Shows you barely like?
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The only one I've kept watching even though it's always teetered just on the brink of me stopping is Bored to Death.
I'm lovin' the new H5-0, buuuut it's starting to look like the two leads are being written/acted better than the rest of the cast - who are there to deliver exposition and are very wooden and stilted (not that it's the actors' faults) Spoils the show completely
I watched several episodes back-to-back one weekend, got bored halfway through due to the lather-rinse-repeat format of the show, which was really noticeable after 6 or 7 episodes
Same here. If I don't like a show, I stop watching it.
That's exactly what happened with Law & Order: SVU. When it first started I loved it. But I gradually realized that every episode was essentially the exact same story - Benson and Stabler work a case, it gnaws away at their very souls, they end up massively violating people's constitutional rights (often times those of completely innocent people) in order to get revenge (not justice) and then the episode ends with all their misdeeds swept under the rug because they're the "heroes" after all.
I haven't watched an episode for years now.
Most shows fit in this category for me. I will watch a few of the cookie cutter crime shows, Law & Order, CSI, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, ect. if there is nothing on or I'm channel surfing during a commercial break, but I'd never watch any of the regularly or God forbid, buy them on DVD!
South Park. I'll watch it if someone else has it on and get a few chuckles out of it, but for the most part can't stand the show.
South Park. I'll watch it if someone else has it on and get a few chuckles out of it, but for the most part can't stand the show.
Same here. I don't give a damn about the show period. The writing has gone down hill, the characters have as well and the only thing left are the stories themselves and I have a feeling those won't be worth watching either.
New Who and Fringe. The former has never appealed to me even a fraction as much as classic Who did / does, but for whatever reasons I keep watching - well, sort of; if I miss an episode I don't really care, and I gave up altogether partway through the (increasingly insufferable) Tennant era. The latter is just...there, with some really dull characters (whatever it is about Walter that pretty much everyone seems to find so marvellous completely eludes me), but anyway.
There aren't any others. In general, if I don't like a show I simply stop watching it.
There aren't any others. In general, if I don't like a show I simply stop watching it.
Dollhouse while it was on. Eliza Dushku is a decent supporting actress, but she can't carry a show as lead. Plus, the pacing was destroyed when they tried to cram four seasons of story into the last six episodes or so. After the disappointment of the 'finale' I never watched Epitaph Two. I will say that there were a couple of episodes (Briar Rose, Epitaph One, The Attic) that were gold.
For a while last season, How I Met Your Mother. As a dramatic plot, Marshall's dad dying was effective, as was Marshall's character growth from it. The problem was that it was in a comedy show, and the whole thing with Marshall being depressed dragged and brought the show down. I don't tune into a comedy to feel sad. It might have been the weird schedule with so many random gaps, but it seemed to go on forever.
The final season of Lost. I actually enjoyed the finale itself, and the run of episodes building up to it, but the beginning of the season where they spent forever dicking around in that temple went on and on. I could have done without the off island side story, and just focused on wrapping up all the questions they had left to answer.
The first season of Fringe. I haven't watched any season two. Partially because they killed off my favourite character, Charlie Francis, and partially because the first season was just too procedural for my taste. I guess it suffered due to the inevitable comparisons to Lost's masterful first season.
Enterprise, for just about all of its run. My opinions are a little backwards here I think. I really enjoyed the TCW arc and it basically kept me watching for the first two seasons, which were mostly awful. Season three was the best by far, but then the season four opener wrapped up the TCW in a highly unsatisfying manner, and the rest of the show was pretty much TOS fanwanking. By the end, I became physically annoyed at just about every aspect of the show, especially Archer's one vaguely annoyed facial expression and habit of not looking at the damn view screen.
For a while last season, How I Met Your Mother. As a dramatic plot, Marshall's dad dying was effective, as was Marshall's character growth from it. The problem was that it was in a comedy show, and the whole thing with Marshall being depressed dragged and brought the show down. I don't tune into a comedy to feel sad. It might have been the weird schedule with so many random gaps, but it seemed to go on forever.
The final season of Lost. I actually enjoyed the finale itself, and the run of episodes building up to it, but the beginning of the season where they spent forever dicking around in that temple went on and on. I could have done without the off island side story, and just focused on wrapping up all the questions they had left to answer.
The first season of Fringe. I haven't watched any season two. Partially because they killed off my favourite character, Charlie Francis, and partially because the first season was just too procedural for my taste. I guess it suffered due to the inevitable comparisons to Lost's masterful first season.
Enterprise, for just about all of its run. My opinions are a little backwards here I think. I really enjoyed the TCW arc and it basically kept me watching for the first two seasons, which were mostly awful. Season three was the best by far, but then the season four opener wrapped up the TCW in a highly unsatisfying manner, and the rest of the show was pretty much TOS fanwanking. By the end, I became physically annoyed at just about every aspect of the show, especially Archer's one vaguely annoyed facial expression and habit of not looking at the damn view screen.
I hope Fringe gets some completion this season and finishes. I realised the other night, while watching the season opener, that I have no proper rationale for my dedication to watching it - the science is bad and doesn't even make any sense under the terms of its own logic, the stories are ridiculously contrived paradoxes, and the comedy elements are repeated ad nauseam.
Yeah. Fringe is a show I watch simply for the characters and an interest in the alternative universe. You are right that the science is horrid - some of the worst since the short lived Braga show Threshold. A shame given the show is supposed to be about science!
I wonder why, given the show was made by the creators of Lost, they didn't follow the Lost formula of a show with arcs and episodes that connect. I know there is an overall arc for the show, and several mini-arcs that were dropped for no particular reason, but when an episode doesn't deal specifically with the arc it's wasted on a lame X-files style story.
Weeds. Been watching it this year with a friend because she loves it, I barely tolerate it. Only character I like is Andy, everyone else is an unlikable asshole (and even Andy started out that way.)
On the flipside, as payback I force her to watch The Walking Dead with me.
On the flipside, as payback I force her to watch The Walking Dead with me.
Fringe, definitely.
Maybe Dexter, if it gets even worse, which is pretty much inevitable. Edward James Olmos and Colin Hanks will, I'm sure, chew up the scenery as a Harry/Dexter combo, but supercool vigilante successfully reading the script to get away with murder is really, really getting old.
Warehouse 13 I went back to, to see what they did with the Steve Jinks character (not much.) But while he was there, it built up the Claudia character and cut down some of the irritating squabbling between the leads. I'll be dropping this one again.
Maybe Dexter, if it gets even worse, which is pretty much inevitable. Edward James Olmos and Colin Hanks will, I'm sure, chew up the scenery as a Harry/Dexter combo, but supercool vigilante successfully reading the script to get away with murder is really, really getting old.
Warehouse 13 I went back to, to see what they did with the Steve Jinks character (not much.) But while he was there, it built up the Claudia character and cut down some of the irritating squabbling between the leads. I'll be dropping this one again.
Family Guy. I would probably still be watching it if I had cable, but it's generally for the one or two jokes per episode that I think are funny. Brian is the only character I actually like. Stewie was funnier when he was a one-note character in the early seasons.
Um, the topic of the thread was shows that you STILL watch but don't necessarily enjoy, not shows you DON'T watch but might in other circumstances.
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