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.

@Leighcloon I'm almost certain that the "wedding" the Definitely Not Hot Priest officiated at wasn't intended to be presented as an official wedding. Even in the CoE you have to use the specific liturgy, and I'm pretty sure that to be legal a wedding has to be in a building. PWB, whatever her failings wrt RCism, would have known this.

I quite like Mrs Brown's Boys. Don't bother watching it since Rory changed, but found it enjoyable.

I genuinely don't know whether this view is unpopular: Sherlock jumped the shark with Eurus. The base concept was ok but the details of her abilities were ridiculous.

I didn't find Parks & Recreation remotely funny.

Only Fools and Horses was funny on the first watch. Once you know what's going to happen, meh.

@Sparklingbrook

Normal People got rave reviews. I agree that Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal acted their socks off and were quite brilliant. It was adapted from a book where Sally Rooney wrote the most frustrating unbelievable storyline ever though, with so many plot holes and 'well that would never happen' moments it had me shouting at the TV.

Yes, the acting was amazing, but I found myself asking why I should be so interested in these two rather dull and self-absorbed individuals.

I wonder if it would have got so much attention if it hadn't been broadcast at the height of the first lockdown? It wasn't that great.

I wonder if it would have got so much attention if it hadn't been broadcast at the height of the first lockdown? It wasn't that great

I agree @IcedPurple, people were bored and lonely and embraced the love story I think. The main characters were supposed to be soul mates but they would have been better off without each other really.

[quote merryhouse]@Leighcloon I'm almost certain that the "wedding" the Definitely Not Hot Priest officiated at wasn't intended to be presented as an official wedding. Even in the CoE you have to use the specific liturgy, and I'm pretty sure that to be legal a wedding has to be in a building. PWB, whatever her failings wrt RCism, would have known this.

I quite like Mrs Brown's Boys. Don't bother watching it since Rory changed, but found it enjoyable.

I genuinely don't know whether this view is unpopular: Sherlock jumped the shark with Eurus. The base concept was ok but the details of her abilities were ridiculous.

I didn't find Parks & Recreation remotely funny.[/quote]
I think Sherlock jumped the shark once they got in Martin F's partner and Benedict C's parents and started referencing fan nonsense in the show (the deerstalker, wanting Sherlock and Molly to get together etc).
It became very pleased with itself. It's a real pity; the first series was an absolute joy: so fresh and original and funny.

I find Mrs Brown's Boys funny.

Michael Macintyre is utterly, profoundly unfunny to me. It baffles me that he's made a high-paying career out of being a comedian, which is the one thing he patently cannot do.

@unici5

Succession is hugely overrated

Motherland really isn't very funny and Anna Martin's constant self-absorbed whingeing is annoying AF

The American Office is better than the UK version

What is it you think is overrated about Succession, @unici5? I'm midway through the second season, and while it seems to me to have dipped slightly from its best moments, I still find it very watchable.

I don't like Succession either. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, and it's clearly made and acted to a very high standard. But I struggle with shows where I can't find a single relatable or sympathetic character.

And yet I do like Motherland. And it made me see Carmichael (LoD) in a new light as well. I think Anna Maxwell Martin is very good at playing extremely awkward, uncomfortable characters. She doesn't try to be all those things that women are often pressured into being; nice, sympathetic, conciliatory, etc. She plays her characters with none of those things, completely shamelessly with hard edges and spikes and discomfort. It doesn't always make her an easy watch, but I think she's a terrific performer.

I think it's precisely the genius of Succession that you find yourself starting to like/understand and feel for the characters, reprehensible though a lot of their behaviour is.

@Sparklingbrook

Normal People got rave reviews. I agree that Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal acted their socks off and were quite brilliant. It was adapted from a book where Sally Rooney wrote the most frustrating unbelievable storyline ever though, with so many plot holes and 'well that would never happen' moments it had me shouting at the TV.

I only managed the first episode. It was so s-l-o-w, I felt like I was watching something different to everyone else.

I absolutely loved Normal People.

I loved the ending to Line of Duty.
I like Mrs Brown's Boys (although I think it's dragging on now).
I cannot stand Outnumbered.
Fleabag was awful and not funny.
Cannot bear that Dawn French vicar programme.
And I never "got" that awful thing with Michaela Coel in that everyone else was raving about.

Not only is Friends painfully unfunny it's also racist, homophobic and transphobic. I cannot understand why it's had a resurgence in recent years.

I persevered with Normal People. You have to look past all the 20 somethings in school uniform in the first episode.
it was all so unbelievable though, and there were so many things that didn't make sense.
I have no idea how they stretched it to so many episodes either.

I see Conversations with Friends is coming out on TV soon (same author, same director/production team.) I couldn't even finish the book so we'll see.

And I never "got" that awful thing with Michaela Coel in that everyone else was raving about

'I will Destroy You' was it? Something like that. Didn't make it to the end of Ep 1.

