Most over-rated tv shows

El Guapo!

What shows/films do you think were really over-rated?

2 that I can think of off the top of my head are Seinfeld and Frasier.
Some people love them but I think they're absolutely shíte!
I know its all about taste, and different strokes for different folks and all that but I've just never found any of them even slightly funny!

Sky King

It's very hard to find comedy with universal appeal. Simpsons maybe? Fr Ted? Thats all I can think of.

py2006

Seinfield????? That was a great show!

policarp

Fair City. . .

onway

Love Frasier...............

Mickeroo

Just because you don't like something doesn't make it overrated imo.

flutterflye

2 and a half fcuking men.

El Guapo!

py2006 wrote: »

Seinfield????? That was a great show!

I thought it was terrible!!
Maybe it was partly because Jerry Seinfeld is an awful actor and his voice just irritates me but even still it was really really over-rated

Andromeda_111

2 1/2 men, X factor, America/Britain's got talent, Glee........I could go on and on

houseplant

Little Britian,
Eastenders,
Dr. Who
Star trek... I could go on

electrobanana

The angelus

Mint Sauce

Lost.

ciano1

flutterflye wrote: »

2 and a half fcuking men.

OP said tv shows, not midget porn!

Mickeroo

OasisGirl wrote: »

2 1/2 men, X factor, America/Britain's got talent, Glee........I could go on and on

They're not overrated, those shows are generally regarded as crap by people with any taste :pac:

mikemac

Season Three of Father Ted

Mad Men

Einhard

flutterflye wrote: »

2 and a half fcuking men.

At least 2 men, and several seasons too many!

FetchTheGin

Glee

Conor108

Frasier is a great TV show!!

Now Mad Men and Glee, they're over-rated....

Samich

I'm waiting for the thanks whores to say a globally popular show like two and a half men.

I don't care what anyone says, two and a half men is great

EDIT: Already said, I think viewing figures and air time show it's not over rated.

houseplant

Life on Mars

looky loo

Samich wrote: »

I'm waiting for the thanks whores to say a globally popular show like two and a half men.

I don't care what anyone says, two and a half men is great

Was great ashton kutcher is gonna be brutal in it........:(

Samich

looky loo wrote: »

Was great ashton kutcher is gonna be brutal in it........:(

I agree, charlie sheen was the man. Can't replace him

krudler

first person who says The Wire should be banned

-and killed.

Einhard

Mad Men. Watched it on RTE player thing just to shut all the MM groupies up with their constant nagging, and gushing about how great it is, and managed to get to episode 5 before I gave up. It's not that it's a terrible show or anything, it's just not that good.

Mickeroo

Samich wrote: »

I don't care what anyone says, two and a half men is great

I wouldn't call it great but if it's the middle of the day and there's nothing on it's one I would watch. It's miles ahead of the likes of Everybody Loves Raymond and Kind of Queens anyway.

mardybumbum

Love Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. I've recently gotten into The Office as well. I love those scenes where Gervais looks down the lens for just a moment.

I cant stand any soaps or reality tv programmes.

briany

*Waits for someone to say The Wire*

The Big Bang Theory is one that springs to mind. A bunch of hyper nerdy science men live next door to an attractive woman. A 21 minute (?) snappy joke making, laugh track using sitcom is born. A lot of people seem to like it but I honestly can't think why that would be.

It's miles ahead of the likes of Everybody Loves Raymond and King of Queens anyway.

Got to disagree on that. Both those shows have a warmth to them, as well as the comedy unlike 2 1/2 Men where the characters just seem to want to get in their next funny line/put down. Enter hot girl/exit hot girl and repeat.......Twice a day on Comedy Central ad nauseum, plus the weekend marathons in case you somehow missed the weekday barrage

looky loo

krudler wrote: »

first person who says The Wire should be banned

Second that....one of the best I've ever seen.

Mickeroo

krudler wrote: »

first person who says The Wire should be banned

I was going to post something similar but thought it might just encourage philistines to start posting :pac:

Bipolar Joe

Any of those feckin' talent shows and reality shows, sketch comedy sh!te like Little Britain that spawns a hundred catch phrases, Lost. I rarely watch T.V, but any of that crap just drives me insane. I want to put Heroes, too, but I enjoyed up to the point where it became clear that the writers had no idea what was supposed to happen. You don't retcon a series after the first season.

EDIT: The Wire is without a doubt the greatest thing to ever grace the television screen. Even the episodes that weren't up to par with the rest were better than anything other show.

looky loo

The xfactor......and all the insane media coverage that goes with it....!

Mickeroo

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Any of those feckin' talent shows and reality shows, sketch comedy sh!te like Little Britain that spawns a hundred catch phrases, Lost. I rarely watch T.V, but any of that crap just drives me insane. I want to put Heroes, too, but I enjoyed up to the point where it became clear that the writers had no idea what was supposed to happen. You don't retcon a series after the first season.

