Most over-rated tv shows

SpannerMonkey · 14-08-2011 05:57PM

i know il prob be slated for this and i know he's mega popular but i dont find Will Ferrell funny in the slightest

im more of an adam sandler fan

looky loo · 14-08-2011 05:58PM

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

I intend starting season 4 this week so will give it a fair crack.

I really cant praise Oz highly enough.It is,in my humble opinion the greatest television show of all time.Brilliantly acted,brilliantly written and incredibly intricate for a show that is set for probably 95% minimum within the walls of the prison.

Only got to watch the first season of Oz, still trying to track down a reasonably priced box set of this, want to see the rest of it....the quest continues.....

Da Shins Kelly · 14-08-2011 05:59PM

Aldebaran wrote: »

Entourage and Shameless are two shows that all my friends seem to rave about but I just don't see the appeal at all.

I find Entourage very 'blokey' if that makes sense. It seems to be a real lads show. My brother loves it, and I've watched a few episodes and laughed here and there, but for the most part I find it to be really driven towards lads. It kinda reminds me of the way Sex and the City was geared towards women.

ColeTrain · 14-08-2011 06:02PM

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

I find Entourage very 'blokey' if that makes sense. It seems to be a real lads show. My brother loves it, and I've watched a few episodes and laughed here and there, but for the most part I find it to be really driven towards lads. It kinda reminds me of the way Sex and the City was geared towards women.

Definitely is TV porn for the lads. Who doesn't want to be Vinnie Chase or part of his crew.

Toby Take a Bow · 14-08-2011 06:06PM

Mindkiller wrote: »

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

Deadwood is amazing. Another reason to curse that writers' strike.

How I Met Your Mother seems universally liked by my American friends, who are normally very intelligent people. Awful, awful stuff. I tried watching a couple of episodes and just can't fathom how people find it amusing or interesting. Same goes for 2 1/2 Men, Kings of Queens and Everyone Loves Raymond (or whatever it's called).

There's a tv show I've seen recently (not sure if it's highly rated though) called Modern Family. Awful, awful programme with some deeply unfunny 'jokes'.

I also don't understand the point of that new (?) series called The Middle. Is it supposed to be kind of like Malcolm in the Middle?

Season 5 of The Wire was very disappointing. The rest of it is perhaps the best tv I've seen (bar, maybe, The Sopranos).

RonBo88 · 14-08-2011 06:08PM

Jersey Shore

...in america anyway.

biko · 14-08-2011 06:09PM

Curb your enthusiasm.

ColeTrain · 14-08-2011 06:09PM

I'm gonna add The Inbetweeners to this. I found the first few episodes amusing but did it not get old very quick?

Tipsy McSwagger · 14-08-2011 06:11PM

biko wrote: »

Curb your enthusiasm.

I don't think so.

Larianne · 14-08-2011 06:12PM

The Simpsons.

Da Shins Kelly · 14-08-2011 06:13PM

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

How I Met Your Mother seems universally liked by my American friends, who are normally very intelligent people. Awful, awful stuff. I tried watching a couple of episodes and just can't fathom how people find it amusing or interesting. Same goes for 2 1/2 Men, Kings of Queens and Everyone Loves Raymond (or whatever it's called).

There's a tv show I've seen recently (not sure if it's highly rated though) called Modern Family. Awful, awful programme with some deeply unfunny 'jokes'.

I don't like How I Met Your Mother either. A lot of my Irish friends who otherwise have great taste think it's the funniest thing ever. I think it's awful. The jokes in it are very repetitive. It's just the same jokes being recycled time and again, and it's not like they were funny the first time.

Modern Family is funny in places. I saw a very good episode of it where the husband and wife wanted to be sexy and decided to do a role-playing thing where he would pretend to be a business man who was away for a weekend and picks her up in a bar of the hotel he's staying in. I was actually laughing from start to finish, it was that cringey. I actually thought it was one of the better things I've seen from American sitcoms in recent times.

ImpossibleDuck · 14-08-2011 06:13PM

I'm going to stand up for Everybody Loves Raymond. Used to watch it at half 7 every morning and disliked it intensely at the start but when it grows on you it becomes such a great show and it's kinda hard to get into because it's massively character based. Each character has their own quirks and history which comes out in hilarity on screen and when you don't understand these and look in, it can seem a poor show but it's really great when you get into it.

