Bad shows on TV that everyone else thinks are great?

Drakares

Breaking bad, The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory, and Friends are all terrible and I can never understand how anyone could find them entertaining

So, what series/moving/whatever on TV do you find to be terrible that most people seem to enjoy?

The Backwards Man

That grateful dead crap or whatever you call it. I seen better shows made by drink addled arts students.

Links234

Drakares wrote: »

Breaking bad

You've lost me

Frosty McSnowballs

Nationwide
Toy show
All the soaps
Anything on MTV1

byte

Links234 wrote:

You've lost me

Lost

krudler

Breaking Bad terrible? thread fail. Best show on tv at the moment.

Cookie_Monster

That redneck vampire one with the actress from Xmen

Vito Corleone

The Big Bang Theory fair enough, although most people seem to dislike it now. Breaking bad, The Simpsons (up to season 10) and Friends were/are all fantastic shows.

Royal Irish

krudler wrote: »

Breaking Bad terrible? thread fail. Best show on tv at the moment.

Best show ever if you ask me.

krudler

The Only Way is Essex/anything with Shore in the title. TV for idiots.

o1s1n

Drakares wrote: »

Breaking bad, The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory, and Friends are all terrible and I can never understand how anyone could find them entertaining

So, what series/moving/whatever on TV do you find to be terrible that most people seem to enjoy?

I don't trust people who don't like the first few seasons of The Simpsons - fairly sure they're pod people.

Links234

You know, not that I disagree in general. Friends was Seinfeld for people who didn't get Seinfeld, the Big Bang Theory is a show about what people who aren't nerds think nerds are like, and whatever good years the Simpsons had are now long smothered by the excrement that's been pushed out consistently since... but Breaking Bad is one of the few shows that genuinely deserves the praise it gets.

Vito Corleone

How I Met Your Mother, don't understand how anyone could like it tbh.

krudler

Royal Irish wrote: »

Best show ever if you ask me.

It's a toss up between that and The Wire or The Sopranos for me, after it finishes it'll probably be Breaking Bad though unless they make a balls of ending it, which I highly doubt they will, every episode this season has been brilliant so far.

The Backwards Man

I have only ever heard of Breaking Bad on boards, what's it about?

Wacker The Attacker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ffJtn9gjU

o1s1n

The Wire is one for me. Really enjoyed the first season, but couldn't get into the second. Don't think it's a patch on Breaking Bad and The Sopranos.

krudler

Links234 wrote: »

You know, not that I disagree in general. Friends was Seinfeld for people who didn't get Seinfeld, the Big Bang Theory is a show about what people who aren't nerds think nerds are like, and whatever good years the Simpsons had are now long smothered by the excrement that's been pushed out consistently since... but Breaking Bad is one of the few shows that genuinely deserves the praise it gets.

I said the EXACT same thing to someone who hated Seinfeld but loved Friends once, they liked Friends because there was no story to follow, that's exactly what Seinfeld is! it's about nothing!

krudler

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I have only ever heard of Breaking Bad on boards, what's it about?

Mild mannered chemistry teacher finds out he has cancer, starts cooking crystal meth with a former student who knows the drug business in order to make money to leave for his family once he's gone. It's every bit as good as it's hyped up to be.

rawn

Parks and Recreation. Was told by so many people how clever and witty it is and it bored the panties off me.

Wacker The Attacker

The Office.

A horrifying hunk of arse.

It was worse than sh1t. It was in fact scutter

wil

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I have only ever heard of Breaking Bad on boards, what's it about?

Its a kind of art imitating life imitating art
Like

Brian Cranston makes it, among other stuff :pac::):D:mad:

krudler

o1s1n wrote: »

The Wire is one for me. Really enjoyed the first season, but couldn't get into the second. Don't think it's a patch on Breaking Bad and The Sopranos.

The second is the "difficult" season, its a big departure from the first but it sets up a lot of really important stuff for the next seasons. Three and four are fantastic and move back to more what season one was like so it's well worth sticking with the second.

AndonHandon

Suits.

It has the style; sharp suits, flashy lifestyles, but lacks substance; the dialogue and characters are dull, self-absorbed and vacuous.

Mrs. Browns Boys.

A lot on here will say how bad it is but in the real world this pish has won awards! I just don't think it is very good.

spankysue

Any of those Shore shows, Jersey, Geordie.....or that thing about the Cardassians, as a Star Trek fan I was very disappointed with that, wasn't what I expected at all.

manyoung

Friends.

Royal Irish

krudler wrote: »

It's a toss up between that and The Wire or The Sopranos for me, after it finishes it'll probably be Breaking Bad though unless they make a balls of ending it, which I highly doubt they will, every episode this season has been brilliant so far.

Yeah the Wire, Breaking Bad, and the Sopranos would be my favorites.

One thing about Breaking Bad that in my mind makes it stand out is, each season has been better than the previous ones. I couldn't say that about the Sopranos or the Wire.

meoklmrk91

All those crappy reality shows about stupid orange people.

