Popular shows that are overrated.

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  • PRMinx
    PRMinx Posts: 4,585 Member
    How can you hate on OITNB? It's amazing. I'm a big Game of Thrones fan, too. And Vikings!

    I used to love Walking Dead, but it went downhill for me. I think it's a bit overrated now.
  • TX_Rhon
    TX_Rhon Posts: 1,549 Member
    Fort Boyard

    Since you mentioned Scooby Doo earlier I can no longer trust your opinion. Seriously, who doesn't like Scooby Doo! My heart haz sad :cry: :brokenheart:

    And for those of you taking the Chit-Chat thread a little too seriously - the above comment was sarcasm!

    I have declined watching a show because I didn't like the friggin' previews!

    OP - Can we add Here Comes Honey Boo Boo to the list? I feel no explanation is needed for my reasons.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    Breaking Bad and Mad Men are two of my favorite shows ever.

    And I actually watch a few episodes before I make my opinions....
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
    Seinfeld. i just never thought it was funny.

    Glee after season 3 - the production staff didn't bring in new freshmen every year and it kind of killed the show IMO

    Lost - i just never could get into it, which is weird b/c i love the other stuff the cast has done

    Dancing with the Stars - just don't get it. i watch SYTYCD and i love it, but DwtS is just... mind-numbing

    most of the shows that are hyped that i don't watch, it's b/c that's not where i want to spend an hour every week - like Breaking Bad and Prison Break
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  • surfinbird_1981
    surfinbird_1981 Posts: 946 Member
    Fort Boyard

    God, I remember this, the one with dirty Den in it :laugh:
  • johnlatv
    johnlatv Posts: 654 Member
    Sopranos yes i said it. Now come get me. I think that Breaking Bad was the best show on TV (in my day). Sopranos was at times boring, you would go 2 sometimes even 3 episodes with nothing happening, only story telling, yes of course you need to develop a story and characters. With BB you always had a story and something happened almost every episode, it was perfect TV.
  • TattooedNici
    TattooedNici Posts: 2,141 Member
    Fort Boyard

    Since you mentioned Scooby Doo earlier I can no longer trust your opinion. Seriously, who doesn't like Scooby Doo! My heart haz sad :cry: :brokenheart:

    And for those of you taking the Chit-Chat thread a little too seriously - the above comment was sarcasm!

    I have declined watching a show because I didn't like the friggin' previews!

    OP - Can we add Here Comes Honey Boo Boo to the list? I feel no explanation is needed for my reasons.

    Thank you, doll! I guess I was supposed to waste my time on something for a long period of time before drawing my own conclusions. They didn't peak my interest, what-so-ever.

    And, yes... let's add Honey to the list. The show's so wrong on many levels, just like Gypsy Sisters.
  • LiftHeavyWeights
    LiftHeavyWeights Posts: 336 Member
    I refuse to watch any show with a killer & /or drug addict/ seller as a main character. Weeds, breaking bad, Dexter for examples.
  • Debbjones
    Debbjones Posts: 278 Member
    Vampire Diaries is really good if you watch it as a comedy!

    I mean seriously the same terrible actress was playing 4 doppleganger copies of herself at one point. It was hilarious.

    Many people who enjoy Vampire Diaries *ahem, me*... don't watch it for the plot, story line or writing... it is all about Damon, "it's his eyes". Five years and the eyes just get better and better! Just saying! :-)
  • Jenni129
    Jenni129 Posts: 692 Member
    How I Met Your Mother (worst acting ever) and Glee.
  • ew_david
    ew_david Posts: 3,473 Member
    How I Met Your Mother (worst acting ever). .

    No
  • TattooedNici
    TattooedNici Posts: 2,141 Member

    a couple minutes? if I stopped watching a show based on a couple minutes I don't think that I'd watch anything. first episodes are usually boring as hell to start out cause they're introducing you to the cast and supposed plot.

    I like to think there's a line between watching the opening credits and bailing versus slogging through a season and a half for something to get good, as an above poster said.