Jesus Wept · 14-08-2011 06:13PM

The Wire obviously, #1

ImpossibleDuck · 14-08-2011 06:16PM

But for over-rated, I'm gonna have to say Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I genuinely didn't know it was a comedy for a long, long time.

I go through episodes on end without smirking in the slightest bit. It's about as funny as a show about.....clocks!

houseplant · 14-08-2011 06:16PM

SpannerMonkey wrote: »

i know il prob be slated for this and i know he's mega popular but i dont find Will Ferrell funny in the slightest

im more of an adam sandler fan

Oh god.

Wertz · 14-08-2011 06:18PM

Can't believe we're over 70 posts in and no-ones mentioned any of the incarnations of CSI...

mickydoomsux · 14-08-2011 06:21PM

How I Met Your Mother is literally just Friends 2. Utter bilge.
Big Bang Theory is tame garbage.
The Inbetweeners is terrible.
Lost sucks and it was patently obvious they ran out of ideas early and just starting making it "random".
2 and Half Men is a by the numbers sitcom. Any time i'm forced to watch an episode of i end up ruining the punchlines for whoever is forcing me to watch it just to get them annoyed enough to change the channel.
Sex and The City nearly made me lose faith in HBO. "HEY GUYS, THESE WOMEN SURE DO LIKE TO **** AND SHOP!"

Turpentine · 14-08-2011 06:21PM

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

I'm going to stand up for Everybody Loves Raymond. Used to watch it at half 7 every morning and disliked it intensely at the start but when it grows on you it becomes such a great show and it's kinda hard to get into because it's massively character based. Each character has their own quirks and history which comes out in hilarity on screen and when you don't understand these and look in, it can seem a poor show but it's really great when you get into it.

ImpossibleDuck wrote: »

But for over-rated, I'm gonna have to say Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I genuinely didn't know it was a comedy for a long, long time.

I go through episodes on end without smirking in the slightest bit. It's about as funny as a show about.....clocks!

I know everyone has different opinions on everything, but if you've come on here to slate "Curb Your Enthusiasm" but at the same time laud "Everybody Loves Raymond" for its depth of character I think your taste-bone must be broken or something.

ColeTrain · 14-08-2011 06:25PM

Turpentine wrote: »

I know everyone has different opinions on everything, but if you've come on here to slate "Curb Your Enthusiasm" but at the same time laud "Everybody Loves Raymond" for its depth of character I think your taste-bone must be broken or something.

It must have been the lack of a laugh track!

Even The Wire seems like a decent comedy with one.

Turpentine · 14-08-2011 06:28PM

ColeTrain wrote: »

It must have been the lack of a laugh track!

Even The Wire seems like a decent comedy with one.

"LOL I love McNulty, he's the quirky one!!"

Alter-Ego · 14-08-2011 06:34PM

Mindkiller wrote: »

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.

JohnP199 wrote: »

Breaking Bad

Ah here....

Both shows are a bit hard to get into I suppose but both are excellent once you do, imo.

Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire and Fraiser never really did it for me an I could never understand the appeal.

batistuta9 · 14-08-2011 06:37PM

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

I'd also say Lost is terrible - impossible to follow, ridiculous storyline, too many under-developed characters and sub-plots, clearly made up episode-by-episode with no real plan, and just downright terrible writing in places. Don't really know why anyone stuck with it to the end.

Lost's one of the better shows i've watched, the sixth season was the worst though. you need to pay attention to it, then you'll see things make more sense & like most shows it better watching a few episodes in a row than one every week. More so with lost as stories aren't followed up in next episode, more like alternating episodes.

I don't think family guys that great but haven't watched enough of it to say that i really don't like it

Bipolar Joe · 14-08-2011 06:45PM

ColeTrain wrote: »

It must have been the lack of a laugh track!

Even The Wire seems like a decent comedy with one.

Brilliant

!! Reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLvB_ybcKt0

Which is also an over rated show.

James__10 · 14-08-2011 06:47PM

In no particular order:

Friends
Desperate Housewives
The Inbetweeners

Herb Powell · 14-08-2011 06:50PM

JohnP199 wrote: »

Breaking Bad

Lost

that was uncalled for

ColeTrain · 14-08-2011 07:03PM

Bipolar Joe wrote: »

Brilliant !! Reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLvB_ybcKt0

Which is also an over rated show.

That says it all. Programmes like Friends and 2 and Half Men get away with so many poor jokes, the laugh track just lets you know when it's trying to be funny. Curb on the other hand doesn't need it.