re constantly at risk. Dexter was better but still hard to watch.
The Mandalorian
There are cool moments ( ||Luke’s return|| ) but I find the writing to be mediocre.
At least it’s better than the Book of Boba Fett. That show is a disservice to the character of Boba Fett. He’s a remorseless assassin, not a mob boss with a heart of gold.
Holy shit the kids’ scooter gang was embarrassing. I know this shit is for the kids but come on
I’ll watch anything with Timothy Olyphant or Giancarlo Esposito in it, but I can see why you’d say that. The scooter race was laughable and enough with the same damn desert planet already.
Lower decks Rick and Morty
Rick and Morty for me as well. Can’t stand Rick, his voice makes me uncomfortable and I really dislike how his treatment or Morty is supposed to be funny.
I haven’t watched it in many years, but I do know that apparently him abusing of Morty is actually supposed to be bad and it’s a whole major plot point later on
I’m honestly not familiar enough with it all to really know if I’m criticizing the right thing.
But over the years people have insisted that this show called the office is one of the wittiest, most clever shows ever
I watched a little bit to try to see what the hype was, and my feeling inside was that it wasn’t far removed from the type of humor that edgy teenagers think is grand. Lots of being provocative and inappropriate which is I guess… Funny? Hehehe gay. Hehehe race. Hehehe inappropriate office sexual conduct. Am I really that far off?
I can’t completely tar and feather it, there was some clearly humorous situations, but overall I just thought it was wayyyyy overblown.
And the parts that I saw that were supposed to be the funniest, according to my friends anyways, really just turned me off. I think one of them had people at a office mixer and the game was that they were supposed to have a word written on a paper, taped to their forehead which they couldn’t see. Then another partygoer would have them try to say the word.
The whole humorous premise was that you were supposed to delight at how awkward it would be for someone to say the word ‘Asian’ in an office party, and watch the actress squirm and have the camera bobbing emphasize how uncomfortable we should all feel. Let’s purposely extend this scene to create some delightful tension as to whether this social protocol will be breached!
Like it’s not funny it’s just like saying “Hitler” as a kid and delighting that it will upset the adults. That’s what it felt like to me anyways.
This was the show that taught me cringe-inducing humor is not at all for me.
Oh hell you just teleported me back to Reddit like 20 years ago with that term! Yes, cringe, that was it! And that was not for me!
Your image of the show is pretty distorted, it’s not at all some edgy middle schooler show. The humor is (generally) in how much of a dumbass Michael (the boss) is and how much he ruins situations trying too hard to be funny, and the witty jokes are generally well performed one liners by Jim (John Krasinski) or malapropisms by Michael, like “I’m not superstitious, but I’m a little stitious” or “his cap was all pitated!”
The show repeatedly makes fun of Michael’s prejudice, too, like how he feels superior to the warehouse guys despite having the same education as them and not even earning that much more. It isn’t edgy to make fun of the stereotypical middle-aged white male boss being insensitiveNo I think it’s bang on.
The show is what you said, some clever witty writing, peppered with way too much “omg let’s all squirm at how inappropriate this is and how close we get up to the line teehee”
It would be like a great comedian who writes the world’s cleverest jokes then adds in a fart joke every second line. The whole thing is spoiled, I don’t want to hear the fart jokes I don’t need to, they’re horrible. That is a simile for my experience watching the office.
Yeah, The Office hasn’t really aged well, but it is what kick-started so many of those actors’ careers. Like Steve Carrell, John Krasinski, Ed Helms, Rainn Wilson, etc. I think that’s part of why so many people like it. That and nostalgia.
I will say Parks & Rec is probably way better in terms of how characters are, and their growth. Like Aubrey Plaza starts out as an annoying bitch but as the show progresses, she learns to be more open about her feelings and such.
Parks is just more americanized, it isn’t “better”. Later seasons of The Office look and feel much more like it, as the writers pandered more and more to mainstream audiences
Twin Peaks
Breaking bad, soprano, dexter!
For the last two because it’s too slow paced! Breaking bad I believe having watched first season but couldn’t get into it.I watch the last of us but a lot episodes are also slow paced and if it wasn’t for short seasons and not watching it alone probably I would have dropped it.
At last house of dragons! Would really want to like it as it’s my kind of show.
I recently started watching The Sopranos for the first time last year, and damn is it good. Some episodes are slow sure, but a lot of them are absolutely packed with story. So much so, I needed to take a couple minutes to process what I had just watched.
Also, there’s a very intense, pretty powerful scene like right in the middle of season 3 that kinda changes the entire dynamic of the show.
To me, The Sopranos has some of the most believable characters of any show I’ve ever seen. They’re all just so fucking stupid. But not in a bad writing kind of way. They’re as stupid as the average person and maybe a little more so. The show is full of miscommunication and unreliable gossip going around dozens of characters. It’s not witty dialog, it just feels real.
Downton Abbey
Severance
Bro whaaat
I can understand even though I like it! I believe it’s because of the philosophical question I ask myself when watching it. I find the concept fascinating. Is the other you really you, or is one a slave. Notably with Helly when her innie don’t want to work for Lumon.
I haven’t actually tried to watch it but I’ve been in the same room as handmaids tale. I saw an episode recently and the only thing of interest was the switchblades they had. There’s gotta be a better show where they wear funny hats.
The expanse, tried twice…so far
I had to do it twice. The first season sucks. Could have been done in 2 episodes. The rest of the show is a lot better and I’m glad I powered through the first season.
As a fan of The Expanse and James S.A. Corey. I get it. I love the show and think it’s great, but I know it is not for everyone.
Read the books instead… Unless you just didn’t like the concept or something.
