Unpopular TV Opinions

mikedone

Since there are movie and music versions of this I suppose it's time there was one for television.
Personally I can't stand the following
The Office
Dexter
Anything with Steve Coogan

Richard Dower

Two & A Half Men is actually a really funny show! which is actually about strong females and there empowerment + it also addresses latent homosexual tendencies in both Alan and Charlie.

RolandIRL

Breaking Bad is shíte...












just kidding! :pac:

DeWitt

The Big Bang Theory.

westies4ever

dislike gavin and stacey, all 'soaps', mrs browns boys.

the only good show on tv at the minute is 'weeds'.

Witcher

House is a fcuking ridiculous show, it has decent parts/episodes but it is so formulaic and removed from reality. House was wacked out on prescription drugs and other medical professionals allowed him to carry out his job knowing about it, he diagnoses every patient wrong 2/3 times before the magical 4th time. Also mix in far fetched goings on in the hospital and his reckless gambles with lives...the show is fcking stupid:p

Richard Dower

Elmo actually ADORES The Big Bang Theory!...has all the boxsets + a Kaley Cuoco poster on his ceiling!

Colmo52

Richard Dower wrote: »

Elmo actually ADORES The Big Bang Theory!...has all the boxsets + a Kaley Cuoco poster on his ceiling!

Not this again.

kearneybobs

Maybe I'm missing something about it, but How I Met Your Mother really annoys me. How does a show about how he met their mother spend 6 or so seasons skirting around the issue. Is there something more too it than that?
My gf and a few mates of mine LOVE it to bits. I can barely finish an episode, knowing that all this stuff they're showing me has really little to do with how he met their mother.

DeWitt

Blay wrote: »

House is a fcuking ridiculous show, it has decent parts/episodes but it is so formulaic and removed from reality. House was wacked out on prescription drugs and other medical professionals allowed him to carry out his job knowing about it, he diagnoses every patient wrong 2/3 times before the magical 4th time. Also mix in far fetched goings on in the hospital and his reckless gambles with lives...the show is fcking stupid:p

Feel the same. It gets pretty ridiculous when you watch one episode after another. Same stupid stories being told over & over again. I gave up before season 4 started.

AlmightyCushion

Battlestar galactica was a boring piece of shít where nothing interesting seemed to ever happen, the ending was a pile of poo and most of the characters were whingey piss bags that were impossible to give a shít about because all they ever did was be a whingey piss bag. It probably can't even be classified as sci-fi as barely anything sci-fi-ey ever happened. That show was a complete waste of time.

Dexter. Great show but each season is the same plot-wise. Dexter kills some people, finds someone who is kinda like him, reveals his dark secret and confides in them, shít happens and he ends up killing them or they piss off never to be seen again. It's like groundhog day except less groundhogs and more murder.

AlmightyCushion

This one will definitely be unpopular. Curb your enthusiasm just isn't funny. I get a few smirks from it but nowhere near enough for me to consider it watchable.

amacachi

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

This one will definitely be unpopular. Curb your enthusiasm just isn't funny. I get a few smirks from it but nowhere near enough for me to consider it watchable.

I don't get the massive love for it tbh but this scene still brings tears to my eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIfkDG7HNM

calex71

I hate the I.T Crowd with a passion :mad:

mikemac

I struggled through Breaking Bad. Like your first smoke, everyone tells you that you'll enjoy it so if you don't there is something wrong.
Meh, I won't be watching the next season.
Nothing but whining and tantrums

There is nothing funny about feck, arse, drink, girls
Or gwan, gwan, gwan
I would not have missed those constant lines, getting cringeful with the overuse

Seinfeld was never funny

The Fugitive (1963-67) was an incredible TV show. 120 episodes, most in black & white but later in colour. But never gets talked about
:cool:

The Fugitive, a QM Production—starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble: an innocent victim of blind justice, falsely convicted for the murder of his wife ... reprieved by fate when a train wreck freed him en route to the death house ... freed him to hide in lonely desperation, to change his identity, to toil at many jobs ... freed him to search for a one-armed man he saw leave the scene of the crime ... freed him to run before the relentless pursuit of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture.

