# TV Shows You Don't Particularly Like, But Watch Anyway? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 9, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053 "2010-11-09T16:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/41 "2010-11-09T23:54:43Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > ABC’s shows surrounding Modern Family which I really like. Yeah, **The Middle**. It’s just OK, but I find myself watching still. I still don’t understand why the youngest kid whispers things to himself after saying them. ---
**Author:** ![MattProle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@MattProle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MattProle)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/42 "2010-11-10T00:30:12Z")
While I enjoy the show some of the time, I find **Dexter** , especially this season, to be too predictable. I absoultely can’t take the show seriously since there is no real suspense. I dislike **House** for similar reasons. Of course I constantly compare everything to **The Sopranos** and **The Wire** , so I’m never going to be satisfied by regular TV. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/43 "2010-11-10T00:49:00Z")
I record the first hour and half of CBS’ monday night lineup, even though I really only like _How I Met Your Mother_. But I find I usually nap through the other two shows. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/44 "2010-11-10T01:28:53Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Yeah, **The Middle**. It’s just OK, but I find myself watching still. I still don’t understand why the youngest kid whispers things to himself after saying them. The youngest kid is actually pretty disturbed and fucked up. I think it’s brilliant the way the whole family knows he’s a creepy little weirdo (who’s likely a Malcolm in the Middle-type genius), but they don’t make a big deal out of it. For me, the answer to this thread is **30 Rock**. My wife loves it, but I just think it’s OK. And some episodes (especially the live one), are downright terrible. But I watch it because she loves it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/45 "2010-11-10T01:29:01Z")
> [@Dr.Rieux](#): > > _Family Guy_. I’ve found it funny exactly twice and I’m still waiting for the third time. It’s not that bad, for me, but that is a show I still do that to. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/46 "2010-11-10T01:53:22Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Anyway, I don’t think NCIS is crap exactly. I’ve seen a couple of episodes of this and thought it was total crap. Ridiculous plots, mediocre acting, etc. I’ve only seen it as a captive audience, like on long flights, though. Then I don’t particularly care for any of the _Law & Order_/_CSI_ type shows, although I loved _Homicide_ and _The Wire_. Maybe I was spoiled by those. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/47 "2010-11-10T02:12:14Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I…I also used to watch a few of the terrible early Fox sitcoms like _Herman’s Head_ on occasion. OH C’mon that show was, as Tony The Tiger says “GRRRREAT” 🙂 I watch _Two And A Half Men_ and I hate toliet humour and that show is one big bathroom joke. I wil watch _Cleveland_ hoping it will have anything funny in it, but mostly as it is on between _the Simpsons_ and _Family Guy_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/48 "2010-11-10T02:26:06Z")
> [@divemaster](#): > > I haven’t watched a regular TV show on TV for, oh, over 10 years. Except for sports. But I do Netflix a few series from time to time. > > I got started on \*\*Lost \*\*and got hooked. The last several seasons were in the “you’ve got to be kidding me!” territory but I kept on renting the discs and watching episode after episode. Not because the show was so good (it most certainly was not) but b/c at some point I had so much time invested I just HAD to see it through to find out how the damn thing ended. Same here. And now I have taken a vow never again to start with one of these watch-while-the-twisted-mystery-unravels(-or-maybe-until-we-add-so-many-twists-we-can-never-explain-everything-satisfactorily)-type shows. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/49 "2010-11-10T02:54:22Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Same here. And now I have taken a vow never again to start with one of these watch-while-the-twisted-mystery-unravels(-or-maybe-until-we-add-so-many-twists-we-can-never-explain-everything-satisfactorily)-type shows. Yeah, I should have learned my lesson with **The X-files** , but at least on that one I had the sense to give up after Season 4. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/50 "2010-11-10T03:53:30Z")
_America’s Next Top Model_. How I _loath_ this show. How I detest Tyra Banks. How I resent every minute of the episode that actually focuses on the girls instead of the Jays and Nigel. And yet, I watch every single episode of every single cycle for the past 7 cycles (caught the earliest ones during a marathon on Vh1 natch). It hypnotizes me. Damn you Tyra! ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/51 "2010-11-10T09:38:02Z")
