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You’ve seen one episode, you’ve seen them all?

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WomanStanleyWoman · 10/09/2021 15:52

Inspired by the ‘Vera’ thread - what are the shows you can see once, then theoretically never see again without missing anything?

My vote goes to Location Location Location. As much as I love it, the formula is eternally predictable:

‘Steve and Samantha Deluded-Twats are looking for a spacious two-bedroom apartment in west London. They love pricey Chiswick, but only have £300k to spend. They’re hoping that, with our help, they can find an area nearby with an attractive high street with a villagey feel and lots of independent shops and cafés, even though they buy everything off Amazon and get their lunch from Tesco Express like the rest of us. Today, I’ll be showing them a one-bed in need of work opposite a condemned council estate now being used as an unofficial skate park and drug den. I REALLY hope they can see the potential’.

Share your nominations…

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SchadenfreudePersonified · 10/09/2021 20:12

I can be even more unpopular, Only Fools and Horses, I really cannot understand why people rave over this and get genuinely quite annoyed at me for not liking it!

Thank God! - Not just me, then?

The only bit I have ever found remotely risible was the segment shown on EVERY SINGLE COMPILATION OF COMEDY CLIPS EVER where David Json goes to lean on the bar and it isn't there.

I usually smile at that. The rest is dross.

woodhill · 10/09/2021 20:15

I never liked OFAH

AcceptYourself · 10/09/2021 20:19

House!

Nayday · 10/09/2021 20:20

Season 3 I think of Game of Thrones. The one where Bran wandered around north if the wall. It took 19 billion hours for them to move from 1 tree to the next. Nothing happened. In the last season everyone just hopped on Dragons as though air travel had been invented. Nothing from the wanderings of Season 3 had any bearing in later events! The best thing about it was 'Hold The Door' and that was tenuous at best!

Babyparrotdog · 10/09/2021 20:21

@BillyJoe111
@CherryHug
I think you need to be friends 😂

HauteGirlSummer · 10/09/2021 20:21

@BreakfastOfWaffles

I still love it, but Death in Paradise is so comfortably formulaic.
Hahaha this. But I love it though. Comfortable is the perfect adjective for it. It's easy to watch when you don't need your brain to do too much work trying to follow a storyline 🤣

Don't forget the big reveal of whodunnit at the end where they're always all sat in the same room ( for some reason) and the detective reveals who the killer is.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 10/09/2021 20:22

[quote MoneyJar]@ifIwerenotanandroid - that is such a lovely Saturday ritual. Really want to steal the idea, and do this also.
What are the cakes please?
Some great suggestions for viewing there.[/quote]
If will send you a PM, as I don't want a rush on them. Grin

wewereliars · 10/09/2021 20:22

Excellent thread, thanks WomanStanleyWoman !

ifIwerenotanandroid · 10/09/2021 20:22

If -> I

Herewegoagain84 · 10/09/2021 20:22

Only skimmed the thread but someone must have mentioned Bake Off!!

bevelino · 10/09/2021 20:23

Midsummer Murders is the most predictable show ever.

the80sweregreat · 10/09/2021 20:25

Nobody has mentioned Bake off!
They should do though ..

SpeedRunParent · 10/09/2021 20:26

I'm watching Grand Designs as we speak and the man is indeed indulging in his manly fantasies while the wife just gave birth to a baby that looks suspiciously like Kevin, and is getting sick of the caravan.
Oh, now the worst dies have just arrived from Austria!
Mumsnet you are so good at this!
P.S. how the fuck do these people get their planning permission?

SpeedRunParent · 10/09/2021 20:28

*now the windows have just arrived from Austria

CourgetteSeason · 10/09/2021 20:30

Love it or list it.

Planning permission drama, not sure about this part of Kirsty's design, spend 20K more than planned.

View a house they both love, might be swayed to list it!

But no. They always love it because they've just sunk 100K on an extension and some fitted wardrobes and probs can't afford to move.

Gemma2019 · 10/09/2021 20:32

Naked Attraction - never has a programme with such salacious content been so sexually unappealing.

Anna rolling out the old mantra every week “We like to start where a good date ends… naked.” Well actually no Anna - my idea of a good date doesn't end with Dominic, 38, an admin assistant from Leeds critiquing my fanjo and nipple colour.

Tangledtresses · 10/09/2021 20:34

Four in a bed
Come dine with me
Housewives of some shit place
Bargain hunt
Countdown
Homes under the hammer (but I love this )
Etc......

EmmalineC · 10/09/2021 20:35

What was that holiday swap show called? That was rich vs poor. The poor took the rich to a campsite on Shell Island with a self composting toilet and a leaky tent, and the rich took the poor to their villa in the South of France with ensuite bathrooms and an infinity pool.

Shell Island is actually very beautiful, and the campsite there is lovely, with superb, modern facilities, but the programme made it look like the worst place in the world.

There was definitely an element of 'point and laugh at the poor people' going on.

JackieWeaversZoomAc · 10/09/2021 20:36

Death in Paradise of course.

It's almost exactly the same every episode. But I love it along with most of the rest of the UK

EspressoDoubleShot · 10/09/2021 20:36

@Gemma2019

Naked Attraction - never has a programme with such salacious content been so sexually unappealing.

Anna rolling out the old mantra every week “We like to start where a good date ends… naked.” Well actually no Anna - my idea of a good date doesn't end with Dominic, 38, an admin assistant from Leeds critiquing my fanjo and nipple colour.

Hell yes, I throughly agree.
NorthLodgeAvenue · 10/09/2021 20:37

Four in a Housewife.

EspressoDoubleShot · 10/09/2021 20:38

Never seen death in paradise don’t actually know what it is..
I can guess the premise, midsomer by the deep azure blue sea with palm tree

the80sweregreat · 10/09/2021 20:38

Sunday Brunch
Two twatty men cooking things you should never have to face on a Sunday morning and trying to interview an odd bunch of z listers who clearly don't like each other much but have been told to plug their latest show / book / theatre productions or whatever and enjoy the avocado on toast combo they have just made
Rinse and repeat with different guests the following Sunday

SchadenfreudePersonified · 10/09/2021 20:41

@EspressoDoubleShot

Never seen death in paradise don’t actually know what it is.. I can guess the premise, midsomer by the deep azure blue sea with palm tree
Yes - but with a genius yet socially inept English detective.
Disastermagnet27 · 10/09/2021 20:42

Chicago Med.
Someone gets hurt somehow and comes into the ED while the nurse is shouting, 'Take them to Baghdad!
Doctor Manning and Doctor Halsted get all angsty about their relationship and then intubate the patient while saying '20 of etomidate and 100 of sux'.
(This must be the most used line in the show!!!)
Then the patient lives or dies and doc Manning gets angsty about what happened to the patient. The medical director gets involved when doc manning does something she shouldn't. And in other news, doc Choi and nurse April have fallen out again and the new ceo has left her baby in the car!
The police officers from Chicago PD get involved every now and again and doc Halsted goes into witness protection instead of marrying doc manning.
The fire fighters from Chicago fire arrive and save the day.
Doc manning intubates the next patient even when they don't need to be and we're fine 5 minutes ago! 20 of etomidate and 100 of sux....the end.