Most Overrated tv shows ever - Television Hate thread
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Your arguments fall flat when you say you've stopped watching shows and then know things that happen a couple of seasons later. That makes no sense. You obviously like them enough to still follow them.
I agree with you.
I don't watch a show to complain about it, I watch a show because I like it. If I don't like it, I quit watching. I have quit watching plenty of shows that I used to like because I got fed up; CSI, Dr. Who, American Idol (although I am watching Idol again this season until it pisses me off, so far so good
).
This.
I'm putting forward Ugly Betty. Every single thing about the show irritates me in some way.
No TV shows are overrated because no one's opinion on any show really matters. I love Lost, that doesn't mean you have to like Lost, nor does it mean either of us is right. I will never see the motion picture He's Just Not That Into You, but that doesn't mean the millions of people who will see it this weekend are wrong for enjoying the shit out of it.
1. Frasier. It's funny, but it's like Wings run through a thesaurus. Same joke structure as just about every sit-com, yet it's supposed to be more clever because the references they use are more high brow. One of those shows where fans just assume that the detractors of the show aren't smart enough to "get it."
2. Late Night with David Letterman: I don't think I've ever laughed once at that show, I just don't get the appeal. The guy just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason and I always just felt bad for the guest. Sadly enough Conan, which used to be one of my favorite shows on TV, seems to be heading in that direction for some reason.
3. Heroes: Yeah, not many people say it's a good show anymore, but good god that show has shitty writing. It's like each act is written by a different writer, and the writers for each act are isolated and are only allowed to read the final page of script leading up to their act, and then subsequently not allowed to know what's supposed to happen after their cliff-hanger act break. Yeah that shitty sentence was better than everything on Heroes.
4. NBC Promo's: Not that anyone has rated this, but NBC must have the worst promo-writers of all time. They just flat out tell you what they want you to feel or spell out the plot. The stunt casting of big names is getting a bit tiresome as well.
5. Babylon 5: Yes, you are enraged at this. Even though I've only seen a handful of episodes, one of those episodes was one of the worst things I've ever seen on television. I didn't even know it was B5 at first, I really thought to myself that the sci-fi channel had sunken to a new low for their crappy Movie of the Week, and was pretty shocked to find out it was highly touted B5. I'm sure it's a good show, but I think it's overrated as hell.
There are tons of other highly rated show's I don't like, but the one's above seem to be considered of decent or excellent quality on top of being popular.
2. Late Night with David Letterman: I don't think I've ever laughed once at that show, I just don't get the appeal. The guy just rubbed me the wrong way for some reason and I always just felt bad for the guest. Sadly enough Conan, which used to be one of my favorite shows on TV, seems to be heading in that direction for some reason.
3. Heroes: Yeah, not many people say it's a good show anymore, but good god that show has shitty writing. It's like each act is written by a different writer, and the writers for each act are isolated and are only allowed to read the final page of script leading up to their act, and then subsequently not allowed to know what's supposed to happen after their cliff-hanger act break. Yeah that shitty sentence was better than everything on Heroes.
4. NBC Promo's: Not that anyone has rated this, but NBC must have the worst promo-writers of all time. They just flat out tell you what they want you to feel or spell out the plot. The stunt casting of big names is getting a bit tiresome as well.
5. Babylon 5: Yes, you are enraged at this. Even though I've only seen a handful of episodes, one of those episodes was one of the worst things I've ever seen on television. I didn't even know it was B5 at first, I really thought to myself that the sci-fi channel had sunken to a new low for their crappy Movie of the Week, and was pretty shocked to find out it was highly touted B5. I'm sure it's a good show, but I think it's overrated as hell.
There are tons of other highly rated show's I don't like, but the one's above seem to be considered of decent or excellent quality on top of being popular.
It's been over six months since that was announced so technically not a spoiler anymore.
I agree about Lost - actually Lost is one of the big reasons I'm worried about the new Star Trek film (and I couldn't even make it through Mission Impossible 3).
I won't use the word "hate" about anything, never mind something as trivial as a TV show. The word "overrated" really seems to set off a few people, though; all sorts of extraordinary character flaws have been attributed to people who have posted in threads like this. If someone doesn't care for "your" TV show, what does it matter? It doesn't mean they're ignorant, insensitive to the viewpoints of others, too stupid / idiotic / whatever to "get" / understand / appreciate it, or any other thing along those lines, and it shouldn't diminish one's own enjoyment of a show in the slightest. To each their own.
