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Unpopular opinions on music, TV shows, characters, personalities

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Notrightbutok · 22/12/2020 00:17

I don't think Mel C was the best singer in the Spice Girls, Emma then Mel B were much better.

In Corrie I don't think Jack and Vera were the wonderful couple they were made out to be. They were both having affairs back in the 70s and 80s. Jack was trying to get off with Bet Lynch, Vera used Ivy as her alibi when meeting other men.

Nadiya Hussain is on TV way too much. Other contestants from Bake off deserve a show. I also think she's a massive hypocrite allowing her recipes to feature in the racist Daily Mail.

Anyone else have any to add?

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PomBearWithoutHerOFRS · 22/12/2020 00:58

French and Saunders never ever did anything together that was funny. In fact the only thing either of them ever did that was somewhat amusing was some bits of Ab-Fab.
Mariah Carey is a screaming diva and her songs are hard to listen to.
Mrs. Brown's Boys is hilarious 😁
McDonald's hash browns are the single most delicious foodstuff EVER!
Richard Ayoade is ubiquitous and annoying and smug.
Xmas Grin Ooo, I enjoyed yhat! Xmas Grin

SleepingStandingUp · 22/12/2020 01:00

Father Ted is shit.

Anything with Matt Lucas and David Walliams in is shit.

OhWhyNot · 22/12/2020 01:19

Friends was overrated rubbish in the 90’s and still is now

Motherland isn’t particularly funny

Red Dwarf is just stupid

KFC is delicious and tastier than Nando’s (well the chicken is)

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 22/12/2020 01:23

Tom Hardy can't act and his turn in Peaky Blinders is particularly horrific

Ant of And Dec would no longer have a career if he was a woman and all of the formats they present are beyond tired.

All of the soaps are a waste of schedule time.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 22/12/2020 01:24

French and Saunders never ever did anything together that was funny. In fact the only thing either of them ever did that was somewhat amusing was some bits of Ab-Fab.

Massively agree.

Also La La Land is fucking rubbish

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 22/12/2020 01:25

Richard Ayoade is ubiquitous and annoying and smug.

Perhaps but he deserves a pass for having to endure Laurence Fox as his BIL

Holothane · 22/12/2020 01:27

Comedy is overrated, I loathe the Simpson’s
Only fools and horses if I have sit through another episode I’ll scream
Saturday and Sunday night tv I’d crap.
Ant and dec crap
Xcrapter as well,
Britain’s not got talent.

PodgeBod · 22/12/2020 01:27

Steven Fry is incredibly dull and his marriage is downright creepy, if he wasn't a beloved national treasure he would recieve far more criticism

OhWhyNot · 22/12/2020 01:36

Not sure why I added the bit about KFC Blush

Pink Floyd are the most over rated band and the most boring concerts I have been to (had to endure them twice)

Les Mis (stage) is really really boring I felt miserable through boredom

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 22/12/2020 01:39

Les Mis (stage) is really really boring I felt miserable through boredom

Whilst I don't agree you are in good company. Michelle Obama wrote in her autobiography that she and Barack walked out of it (Before they were famous)

OhWhyNot · 22/12/2020 01:48

Grin that’s made my day Eine (MO autobiography is on my list to read)

TheRuleofStix · 22/12/2020 01:54

Mrs Brown’s Boys is funny????? Shock

I think Little Britain is utter shite - but I think I was ahead of the curve on that one Grin.

Reality shows are awful - all of them. Especially Love Island.

LadyLazaruss · 22/12/2020 06:38

Friday night dinner is about as funny as the last funeral I went to.

SephrinaX · 22/12/2020 06:47

Gavin and Stacey is boring and James Corden is so annoying.

nosswith · 22/12/2020 06:53

My view that Mrs Browns Boys is transphobic and not funny is not something everyone agrees with.

FuckOffBorisYouTwat · 22/12/2020 07:01

Benidorm is actually pretty funny TV.
Stevie Wonder's music is dull
Leonardo DiCaprio has never been attractive.
Jimi Hendrix's music is self indulgence dullness

RedRec · 22/12/2020 07:06

Spencer Kelly from BBC1's 'Click' technology programme is the most annoying tit on the planet. But I do like his jewel coloured cushions.

Collidascope · 22/12/2020 07:12

Noel Fielding is tedious and completely cringe. Watching him, a middle-aged man, wandering round the bake-off contestants telling them all how quirky and kerrazzy he is, like some insecure teenager, as they stress out about getting dough to rise or icing to stick, is pretty tragic.

I love Gilmore Girls, but the writer has such an issue with blonde women and girls. They're always either mean or stupid and usually both.

cariadlet · 22/12/2020 07:14

I agree with some of these but Father Ted is brilliant. Ditto Jimi Hendrix and also the early series of Red Dwarf.

Sittinbythetrees · 22/12/2020 07:24

I don’t generally enjoy watching things with lots of strong regional accents or dialogue. Is that an unpopular enough opinion?
All reality tv is brain rot, although I do remember the first series of big brother being interesting, when it was presented as a social experiment with normal people.
ITV does a few good dramas (Poirot etc) but the rest of it is dross targeted at people with low levels of education and/or intellectual curiosity.

Sittinbythetrees · 22/12/2020 07:25

Mostly when I watch tv I’m just permanently distracted by how white everyone’s teeth are.

Sittinbythetrees · 22/12/2020 07:27

Also bemused by how Ant of Ant and Dec and Philip Schofield have remained popular- even gaining popularity and sympathy.

BloodyFreezingOutHere · 22/12/2020 07:38

Also bemused by how Ant of Ant and Dec and Philip Schofield have remained popular- even gaining popularity and sympathy.

They're men.

There are some women who love to emotionally rescue the lame dog men even from afar.

And the who men don't care what they do don't care because they're also men.

Those of us who never had any interest in Ant and Dec or Pip still have no interest.

PuppyMonkey · 22/12/2020 07:42

Just wanted to say I totally agree about Jack and Vera Duckworth. Jack was ok when he was in the pub, but he and Vera together we re terrible. She couldn’t even act imho.

BloodyFreezingOutHere · 22/12/2020 07:42

Probably not too unpopular, but I'd much rather see an 'ageing gracefully' face/body than one that is cosmetically 'improved'.

It doesn't matter how 'natural' enhancements are, they are still obvious and they don't make people look better. Just fake.

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