Post your unpopular TV opinions?

[PepsiFan77]

I would say
Hollyoaks is the best soap.

Reality or “Made in” tv is utter narcissistic shite full of largely vacuous self obsessed muppets

GoT is a teenage boys wank / gore fest

Friends is beyond awful

Mrs Brown’s Boys is weird as fuck and creeps me out

Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom is amazing and I want to live there.

I can't stand Mary Berry. I'll never understand the idea that she's this lovely cosy Grandma figure when all I see is a stuck up old bag. Also she's a decent home cook, that's all, nothing special...sorry

She is definitely stuck-up, I agree. Can imagine her giving runners and assistants hell. And I bet she's a Tory.

TBF about her cooking, though, she's Cordon Bleue trained.

She is Cordon Bleu trained, true, but her cooking career is pretty odd, in fairness -- she started cooking as an electric oven demonstrator, and then worked for the Dutch Dairy Board, the Egg Council, and the Flour Advisory Board (who knew?), and food editor of Housewife magazine. I find her neither a home cook nor a chef-type cook. I suppose she codes as kind of recipe-tester cook for me.

My eight year old, who loves GBBO but has only ever known Prue Leith, finds Mary Berry 'scary'.

Fleabag was self-indulgent shite.

Never watched GOT...never will = shit
BGT = shit
GBBO - used to be good now = shit
Gogglebox = shit
Skysports = shit

I can't stand Mary Berry. I'll never understand the idea that she's this lovely cosy Grandma figure when all I see is a stuck up old bag. Also she's a decent home cook, that's all, nothing special...sorry blush

Yes! She always struck me as snobbish and rude, I never understood the apparent warm cuddliness that everyone else seemed to feel about her.

I don't understand why older women on TV are expected to conform to a "cuddly" sterotype. Mary Berry is definitely not that, but she has other qualities I admire. And I don't see why an active woman in her eighties shouldn't be as just as ambitious and professional as her male peers like Rick Stein (73) and Raymond Blanc (70) Monty Don (65).

Lightly, I agree, but TBF no one said she 'should' be cuddly, just that the public perception of her seems to be that she is, and that they don't find it so.

I like watching Keeping up with the Kardashians and when it went off air back in April was checking weekly to see if it had reappeared as it was mid series.

Never watched 24, Downton or Got and whilst I have watched BGT and Xfactor in the past, it's dire now a days and not seen a series for at least 5 years.

Yes Parps I understood that you don't see her as such. Not that it matters very much but surely the public's expectation of her being so, is the same as them thinking that she should be cuddly.

Also meant to add that I can't understand why Phil Vickery ever got a job as a tv chef. He has the charisma of a cardboard box and his recipes look as though cardboard would taste better.

Yes, I find Mary Berry steely and vaguely Thatchery -- the piercing gaze, the glossy helmet hair, and (probably) High Tory politics. I always imagine her listening to someone talking about a personal setback or problem and saying 'Oh well, mustn't grumble, must we?'

Other than the Tory politics there's nothing wrong with any of that -- I certainly have no requirement for women of any age to be sweet and unthreatening) but like pps, I've always wondered why she was perceived as the cuddly granny of the nation, whereas dopy, blokish Paul Hollywood was constructed the scary GBBO judge, and the one who had to be impressed.

(However, as the same thing has happened with Prue Leith, I can only conclude it's basic sexism.)

And I bet she's a Tory.

Stating the obvious x 1 million.

No idea why they made more than 1 series of Ghosts or Mrs Brown’s Boys.

Never watched a single episode of either Game of Thrones or Loose Women.

My friends, who consider themselves a cut above, will only watch the sewing and pottery versions of Bake Off (no idea what these programmes are called) because GBBO itself is “common”.

Friends is not all that.

My unpopular opinions are generally liking unpopular things rather than vice versa!
Jamie Oliver’s recipes are fantastic, I like to see his house and family and I don’t find him at all annoying
The second series of Twin Peaks was just as good as the first if not better (bit of an old one!)
Adric is one of my favourite Dr Who companions (even older)
David Tennant is nowhere near the best doctor and is actually quite annoyingly messianic and overwrought, while Rose’s possessiveness and entitlement grate. On the other hand I really like Donna Noble and River Song.

Crap crap apart from golden nuggets such as the surgery documentary’s on bbc2 at the moment and the odd drama.

surely the public's expectation of her being so, is the same as them thinking that she should be cuddly.

I was talking about posters on here, not the general public. The poster didn't say she thought MB should be cuddly.

MrsFezziwig, I know

All soaps are utter dross and about as interesting as watching paint dry.

Oh I see, fair enough Parps!

Personally I admire her discipline and work ethic and couldn't care less how she votes (none of my business). But I am not terribly fond of a lot of her savoury recipes, (although they have been dragged out of the 1970s recently). I do rate her baking skills though and her time saving tricks in the kitchen.

Lightly, I don't think I've ever used a recipe of hers TBH. I do find her stuck-up, but have to say I warmed to her a bit on Best Home Cook; she and Claudia W clearly adored each other and I think it showed a more fun side of Mary.

Just watched several episodes of House (on catch up) after years of friends telling me it was amazing and they couldn't believe I'd never seen it.

Episode 1 seemed OK- just was patient arrives with mystery illness, cranky/quirky doctor (House) investigates and thinks he's solved the mystery and found a cure, younger doctors also join in the debate, cure doesn't work, prompts rethink from medical team several times, eventually solve problem and patient is fine. All this time House is hanging around making a nuisance of himself and taking loads of painkillers.

Episode 2- basically repeat of episode 3 but with different patients.

Episodes 3-5- ditto
Episodes 6-600 (probably) ditto

No idea why they made more than 1 series of Ghosts or Mrs Brown’s Boys.
I love Ghosts but Mrs Brown's Boys is vomit inducing.

I don't watch any reality shows.

Mrs Brown's Boys is rubbish

I quite like Mrs. Brown's Boys.

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@AnEleanor

I’m have to partly agree with a PP about Line of Duty - it’s nonsense. I quite enjoy it but I have to turn of my brain.

You must be so clever! The rest of us like it because we're really thick