The three that spring immediately to mind for me are nBSG, Firefly and Seinfeld. Whatever it is about these shows that sends people into raptures (and inspires some of them to apply the stupid / idiotic / whatever labels I mentioned to those who don't like them) made absolutely no impression whatsoever on me.
The three that spring immediately to mind for me are nBSG, Firefly and Seinfeld. Whatever it is about these shows that sends people into raptures (and inspires some of them to apply the stupid / idiotic / whatever labels I mentioned to those who don't like them) made absolutely no impression whatsoever on me.
Seinfeld and Friends.
Anything else is just a show that's had its ups and downs, IMO. Those two are the most consistently un-funny comedies I've ever had the misfortune of watching. And I've seen at least five different episodes of each, so I feel comfortable saying that.
Anything else is just a show that's had its ups and downs, IMO. Those two are the most consistently un-funny comedies I've ever had the misfortune of watching. And I've seen at least five different episodes of each, so I feel comfortable saying that.
Any Survivor show.
The only way I would watch this is if it were real. Strand a bunch of people on a real island, make them survive on their own, with no contact with the outside world. Make them film themselves and have them send in the footage somehow (I don't know how they'd do that, I admit), but nobody else is there - no film crew, no resupplying, none of that crap.
Lost.
What the hell is this show really about, anyway? I get headaches just thinking about it. When it started, it looked easy enough to follow - a bunch of people stranded on an island. But now we've got all this utter shash about frozen donkey wheels, flashbacks, flash forwards, fucking TIME TRAVEL, this Dharma bullshit, a bunch of annoying people called 'Others', and of course smoke monsters.
The only way I would watch this is if it were real. Strand a bunch of people on a real island, make them survive on their own, with no contact with the outside world. Make them film themselves and have them send in the footage somehow (I don't know how they'd do that, I admit), but nobody else is there - no film crew, no resupplying, none of that crap.
Lost.
What the hell is this show really about, anyway? I get headaches just thinking about it. When it started, it looked easy enough to follow - a bunch of people stranded on an island. But now we've got all this utter shash about frozen donkey wheels, flashbacks, flash forwards, fucking TIME TRAVEL, this Dharma bullshit, a bunch of annoying people called 'Others', and of course smoke monsters.
First, the reality TV shows:
1. American Idol. ACK! The only good singer to ever come off of this show is Daughtry, and he didn't even WIN, from what I understand (didn't watch - didn't even know he was on AI until about a month after I started listening to his music from his album on the radio and liked it - was SHOCKED to discover that he'd been on AI ).
2. Survivor. A show about a bunch of greedy people that will do ANYTHING to ANYONE to grab a big wad of cash for themselves. I think a prerequisite to being on that show is that you have to be a certifiable grade-A asshole. And I'm not supporting such an endeavor.
On to the sit-coms:
3. Fraiser. I HATE Kelsey Grammer. I mean, I really detest this man. Why they took the LEAST interesting character on Cheers and made a show about him is beyond me. The other characters on Fraiser are much better and more interesting than him...but unforutnatly, he's in about every scene so you can't even fast forward through his idiocy.
4. Everybody Loves Raymond. No...they don't.
And the cop shows:
5. CSI: NY. I wanted to like this show, I really did. I like Gary Senese and tried REALLY hard to like NY because of that. But in the end it's my least favorite CSI. I actually like CSI: Miami....and was shocked when I watched it and liked it, because of the exact oppposite reason I wanted to like NY: I DIDN'T like David Caruso, and didn't WANT to like this show. But ended up liking it - AND David Caruso. So go figure. Maybe because it reminds me of home in South Florida - grew up about 50 miles from there. But in any case, I like Miami. CSI: Vegas I can take or leave. Loved Warrick Brown...but from what I understand he's gone now, so no reason to watch it.
6. Law and Order Spinoffs of all shapes and sizes. ENOUGH already. The Original was okay....Chris Noth and Benjamin Bratt were great eye candy and I tuned in regularly for them...but other than that? *yawn* And I hated that Angie chick who was the DA for a while.
Finally, the Animation:
7. The Simpsons. This is quite possibly the stupidest TV show ever made. And they are ALL annoying - every last one of them. Can't watch more than about 5 minutes without feeling like chalk-on-a-blackboard-ready-to-run-screaming-from-the-room.
