Find myself DVR’ing The Daily Show less and less now.
LOL the Blue Jays are definitely getting harder to watch LOL.
Class three: I really didn’t see any point to keep watching House of Cards after Frank got the Presidency.
C3: Grimm. It just got too convoluted. This show was much better when it was “monster of the week”.
Blacklist and Blindspot.
I watched Blindspot until the mid season hiatus. I realized that I didn’t miss the show after it was off the air a couple months. Didn’t care how the story played out.
I just got tired of the Blacklist. 2 seasons was enough.
Bate motel I watched season 1 and part of season 2 until the craziness started. Too depressing. I can’t enjoy a main character that is a sociopath.
When this season of Black Sails started, we were distracted with other things and I didn’t want to get into it because the show is fairly dense (a lot of “What, why is that guy doing that? Oh, because of a line he said three episodes ago…”) and I didn’t want to commit the attention yet. That was months ago and I still haven’t gone back to start watching.
Some more I remembered:
“Vikings.” Class One. We watched one episode and will never watch another. It’s been done before, it’s been done better.
“Supergirl” is Class Two. The show did not start out well but got worse.
“The Flash” and “Daredevil” both went Class Two because of the intensely terrible acting.
We also Class Twoed “Oz” when it became apparently it was a Broadway play, not a TV show.
I think a lot of us made it through season 1, but I was the same way around 6-7, I only finished watching because I knew it was so short. I never watched anything after.
I made it through 2-3 episodes, at most. I just couldn’t get in to it at all, but I really don’t like those kinds of shows/movies. People still ask me how I can’t watch such a great show.
I barely made it through Fear the Walking Dead, but once it was over I dropped it from my DVR.
I want to find things on Netflix to watch, so I start a lot and they get the axe after a single (or less!) viewing. Then Netflix turns around and shows me a bunch of shows that I might like, under the heading, “Because you watched ‘Too Stupid to Live’”.
I guess that’s because I was so disgusted by what little I saw that I neglected to rate the show.
Class 1: Hmm… I can’t really think of any off-hand that were SO bad that I wouldn’t give it a second try.
Class 2: The only one I can think of recently was “The Expanse” on Syfy, and it wasn’t because it was bad, or I didn’t like it; I mis-DVRed a lot of it, and didn’t have all the episodes, so I ended up just reading the books instead. Now I’m trying to decide whether to watch the show at all, or just keep things the way they are in my imagination.
Class 3: Game of Thrones, I suppose. I quit watching it after 3 episodes of Season 5, once I realized that they were telegraphing way too much about the storyline simply through what they leave in and leave out vis-a-vis the books. I decided I’d rather just do my damnedest not to hear any spoilers and wait on GRRM to finish the books before watching the show any more. I’m probably tilting at windmills, I know.
Not really recently, but I quit watching “The Walking Dead” at some point when the storyline centered around Woodbury and the Governor, because I realized it wasn’t at all about the characters surviving against the walkers, but rather had become a drama set in a world with zombies. Yawn.
Where’s the class for “Started the series after it was completed, like it, but it’s not so compelling that I want to binge watch it, so I’m watching episodes at a relatively glacial pace.” That’s how I’m watching "Breaking Bad’. It’s interesting, but I’m not sitting around the rest of the time anticipating the next episode much. It’s more relegated to that category of shows we watch when all the shows we actively watch are caught up, there’s no movies on the movie channels we want to watch, and we still feel like watching TV instead of doing our own things (me: video games, wife: craft projects).
That’s the man reason why I quit Netflix.
The X-Files reboot would have been Class 1 for me, but I knew it was a short run so i figured I should stick it out. I needn’t have bothered.
Castle was Class 3, but it’s fully gone now.
Elementary may become a Class 3, depending on what they do next year. Making Sherlock’s father the head of an international criminal organization might be the end, if that’s all they do. I hate “super criminal organization” story arcs (Castle’s “Becket’s mom” arc, Burn Notice’s last couple seasons). I want simple, stand alone, good detective stories. It seems those days are gone.