    I think in between that we have sanity.

    But also, you don't have to try something to know you don't like it. If you do I need to go apologize in 358 Shakeology threads...

    I do apologize for letting my temper get the best of me. It is just a thread, after all. Drinks on the house for everyone! :drinker:
  • Ashwee87
    Ashwee87 Posts: 695 Member
    Some of these listed make me want to slap you with a rotten fish for even mentioning them as "overrated". Shame on you...shame...
  • fairyface87
    fairyface87 Posts: 52 Member
    Downton Abbey!! :ohwell: My family always insist on watching the hour and a half Christmas special every year and it is HELL!

    Bill Bailey got it right when he said "nothing much happens, in one scene moss grows on a butler in real time."
  • donyellemoniquex3
    donyellemoniquex3 Posts: 2,384 Member
    Friends with Better Lives - Too many sub plots
  • TattooedNici
    TattooedNici Posts: 2,141 Member
    Some of these listed make me want to slap you with a rotten fish for even mentioning them as "overrated". Shame on you...shame...

    But, but...?
  • Jim_G10
    Jim_G10 Posts: 132
    Walking Dead,
    Boardwalk Empire,
    Cold Case,
    Blacklist
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    First and foremost no reality shows should be listed, as they would have to be well rated to be overrated. Reality tv is crap targeted at the dumbest members of society. It's not "real", they're poorly scripted shows with untrained actors. Before "crazy Theresa" flips that table at dinner the cameras get in position, they check to make sure the lighting is right, then they tell her, "Ok Theresa, time to act crazy and flip a table." And people fall for it.
    Agents of SHIELD - so much potential, so little made of it.
    This. It's the first time anything Joss Whedon has touched let me down. sad

    Seriously. I love everything he's done, I love Marvel comics, and it was so dull I couldn't watch more than the first few episodes. So much wasted potential. They have a huge universe to draw from, tie in possibilities with the #1 movies in the world, and it was just flat. None of it even felt like "Joss."

    I was getting to that point to but I kept watching. It started getting better. It was a really slow start to such a show. Then they tied it into Captain America and I was glad I kept up with it. And now it's kind of taking over where Captain America ended.
  • PapaverSomniferum
    PapaverSomniferum Posts: 2,670 Member
    The Big Bang Theory.

    It's not good, ya'll. The writing is banal. The characters are cliche. The acting could be out done by most high school theatre productions. The plot was already done by every sitcom in the 70s-90s.

    Most of the shows you listed so far in this thread, you listed for personal taste reasons. You don't like Breaking Bad because it's unpleasant (it's not supposed to be pleasant. you're not supposed to like the characters or their story.) You don't like The Walking Dead because zombies. Fair enough. Hell, I don't like It's Always Sunny just because I don't enjoy the characters. But personal preferences are not the same as "overrated".

    The Big Bang Theory is a truly mediocre show that somehow got really popular. I'm not sure why. Maybe because pretending to be a "nerd" when you're really a dumbass suddenly got really cool about the time the show started airing?
  • daybehavior
    daybehavior Posts: 1,319 Member
    The Big Bang Theory is a truly mediocre show that somehow got really popular. I'm not sure why. Maybe because pretending to be a "nerd" when you're really a dumbass suddenly got really cool about the time the show started airing?

    Spot on.
  • askeates
    askeates Posts: 1,490 Member
    Big Bang Theory - I have tried to like it, I just can't get into it!
    Scrubs - the epitome of stupid
    Any of the Housewives reality shows - just listening to them talk makes my head hurt
    Breaking Bad - I've watched it several times and it is just ok - not really worth all the hype IMHO
    And Honey FREAKING BOO-BOO - really do we need to watch that crap, or be subjected to it? UGH.

