• 1984@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    Friends.

    Seems like everyone likes this show but I dont think I ever watched a full episode.

    My humor is more like Scrubs, Seinfeld, IT Crowd.

  • nicgentile@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    Never got the appeal of these ones. They aren’t bad shows, but they did not do it for me.

    Game of Thrones

    Lost

    Better Call Saul

    Peaky Blinders

    Breaking Bad

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      1·
      6 months ago

      Shit. That’s exactly my list.

      • I didn’t even watch GoT long enough to see Emilia Clark in the buff. But, then, I’d read the first two books and absolutely loathed them, and didn’t find the TV series improved the story much.
      • I liked the first season of Lost, but the second felt like the writers were like, “oh shit… we got a second season? Shitshitshit…” Like they were just making it up as they went, and the writing and plot was just… bad.
      • I didn’t watch BCS because I didn’t like
      • Breaking Bad. I mean, I like scenes from BB, but the show itself suffered (for me) from this tendency in the past decade to base entire shows on tense anxiety. Boardwalk Empires was another that used this mechanism, as did
      • Peaky Blinders. Great writing. Great acting. But it’s just constant tension, and it’s simply not fun.

      It’s like directors got ahold of this one technique and just beat it into every fucking show in the past decade. It’s tired, overused, and you’ll notice it’s a common trait of many of the shows you and agree on. You have to have tension, but I didn’t need every god damned minute to be wondering if someone’s going to get their throat graphically slashed with a straight-edge.

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        this tendency in the past decade to base entire shows on tense anxiety.

        Yup. I call it the “drama of paranoia,” and it’s exhausting after a while. It also gives you a veneer of “prestige” without having to make characters I give a shit about or plots that fit together at all. As a good example of a show that realized this, Mad Men always struggled with a certain early-season plotline until they finally just ripped off the band-aid and said,

        spoiler

        the “real” Don Draper’s widow handwaves something out with our boy Dick, and literally nobody else gives a shit.

        What worked about that show had nothing to do with “ONE BIG SECRET.”

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    My biggest problem with most of the shows listed is they have to outdo themselves and go on for too long.

    Season one: Great premise!

    Season Two: Same premise, but TWICE the danger!

    Season three: I don’t know, robot ninjas or something?