Revenge, all my friends love it, never mind the gaping potholes and pretty much every actor chewing the **** out of the scenery.

All the soaps, it's like gossip in television form with annoying accents.

How I met your mother, there is nothing funny about this show.

Basically anything that can be classed as trashy TV, unintelligent TV.

wil

krudler wrote: »

I said the EXACT same thing to someone who hated Seinfeld but loved Friends once, they liked Friends because there was no story to follow, that's exactly what Seinfeld is! it's about nothing!

And then people tried to put Happy Endings in the same league:eek:
Fine, but if you cant generate empathy for the characters in 3 series, end of Happy Endings. Its like the badly written end of life Scrubs.

Scrubs was good until S6, then rubbish after that and atrocious when they brought in the training school crowd.

rawn

Oh, and Two and a Half Men. How the actual fúck is that show still going?

Guy:Incognito

Drakares wrote: »

So, what series/moving/whatever on TV do you find to be terrible that most people seem to enjoy?

The shows you like.

Cienciano

The Big Bang Theory. Painfully bad, and yer man sheldon is a knobend.

ancapailldorcha

krudler wrote: »

The second is the "difficult" season, its a big departure from the first but it sets up a lot of really important stuff for the next seasons. Three and four are fantastic and move back to more what season one was like so it's well worth sticking with the second.

The second season may well have not existed if I remember correctly. It's like the fifth in that it just doesn't seem to fit. Infinitely better than the tripe on nowadays. The third season is amazing and the fourth is beyond words.
I wish the Sopranos wasn't getting so much praise. Just reminds me how high up it deserves to be on my list of priorities.
I can't believe HIMYM and TBBT are still going. Used to love both when I was a lot more naive. Same for Two and a Half Men.

snausages

Royal Irish wrote: »

Yeah the Wire, Breaking Bad, and the Sopranos would be my favorites.

One thing about Breaking Bad that in my mind makes it stand out is, each season has been better than the previous ones. I couldn't say that about the Sopranos or the Wire.

People keep saying this but I can't see it at all. With the Wire anyway I think season 4 was the best of the lot.

Yamanoto

The Walking Dead.

The acting's often well patchy, the script & direction pedestrian, characters for the most part have rarely developed beyond the one-dimensional and it plods along aimlessly for large chunks of each season.

It filled a void when I'd nothing else to watch so I stuck with it, but I wouldn't recommend it tbh.

RobbingBandit

No Ones Got Talent, X-Factor, Dancing on ****e(Ice), The Voice etc. Fcuking BS shows that are years past their due.

krudler

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

The second season may well have not existed if I remember correctly. It's like the fifth in that it just doesn't seem to fit. Infinitely better than the tripe on nowadays. The third season is amazing and the fourth is beyond words.
I wish the Sopranos wasn't getting so much praise. Just reminds me how high up it deserves to be on my list of priorities.
I can't believe HIMYM and TBBT are still going. Used to love both when I was a lot more naive. Same for Two and a Half Men.

Never seen it? rectify that.

fedor.2.

rawn wrote: »

Parks and Recreation. Was told by so many people how clever and witty it is and it bored the panties off me.

And what colour were they?

osarusan

There are some shows that I don't like, but I can see how others will like them. Something like Bones, or CSI. I don't get the 'witty banter' between the characters and the ludicrously unrealistic lab procedures/findings, but I can see how others do.

But in some cases, like Two and a Half Men and Big bang Theory, I wonder if there is anybody out there at all who finds that crap funny?

ancapailldorcha

krudler wrote: »

Never seen it? rectify that.

Is it really that good? I keep meaning to. HBO are the only network I would blindly trust to make good shows any more.

Too Tough To Die

QI

Stereomaniac

Keith Lemon's thing, whatever the **** that's called.

pharmaton

I've never sat down and watched love/hate because I couldn't handle having to listen to the manky Dublin accent. I don't feel like I've missed anything either.

krudler

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

Is it really that good? I keep meaning to. HBO are the only network I would blindly trust to make good shows any more.

Yes, I really must rewatch it, been years since I last saw it.

wil

pharmaton wrote: »

I've never sat down and watched love/hate because I couldn't handle having to listen to the manky Dublin accent. I don't feel like I've missed anything either.

the drugs, the murders, the gangs, friends and family killing each and every body, threat and menace everywhere fine. Just the accent so?

pragmatic1

An idiot abroad. Contrived ****e.

efb

Is this another thread full of 'arnt I so cool I better tell someone' posturing???

pragmatic1

Cienciano wrote: »

The Big Bang Theory. Painfully bad, and yer man sheldon is a knobend.

Yep. No even remotely funny. Much like tow and a half men.

pharmaton

wil wrote: »

the drugs, the murders, the gangs, friends and family killing each and every body, threat and menace everywhere fine. Just the accent so?

I've never seen it so don't really know the story line other than what I've gathered from ads and not being able to pick up a newspaper for ages without seeing some reference to it, but yeah.

Driveby Dogboy

that 'new girl' show,

kbell

Tonight with Vincent Browne, complete ****.