EDIT: The Wire is without a doubt the greatest thing to ever grace the television screen. Even the episodes that weren't up to par with the rest were better than anything other show.

I still think the first season of Heroes was great. The writer's strike fairly shafted it after that, I never made it through the third season, the caracters constantly changing allegiances back and over got tiresome.

orourkeda

friends

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Glee
X factor
Anything with ricky gervais *except the office which was good

anything that tv critics recommend.

FetchTheGin

Reality tv as a whole.

Otis Driftwood

Im going to say The Wire.Ive watched the first 3 seasons in the last 4 weeks and am finding myself rather non plussed.

Now dont get me wrong,its a decent show but it just hasnt grabbed me like other HBO shows like Oz or The Sopranos.

Maybe its a case Ive been expecting too much from it but to this point,I have been let down by it.

I will reserve final judgement til I watch season 4 and 5 though.

Bipolar Joe

You God damn Communist.

Mindkiller

Dean09 wrote: »

I thought it was terrible!!
Maybe it was partly because Jerry Seinfeld is an awful actor and his voice just irritates me but even still it was really really over-rated

It's a sitcom. Why would he even need the acting chops? Have you ever watched a sitcom and said 'Jaysus, that was some fine acting'?

Samich wrote: »

I'm waiting for the thanks whores to say a globally popular show like two and a half men.

I don't care what anyone says, two and a half men is great

EDIT: Already said, I think viewing figures and air time show it's not over rated.

I'm not sure you quite get what 'overrated' means


I'm going to say Arrested Development. Its quite good and alarmingly clever for an American sitcom but it isn't quite the masterpiece most would have you believe.

Non sitcom-wise I'd have to say Boardwalk Empire. An awfully stuffy, derivative show. Mad Men with gangsters.


Off topic I know, but Deadwood is probably one of the most underrated TV shows. In terms of popularity at least. You will not see better acting or production values in any other TV show. A flawed, incomplete masterpiece

orourkeda

The office.

A horrid piece of sh1t

Samich

briany wrote: »

*Waits for someone to say The Wire*

The Big Bang Theory is one that springs to mind. A bunch of hyper nerdy science men live next door to an attractive woman. A 21 minute (?) snappy joke making, laugh track using sitcom is born. A lot of people seem to like it but I honestly can't think why that would be.



Got to disagree on that. Both those shows have a warmth to them, as well as the comedy unlike 2 1/2 Men where the characters just seem to want to get in their next funny line/put down. Enter hot girl/exit hot girl and repeat.......Twice a day on Comedy Central ad nauseum, plus the weekend marathons in case you somehow missed the weekday barrage

The guy in KOQ over acts so much, it's just annoying watching. I'd still watch it mind.

orourkeda

Blue bloods. Something of a disappointment.

teflon john

Emergency with Angela Griffin

JohnP199

Breaking Bad

Lost

Firetrap

Never could understand what the fuss was about Seinfeld. Can't warm to Mad Men either

Mickeroo

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

Im going to say The Wire.Ive watched the first 3 seasons in the last 4 weeks and am finding myself rather non plussed.

Now dont get me wrong,its a decent show but it just hasnt grabbed me like other HBO shows like Oz or The Sopranos.

Maybe its a case Ive been expecting too much from it but to this point,I have been let down by it.

I will reserve final judgement til I watch season 4 and 5 though.

Season 4 is my favourite, with 3 a close 2nd. Season 5 is the poorest one of the lot though imho, still brilliant really though. I've not watched Oz and only seen the first season of Sopranos yet, I found it very slow and uninvolving after The Wire, have every intention of watching the rest though.

Eroticfishcake

briany wrote: »

The Big Bang Theory is one that springs to mind. A bunch of hyper nerdy science men live next door to an attractive woman. A 21 minute (?) snappy joke making, laugh track using sitcom is born. A lot of people seem to like it but I honestly can't think why that would be.

:eek::eek: Definitely not overrated in my opinion. I think this is one of the best-written and funniest geek/nerd comedies to come out of America

flutterflye

Don't think anyone else will agree with me here, but The Inbetweeners - Can't stand it!

Sonics2k

True Blood.

Watched every episode, usually because there's nothing else on. The first season was decent enough, nice lack of touchy feely nonsense.

But dear god, the last few seasons have just been boring, with obvious plot lines and twists.

flutterflye wrote: »

Don't think anyone else will agree with me here, but The Inbetweeners - Can't stand it!

I agree completely.

Mindkiller

All I got from 5 minutes of TBBT was that the lead character probably has aspergers syndrome. This is meant to mean that he is a fantastically funny guy on account of how odd he is

Bipolar Joe

Anything with vampires in it. Vampires are supposed to kill people or turn them, not fuck them.

The Big Bang Theory is "Nerd comedy" for people who use Norton.

orourkeda

flutterflye wrote: »

Don't think anyone else will agree with me here, but The Inbetweeners - Can't stand it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d7m836SdDs