Your unpopular entertainment opinions

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Can be TV film music video games popular culture etc

I will start
Breaking bad wasn't all that

@ginghamstarfish I know comedy is subjective and have head several R4 controllers on Feedback defend their programming based on that argument but apart from a couple of programmes (I imagine these differ for each listener), I find most R4 comedy unlistenable.

Fleabag was self-indulgent boring drivel.

That Nicholas Sparks person is a cynical crap writer. He was hunting for a way to make fast bucks, identified a market and writes to it with an 'I know what women want to hear' attitude. No respect for his readers or craft.

Oh and Ed Sheeran is on a par with many buskers. Don't know why he got picked up.

Well this is what I came to say wasn't it horrendous. Also I find PWB insufferable

Reality TV is often far funnier and more relatable than written dramas and comedies.

I like Mrs Brown's Boys.

Live music gigs are boring.

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders making the team is one of the best TV shows ever made.

Thought it was just me who didn't like it/her! Don't think I've really enjoyed anything she's written.

I've found my people! 🤣

I dislike shiny floor shows - be they talent, quiz or family reunion related (with one
exception: Eurovision cos it's naff, knows its naff and not naff because of this). I believe TV at the weekends is some kind of Dante circle of hell punishing people who forgot to make other plans.

Jools and his NY celebrity-ananny. I really don't care about the b-listers you've managed to attract to some studio mid Oct and I find the interactions between songs desperately cringey. Also TXed as a punishment for not having other plans.

Breaking Bad. Dull. Sorry not sorry.

Stranger Things - classic example of diminishing returns.

All those incredible technical singers (male and female) with zero songwriting skills. They are legion and regularly feature on Jools

Adam Hill's insufferably smug C4 show.

Sally Rooney. Overrated.

Award shows. Every single one. Who cares?

Football

The Olympics

Cricket, rugby and tennis.

Formula One. Like most zombie films, starts well and descends into predictability the further you get into it.

Zombie films. See above.

Scripted reality. I don't understand! So we've created TV drama around creaky non actors saying lines chimps on typewriters would balk at? And we like this?!

Guilty pleasures:

Sex & The City film one.

While You Were Sleeping.

Kirstie & Phil. Yes, I know, but I find it all kind of comforting like an olde pair of slippers.

Escape to the Sun.

The word naff. Can it come off the naughty step now? Last seen in the Eighties but quite a handy descriptor.

I find Succession really dull and slow, meanwhile my husband thinks it’s TV gold!

I find her really irritating .

Award shows. Every single one. Who cares?

I whole heartedly endorse this statement. I get a bit annoyed in eg February when you just want to stay in and watch something good on the telly, and it’s all bloody Brit awards and soap awards and telly awards and zzzzzzz

Most of these are pretty mainstream opinions though.

I love Friends but the finale was a big let down. It just felt like a big anti climax and don't stir up any strong feeling at all for me.

Harry Potter is irritating. I can think of a hundred things I'd do before I sat and watched a Harry Potter film for entertainment.

Not liking Ed Sheeran isn't exactly unheard of...

Agreed but he’s somehow selling loads of music and concert tickets so there must be plenty of people who like him, hence “i like Ed Sheeran” must be a popular opinion. I worked with someone who paid £85 or something to stand in a park in Leeds in the rain to watch him, for that I’d want pyrotechnics, live guest appearances by Rod Stewart and Elvis, free champagne and somebody to hold an umbrella over me, to compensate for Sheeran.

Ed Sheeran isn't a good lyricist or a particularly good singer.

Inbetweeners was crap.

As a dance teacher, I hate watching Dancing With The Stars and Strictly Come Dancing. I'd rather the focus was on genuinely talented dancers only, not "celebrities".

Beyonce is overrated.

Dr Who is a load of trash now. It stopped being watchable after Matt Smith.

Love Island/TOWIE/etc are absolutely horrendous.

Line of Duty was boring.

Cocomelon isn't actually that bad (for toddlers).

Marvel and DC films are unimaginative and massively overproduced.

The Masked Dancer. Why? Why? Why?

Not bothered about any US 'box set' programmes.

I tried to watch The Wire and just found it confusing, disturbing and dull, all at the same time. Plus by then it was already 53 series in and I just can't be arsed.

The subject matter of Breaking Bad etc is just off putting and doesn't interest me at all.

Give me a good (or even rather silly) drama on British terrestrial TV any time. Six episodes, done, move on to the next one.

Tommy Cooper wasn’t funny

I'm also (at the grand old age of 47, and have been all my life) a big fan of pensioner/student TV. Cosy crime, quiz shows, old films, repeats of 1960s TV - yep I'm there.

Ross in Friends wasn't abusive (an unpopular opinion on MN)

100% this.

It was recommended to me by a very old friend that I've known for years, we like the same things, have v similar senses of humour etc, so I was looking forward to it.

Hated it. Thought it was the most self-indulgent pile of MCWW 'oh no, my diamond shoes are too tight' crap I've ever seen.