Huge Outlander fan here. I can tell you they dial down the voiceover considerably and Claire is quite the strong woman.
I watched the first season. Tons of promise, but it became clear pretty quickly that the writers were actively working to prevent the story from going anywhere. It’s like a clearly story-driven premise that’s been mangled into a pure episodic storytelling format.
LOST, at least, tried to pretend like things were happening and progressing towards some point. Once Upon a Time is that way as well (which makes sense, given that it’s the same writers as LOST). Penny Dreadful was just nothing. A whole bunch of style, but going nowhere, and nothing happening for any particular reason.
Maybe they just don’t have the budget, or they just have too many ideas for where to go for too many characters, so they can’t help but move glacially, but I decided that it was not for me.
(Game of Thrones has the too many characters with too much life story for the story to progress problem, which is why I quit it after the third season.)
Class One: Lots of them but Heroes: Reborn is the only one I can think of right now. Halfway through episode 2 and I realized it was exactly like the previous version and they had burned me once.
Class Two: Sense8: I gave it two or three, then I decided I didn’t really care enough.
Class Three: Lots and lots already mentioned but one not mentioned yet: The Knick. I’m not sure if it took too long or what, but by the time Season 2 rolled around, they sat there unwatched on the DVR until I deleted them.
Once Upon a Time, this final season, when they went to Hell. Just got too convoluted and unnecessary. Was a great show, however, nice run.
Castle- just lost interest. Nice run.
Penny Dreadful- losing interest. Too much of what’shername.
Supergirl- fine show, not for me. Class 2.
The Last Kingdom- Class2. Now if it had only actually been about* Alfred the fucking Great *rather than some unknown fucking Viking… maybe.
Certain other show (s) on HBO- haven’t bothered to renew my HBO sub.
House of Cards- 1.5 seasons then found out the protagonist was actively evil not just totally pragmatic. Great acting, too much smoking.
CLASS ONE The Bastard Executioner- halfway thru one episode found myself laughing at the costumes and plot. Just bad.
Oh, she’s strong. I got that. She’s also eminently unlikeable. I don’t care if she gets back to 1946 or avoids the villainous Captain Randall. I’d be fine if they served her in a haggis.
Not your cup of tea, I get it. Meanwhile, I loved the books and am enjoying the hell out of the series thus far.
CLASS ONE: New Nick cartoon Pig, Goat, Banana, Cricket. Holy crap, is it bad! Even by the low low low standards of Nickelodeon toilet humor cartoons, it was horrible. Ugly character design, ugly artwork, obnoxious screaming in place of voice acting. I barely made it to the end of the first 11-minute segment, and then said to my son “If you were younger I’d forbid you to watch that, not because it’s offensive or inappropriate, but simply because it sucks so bad. As it is, don’t watch it when I’m in the same room, or within earshot.” He told me not to worry because he also thought it sucked and then changed the channel before the second half came on.
CLASS THREE: Not a recent give-up, but The Simpsons is the ultimate CLASS THREE. 7 seasons of brilliance, 2 seasons of mediocrity, and 3 seasons of utter shite before I walked away. And yet there have been 14 more seasons (and one admittedly good movie) since then. I still have a complete unwatched season that I recorded on VHS sitting in the cabinet under the TV, but I’ve never had the desire to watch it.
Also, Regular Show. Great first few seasons, but gradually got really repetitve and focused too much on the Mordecai/Margaret/CJ love triange and I lost interest. I’ll still watch it if I stumble across it while channel surfing, but I don’t bother staying caught up.
Forgot about that. :smack:Yeah. Still watch Treehouse of Horror, tho.
Is she one of those 'strong women" who are portrayed as being strong as they never follow anyone elses orders or advice?
I forgot those two, so I’ll add a “me too” to your comments.
Another Class Two show for me: Justified. I watched the first 8 or so episodes, but it was more of a bog standard “crime of the week” show than I expected so I gave up on waiting for the main story line to heat up.