I don’t mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn’t bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.
Supernatural and Smallville were… too long. I can’t even remember where I dropped them, but it was way too far in already.
I do have a hotter take:
NATLA (Netflix Avatar, the last Airbender) is fine. It’s not bad! It’s like an AU with scenes we never got to see.
I see some people rage that they suffered through the whole season, and don’t get the fuss.
The Haunting was quite terrible but The Leftovers was far far worse.
The witcher.
Wtf
Star Trek Enterprise. I ended up hate watching the whole thing hoping it would get better, but it just kept getting worse.
The last ship. I loved it in the beginning. It started out as high quality drama/mystery. It had some issues but was overall really good. Or at least the concept was good enough to overlook issues. But then the issues backed up like a toilet. It got to the point where you’re groaning multiple times an episode and the sparkle of the concept dies. I can’t remember how far I got into the series, but it was somewhere early in season three. And I don’t remember TOO much from it as I feel like I’ve blocked out most of it.
They even brought in Tania Raymonde who I absolutely love, and I just couldn’t. I hated how lazy and dumb the writing turned and how quickly it happened. It should have been more of an exploratory show than action/drama. Like, it should have been about trying to find peoples and encounter new groups to vaccinate, and less about having all these big bads. Yeah some small time bad guys should be there time to time, but it should have been more like the first Star Trek series and less like the walking dead. “God damnit, that guy again?”
And it was so inconsistent. Just about everyone is dead! Society is over! Wait, society is still there in pockets. Nah, some places were basically unscathed. It basically became an action/mystery soap opera. Create as much drama as humanly possible, and make the viewer feel like they’re constant victims that somehow overcome everything because they’re badasses, then immediately become victims again.
It was absolute trash, and it could have been the most epic adventure show ever. If I had the reigns, I’d have made it stay hard to find civilization. There would be groups and areas that are better at surviving, and have smart solutions to things. But it would be rare. It’d use that same setting, but the feel would be more like Star Trek/fallout-the comedy. The end of the final episode would have the ship struggling with a skeleton crew finally succumbing to a really big storm and sinking. Then it would switch to a view of the earth spinning with a timelapse. The night side would be dark for a long time, 4-8 years or so. Then you see lights again somewhere. And it stays maybe a small area for a while but it picks back up exponentially as they share knowledge/vaccine, and you see society start to reestablish itself, making the ships mission having ultimately successful.
95% of all the shows listed came out in the last 5 years. Interesting trend, that.
I’ll break the mould with Sons of Anarchy. It’s just so hokey. The crappy music, the dorky “fight” choreography, the annoying characters… Hard pass.
All my group wtched every episode, pure vibe soapy shit.
Every season was the same, new bad guy oh he is ruthless but wait all my guys arrived an hour ago in a van so actually fuck you. Dont take my vest or stupid slow bike that I can only transport two handguns at a time on.
Peaky Blinders is similar.
Under The Dome. Terrific Stephen King epic, with a huge cast of characters, including one of his best villains, and I was really looking forward to the series.
It opened okay, and they did a good job of showing the Dome coming down, but a few episodes in they introduced some weird supernatural nonsense that didn’t exist in the original, and I was out.
It really pissed me off. It was a great story, all they had to do was tell it, but they had to get “creative” and fuck it up.
I’ve heard it was only supposed to be a mini series. About 4 episodes. But then the studio noticed the buzz after it was announced and they told the production team to turn it into a running series, which is why it got padded with extra story elements and stretched out.
They flogged it for 3 seasons.
Firefly
There are worse shows, but this was one of the first where I should have liked everything about it, but instead I hated the campiness.
I watched the full season and the movie, but I walked away not feeling much. People claim it’s one of the best shows of all time and deserving of a comeback, but I just can’t see it.
This is fair.
Firefly is straight up my alley, and I liked it, but it’s not in my top sci fi TV.
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Andor. I still have yet to finish the first season. It’s ok. It insists on itself. While the premise isn’t bad, and the story is ok. I just cannot get into it.
Andor is a slooooow burn. But worth it.
I’m watching it with my Dad, who hasn’t seen it, and he almost fell asleep more than once in the first half. It’s slow. It’s dense. But it’s setup; those details come back.
