Unpopular views on TV shows

[BiscuitLover3678]

These are views you have which you think no one else or at least very few others seem to have!

Mine are:

Superstore - I actually loved Jeff and thought he was hilarious. Sort of wanted him to end up with Mateo

Gilmore Girls - hate Logan with a passion. He reminds me of the really arrogant rich kids I went I uni with. Everyone adored him because he was cute!

Friends - I actually liked Rachel and Joey together (no one hit me!) I felt like they brought out a lovely side to each other and actually respected each other.

I only watched Line of Duty for the memes. And the opportunity to shout at the TV. Hugely entertaining but not for the crime drama element.

Also loads of people think the main guy (Penn something?) is hot in You. I found him so hideous on it! Addictive show though. I also found him not that attractive in gossip girls. No offence to the guy! Plenty of people love him.

I wouldn't say i like Greg Wallace but I don't mind watching him on Masterchef

Miranda was shit

Mrs Browns Boys is utter crap. No idea how it keeps getting recommissioned.

I think Holly & Phil have had their day on This Morning.
Alison & Dermot far better!

@CeleriacOfTheNight

I didn't mind the ending of Game of Thrones.

Me too! Was just coming here to post this!

The major events had been signposted from seasons before.
Not saying there weren’t flaws but overall I was happy with how it was wrapped up

@ChrissyPlummer

Mrs Browns Boys is utter crap. No idea how it keeps getting recommissioned.

But literally everyone says this, despite the consistently high viewing figures. It would be genuinely far more surprising to have someone say 'I love MBB -- I find it hilarious and heart-warming, and I love the bits when they break the fourth wall or make mistakes.'

I mean, I'm assuming many of these people must exist, because it does pretty well in terms of audience share, but you don't seem to come across them online explaining why they like it so much.

Matt Smith was the best Doctor Who ever

Charlie is not the heart of Casualty and never was.
He has more than overstayed his welcome.
He looks so old and frail he looks like he should be in the geriatric ward.

I don’t want Trixie to marry Matthew in Call the Midwife.
The writers have been setting this up so obviously totally ignoring the fact there is zero chemistry between them. Plus he is a really, really bad actor.

Older people, I suspect @Leighcloon People like my old Irish parents would lap it up. He was a fav comedian of them back in the 80s.

Agree re Friends. People opening and closing doors and canned laughter. DD (18) has just watched the whole thing and thinks it's brilliant.
Watched one episode of Afterlife and thought what is this guff.
Miranda is embarrassingly bad. I think she somehow thinks she's Victoria Wood and Dawn French rolled into one. She's even bad when she's just reading out the Terms and Conditions for Strictly. She was ok oddly in Call the Midwife. She's a far better straight actress than she is comedy one.

Strictly Come Dancing is a pile of garbage.

Alan Partridge isnt funny. At all.

Definitely agree that Charlie in Casualty has long since outstayed his welcome.
Bridgerton and Game of thrones - urgh!

Bridgerton is rubbish.
Miranda isn't funny.
Masterchef was better in the late 80s (? or v early 90s?), with Lloyd Grossman, when the judges disappeared into a tiny room to 'deliberate and cogitate'.
Vic and Bob weren't that funny.
The Responder is po-faced, 'this is really serious^ bobbins, interspersed with Martin Freeman's 'tough, embattled' mask slipping to show his Tim-from-The-Office endearing quizzical face.
His Dark Materials was conventional, cosy, smug and annoyingly wholesome; James McAvoy was totally wrong casting and Lyra an annoying precocious stage-school type.

I love Strictly though

Alan Partridge isnt funny. At all.
Had forgotten about him. I agree. Just boring. I don't get it.

Not a show but ant and dec were NEVER funny and should never have won anything and have always bored me to tears.

The come dine with me voice is annoying.

I couldn't get through even two episodes of either Fleabag or Motherland because I loathed the characters so much. I know that's probably part of the point, but trying again would mean hours of my life I'll never get back.

I hated the mums on Working Moms and found it so sexist and not feminist at all (despite claiming to be that and written by the main woman).

Thought of some more...

I would totally pay Phil Spencer to negotiate on a house purchase for me.

Jeremy Clarkson, whatever you think of him, is Good Telly.

Bruce Willis was actually great in Friends. He should have stuck to TV comedy and not bothered with action films (although I appreciate it's made him good money over the years).

Tina Fey is a highly variable writer whose miss rate is as big as her hit one. Kimmy Schmidt was borderline terrible after the first series.

And I think LoD's Kate Fleming is secretly bent coppers

And I think LoD's Kate Fleming is secretly bent coppers
No, that's my theory too!
She's TOO squeaky-clean.

I thought of another. Ted Lasso isn't very good.

@SleepingStandingUp

😲😲😲 *@NightmareSlashDelightful* re Frankie Boyle and Castiel.

I don't think Father Ted is funny. At all. Not even remotely. Ever.

I’m all for this being a safe space for expressing unpopular opinions, but this is just straight up heresy!

@CornishGem1975

Older people, I suspect *@Leighcloon* People like my old Irish parents would lap it up. He was a fav comedian of them back in the 80s.

My parents are in their 70s, and I have actually seen my mother throw a slipper at the TV screen when she couldn't find the remote when Mrs Brown's Boys came on. She turns off the Late Late if there's a whiff of BO'C.

My MIL, on the other hand, thinks that Brendan O'Carroll in drag as Mrs Brown looks like her SIL.

I mean, I'm not saying fans of it don't exist, because they clearly do, only I don't think I've ever seen anyone come on here and say they love it, even on 'unpopular TV opinions' threads.

My opinions -- I didn't like Fleabag much, apart from the bits that had Kristin Scott Thomas in them (and Hugh Dennis was kind of touching.).

The Crown, despite some excellent acting, is prime forelock-tugging royal apologetics.

Downton Abbey was like Gosford Park after Julian Fellowes had taken all the sting out, and with it all the good bits.

I have a weird fascination with the Yorkshire Shepherdess -- why does she keep having children? Why does she shear sheep in a miniskirt and off the shoulder blouse? What would happen if one of her children was an insanely picky eater, or was clingy and demanded significant individual attention after babyhood?

I'm always more interested in Ben Fogle than in his New Lives in the Wild subjects -- does he bring scads of snacks and eat them secretly at night in whatever little grottage he's been given to sleep in after eating only stewed nettles and squirrel? Do the camera/sound/ production team go to a hotel at night? Or do they all pile in to Ben's bed and say 'These people are REALLY weird'?

Vic Reeves is Not nearly as funny as he thinks he is. And giggling at your own jokes is not an acceptable substitute for talent.
Bob Mortimer is an original - and far funnier on his own.