@IntermittentParps

I think it's precisely the genius of Succession that you find yourself starting to like/understand and feel for the characters, reprehensible though a lot of their behaviour is.

Yes, in the abstract, it should be like, I don't know, Dallas or one of those shoulder-padded eighties soaps where everyone was awful and stomping around boardrooms performing awfulness but the writing and acting is better than that, for me. Everyone is individually grotesque in their own way whether that's the ghastly Roys or the flunkeys (flunkies?) who allow themselves to be debased by them -- but also recognisably human. Roman Roy is a revolting, cruel, cocky little weasel, and also an abused, immature adult child with huge sexual hangups and a terror of his father.

I quite liked Normal People myself, despite Daisy Edgar-Jones's occasionally-slipping accent -- it looked gorgeous, and I think some bits actually improved on the novel, like Eanna Hardwicke making Rob the suicide more convincing than the sketched in background yob he was in the novel, who's only there as a make-uppy excuse for Connell to have a depressive crisis.

I quite liked Normal People myself, despite Daisy Edgar-Jones's occasionally-slipping accent -- it looked gorgeous, and I think some bits actually improved on the novel, like Eanna Hardwicke making Rob the suicide more convincing than the sketched in background yob he was in the novel, who's only there as a make-uppy excuse for Connell to have a depressive crisis

The scenery and the acting were top notch, especially the episode in Italy.The storyline was a bit bizarre and unbelievable though. But then it is fiction so I suppose that's what you get sometimes.

@Sparklingbrook

I quite liked Normal People myself, despite Daisy Edgar-Jones's occasionally-slipping accent -- it looked gorgeous, and I think some bits actually improved on the novel, like Eanna Hardwicke making Rob the suicide more convincing than the sketched in background yob he was in the novel, who's only there as a make-uppy excuse for Connell to have a depressive crisis

The scenery and the acting were top notch, especially the episode in Italy.The storyline was a bit bizarre and unbelievable though. But then it is fiction so I suppose that's what you get sometimes.

Sligo looked lovely.

I didn't find it unbelievable at all, though -- almost the opposite. I swear I remember a dozen of those on-and-off, sometimes-shagging-sometimes-platonic ongoing things in my student days. I think I admired Sally Rooney for managing to make a novel out of so little!

(Though I prefer Conversations With Friends to NP as novels.)

There were too many unanswered questions for me, and a few changes from the book that made no sense @Rossnagoose.

But as a lockdown distraction it was ok, and after, especially when the paps started chasing Paul Mescal around London on his runs. And I did feel for the two leads not being able to do the usual promotion, having to do endless Zoom calls being asked the same questions.

I'm enjoying And Just Like That

I love Peaky Blinders and also Game of Thrones (although was a bit WTF about the final episodes).

I loathe Friends with a passion, and always have done.

Not loving Afterlife either. Our friends have binged watched all 3 series and urged us to watch, but I'm strugging having only watched the first 3 of the first series.

@Sparklingbrook

There were too many unanswered questions for me, and a few changes from the book that made no sense *@Rossnagoose*.

But as a lockdown distraction it was ok, and after, especially when the paps started chasing Paul Mescal around London on his runs. And I did feel for the two leads not being able to do the usual promotion, having to do endless Zoom calls being asked the same questions.

I will admit I find the whole Paul Mescal-in-character-as-Connell-being hot thing baffling. Ireland is stuffed full of that exact physical and psychological type -- nice-enough-looking, inarticulate, full of secret woes, hanging around small towns wearing chains and O'Neill's shorts. I went out with several Connells in my late teens and early 20s!

@Cheeseandlobster

Unforgotten was a million times better than Line of duty

100% agree.

And it has just gone back into filming for the new series!

I loved Friends in the 90s but now that it has become popular with teens I have re-watched a few episodes with my DC and find it unfunny and unpleasant. I can't really understand why it's become so popular with younger people- surely it's the equivalent of 90s teens suddenly getting in to Man about the House.

Don't get the hype about FleaBag.

Don't care that Silent Witness is clearly totally unrealistic (pathologists getting involved in following criminals, investigating cases that family members were personally involved in, friends and family dropping in to work were live cases are being discussed and no-one thinks anything of it etc). I still really enjoy it.

Oh, and The Responder is decidedly average and I can't help thinking the accents are not that convincing

@TangledUp789

I like Ross from Friends.

I love Ross, he's hilarious. He's easily the funniest character in the second half of the series. I personally think it's pretty dumb how people dislike him for his negative character traits. The funniest sitcom characters generally tend to be deeply flawed and often rather unpleasant individuals. How boring would it be if all sitcom characters acted perfectly at all times? And Ross is actually much nicer than most - he was probably the sweetest and most thoughtful Friend underneath it all.

I completely agree. When I'm bored I watch "the best of Ross" on YouTube.

Ross is a dick. It agree he’s absolutely hilarious!