Like others said, you have to watch the prison episodes. If you don’t like it after that, you can definitely drop it.
Honestly, I can understand that opinion. The first half wasn’t great; all the critical acclaim was about the 2nd half of the season.
If you didn’t get to the part with the prison, maybe go back and try to stick it out. That’s where it really picks up
That’s actually exactly where I stopped watching it at was right before the whole prison scene. The whole first half of the season just drawn on and on and on. My girlfriend was incredibly excited to watch it she watched half of an episode and decided she was done. I’ve considered going back and rewatching it because I don’t even remember most of what happened in it because it was that unmemorable for me.
Felt the same, abaolutelt love it now
This is one of the very few times I think “well, you’re entitled to your opinion, but you’re dead wrong”.
In my head the only Star Wars canon consists of IV,V,VI, the bare plot of the prequels, Clone Wars, Andor, and Rogue One. All else is tacky gold decoration.
Kind of not answering the question but I still feel it applies.
The whole premise of Suits was bullshit and meant while I enjoyed the show I was constantly getting pissed off by the “Mikes Secret” storyline.
Definitely one of the most prestigious law firms in New York, Almost certainly the country and known worldwide is ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NEVER going to knowingly hire someone without a law degree and allow them to practice law not even if that man is the smartest legal mind alive.
Harvey was my fancast for Reed Richards.
It’s kind of hard to go back to USA network shows from the time. Except for Psych. I’ll always be here for Psych.
Oh, you know that’s right.
Foundation. holy shit. what a trash heap.
the visuals are great though. maybe i’ll cut out all closups of actors and use it as animated wallpaper or something.
Nooooo, I wanted to watch that! I wish we could have some good Asimov media.
First season was weak. Later seasons gradually improve.
You didn’t even like the Empire Plot? How far did you get?
No. I was out the second a robot murdered someone.
I, Robot was a better adaptation of Asimov.
Are there any good adaptations of Asimov besides Fantastic Voyage and Bicentennial Man?
Besides the seminal I, Robot? Not that I know of. Does Data’s positronic brain count?
The show is only good for the Empire plot. I mean… rebellion poison-cloning Dawn and getting close to him to get him on their side, and then Day figuring it out, and ruthlessly squashing all of it! Totally new, and very well crafted, with great character. I suspect Day actor chop is holding the show on his shoulder. In last season, when they dude-fied him, I was thinking it was over… and then he make it work somehow.
The foundation side is indeed very bad character, and serviceable plot.
Oh my gosh, yes! As a fan of the books, I was so excited for the series. I was determined not to be put off by the changes to the story the producers made, so it took me a while to realize that the changed story lacked something. Like, being good? I should’ve just stopped after the terrorist attack that killed nobody, or tens of millions of people maybe, in the first episode just to advance the plot. Great visual effects, no emotional resonance. Why should I care? Nobody on-screen seemed to. I stuck it out until the episode that ended with the one character getting surrounded by the Anacreon landing party, but the show never established why I should care about her. So I didn’t, and never bothered with the next episode to resolve the cliff-hanger.
It’s a remix of the foundation, understand why they did it because otherwise they’d have to switch of the cast every few episodes. The series is set up to make people that didn’t read the books like it and I personally think a lot of what they did makes sense. Some of the changes are good, some are bad, all unfaithful but given how hard it is to put this book on screen I can see why.
Did you like the Cleon-Empire plot?
I used to feel the same way when it came out. Big fan of the books and was immediately put off by how much was changed in the first few episodes. But my wife got curious and we watched it again together a few months ago, finishing the three seasons and loved it all.
Yes things are different, but those things work if you let em. It’s less an adaptation of the books and more of a musician of a different genre doing a cover song. You do you, but maybe give it another shot. I’m glad I did.
Evil. I tied, I really tried. But the writing was atrociously bad. After 3 episodes, I had to move on.
The Walking Dead. A friend kept telling me how great the show was, but it never really sounded like anything I would find interesting. Sure enough, when I agreed to check it out, it was just so… boring. I couldn’t get past the first episode because nothing interesting was happening, despite trying on 3 separate occasions to do so. Finally had to tell my friend that I wouldn’t be trying again.
I have to disagree. I agree on the whole that it isn’t a satisfying or good show as a whole. But the first few seasons were great. It just failed later.