JonathanAnon

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

This one will definitely be unpopular. Curb your enthusiasm just isn't funny.

It like the way it's so un-PC, and I like Larry's character, but the episodes become very repetitive after a few series.. I still think it's infinitely better than Seinfeld, but that's probably cos I just dont think Jerry Seinfeld is remotely funny...

Penn

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

This one will definitely be unpopular. Curb your enthusiasm just isn't funny. I get a few smirks from it but nowhere near enough for me to consider it watchable.

I can watch an episode or two and laugh, but any more than that and I get really bored. The show is so formulaic and repetitive. If you can't watch as many episodes as you want in a row and still be laughing, then it can't be that funny a show.

My unpopular opinions:
The best primetime cartoon is Futurama. I know if you just take The Simpsons Season 3-9, that would win. And Family Guy has had some fantastic runs. But Futurama is so consistently brilliant, with some terrific episodes like 'Jurassic Bark', 'The Devils hands are idle playthings' and the 'Bender's Big Score' movie where the episode could bring a tear to your eye, yet still be funny.

The Inbetweeners, while it has some good laughs, is generally a poor show, and not worth a) the hype or b) it's own movie. MisFits is a far superior show which is funnier than The Inbetweeners with the added bonus of superpowers.

Frank Black

Mad Men is not that good. Despite frequently getting name-checked along with The Wire and The Sopranos as one of the great tv series of the last 15 years, it isn’t in the same league.

DeepBlue

The Sopranos is grossly overrated and not fit to be name checked along with The Wire and Mad Men as one of the great tv series of the last 15 years.
The main problem with the Sopranos is the repetition. You get to feel you're watching the same episode again - just with a different character. The main example being Richie Aprile and Ralph Cifaretto. When a drama series repeats the same storylines then it just becomes a soap.

Come to think of it the Sopranos shares the same characteristic as a soap in that you could skip it for a couple of series and start watching it again and not feel like you missed anything.

stevenmu

After the first season The Wire was mostly just unlived-up-to potential.

Arrested Development was funny, but not that funny. (I only watched it recently so it might have been 'of it's time').

Penn

DeepBlue wrote: »

The Sopranos is grossly overrated and not fit to be name checked along with The Wire and Mad Men as one of the great tv series of the last 15 years.
The main problem with the Sopranos is the repetition. You get to feel you're watching the same episode again - just with a different character. The main example being Richie Aprile and Ralph Cifaretto. When a drama series repeats the same storylines then it just becomes a soap.

Come to think of it the Sopranos shares the same characteristic as a soap in that you could skip it for a couple of series and start watching it again and not feel like you missed anything.

Yeah I actually really disliked The Sopranos. Only got through three seasons. I can tell it's well written, and I can tell it's interesting... But I hated pretty much every single character. With The Wire, regardless of which side of the law they were on, I loved nearly every single character. Everyone in The Sopranos annoyed the hell out of me though.

pickarooney

Not only is The Wire not that good (it's a reasonably watchable cop show with some interesting stoy arcs, dragged down by two-dimensional characters, terrible pacing and an obsession with realism above entertainment) but most of its loudest fans know this. Any normal fan of a television series is generally content to express their like for 'their' show and for others not to like it. The Wire seems to attract the same sort of proselytizing fanbois as F.C. Barcelona and Janelle Monaé, none of whom are able to form any sort of coherent reasoning for their alleged love of the program beyond spitting up quotes from Charlie Brooker and mumbling something about 'chapters in a book', 'you're not watching it properly', 'wait until season 2,3,4....'

The West Wing is a terrible program; an example of exactly how not to write dialogue and a textbook case of a show-runner's smugness permeating every single character. And yes, I can tell this from only 4 episodes

Pulling was the funniest British comedy show of the last 5 years and a kick in the balls to anyone who thinks women can't do comedy.

