What TV shows have you been unable to get into even though they are meant to be amazing?

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For me it’s The Sopranos, The Bear, and Succession. I also gave up on Severance. Just never went back. I don’t get The Bear at all. I haven’t completely written these off and would go back if someone can strenuously argue for them in a way that persuades me!

Loved Breakng Bad - one of the best things on TV I’ve ever watched…..up there with season one of ‘24’

Charmed remake. The original was okay but the remake was boring and the acting was awful.

I feel like I’ve somehow lost the capacity to get that into a series anymore. I’ve tried:

The Good Place
Schitt’s Creek
The Middle
Bridgerton
Breaking Bad
Stranger Things
Fleabag
Boardwalk Empire

and not been into any of them.

I feel like my current situation is so busy that I don’t have it in me to care about fictional people’s stuff as well, if that makes any sense.

Breaking Bad, Yellowstone, Succession, Severance, The Bear

On the other hand the following took more perseverance and turned into some of my favourites ever: Downton Abbey, Ted Lasso, Schitts Creek, the Americans, Peaky Blinders.

I watched the lot, but I thought Stranger Things and Breaking Bad weren’t as good as everyone makes out.

The final season of Stranger Things was a real chore for me, but I’d watched all the rest, so I couldn’t give up. If I’d been binge watching the whole thing, I reckon I’d have given up with it.

Breaking Bad was a lot better, I did really enjoy it, but it wasn’t the perfect show I was expecting.

Stranger things watched one episode
The Americans one episode
Peaky Blinders saw one series

Shameless US. Loved the UK one though.

Friends

Succession. Waded through at least 7 episodes in chunks because I was too bored to do an episode in a one-r. Disappointed because I really thought I'd like it and rented a channel just to access it.

Game of Thrones 🥱 🥱

@LikeGolddust I’ve run out of things to watch, so I may have to retry! Everyone says it’s brilliant and I feel like it’s just me. The HBO static is The Wire for me! When you walk through the garden, you better watch your back

Peaky Blinders. I have a parent from the West Midlands and the various attempts at the accent was like nails down a blackboard.
The Wire.
Game of Thrones. Was OK until the dragons turned up, then it just lost me.
Ted Lasso baffled me. Had no idea what I was supposed to like about it.
The Americans. Good premise but it just didn't 'stick' for me. Isn't one of the protagonists British playing American? Might have been something to do with that (I'm sensitive to bad accents).
Bridgerton. I love a bit of TV fluff and I love a period frock or two, but it was just SO lightweight, I could feel my life trickling away as I watched it.
Motherland. Hammered the jokes home to the point of exhaustion. Anna MM overacts appallingly and isn't funny.
Detectorists. Surprisingly nasty for a show touted as gentle and heartwarming. One of the characters' girlfriends was really horrible.

OTOH I loved The Sopranos, love The Bear (although there is a longeur in the season when all the chefs sit around talking about cheffing 😴) and Succession is the best thing I've ever seen on telly.

Game of thrones. Hated the 2 episodes i watched.

Ted Lasso - didn't find it funny and didn't get why people love it.

The Sopranos - got through quite a lot of episodes, then felt like each episode was the same as the last.

Breaking Bad - again, it was so dark and bleak that I didn't find any entertainment in it.

Severance- watched a few, and didn't really care what happened next.

Only murders in the building....dh and I hated it.

There something called Greenland I think but it was way too stressful. I thought the Bear was like this and one about working a chef running a kitchen. Just made me feel anxious and could just sit and enjoy.

Peaky Blinders snd Yellowstone.

The Bear mellows considerably in later seasons.

I don't think you are, really.

Totally concur with this on Succession. I'd only add that its genius is that, although you may still not like any of them as such, and they behave dreadfully a lot of the time, you can see that they're human. And yes, Matthew Macfadyean gives an utterly towering performance.

I’m in good company with Succession, Severance, The Sopranos and Game of Thrones. The first two reminded me too much of Dallas - just in different locations. I loved Yellowstone though! Possibly because I’d watched 1883 & 1923, so was invested in whether the Duttons got to hold onto their land. I’m sure it used to be possible to watch Paramount+ free, if you watched the adverts. Haven’t started The Dutton Ranch yet.

It took me 3 tries to get into Slow Horses, then I absolutely loved it. Glad I persevered. Peaky Blinders I got into at the 2nd attempt.

I’ve tried Ozark twice and haven’t been convinced, but might give that another go.

Loved Ted Lasso & Schitt’s Creek from the get go, but not Only Murders in the Building.

Haven’t tried Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, but loved MadMen.

1883 is SO good @cheapskatemum

Yes, that was my favourite.

Mad men

I’ve watched the first half of the first episode of Peaky Blinders three times! Didn’t like anyone and didn’t have a clue what was going on. The Birmingham accents were so bad.

Breaking Bad is my favourite show ever, but for some reason Better Call Saul didn’t work for me.

Succession is a strange one: watched three episodes. They were very entertaining! Wonderfully awful characters and great acting especially Kieran Culkin and Matthew McFadyen. However it was a little to self-consciously quirky and when I didn’t have time to watch I didn’t miss it and haven’t continued with it since.

Had similar experience with Ozark: it was extremely… OK!
Just didn’t carry on with it.