# Shows You "Hate-Watch" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574 "2015-05-08T20:24:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/41 "2015-05-10T14:42:57Z")
Dexter. I’m on season 7 now and binge watching it. It isn’t even that good, I rated it 3/5 stars. There are so many fucking plot holes that it is hard to take it seriously but I figure I’ve come this far I might as well watch the last 20 some episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/42 "2015-05-10T14:46:25Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > I can’t stomach the Kardashians, but the Duggars are definitely a weakness for me. I’m watching them mostly because I’m rooting for at least one of the kids to break free. Hasn’t happened yet. > > In college I hate-watched _Dawson’s Creek_ and it was great fun. The older Duggar daughters are very easy on the eyes, which makes it easier to watch the show the handful of times I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/43 "2015-05-10T14:49:23Z")
> [@skdo23](#): > > On a similar note, does anyone else have “enemies” on Facebook, i.e. people who you’ve friended, but only so you can receive continuous updates about the things that they think/say/do that make you dislike them? I did that once. Then she brought her shit into \*my \*Facebook timeline and I had to unfriend her. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/44 "2015-05-10T22:41:49Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Nowadays, I have so little time that I ONLY watch shows I like a lot, and almost always ling after they originally air. I agree, time is too short to waste it watching a TV show I hate. And while most of my TV viewing is actually TV listening (I’ll put on the TV for background noise while I’m cartooning at the drawing board) I still can’t waste it listening to something I don’t like or hate. Though if I ver feel like **“Stupid-Watching”** I may put FOX News on, but I can only stand about 5 minutes of stupidity before I’m scrambling for the remote. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/45 "2015-05-10T22:58:58Z")
Glee, though it eventually go so bad I couldn’t even hate watch. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/46 "2015-05-10T23:24:40Z")
I used to hate watch Jersey Shore, back when it was on. Well, I guess it was more of a stupid watch. When I was in grad school, it was kind of fun to turn my brain off now and again. Ridiculous show, I know. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/47 "2015-05-11T00:15:55Z")
_The Walking Dead_ has been this for me for some time. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/48 "2015-05-11T01:20:50Z")
_Richie Rich_ on Netflix. When I was a kid I used to collect Richie Rich comics, so when I found out there was going to be a show, I watched the first episode for nostalgia’s sake. It was so irredeemably, hideously, massively bad that of course I had to watch the other ten episodes. It was like a train wreck. I couldn’t look away. Hint: They didn’t get any better. (I watched them while walking on my treadmill, so I could have something to make my brains dribble out my ears and thus didn’t have to think about.) ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/49 "2015-05-11T01:51:43Z")
One of the greatest piece of writing on hate watching is from Pilot Viruet who [hate watched every episode of Two and a Half Men](http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/two-and-a-half-men-tvs-worst-sitcom-ends-as-terribly-as-it-lived-and-i-watched-every-episode/). ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/50 "2015-05-11T15:31:12Z")
Right now we’re watching “ **The Royals** ”, or as I call it “Princess Skank Hour” or “Everybody on this show is a douchebag except that one character.” ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/51 "2015-05-11T15:59:25Z")
> [@skdo23](#): > > On a similar note, does anyone else have “enemies” on Facebook, i.e. people who you’ve friended, but only so you can receive continuous updates about the things that they think/say/do that make you dislike them? I don’t but I have several friends who do this! My hate-watch shows are _Sister Wives_ - I hate the husband so much, but I keep watching to see if one of the wives wakes up and leaves that whole mess. _2 Broke Girls_ - everything about this show is awful but it’s like…I can’t fucking stop. _Girls_ - I actually figured out that you are supposed to hate these people and that makes the show much more enjoyable. Before the episode where they went to the beach house they bothered me. Now their lives are all failing and I’m like “oh, good! Let’s see how awful these idiots are this week!” ETA: Yikes! I seem to have a problem with women… ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/52 "2015-05-11T16:00:05Z")
