# Series you once liked but now cannot stand **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523 "2012-01-05T17:43:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/41 "2012-01-06T02:58:06Z")
_Current_ The Office 30 Rock 2.5 Men _Non-current_ My Name Is Earl Frazier Cheers Seinfeld Friends Mash _On The Bubble_ Raising Hope How I Met Your Mother Happy Endings (My lust for Eliza Coupe (the girl that is married to the black guy) keeps me hooked.) ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/42 "2012-01-06T02:59:38Z")
I’m leaning towards this with Family Guy. I don’t enjoy the new ones much and I don’t enjoy the reruns much. I wonder if I’m maturing or if it’s just tiresome seeing the same jokes for so long. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/43 "2012-01-06T06:30:10Z")
I was a huge _Dukes of Hazard_ fan as a kid. I watch it now and I can’t believe how horrible it is. ---
**Author:** ![Nicotine\_Junky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecb155/32.png) [@Nicotine\_Junky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicotine_Junky)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/44 "2012-01-06T06:37:39Z")
I used to like Star Trek. But now I think its a bit like the Music Industry, it reached perfection before most of us were born… old fashioned I know but what else can I say.;)… ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/45 "2012-01-06T07:24:30Z")
A lot of the cooking competition shows, like Top Chef, are beginning to lose my interest. The horrible, blatantly manipulative editing, too much personality drama by far, plus how much food can you see (look quick 'cause you barely get to see any prepared) and not get to taste? ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/46 "2012-01-06T07:44:04Z")
Who Wants to be a Millionaire has become too much of a hand-holding hugfest with everyone making faces and jumping up and down like Deal or No Deal. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/47 "2012-01-06T13:42:33Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Hmm. I could never be arsed to read the comics, not even when Buffy went lesbian briefly with someone-or-other (Willow?), so I’m not sure how Whendon became a total dick. Care to explain? Besides making the Big Bad of the comics a disguised Angel, he killed Giles just because Joss was a dick. He admits it himself. “[Also, I’m a prick.](http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/01/19/joss-whedon-buffy-season-8-comic-exclusive/)” ---
**Author:** ![Hogfather65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@Hogfather65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogfather65)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/48 "2012-01-06T13:53:21Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > Piers Anthony stuff for me > > Xanth > Incarnations of Immortality > The ones about Stile I was the same with Xanath - started re-reading them again after 20+ years to see if the got any better - but I just think its nostalga that is doing it rather than the books ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/49 "2012-01-06T13:57:29Z")
> [@Nicotine\_Junky](#): > > I used to like Star Trek. But now I think its a bit like the Music Industry, it reached perfection before most of us were born… old fashioned I know but what else can I say.;)… Are you referring to the original series or the next generation? ---
**Author:** ![Cumbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cumbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbrian)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/50 "2012-01-06T14:00:14Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > \*Sopranos \*after season 3 or 4 or whenever the dreams started. Currently rewatching The Sopranos with my girlfriend - who has never seen it. First dream sequence - Season 1, Episode 4. I really liked Top Gear over here in the UK, but have drifted away from it now. They seem to constantly need to top their last stunt and, as a result, it’s got sillier and sillier. When I felt it became clear that they had painted themselves into a corner in terms of what the series could do, that was the exit point. Probably about 2 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/51 "2012-01-06T14:24:16Z")
**Oglaf** Was introduced to it through this site, and I really enjoyed the over-the-topness of the first thirty or so strips. Over time though, for a fantasy-porno-comedy comic, it started to take itself a little too seriously, and the funny, and my interest, departed. Even if the strip hadn’t changed, the whole “HEY everyone LOOK! SWORDS and COCKS!!!” joke would have eventually got tiresome anyway. Nice art though. Not just in a porny way - the strip was quite well drawn and colored I thought. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/52 "2012-01-06T14:30:18Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > \*\*House \*\*- It became as repetitive as Power Rangers. > > \*\*Raymond \*\*- I liked it until sombeody pointed out “Don’t you see how nasty they are to each other?”