Which TV series did you used to enjoy but can't rewatch?

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I was a huge Sex and the city fan when it was originally on and later got the DVD box set, but if I catch any of it now I don't enjoy it. I guess part of it was that as a teenager their life was so glamorous and exciting whereas now they all get on my nerves and none are particularly likeable.
Which shows are you disappointed by when you go back to them?

The Q series that Spike Milligan did (yes, I'm old). I used to be so keen for it to come round every week and thought it was really funny - like, tears streaming down your cheeks, missing chunks of dialogue because I was laughing so hard funny - but now it's just meh.

What changed? Was it me?

Yes, you. I once laughed till I cried at ‘Allo ‘Allo.

Goodnight Sweetheart.
Two timing self absorbed selfish arsehole and his enabling best friend.
His poor wife who was doing her absolute best at everything was treated so badly, and as a sort of joke.
I researched an episode a while ago and it gave me such rage.

I've struggled to re watch six feet under. I bloody loved it and ds1 was almost called Nate because of it. I might try again.

Friends. Glee. Big bang theory got less sexist but I can't get past the fact that Penny was never given a surname.

Minder ?

Howled at Mind Your Language and Bless This House when I was a kid.

Cringe at YouTube clips now.

What were we thinking?

Howled at Mind Your Language and Bless This House when I was a kid. Cringe at YouTube clips now. What were we thinking?

I also notice no one mentioned Love Thy Neighbour".

Black and White Minstrel Show ? Anyone ?

The Comedians ?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheeltappers_and_Shunters_Social_Club

There isn't enough history-tippex in the world, sometimes.

Another one for Friends. In my 20's we used to plan our nights out around it and the excitement at the episode where Ross and Rachel got together! Can't bear it now.

Spaced has aged well though, I recently re-watched it and still loved it.

Breaking Bad. I tried, but when the cruelty doesn't come as a shock it's unbearable. Over 5 series you come to realise that Walt is an arsehole, he's always been an arsehole, and that bleeding out in the company of dead Nazis is the least he deserves.

Ally McBeal - I used to love it but saw the first episode recently on Amazon Prime and she is now really annoying and simpering ...

I rewatched series 1-3 of Ally McBeal recently and I still bought into the true love she and Billy had. Found everything else about it quite cringe though. But she and a Billy were always meant to be

LA Law was my obsession as a teenager. I loved it. I don’t think I’d have become a lawyer if it wasn’t for LA Law. It hasn’t aged badly at all, I think, for a 1986-1991 show. And then it switched directors and suffered from the writers strike and it all went dreadfully pear shaped.

The Wire

Men Behaving Badly. As a teenager in the 90s, I thought it was the last word in sophisticated humour (well, Debs and Dorothy's lines anyway). Now I find it almost painful to watch.

Yy to Goodnight Sweetheart! I thought it was so lovely when I was a stupid kid, but I saw an episode on Yesterday or something a while back, and it was far from lovely... Yvonne was portrayed as a shrewish nag so it was, of course, entirely understandable that the poor bloke would go and have an affair. But even then it would have been harder to sympathise with him if he'd just shagged his secretary, hence the time travel nonsense.

Whoever said Fawlty Towers and Father Ted: you're wrong. Both well planned , well scripted and very funny. I still watch them.

Tried watching AbFab a couple of times when it was first on but found it boring and unfunny. Always thought it was overrated.

SATC. Trailers put me off so never watched it. Just got the impression that it was about a bunch of very materialistic women.

Loved Mind Your Language as a kid. It's embarrassing just to think about now. Ditto It Ain't Half Hot Mum and the Black and White Minstrels. I saw a documentary about Lenny Henry recently. I can't believe he was a regular act on there.

I know this is a thread about tv and not films, but I've got to say Ghostbusters. I took dd to see the new female one when it came out, we loved it so I got the original on dvd. I couldn't believe how sexist it was. I hadn't even noticed at the time.

SATC has aged horribly for me for the reasons listed by pps

Also Buffy - I watched it recently and couldn't get past how controlling Xander is with Anya - all those little put-downs and corrections all because (judging from his patronising comments) she's not quite as culturally 'elegant' as the others!
Horrible bloke.

I really don’t understand the person who has criticised Ab Fab for being about vacuous overpaid women

It was a critique of the bullshitting nature of the fashion industry, we weren’t supposed to admire them!

And Father Ted is still brilliant too

Oh dear - I re watched the OC recently and loved it so much it inspired me to rewatch One Tree Hill which I’m also loving 🤣🤣🤣

Game of thrones.

Every now and again I remember how much the ending ruined the series and get irrationally angry about it. It could have been amazing. It was the opposite. I can't possibly rewatch the earlier series knowing what is to come.

The X-Files. I cared deeply about all the conspiracy stuff / Cigarette Smoking Man as a teen, I could have written a thesis on it. Now? Nothing.

OTOH, I still love Fawlty Towers. It's my go-to thing if I've had a properly shit day.

Another one for how I met your mother.. a whole series for the wedding day, but the actual bit of how Ted met the mother, and her story.. over and done with in one!

The Wire

Why not? I rewatched it a year or two ago and it was still incredible.

-in one episode that is!