Frank Black

Well, one of the key differences for me between Sopranos/The Wire and Mad Men is humour.
I've watched maybe 6-7 episodes of Mad Men and can never remember smiling once. The Wire and The Sopranos have made me laugh out loud at times despite the serious subject matter. The episode where Christopher and Paulie get trapped in the woods overnight had me in tears of laughter (and I'm a tough critic) - I just think they're far better written and the characters feel more genuine to me.

Tauriel

Can't stand Dexter, Game of Thrones, The Shield, CSI, CSI Miamii and many, many more

du Maurier

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

This one will definitely be unpopular. Curb your enthusiasm just isn't funny. I get a few smirks from it but nowhere near enough for me to consider it watchable.

I don't think the same as you, but I will concede that it might have passed its sell by date at this point - the episodes are becoming staid, repetitive and formulaic - but I still do enjoy watching it.

pickarooney

black francis wrote: »

Well, one of the key differences for me between Sopranos/The Wire and Mad Men is humour.
I've watched maybe 6-7 episodes of Mad Men and can never remember smiling once. The Wire and The Sopranos have made me laugh out loud at times despite the serious subject matter. The episode where Christopher and Paulie get trapped in the woods overnight had me in tears of laughter (and I'm a tough critic) - I just think they're far better written and the characters feel more genuine to me.

I can't say I've ever laughed at The Wire, although I've only seen two seasons so far, but I find Roger from Mad Men hilarious, not to mention (season 3 episode 6 spoiler)

the tractor mower

which I almost choked laughing at.

I get that people don't enjoy Mad Men or The Sopranos. There are lots of reasons people wouldn't like either. I just don't know why that doesn't apply to the other show.

du Maurier

black francis wrote: »

Well, one of the key differences for me between Sopranos/The Wire and Mad Men is humour.
I've watched maybe 6-7 episodes of Mad Men and can never remember smiling once. The Wire and The Sopranos have made me laugh out loud at times despite the serious subject matter. The episode where Christopher and Paulie get trapped in the woods overnight had me in tears of laughter (and I'm a tough critic) - I just think they're far better written and the characters feel more genuine to me.

Why do they have to be compared at all? Because they're lauded as the top shows ever conceived and deserve comparison? Perhaps, but the first two are massively opposed in concept to the latter, so the humour element can't really be factored in as a reason for setting one apart from the other.

ixoy

While some people are very wrong in this thread, they're not wrong with "The Inbetweeners". I don't understand the love at all. I barely smiled after watching half of the first season. The humour was juvenille. Completely baffled.

"The I.T. Crowd" is another over-rated C4 comedy. The first couple of seasons were mostly decent but after that it's been pretty dire. You can spot the tired joke setups minutes ahead.

"The Sopranos" is also over-rated. Sure it's fairly well written and humorous at times, but it's also filled with repugnant characters and clichés.

du Maurier

CSI(in particular, Miami), mainly for the Horatio character. He'd suck his own genetalia if he could.

His smug, simpering, vainglorious posturing put anything the show might have offered in quality to the back burner (it didn't offer anything, albeit).

Lots of backslapping for the hero and the spinoffs offered up the same old muck.

du Maurier

ixoy wrote: »

While some people are very wrong in this thread, they're not wrong with "The Inbetweeners". I don't understand the love at all. I barely smiled after watching half of the first season. The humour was juvenille. Completely baffled.

"The I.T. Crowd" is another over-rated C4 comedy. The first couple of seasons were mostly decent but after that it's been pretty dire. You can spot the tired joke setups minutes ahead.

"The Sopranos" is also over-rated. Sure it's fairly well written and humorous at times, but it's also filled with repugnant characters and clichés.

Yeah, one might get that with a series based on the mafia.

Uncle Mclovin

I found Mad Men excruciatingly painful to get through. I watched one season and I gave up after that.


It's time for Dexter to bite the bullet. It was a great original idea but has become awful stale.


