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What is your most hated storyline from a TV show?

75 replies

Lockdowner35 · 11/01/2021 20:08

Mine would be Geoff and Yasmin from Corrie

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Bloodypunkrockers · 13/01/2021 19:27

Mine was Phelan on corrie

I stopped watching after that

mumnowformerrockstar · 13/01/2021 19:34

Years back, Irish tv show . A toddler died after eating ecstasy tablets she found on the floor.

OohKittens · 13/01/2021 19:35

Kat and Ronnie with the baby swap in Eastenders. I didn't watch until it was resolved.

NotFrozen · 13/01/2021 19:39

Rachel and Joey in friends. Yuck.

nildesparandum · 13/01/2021 19:41

@OohKittens
I agree with you about that story.I even sent an official complaint to BBC but it fell on deaf ears.

NotFrozen · 13/01/2021 19:41

When Susan Kennedy offered to be a surrogate mother for Libby in Neighbours. It was too weird.

ImNotShpanishImEgyptshun · 13/01/2021 19:47

Just when EastEnders went all lock stock gangster for a bit.

allfurcoatnoknickers · 13/01/2021 19:50

When Sybil died in Downton Abbey and they just replaced her with Rose. I HATE IT when they write out a character and then replace them with an almost identical one through some kind of stupid circumstances. Go in a different direction FFS.

bearlyactive · 13/01/2021 19:54

Anything that Corrie has done since about 2015

OohKittens · 13/01/2021 20:38

@nildesparandum it was just awful wasn't it, I have never had a reaction like that to a soap storyline before or since.

Clawdy · 13/01/2021 22:46

I was a real Eastenders fan years ago, and I particularly loved the storyline where Billy and Little Mo got together at last after her dreadful abusive relationship with her husband. There was a lovely period where they were both so happy. Couldn't last of course. I read that a storyline was being developed where Little Mo would be raped by a stranger. So I stopped watching one of my favourite programmes, before the story began, and I've never seen it since.

BenoneBeauty · 13/01/2021 22:56

Mine are all Eastenders - baby swap, Little Mo being raped, Ronnie and Roxie dying and Chantelle being killed my Gray.

I stopped watching for long periods of time after each of those stories.

30not13 · 13/01/2021 22:59

Ross and Rachel Friends.

The whole thing is about coercive control and manipulation yet it's supposed to be funny

LyraSilvertongueBelacqua · 13/01/2021 23:02

Gary Lucy's character being raped in Hollyoaks.

squishee · 13/01/2021 23:03

The gruesome (drug war iirc) finale of Brookside. Shocking.

Truelymadlydeeplysomeonesmum · 13/01/2021 23:06

Mine goes back a bit.

Eastenders little Mo and Trevor. Domestic abuse. Trevor looked a lot like my ex husband. Not good.

I went from watching every episode of eastenders from the day it started to never watching it again.

CoffeeandLotsofCake · 13/01/2021 23:08

The ending of How I Met your Mother. Spoilt what was a good series. Can't bare to watch any of it now.

Cassie71 · 13/01/2021 23:12

Greys anatomy when ghost Denny came back.

ChoccyJules · 13/01/2021 23:13

The end of Lost.

FenEel · 13/01/2021 23:17

Donna Noble memory wipe, Dr Who
Spike attempting to rape Buffy, BTVS
"Sam Beckett never returned home"

FenEel · 13/01/2021 23:18

Oh, and "Starbuck is an angel" BSG

RuggeryBuggery · 13/01/2021 23:23

Also the Eastenders Kat and Ronnie baby swap/cot death story line. Not watched since then

Xmasbaby11 · 13/01/2021 23:25

Rachel and Joey in Friends. Just not convincing at all.

peoplearepeople · 13/01/2021 23:43

The rape and torture of Jamie in Outlander. The fact that it went on for a whole episode was just too much. I had to fast forward through nearly all of it. I'm not usually easily offended, but it seemed like torture porn for the sake of it.

Eastenders, Used to be a huge fan and had grown up watching it since almost the start. I remember one Christmas episode actually being happy for once (think it may have been Kat and Alfie getting married?) and it was so lovely to see a nice relationship develop between them. They then had to ruin it with Kat being blackmailed to sleep with someone else etc and I stopped watching about that time. Just too much misery for characters I'd liked previously.

Sunset beach - Ok, I know every storyline was just batshit crazy but the one where Ben's ex wife came back from the dead just ruined so much of the show. Wasn't too keen on Vanessa's rice Krispie face disease either.

The Bill. When Junes husband became an alcoholic sleeping with prostitutes.

peoplearepeople · 13/01/2021 23:46

Oh, and how could I forget the whole Angel's son Conner sleeping with Cordelia storyline in Angel. Such a shame it made so many people turn off as the final season ended up being one of the best.