Castle…it’s almost exactly like The Mentalist. I gave up on the latter, but still watch Castle…huh?? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/52 "2010-11-10T12:45:02Z")
\*\*CSI/Law & Order \*\*(any of them). The wife likes them. I’ve wanted to punch everyone on \*\*CSI: Miami \*\*in the face repeatedly for years. I do, however, like \*\*NCIS \*\*- the cartoony characters are fun to watch. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/53 "2010-11-10T13:02:07Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > **Burn Notice.** I used to like it, but not any more. My GF and best friend still like it, though, and I haven’t quite got to the stage where I’ll leave the room while it’s on. Same. All my friends love it, but I’m getting bored with the predictable formulaic plots. And Miami looks like a very dirty grimy place. Ugh. And now it’s back this week, and I’ll probably keep watching, for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/54 "2010-11-10T13:38:47Z")
> [@eenerms](#): > > Castle..it’s almost exactly like The Mentalist. I gave up on the latter, but still watch Castle..huh?? I watch both, but I think Castle is much more fun. I suspend a mega-ton of disbelief for them. For me, it just seems like the folks on Castle are enjoying themselves and I have fun watching it. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/55 "2010-11-10T13:48:25Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > So apparently we’d both been watching **Wheel of Fortune** for about three years, each of us thinking it was because the other one liked it. My wife and I watch it quite a bit, even though it pisses her off that I get the puzzles before she does pretty much every time. I may stop watching it if they keep up this “let’s keep the camera on the frat boy, the house wife from Boise, and the grad student at Berkley” instead of SHOWING THE GOD DAMNED PUZZLE, however. -Joe ---
**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:** [November 10, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/56 "2010-11-10T14:50:29Z")
**Glee** although mainly because my wife watches. But I think she’s starting to give it up as well. I was never enthralled by the singing so once the plot lines and dialogue started taking a plunge, I lost my reason to see it. As stated upthread, Sue’s quips are about the only bright spots (the other being the remarks from Dumb Cheerleader). ---
**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:** [November 10, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/57 "2010-11-10T14:58:30Z")
My wife likes the new _Hawaii Five-O_. Usually, if she’s watching something I’m not fond of, I’ll read or do a crossword or something. But for reasons unexplainable, I always sit there and watch the seemingly only 4 cops in Hawaii go through the motions of unrealistic police work, illogical behavior, and unlikely coincidences toward each episode’s predictable resolution. Somehow I just can’t stop paying attention – even when Grace Park _isn’t_ on screen. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/58 "2010-11-10T15:14:48Z")
I’m worse than many of you because I don’t watch the shows on TV, I seek 'em out online despite my not liking them very much. _Glee_ – I watch this 'cause I feel I _should_ like it. I _want_ to. I love musicals and comedy and OTT stuff. But every time I watch the show I’m disappointed in the crap auto-tuning that makes every female voice sound like GLaDOS and its not-as-funny-as-it-thinks camp. It’s down to Jane whatsername’s Sue character to make this pleasurable. I feel like a traitor but I’m beginning to feel this way about _30 Rock, The Office_ and _Community_. The first two because I’ve loved them for so many years and now that they’re on the decline – well, TO has been declining for a couple of years – it’s starting to be a chore to watch. And _Community_ is still good but I’m rarely as amused by it as it is pleased with itself, if you know what I mean. (And if you do, congrats, 'cause I’m not sure I do!) God knows I am _never_ as enamored over it as its over-the-top, blissed-out fans tell me I should be. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/59 "2010-11-10T15:52:04Z")
Pawn Stars and American Pickers. My husband likes these shows, so I’ve started watching them with him. But sometimes I’ll get into it a little bit. For instance, if he’s watching an episode, then has to go to work, I’ll finish the episode. I just _have_ to know how much that vintage popcorn popper is worth! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053/60 "2010-11-10T16:14:13Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > My wife and I watch it quite a bit, even though it pisses her off that I get the puzzles before she does pretty much every time. > > I may stop watching it if they keep up this “let’s keep the camera on the frat boy, the house wife from Boise, and the grad student at Berkley” instead of SHOWING THE GOD DAMNED PUZZLE, however. > > -Joe We still watch it quite a bit, because after three years, it ends up kinda growing on you. I think they only show glimpses of the puzzle because otherwise it’d be too easy for home viewers to figure the puzzles out. You solve the puzzle too fast, you quit watching. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-dont-particularly-like-but-watch-anyway/560053.md?page=4)