I missed The X-Files when it was on years ago, but my husband liked it. So we’ve started watching it on Netflix and I have a blast ragging on it. Although it would still be better if someone would turn the damn lights on. We also watch Hell’s Kitchen, which is scripted, nasty, stupid, and irresistible. How come nobody ever gets on this show who knows how to cook beef wellington, risotto, or scallops? Stupid dunkie, you’re going to kill somebody! _Get out!_ ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/53 "2015-05-11T16:00:35Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > In college I hate-watched _Dawson’s Creek_ and it was great fun. A co-worker and I used to watch this show so we could come in the next morning and talk about how stupid it was. Good times. These days I don’t make enough time for shows I’d unironically want to watch, much less shows I dislike. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/54 "2015-05-11T16:07:55Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Right now we’re watching “ **The Royals** ”, or as I call it “Princess Skank Hour” or “Everybody on this show is a douchebag except that one character.” Who isn’t a douchebag on this show? I’ve racked my brain and cannot think of a single person with any redeeming qualities. This is a great example though;once Mad Men finishes I will go back to watching _The Royals_. I’m sure it’s even worse than the first few episodes I watched. My biggest one - and I don’t know if it counts because I’m pretty sure you’re \*supposed \*to hate it- is _Say Yes to the Dress_.Holy cats, what a bunch of unappealing, stupid bridezillas. I love shows about fashion but I don’t really care for wedding dresses as a rule. Most of the crap these women try on is the epitome of what I hate about them. Do women really bring an entourage with them when they pick out a dress? The only thing more deliciously awful are the episodes where the bridesmaids are picking out their dresses. Why anyone would have absolute bitches as friends is beyond me but I admit I eat it up. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/55 "2015-05-11T16:24:01Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Right now we’re watching “ **The Royals** ”, or as I call it “Princess Skank Hour” or “Everybody on this show is a douchebag except that one character.” I could only stomach one episode. So the Prince of Wales dies and his casket is covered with The Union Jack? The head of the security for the royals lives in an apartment behind the face of Big Ben? Pathetic acting, pathetic writing. E! should stick to the Kardashians. Mine was Under The Dome. I even hate-read the book to see if it sucked as bad as the show. Well, maybe a little less but my first Stephen King experience was not overwhelming. Back to the show. Sometimes the Dome is a magnet. Sometimes it shocks people. It shrinks. It stops. Julia and her ever-perfect hair. Swimming to rescue someone moments after getting off a perfectly running boat. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/56 "2015-05-11T16:47:39Z")
Can’t believe I’m the first to say **Big Bang Theory**. Sheldon is such an insufferable character that I get physically angry when he’s on screen, but the other characters are funny/lovable enough for me to live with the show That being said, I am hate watching it every week ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/57 "2015-05-11T20:21:25Z")
Way back when, but … _24_. Awful terrible show that I began to enjoy as a comedy, although I don’t _think_ it was intended as such. Particularly I liked the daughter who was kidnapped daily. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/58 "2015-05-11T20:33:40Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Way back when, but … _24_. > > Awful terrible show that I began to enjoy as a comedy, although I don’t _think_ it was intended as such. Particularly I liked the daughter who was kidnapped daily. I liked 24 for the same reason I liked the Die Hard movies. They’re so over the top, they’re hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/59 "2015-05-11T20:34:32Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > **Outlander**. I am now officially hate-watching **Outlander**. > > I love the book. The book has meant a lot in my life–got me writing my own books. > > The show has been an embarrassing, tone-deaf horror show start to finish. I am so fucking over it–one episode before the “good part”. You really screwed the pooch on this one, Ronald D. Moore. What the FUCK are you thinking? I am with you. My girlfriend is a HUGE fan of the books, and even she is saying how lame the show is. It started out “okay”, and has been declining ever since. This past Saturday’s show, May 9th, was a new low. I even asked if the singing act was in the book, and my girlfriend indicated it wasn’t. Even she was pretty discouraged by Saturday’s show. (She’s now given me permission to not watch it) ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574/60 "2015-05-11T21:26:12Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > Right now we’re watching “ **The Royals** ”, or as I call it “Princess Skank Hour” or “Everybody on this show is a douchebag except that one character.” The King? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-you-hate-watch/719574.md?page=4)