IT crowd isn't funny. The same goes for How I Met Your Mother. It hurts when you see sh1t like this on television and yet loads of great shows get cancelled.

HivemindXX

The Simpsons is still good.

maudgonner

Blay wrote: »

House is a fcuking ridiculous show, it has decent parts/episodes but it is so formulaic and removed from reality. House was wacked out on prescription drugs and other medical professionals allowed him to carry out his job knowing about it, he diagnoses every patient wrong 2/3 times before the magical 4th time.

On the plus side, after 7 years or so of House, I can normally beat him to the diagnosis now. (It's an auto-immune disease! But not Lupus, it's never Lupus!) Which surely makes me some kind of medical genius, no? I'm gonna apply for one of those 150-odd junior doctor jobs that are going begging.

Frank Black

du Maurier wrote: »

Why do they have to be compared at all? Because they're lauded as the top shows ever conceived and deserve comparison? Perhaps, but the first two are massively opposed in concept to the latter, so the humour element can't really be factored in as a reason for setting one apart from the other.

In terms of why compare them - they are frequently grouped together by various commentators.

I disagree that the humor element can't be used in the comparison of the shows - in terms of subject matter you can't say that The Wire of The Sopranos are intrinsically more humorous than the central concept of Mad Men. Yet the former 2 shows manage to find black humor in the actions and dialogue of the characters.
I've found Mad Men to be a bit full of its own importance perhaps to develop this aspect.
I think character empathy plays a big part in this too. Many of the characters in The Sopranos and The Wire are deeply flawed or even psychotic, yet the writing is so clever the audience is drawn into some sort of empathy with them – this is where a lot of the humor comes from.
I’ve never felt any particular empathy for any of the Mad Men characters.

Dman001

I don't like Season 3 of Arrested Development. I loved the first Season, and most of Season 2. But it started to drop in quality towards the end of Season 2, and Season 3 is an effort to watch.

pickarooney

Fox were right to axe Firefly and Joss Whedon has used up all his Buffy credit at this stage - he should never be allowed work with a major network again.

careca11

game of thrones , just did not live up to the hype
Treme is very under-rated ,
True Blood is better than Blue Bloods .

Shameless USA is awful ,
remake of V was excellent ...............

madmen, no ordinary family , smallville ..............dung

al jazerra is the best News channel ,

Venom

HivemindXX wrote: »

The Simpsons is still good.

No its not and hasn't been in for the best part of a decade.

The I.T. Crowd is very over-rated and the last season was just dire apart from one episode that was ok.

The American version of the Office is far better than the UK one.

Mr E

Deleted User wrote: »

The American version of the Office was far better than the UK one for the first 4 seasons. Now that it's run out of steam, it's a tired shambles of its former self.

FYP.

Dman001

The American version of the Office was never better than the UK one, but the first 4 Seasons was a quality Comedy. Now that it's run out of steam, it's a tired shambles of its former self

Fixed Mr. E's post.

I'm not debating the later seasons haven't been terrible, but up until the focus shifts to Pam and Jim, it was pretty brilliant.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is really not that funny and I agree with Arrested Development not being as funny in it's final season.

I have absolutely no interest in the Sopranos or after Season 3 of the Wire.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Got through about 5-6 episodes of Mad Men and just couldn't see the appeal. It was enjoyable, but nowhere near the level of epicness at which people claim its at.

9 episodes in to Boardwalk Empire and while I enjoy it and will at least see out the end of the first season, again I don't see what all the hype is about - nowhere near as good as what I've come to expect from HBO dramas (ie. The Wire, The Sopranos, Oz, and to a lesser extent True Blood).

Family Guy is absolute sh*te - first 3 seasons were good, but they should never have brought it back from the dead. They were right to cancel it in the first place.

Reality TV is a hell of a lot better than many TV viewers give it credit for - Survivor, The Amazing Race, any versions of The Apprentice, The Biggest Loser US & The Biggest Loser Australia, Big Brother US, Wife Swap, Undercover Boss and Beauty and the Geek were/are all quality TV viewing.