I love zombie media, and Walking Dead season 1 was really good, thrilling even. And then it changed to really thick drama with occasional zombie somewhere and I lost interest. Then my SO was watching it and they were… herding zombies?
The first season was pretty good. Then they fired the creator and made whatever the rest is supposed to be
If that was good, I can’t imagine how it ever got as popular as it did.
lol. If you thought the first season was boring, be glad you stopped. The second season on The Farm was soooo dull. For a show about zombies, there were barely any to speak of until the last episode. And then the show just got ridiculous and repetitive in later seasons.
You guys we have to find Sophia
I watched 8 seasons and read the comic. There was a turning point that where the theme changed from the decay of the old world toward building a new one… and the theme song needed to change to incorporate this. Then I realized the theme song was the best part.
I watched the first season when I was in university. But then they moved it over to cable which we couldn’t get and so I never watched any of the rest of it. After I finished university I think I dipped into it again and was just so completely bored by the characters that I just stopped watching again.
The main plot arc on the first season was him carrying around that damn grenade. Which was ultimately used to blow up some, bulletproof glass. Wow.
I can’t remember the names of any of the characters but at one point one of the characters is having it off with one of the other characters, but in secret for some reason even though both of their spouses are dead so I don’t see the problem, anyway they go into the woods all alone, in a zombie apocalypse, for some privacy, (again why) and get attacked by a zombie. Talk about stupid decisions.
I held on for a good while, but I was finished when a whole fucking episode was in slow motion.
I found the first episode so tropey and…. predictable isn’t the right word, but you knew who was about to get bit even through it didn’t make sense. Rote? Clumsy? Something something. I also didn’t make it past ep1
Not liking it I understand, but actually worst show ever ? That’s some big hyperbole.
I never said it was the worst show ever. The question asked what was the worst show we ever tried to seriously engage with. For me it was The Walking Dead. I tried to give it a fair chance and it sucked massively. Sorry if my opinion upsets your delicate sensibilities.
Don’t worry, you have not offended me.
I just can’t can’t believe it’s the worst show you have ever watched. Either, as I said you are exagereting, or you haven’t watched a lot of things.Again, I feel like you’re reading things that I’m not saying. The Walking Dead, although I didn’t enjoy it at all, is not the worst show I’ve seen. I’m saying that it’s the worst show I’ve seen with the intention to try and watch it. I’ve seen much worse trash like the Kardashians and all those other reality shows. But I hate shows like that and would never attempt to sit down and enjoy them. Does that make things clearer?
Edit: Maybe if I said it’s the show that disappointed me the most? That I tried to enjoy but just couldn’t?
Yeah that I get. And actually now that I re-read the OP, your answer is actually closer to the intended question. So the confusion is on me, sorry about that :o
I’ll probably will be killed for this but it was breaking bad for me. Just so slow and boring. Could see where it was going miles ahead and Walt just kept making dumb decisions which pissed me off. Probably the point of the show or something but I really didn’t like it.
Jesse is the foil. Walt makes decision after bad decision and never feels the consequences – Jesse does.
I think the show works for some people, but I have a pet peeve about plots driven forward by stupid characters making obviously stupid decisions (Jesse Pinkman in this case). It was an immediate turn off for me.
You might check out “Better Call Saul” though. Many of the better written characters from Breaking Bad show up here, and the spin off stands on its own until you get to the last half of the last season. You don’t have to have watched the other show to enjoy or follow it.
but I have a pet peeve about plots driven forward by stupid characters making obviously stupid decisions (Jesse Pinkman in this case)
Do you remember what decision that was? One of the things I really like about BB is that every character behaves fairly sensibly and realistically, so I’m a bit surprised.
Also by the end of the show, Jesse is one of the only characters making sense. I’d argue he does start there (not sure of the specifics they’re referring to), but his character dynamics with the world and Walt sort of flip.
Inside Man (2022) was probably the worst thing I’ve attempted to watch. I bailed in the first episode, it was absolutely dreadful. The decisions being made by the characters were so far from realistic/believable that it made the drama feel completely contrived and tedious.
Oh man, i watched all of it. It was just awfuland so stupid I couldn’t believe what I was watching!
