House was my favorite show until season 4, with the introduction of Thirteen and Amber, both of whom are (were) unwatchable. The writing for those characters was terrible too. I have seasons one through three on DVD. I’ll start watching again when they kill off Thirteen.
I’ve been watching through Peep Show on BBCA. Very funny, but now that I’m at the end of season 4 it is getting to be a bit much. Mark and Jeremy are really terrible people. Almost evil in fact. It is still funny but it is becoming difficult to watch a show with no sympathetic characters at all.
One immediatly sprung to mind…and another was reminded to me.
Saved by the Bell: I used to love this show when I was younger, but watching it again I cannot stand Screech. His overall character is nothing but stupid non funny one liners that just infuriate me to the point where I never watch it again.
Seinfeld: Pretty much all of them since I hate the show…but mostly Kramer. He is unfunny, unwitty, and overall has no point.
Ally McBeal. I hated her with a passion, but I loved the rest of the cast so much that I put up with it. After the frog being flushed down the toilet scene, I made the comment that they should have flushed Ally down the toilet and renamed the show “Cage & Fish”. Then it would have been awesome.
Yeah, that was a bit of an overstatement. Can’t pin down exactly why she irritates me so much, but the woman makes my teeth hurt. I only recently started watching the series, inspired by olive’sthread, but I gather Buffy does eventually go off to college, yes? I’ll probably keep watching.
My ex and I made it through one season of The Sopranos before I started to find Tony Soprano so horrible I had to stop watching. I just could not take one. more. minute. of his garbage. I understand that the character was supposed to be fatally flawed, but it got to the point for me where it was painful to watch him abuse and misuse everyone close to him.
I was so rooting for him to get shot at the end. Dammit.
I loved The Cosby Show, but I couldn’t watch after they introduced Denise’s stepdaughter Olivia. So over-the-top cutesy and annoying. Every line out of her mouth was designed to get an “awwwww” from the audience. She was like every character on Full House.
Raven-Symone. The actress is still an annoyance. She’s had a kid-com on Disney Channel (I think) for years, That’s So Raven. Even the title is annoying.
Third Watch went from being an ensemble cast representing police, firefighters and paramedics to being Yet Another Cop Show. The great thing about the ensemble is that if you didn’t like a character or two it wasn’t a problem because they didn’t get a lot of screen time. When it went to YACS they focused on a new character, a bad ass Hispanic cop chick that was loathsome. I admit I still sort of watched it but I always found something else to do when she was on which was most of the show. They tried to make her sympathetic by having her raped, it didn’t work. Then they had her get cancer, it didn’t work. I did make a point to watch when she blew herself up to take out a criminal, I kinda liked her a little then but it was too late to save the show. I know it’s not the actress’s fault but if I see her on any other show now, I change the channel.
He kind of has to. He comes from a wealthy family, who cut him off when he decided to become an actor instead of a [whatever]. Interestingly, because of this, the writers gave the DiNozzo character the same history.
Let’s just say you won’t be seeing much more of her…
Don, the FBI brother, on Numb3ers. The show is fun and well cast, excpet for this guy’s character, who constantly plays a swaggering superior jackass who feels the world should revolve around them. He is a junior high jock bully who never grew up.
Tim Roth’s character on Lie to Me. Roth is usually a great actor that I love, but his “acting” quirks for the character look like a first year theater student trying to be edgy. If I walk around with my head tilted and whisper, that’s drama, baby!
If I hadn’t been caught up so much in the plot, I’d have quit watching MAD MEN from the second we were introduced to Betty Draper. What. A. Flaming. Bitch. I did quit watching CSI:Miami because I can’t stand David Caruso’s character. Creeeepy dude.
That was my wife and I’s thoughts on Betty Draper as well. And not only is she a bitch, she’s an ice-queen and if she’s like that all the time, you can sort of see why Don is the way he is.
My wife and I have also been watching the first series of Breaking Bad and Walter’s entire family (with the exception of his DEA-officer brother in law) are annoying, superfluous, and greatly detract from what should be a really interesting show about a “square” getting mixed up in something he’s got no business being mixed up in, and how he and his “business partner” deal with the ins and outs of the highly illegal and dangerous thing they’re involved in.
Instead, we get the protagonist’s wife and son whingeing at him for most of the series about how he won’t “open up” and “share” what’s on his mind, his wife being a nosy bitch who won’t mind her own business, his wife and sister having their own petty little squabbles, and that sort of thing.
