Six good seasons and one hilarious episode where Data and Tasha Yar got it on
I don’t care at all about the nature of celebrity and that’s my favorite show in the last 10 years.
I was the opposite basically, didn’t care for it until the 8th episode.
Yep. Bojack is a sort of show that doesn’t reveal itself until late in the first season. There are hints of it early on, but it originally just seems like a silly comedy. And then the mental health and addiction stuff just smacks you on the face. At some point in later seasons it gets a bit repetitive (Bojack swears to become better and then falls off the wagon and disappoints everyone in his life again), but I hear that is common among addicts.
Yes, I knew people would question that assertion.
Season one, unlike Data, was not fully functional. Although it gave us The Naked Now (reruns? In the first episode past the pilot?) and Code of Honor and Justice, it did also give us The Arsenal of Freedom, 11001001, We’ll Always Have Paris, Conspiracy, and maybe I’d put Skin of Evil in that group, too.
You have a good chance for a good episode if Riker has a beard and it has Dr. Crusher. The chances go down with no beard or Dr. Polaski, but there are still a few good ones.
When I started watching the British ITV police procedural drama Broadchurch, I was very sympathetic to the central family who were shattered by (not a spoiler) the sudden death of their young son.
By the start of Season 2 I was only regretting that the rest of the family wasn’t dead too.
Beautifully shot show with fantastic performances, but the gimmick of (also not a spoiler) the screenwriter not deciding what he was going to do with the plot until he saw how the actors were realizing their characters, and then keeping the plot twists secret so the actors wouldn’t “telegraph” information about their characters’ innocence or guilt, just made it too half-assed AFAIAC.
Listen, Ibsen, you’re supposed to decide what happens in your screenplay, and the actors are supposed to portray their characters in a way that doesn’t spoil the ending, because they’re, you know, actors? Pretending to be somebody else with a different assortment of knowledge and beliefs is, like, what they do for a living? Sheesh.
Not that fast, I guess but after two seasons of “House of Cards” I realized I hated every one of the characters. When there’s nobody to root for, and all that’s left is to hope that all the villains finally meet their comeuppance, it’s just teeth-grinding and not enjoyable anymore.
When Pawn Stars sent Chumlee out to get an autograph on a record so they could improve the value, and he had the guy sign it, “To my biggest fan, Chumlee”, that’s when I lost interest. There’s no way anybody can really be that stupid.
Under the Dome took me maybe three episodes. The acting sucked ass and the scripts just got to be too ridiculous.
Same here. We really loved the first season of “House of Cards”, and made it through the second. But when the third season came out, we said to each other, “If X, Y, or Z happen, I think I’m done with this show.” All three happened in the first five minutes.
You missed something very good. Clearly he wasn’t the last man on earth. Otherwise, the show would be very boring. He was annoying, but the supporting characters were superb. I love the character Gail, who drinks all the time, and when questioned about it she says “I’ve been drinking, BUT I’M NOT DRUNK”.
American Gods has really gone off the rails. The first season was excellent and then the further it gets from the story in the book the less coherent it gets. Laura and Sweeney go on a road trip. Gillian Anderson and Crispin Glover get replaced for vague reasons, but Technical Boy doesn’t. Bilquis…does random stuff and occasionally gets naked. This is straying into Lost territory - “we’re doing weird shit because we can!”.
Right now I’m pretty much just left rooting for Salim to find happiness. Everyone else is just farting around aimlessly.
The original showrunners for American Gods (Bryan Fuller and Michael Green) have a very distinct style and after they left, the show isn’t the same.
Yep. I started out liking the protagonist, aftyer all the new president fucked him, so revenge was sweet. But then it turned out he was super evil himself.
I must most sincerely disagree. It is still great.
I’m not going to try to convince you that you shouldn’t (disagree or consider it great).
But the loss of Chenoweth, Jones and Anderson is noticeable (I believe Glover will be back at various points) and the story just feels very loose to me. I hadn’t realized the showrunners had left after Season 1 but that would explain it.
Preacher went much the same way - a tight and fascinating first season and then off on lots of little side quests (interesting ones, but not necessarily ones that furthered the story) until it pulled itself back together at the end. I’m all for world-building but I’m also all for coherent story arcs.
I’m on very small company when I say I loved Dr. Polaski. She was the only character who seemed real, grounded. She just wasn’t the whole “we’re so good, we’re so advanced, kumbaya”.
Yea, down a turbolift shaft, I wish! 
The only real trouble with her character was she was borrowing McCoy’s. She was a gruff curmudgeon with a hint of racism who hated the transporter.
I really wanted to like WandaVision, and I very quickly realized I did not like it. I begrudgingly watched the first two episodes, and still haven’t watched the 3rd, days later. Never thought that would happen with an MCU show.
She was in only one epi, which is all she was supposed to be.