Most overrated TV shows you’ve ever seen

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Inspired by the overrated movies thread, and also because I watched True Detective S1 (or some of it, at least) during lockdown. Everyone I know, online and in real life, raved about it, said it was one of the best shows they’d ever seen, and so on.
I was bored to tears with it. Made it to episode 5 out of 8 before I gave up, even though everyone talked about the ending and how it all paid off. I just didn’t care about any of the characters - I know the nihilistic setting was the point, but there was nothing interesting to detract from it. The central mystery/crime was not intriguing. I also hate misogynistic shows that pretend their misogyny is there to illustrate how patriarchal the setting is, when it’s really just an excuse to have lots of naked women on screen.

Phew...

So, anyway, what are your most overrated shows/series?

The Big Bang Theory

The Middle

Good Omens

@Deadringer

Mad men. Dull Game of thrones. Sexist tripe. Ozarks. Daft. Schitts creek. Shit Lost. nonsense.

To be fair, Game of Thrones is meant to be 'sexist'. It's the whole motivation for the later part of the show and it's main female characters. I know the earlier gratuitous scenes are a bit much for some, but the representation of female characters is rather important (in the shows defence, it's a shame many can't see beyond the sex and gore of the early seasons).

Lost
I think it actually put me off watching TV!
Did it ever come to a conclusion?

Taboo. Dh really likes the lead actor so we ploughed on every week.

Russian Doll. Colleagues told me I would love it but I found it a load of crap

Fleabag
Normal people
Mrs Brown's Boys
Anything on ITV apart from sport

Some of my favourites on here: The Office, The Royle Family, Good Omens, Poldark, Dracula.

Interesting to see all the votes for Breaking Bad and The Wire. I've never watched either but always feel that I should.

I only managed the first episode of Mad Men. Watched it when it was first shown but was bored. Then everyone kept raving about it so I used to wonder if it got any better.

Lost
Towie
Love Island
Miranda

The Office
Fleabag
Mrs Brown's Boys
Bloodlines (loved the first season, but couldn't get into the second at all)

Mrs browns boys, thought we left stuff like this in the 80s
Lost
Game of thrones
The bodyguard

Bloody Friends.
It may as well just have been called "The Ross and Rachel show".

Oooh yeah add Miranda to my list

Men Behaving Badly

There's a lot I do like on here, though.

Fleabag and Breaking Bad for me, I've never got further than the first episode with either and have been wondering what's wrong with me, it appears I have found my people!

GOT
The Tiger King

Strictly!!

I agree about Miranda as well. Not funny.

@annabel85 I genuinely didn't realise Mrs Brown's Boys was the BBC'S flagship sitcom. I've never watched it, it looks completely shit.

Normal People

Yeah @Fluffycloudland77 yeah Taboo was quite shite but TOM HARDY!!! 😍

I'm gutted to hear that you thought True Detective was crap, I've heard great things about it and have been meaning to watch it for ages.

Breaking Bad was SO overrated. Not a terrible show by any means but fuck me, people talk about it like it's the second coming of Jesus. Almost every single character was intensely unlikable and I couldn't have given less of a shit about any of them. Surely you're meant to root for SOMEONE when watching a show?

Taboo was a load of shite, though.
Poldark, not as good as the 1970s version.

Surely Mrs Brown’s Boys isn’t overrated, nobody rates it!

Things like Lost that started off interestingly but ran out of steam like:-
The Walking Dead
Heroes
Breaking Bad (though that started badly as well.)
Dexter
Being Human

Another vote for Fleabag. I watched every episode and laughed a grand total of two times.

The Crown was so gripping that I switched off after two minutes.