. from then on it was unwatchable. > > \*\*Frasier \*\*- How could I’ve liked it? It’s called ‘humour’ and YMMV. It is possible our idea of humour changes over the years. I LIKE the ‘nasty’ repartee on Raymond, they are saying things _I_ would like to say in real life. ( I think the writers are clever. And some of the characters deserve a little nastiness from their relatives. ) Lacking any quick wit myself, I miss my chance and only think of it later, and meanwhile the ‘nasty’ just lingers there. If I wanted to watch a smoochy lovefest, I would avoid all TV except childbirth documentaries and maybe the Duggars or The Waltons. zzzzz… ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/53 "2012-01-06T14:51:33Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > 2-1/2 Men - I am embarrased to say that I used to enjoy watching this show, because it made me laugh. It was formulaic and sit-com-y, but I like the premise, I liked some of the characters (basically everyone except the two men). After what’s-his-name went off the deep end, though, I lost my taste for it, even for the re-runs. This is what I came in to say. I watched the first few seasons and then just sort of lost interest in it. I tuned in again this year out of curiosity when Ashton Kutcher came aboard and lasted about three episodes. It was terrible. How did I _ever_ watch this show? Then the other day I caught a first-season rerun and guess what? I actually laughed at it. It was well paced, sharp and witty. The cast seemed to be having fun and it was fun to watch. Somewhere over the years they lost their way big-time. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/54 "2012-01-06T14:58:58Z")
> [@Cumbrian](#): > > Currently rewatching The Sopranos with my girlfriend - who has never seen it. First dream sequence - Season 1, Episode 4. Ha! I don’t remember that. I thought the dreams started much later… Thanks for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/55 "2012-01-06T15:01:18Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > This is what I came in to say. I watched the first few seasons and then just sort of lost interest in it. I tuned in again this year out of curiosity when Ashton Kutcher came aboard and lasted about three episodes. It was terrible. How did I _ever_ watch this show? > > Then the other day I caught a first-season rerun and guess what? I actually laughed at it. It was well paced, sharp and witty. The cast seemed to be having fun and it was fun to watch. Somewhere over the years they lost their way big-time. Two and a Half Men gets worse the older Jake gets. I stopped watching when Charlie hooked up with Chelsea. ---
**Author:** ![Cumbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@Cumbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumbrian)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/56 "2012-01-06T16:23:15Z")
> [@FordPrefect](#): > > Ha! I don’t remember that. I thought the dreams started much later… Thanks for the correction. No worries - it’s right at the start of the episode and maybe only lasts a minute (unlike some of the later truly self indlugent ones that last for 7-8 minutes or The Test Dream with 20 mins of a dream whacked into the middle of an episode) but it’s a full blown one where all the wiseguys are waiting for therapy in Melfi’s office and when Tony returns after a cryptic message from Jackie Aprile, his mother has replaced Melfi. One of the easier ones to interpret too in the end! ---
**Author:** ![Feyrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/fbc32d/32.png) [@Feyrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feyrat)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/57 "2012-01-06T19:33:51Z")
Harry Potter. The first three books were good, nice and light and a little bit thoughtful. Then JKR got too important for an editor, the series started taking itself “soooo dark and serious” and devolved into a mass of plot holes, horrible characterizations, bad writing and posturing. We kept holding on and holding on, sure that the JKR who wrote the first three books MUST have a plan to tie all this stuff up… and it was just awful. The last 2 books of The Dark Tower are ALMOST horrible enough to make me hate the rest of the series, but not quite. Those are still damn good. Oh Steve, you went so wrong… ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/58 "2012-01-06T19:57:39Z")
I have to stick another fork in _Buffy._ After the end of Season Six, having killed one of my favorite characters and turned the other into a homicidal maniac, the show is dead to me. I’ve never read the comics and never will. I can hardly watch reruns of the earlier seasons now. ---
**Author:** ![Dennis\_Arthur\_PERRETT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@Dennis\_Arthur\_PERRETT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dennis_Arthur_PERRETT)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/59 "2012-01-07T02:40:04Z")
> [@](#): > > It turns my stomach. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523/60 "2012-01-07T04:16:27Z")
Supernatural I liked the earlier seasons, it was a neat little fun popcorn action/fantasy show with a great soundtrack. The over arching plot was cool and never too prominent that it brought down the show, when THE APOCALYPSE happened it was great as it tied up things from all the way back to the first episode and made satisfying sense. The resolution felt natural and although a bit tragic was the perfect ending point, one of the best resolutions to a show ever I thought and they ended it before it got tiring. Annnnnnnnd then there were two more seasons, barely mentioned ancestors were coming back from the afterlife, the tragic but natural end one character received was washed away as he is back and looking for his soul, they started flailing around for plots and in general getting tired. And there could be more seasons to come who knows, bah. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-you-once-liked-but-now-cannot-stand/608523.md?page=4)