8. Family Guy Phase II. Shoulda quit while they were ahead with those first three seasons.
Shows I really like that were mentioned by others: Buffy, Angel, Firefly (although the fans got on my last nerve), nuBSG, Seinfeld, Lost, NCIS, Sex in the City (especially the above mentioned Chris Noth factor ) and Dexter (although I much prefer season 1 to season 2.)
Oh well...you can't win 'em all.
1. American Idol. ACK! The only good singer to ever come off of this show is Daughtry, and he didn't even WIN, from what I understand (didn't watch - didn't even know he was on AI until about a month after I started listening to his music from his album on the radio and liked it - was SHOCKED to discover that he'd been on AI
).2. Survivor. A show about a bunch of greedy people that will do ANYTHING to ANYONE to grab a big wad of cash for themselves. I think a prerequisite to being on that show is that you have to be a certifiable grade-A asshole. And I'm not supporting such an endeavor.
On to the sit-coms:
3. Fraiser. I HATE Kelsey Grammer. I mean, I really detest this man. Why they took the LEAST interesting character on Cheers and made a show about him is beyond me. The other characters on Fraiser are much better and more interesting than him...but unforutnatly, he's in about every scene so you can't even fast forward through his idiocy.
4. Everybody Loves Raymond. No...they don't.
And the cop shows:
5. CSI: NY. I wanted to like this show, I really did. I like Gary Senese and tried REALLY hard to like NY because of that. But in the end it's my least favorite CSI. I actually like CSI: Miami....and was shocked when I watched it and liked it, because of the exact oppposite reason I wanted to like NY: I DIDN'T like David Caruso, and didn't WANT to like this show. But ended up liking it - AND David Caruso. So go figure. Maybe because it reminds me of home in South Florida - grew up about 50 miles from there. But in any case, I like Miami. CSI: Vegas I can take or leave. Loved Warrick Brown...but from what I understand he's gone now, so no reason to watch it.
6. Law and Order Spinoffs of all shapes and sizes. ENOUGH already. The Original was okay....Chris Noth and Benjamin Bratt were great eye candy and I tuned in regularly for them...but other than that? *yawn* And I hated that Angie chick who was the DA for a while.
Finally, the Animation:
7. The Simpsons. This is quite possibly the stupidest TV show ever made. And they are ALL annoying - every last one of them. Can't watch more than about 5 minutes without feeling like chalk-on-a-blackboard-ready-to-run-screaming-from-the-room.
8. Family Guy Phase II. Shoulda quit while they were ahead with those first three seasons.
Shows I really like that were mentioned by others: Buffy, Angel, Firefly (although the fans got on my last nerve), nuBSG, Seinfeld, Lost, NCIS, Sex in the City (especially the above mentioned Chris Noth factor
) and Dexter (although I much prefer season 1 to season 2.)Oh well...you can't win 'em all.
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League of gentlemen
The Cathrine Tate show
The office
League of gentlemen
The Cathrine Tate show
The office
An awesome review. I agree wholeheartedly.The Office ......is worse than shit.
Technically, it IS still a spoiler as the statute of limitations is one year.
This comment renders your entire thread WORTHLESS!
A spoiler that antique?
Guess what, Dorothy never went to Oz. IT WAS ALL A DREAM!
Nope, it was revealed on 3/25/2007 (yes, I AM that nuts, I memorize important spoiler dates! Okay, I went to Jammer's site
) so we're coming up on two years. Well past the statute of limitations. But the confusion is understandable - who the heck memorizes the dates of every spoiler event of every show they watch and remembers them a year later? Jeezus. Okay, here's my nominee: Mad Men. Sure, it's a good show, but it's also tiresome to slog through at times and it doesn't deserve the maniacal level of drooling that it's achieved.
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Tigh was revealed to be a Cylon in March of 2007. That's almost two years ago.
Ah "Angle", acute show whose audience seemed so obtuse to how 'Right' that show actually was at the time. A complete 180° turn away from where TV has been heading recently...
Plus that one episode where he turned into a Puppet was cool.
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Nope, it was revealed on 3/25/2007 (yes, I AM that nuts, I memorize important spoiler dates! Okay, I went to Jammer's site
My reply was a clarification based upon the comment that it had been out for "over 6 months". Since that that nugget of knowledge about Col. Tigh had been out for nearly two years, of course it's not a spoiler.