Joss Whedon is God - he can do no wrong.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Supernatural, Dark Angel, Dollhouse, Land of the Giants, Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Doctor Who are and always will be the Top 10 Greatest Sci-Fi/Fantasy Shows (not necessarily in that order) to ever grace our TV sets.

TG4 are responsible for programming that can match even the greatest US/UK TV shows in quality for both acting, writing and storytelling on a lesser budget. Don't believe me? Check out any of the following - Rásaí na Gaillimhe, An Crisis, Corp + Anam, Ros na Rún, The Running Mate, CU Burn

Dman001

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm not debating the later seasons haven't been terrible, but up until the focus shifts to Pam and Jim, it was pretty brilliant.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is really not that funny and I agree with Arrested Development not being as funny in it's final season.

I have absolutely no interest in the Sopranos or after Season 3 of the Wire.

Agreed, I never liked Curb myself. I've tried to watch it several times but can never watch a full episode. I find Larry David annoying to watch.

phasers

I loved Sex and the City (the films sucked and don't count)

krudler

pickarooney wrote: »

I can't say I've ever laughed at The Wire, although I've only seen two seasons so far, but I find Roger from Mad Men hilarious, not to mention (season 3 episode 6 spoiler)

the tractor mower

which I almost choked laughing at.

I get that people don't enjoy Mad Men or The Sopranos. There are lots of reasons people wouldn't like either. I just don't know why that doesn't apply to the other show.

The Wire is full of funny moments, but most of them are really subtle, some are just out and out comedy. Bunk burning his clothes while pissed drunk and complaining he "still smell of pussy" is hilarious. Omar owning Levy in the courthouse and the judges reaction, McNulty crashing his car then doing it again for no real reason while driving along singing The Pogues, some top comedy moments in a serious show.

The scene from Mad Men you mentioned is brilliant though, two of my friends mentioned "the scene" and I'd know it when I saw it, yeah, I knew it

Im not a lover of The IT Crowd either, mostly because of the appalling acting in it, the main Irish guy cant deliver a line to save his life, and the dialogue is really forced, the boss is fcuking hilarious though.

Goldstein

This thread should be renamed: increase your cool points by having a moan about undisputably great tv shows.

Edit: some undisputably great tv shows.

realdanbreen

mikemac wrote: »

I struggled through Breaking Bad. Like your first smoke, everyone tells you that you'll enjoy it so if you don't there is something wrong.
Meh, I won't be watching the next season.
Nothing but whining and tantrums

There is nothing funny about feck, arse, drink, girls
Or gwan, gwan, gwan
I would not have missed those constant lines, getting cringeful with the overuse

Seinfeld was never funny

The Fugitive (1963-67) was an incredible TV show. 120 episodes, most in black & white but later in colour. But never gets talked about
:cool:

What about Green acres? Mr Haney best salesman ever!

amacachi

"You harder to get at than my fat wife's ****." :pac:

pickarooney

Goldstein wrote: »

This thread should be renamed: increase your cool points by having a moan about undisputably great tv shows.

Edit: some undisputably great tv shows.

This is probably the coolest opinion expressed so far.

Penn

krudler wrote: »

The Wire is full of funny moments, but most of them are really subtle, some are just out and out comedy. Bunk burning his clothes while pissed drunk and complaining he "still smell of pussy" is hilarious. Omar owning Levy in the courthouse and the judges reaction, McNulty crashing his car then doing it again for no real reason while driving along singing The Pogues, some top comedy moments in a serious show.

NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZnw6wuGBgk

How anyone can think The Wire isn't funny is just beyond me. Some incredibly funny moments.

Another possibly unpopular opinion:
Joey in Friends became one of the most detestable characters on television. He started off as a kinda nice-but-dim who was good with the ladies to become a selfish, pervy man-child. How they ever game him his own spin-off is beyond me. Because lots of things are beyond me today apparantly