    There are MANY more, but those are my top!
  • 120by30
    120by30 Posts: 217 Member
    Yikes! People get all upset over their favorite tv shows. I will say (from my own opinion, of course) that The Walking Dead is overrated simply because I have absolutely zero interest in that kind of thing. My opinion is that zombie shows are stupid, so obviously, that show is going to be overrated. In my opinion. See how that works? No need to insult anyone over differences in tv preference. There are not going to be any universally correct answers in this thread.
  • TattooedNici
    TattooedNici Posts: 2,141 Member
    Yikes! People get all upset over their favorite tv shows. I will say (from my own opinion, of course) that The Walking Dead is overrated simply because I have absolutely zero interest in that kind of thing. My opinion is that zombie shows are stupid, so obviously, that show is going to be overrated. In my opinion. See how that works? No need to insult anyone over differences in tv preference. There are not going to be any universally correct answers in this thread.

    You're absolutely right. Shouldn't let my temper get the best of me. :drinker:
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    Yikes! People get all upset over their favorite tv shows. I will say (from my own opinion, of course) that The Walking Dead is overrated simply because I have absolutely zero interest in that kind of thing. My opinion is that zombie shows are stupid, so obviously, that show is going to be overrated. In my opinion. See how that works? No need to insult anyone over differences in tv preference. There are not going to be any universally correct answers in this thread.


    I agree some what. I mean I didn't like the show that many have called the best show ever made (not just in this group). But to say Walking Dead is overrated because you don't like zombies or it's just a zombie show just doesn't make sense to me. Not wanting to watch it because it is about zombies or depressing or whatever - fine. But the show is not about zombies, there are zombies in it but there is also a plot, subplots, character development and universal struggles. That said, I'm not really a fan anymore either.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    how do you people not like Arrow- Stephen Amell is amazing- who cares about the story- it's straight up fun. Plus he does all his own workouts in that show!!!!

    Big Bang Theory- I do not- and have not grasped this- i don't get it.

    I watch all sorts of rubbish TV- it doesn't bother me at all.

    Breaking bad took me a while to get into- I put it off for many seasons. Finally watched- not to bad.
    Game of thrones I liked....

    but yeah- big bang theory- I just can't- not my thing.
    Friends, cheers, Seinfield- nope nope nope- not my thing- never got the obsession.
    Sex in the City too.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member

    Most of the shows you listed so far in this thread, you listed for personal taste reasons. You don't like Breaking Bad because it's unpleasant (it's not supposed to be pleasant. you're not supposed to like the characters or their story.) You don't like The Walking Dead because zombies. Fair enough. Hell, I don't like It's Always Sunny just because I don't enjoy the characters. But personal preferences are not the same as "overrated".

    I was going to say this almost exactly. But, I didn't know if I wanted to get into it... so, thank you.
  • in4nomz
    in4nomz Posts: 230
    Zachbooner, I should correct myself. Only five minutes of the show and that was enough for me. Cleared up for ya?

    OMG Breaking Bad is SO. GOOD. The first episode is intense, so I can see why you would have wanted to turn it off. But you should seriously give it another shot.
  • Quasita
    Quasita Posts: 1,530 Member
    I always find it amusing when I take time to write a solid reply and it gets passed over for shorter replies saying essentially what I said...

    I do not agree that "all" reality shows are overrated, as I personally very much enjoy America's/Britain's Got Talent. I guess you could say that I enjoy the variety show, plus Howard Stern=yum. It's not high brow or mind-blowing most of the time (there are a few acts that have been really amazing though) but it's miles better than the voice-only shows IMO.

    Kinda surprised no one has mentioned things like Jay Leno/David Letterman. Personally, I'm very very glad that they are out the door, and very sad that Craig Ferguson is leaving his show, because I think Craig deserved to have a better viewership... Then again, I'm one of the only people I know who has bothered to read his books, which has lent a lot of light to the attitude of his show.

    As for the person that said everything on CW but Supernatural... Supernatural? Really? That show is one of the cheesiest, most predictable shows I've ever been subjected to. I don't mind it but the fanaticism surrounding it is ridiculous.

    Add to the list: True Blood. So much True Blood.

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