Ha! Yes.
I like Law & Order. However, over the years they had a couple of main characters that rubbed me the wrong way. Occasional I’ll skip to the courtroom part (none of those characters have bothered me).
I just finished the final season of Orange is the New Black, and (among its many strengths and weaknesses) I couldn’t stomach how they made every single male guard stupid, piggish, bigoted and/or over-the-top sexist. Yes, I get that it’s a show about women, and that the writers had a political agenda (which I generally share), but it seemed like they forgot the show was supposed to be a comedy and then decided to make it “funny” by making all the guards despicable idiots.
I don’t think you are supposed to like Peggy. She is incompetent and she is opinionated way beyond her meager intelligence, yet she believes she is somewhere close to brilliant. It is a shame that the writers did not go further with her talent for metal sculpture. It could have put her in a very different light.
During its original run, I loved the first season of Space 1999. Of course, I was 13 and knew far less about Physics than I should have. Now, I don’t think I could enjoy it inspite of the otherwise good writing and great acting. While I can forgive Star Trek its sins, there is just to much wrong going on in Space 1999 to swallow.
I tried to watch the Icelandic cop show “Trapped” on Amazon Prime, but bailed after two episodes. Every single character was either obnoxious, corrupt, evil, or a mope. Even the lead character’s two little girls were bullies who picked on a boy in the school.
Jessica Jones. I don’t care for Krysten Ritter, as she’s pretty one-dimensional, but I can get past that. It was the incessant alcoholism, and the really poorly done acts of strength on her part.
The Masked Singer is actually a fun concept, and could potentially serve as a nice guilty-pleasure bit of escapist entertainment. But Jenny McCarthy is on it. Her personality is supremely grating, and her over-the-top reaction to everything on the show ramps up the annoying factor right off the scale.
All of which I might be able to overlook, except that, knowing how much damage she’s done to childern’s health over the years with her idiotic anti-vaccination views, I can’t even stand to look at her face.
I had a similar reason to Torchwood… I’m a huge Doctor Who fan and a similar show that touches on adult stuff should have caught my interest. But I just didn’t like any of the characters (even Jack, because he was so different from his personality in the main show). They’re an elite team that’s incompetent, petty, reckless, and unethical (ex: in the first episode, one of the team drugs and date rapes people for kicks). Just nothing to hook "I care about these people’ on.
For everyone but Clark K. who probably doesn’t want to know: That episode was inspired by a real dog, Hachikō.
Jurassic Bark, maybe one of the best episodes of animated TV ever, in a “please rip my heart out and make me sob uncontrollably” kind of way.
Shows with hottish youngish women and they are spies or have some kind of Important Job, and a full and interesting life, with men and work and all of a sudden: their sister dies in a car crash, or their parents, and they are saddled with ‘The Little Sister’. or a niece. And the Little Sister or niece is about 15, is a stabbing pain in the ass, acts out, gets arrested, runs away, gets kidnapped by the villaine, drops out of school, and general just endlessly cockblocks the heroine, until you wish that fool was also killed in the car crash, too.
One time I didn’t mind the little sister showing up was when Debra Winger guest starred as Druscilla on Wonder Woman.
Oh-my-God! Teenaged Debra Winger in a WW outfit, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! :o
Any Food Network competition with Damaris Phillips or Katie Lee appearing as judges. But that’s individual episodes, so maybe doesn’t count.
Even worse: Lwaxana Troi.
This doesn’t make the show unwatchable per the OP so it really doesn’t count, but I have to note that the premise of three television writers and a stay-at-home housewife who all happen to also be skilled in singing, dancing, and physical comedy strains the effort of suspending disbelief when watching The Dick Van Dyke Show.
OTOH, when the little sister is a magical construct meant to stymie a god, it works.
Don’t forget that he met Laura because she was a USO performer at his army base, so there is a backstory. And I believe the other two came from vaudeville, so they were performers.
Also, Rob was in Army Special Services, which meant he was heavily involved in providing entertainment to the troops. That’s why he was around the theatre where Laura was performing. He later got his job as a television writer by sending some unsolicited material to Alan Brady, who liked what he read.
That’s right- they were both entertainers when they met.
See, for me, I loved Jurassic Bark. But knowing the show brought him back from the dead, and removed the whole hachiko inspired story, ruined the revival. I will never watch any of the new episodes.
That 70s Show turned me off because I was that age in 1976 Wisconsin, and the episodes I watched before I quit got nothing right. If you’re going to do a period piece, at least try to get the period right.
And if Wes Crusher can’t get in StarFleet, hoe the heck did Reg? Come to think of it, how did that asshole with the webbed hands that yelled at Wes get in? He should have failed the psych tests, too. Maybe, just maybe, Star Fleet is really not a government entity, but just a club, like the Boy Scouts, but this club is for the losers. Wes is just too smart, too good, and no one wants him.