To ask for the TV shows that were highly built up but you found to be shit?

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Just finished watching Doctor Foster (yes I know I’m late to the party) after many people recommended it.

It was TERRIBLE

It should have been called “How to be a shit parent who forever damages your child.” [SPOILER ALERT] Id have run away from home too if I was the child. I usually like Surranah Jones but I just couldn’t bring myself to be on her side in this show. Aside from the fact that her and her doctor friend would be immediately struck of for calling a patient’s boyfriend to tell them she’s having an abortion and announcing it to her parents at a dinner party - I thought telling her widowed friend she had it worse than he did because her husband had an affair was despicable. What a massive, massive drama Queen! And we are supposed to believe the husband was some sort of stud with women fawning all over him. Sorry but I thought he was so unattractive and boring, he couldn’t get a woman like Jodie Comer if he was the last man on Earth.

What TV show has massively underwhelmed you?

Yeah I didn't like any if them and found it too cringey .gave up after 2 and a half episodes.

There's so many shows where you have to get past the first season because it gets good after that - it's always sunny, US office, parks and rec, fleabag... I even liked season 2 of Bridgerton 😂

Agree. Parcs and Rec had a total overhaul after season 1 and I found it got good quickly. At least season 1 is only 6 20-minutes episodes!

So many of these I agree with, and also so many I have absolutely no desire to watch (Mad Men/Fleabag I'm looking at you)

Game of Thrones
SITC
Motherland
Dr Foster
Breaking Bad (bored me to tears)
Mrs Brown's Boys - how anyone finds that funny is beyond me
House

I loved Friends when I was still at school - watched an episode last week and was shocked at how much I didn't enjoy it.

Yes, same here. I really disliked her character. She did nothing other than making faces.

The big bang theory, how I met your mother

The Night Manager
The Bodyguard
Game of Thrones
I really enjoyed the first couple of seasons of Peaky Blinders but lost interest.
Oh and Fawlty Towers. Irritating, loud, not funny. But that’s probably because it’s of its time and humour dates.

Negan was the final straw for me. Zombies are one thing, episode after episode of people butchering other people for kicks is a completely different proposition. I hate gratuitous torture porn type movies like Wolf Creek, Hostel etc. and watching TWD became like that.

Oh I love Parks and Rec - it’s one of my comfort shows!

I’ve never understood why people like

Motherland (so many people told me to watch it - it’s so boring)
Game of Thrones (I usually love fantasy just not that)
Mrs Browns Boys (just awful)
Love Island
Big Brother

Good Omens - Gaiman has explained that the story that TP and he were working on as a follow up needed a bridge between it and the first book. Series 3 will be their joint effort again.

Mistakenly following friends’ recommendations I have spent far too much (as in: any) time watching Outlander and Heartstopper. Time, wasted, that I’ll never get back. Heartstopper a particularly egregious waste of time since if you want a show about teenage angst and sexual awakening, you can have the vastly superior Sex Education.

Yes, definitely fleabag and killing eve.

Also, the thing with David Mitchell and his room mate even though I love David Mitchell.

Endeavour.

I like gritty, realistic programmes preferably set in the past and numerous people recommended Ripper Street to me. When I saw the excellent cast I was sold, and was excited to watch it, convinced that I’d binge on it. But I just couldn’t get into it. I watched five eps quite half-heartedly then kind of forgot about it because I went on holiday and when I returned, the last season of something else had dropped. I then got into Breaking Bad and watched it all over a couple of months. I might return to Ripper Street. I might not.

@IMustDoMoreExercise you gotta push through the first couple of episodes then it turns into a truly lovely series. I cried when it finished.

Oh god, Mrs Brown’s boys. What’s that about? And I expected to like Fleabag and GoT but didn’t.

Great Post!! And I feel so much better knowing its not just 'me'

I haven't seen all of these but agree that
Fleabag - dire
DR foster- extremely uncomfortable with it
Ghosts - also dire
Killing Eve - hyped up, mediocre.

Breeders.

“lol it’s just the reality of parenting”. Is it?

Anyone who speaks to their kids the way Martin Freeman’s character does, should have them removed.

And TWO DOORS DOWN!!!!

it is just so shite.

Dawson's Creek
Sex and The City

I also stopped Breaking Bad at the bathtub scene. I walked out of the room and refused to watch any more. Then I picked it up again a year or two later because someone convinced me to try again by saying it gets better after the bathtub scene. I refused to watch that episode again so I just skipped to the next episode and I was ok. I think what's good about Breaking Bad is the characters. Not Walt, exactly, I mean Bryan Cranston is an incredible actor, that he was able to get into the head of Walt. But Walt is so unlikeable IMO. The other characters, is what I liked - the way the writers created motivations for them, the way they all affected each other, why people were drawn into the crime world, all of that. Gus Fring, Mike Ehrmentraut, Hank, Hector Salamanca. They were all just fascinating to watch, I thought.

There's also a lot of symbolism in it. Just from a filmmaking point of view, it's a work of art. The episode Ozymandias, probably the best episode of tv I've ever seen, ever.

At the same time, I wouldn't watch it again. It was an amazing, gripping experience but not exactly a pleasant one. Others I've talked to have said the same. I wouldn't blame anyone for not watching it, because of the gruesomeness factor if nothing else. My young adult son said he thinks it was a great show, a work of art and a landmark in tv, but he also thinks it was part of a wave of really "dark" material (Walking Dead, Game of Thrones are other examples) and its moment is over and his generation wants brighter fare.

Succession - very difficult when you can't get behind a single character

Mad men

I stuck with Schitt's Creek and love it but not at first!

I managed about 30 minutes of Outlander, shame as I really wanted to like it.

I've never watched an episode of Friends.

BB, BCS and LoD are the best things I've ever watched.

Money heist
squid game
Greys Anatomy

Terra Nova