[TV] TV box-sets you gave up on (or wish you hadn’t bothered with)

[Albion in the north]

Breaking Bad

Got a season and a half in and decided I just wasn’t enjoying it very much

Im with you on that, 1 episode alls going well. The next all going to shit and repeat ad nauseum.

 

[Triggaaar]

Billions.

Oh yeah, I did a few seasons, but then it became a farce where people who had made alliances suddenly dropped them because they needed allies to be foes and vice versa - it was pathetic.

I managed more seasons of the US copy of House of Cards than I should have. 1 season was good.

 

[Lower West Stander]

Right up it’s own arse American stuff. Everyone professes to watch it - but actually hardly anyone does.

Examples. Mad Men. Succession. The Affair.


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[METALMICKY]

The Walking Dead fits the bill in this category. I gave up after Season 9 which did include the spectacularly great episode when Alpha put the heads on the pikes.

 

[Easy 10]

The Walking Dead fits the bill in this category. I gave up after Season 9 which did include the spectacularly great episode when Alpha put the heads on the pikes.

I nearly gave up on Season 2 at that farmhouse - jees what a borefest. Got past that and it did get better, but then it hit another downward slope so I was ready to jack it in.

Then Negan turned up and had the doris dripping like a busted fridge, so I was stuck with it again. But eventually we both got bored with it. I can't even remember what season we got up to in the end.

 

[Goldstone1976]

The Wire. I know it’s the greatest show of all time, but I’ve tried twice and can’t get past half way through S1 Ep2. I have no clue what the characters are saying.

Anyone got a Werther’s please? Also, I seem to have lost my glasses , keys, and wallet…

 

[El Presidente]

European Cumbath

Watched the first 28 episodes but it started to get a bit predictable and felt there was a lack of character development and nuance. Couldn’t make out the dialogue at times either. I just hope that when the final episode is broadcast it has a happy finish, and that the young lady, along with her three best friends and the llama, finally gets her washing machine working again.

 

[Timbo]

I saw Lost through to the end but it was fairly obvious fairly early in there was going to be no satisfactory end to it. As it turned out the ending was even worse than I thought it would be.

Mad Men, I watched about 5 and realised it was going absolutely nowhere and jacked it in.

It feels like I’ve watched thousands of the new terrestrial TV mini series and they all seem to be exactly the same. Just finished Our House which tried to be a bit different but was essentially the same, wife of wrongun husband left to pick up the pieces after he does something stupid.

 

[Icy Gull]

Mad Men, totally lost interest very early on

Breaking Bad, I gave up mid way through series 2 I think. A scene with two junkies in a shithole of a house and a child fending for him/her self was the point I thought feck this depressing stuff as entertainment

 

[The Optimist]

Every episode of the Blacklist was the same, but I generally didn't mind because it was just some easy fun. I managed 8 seasons, but (no spoilers) it's since changed.

I gave up The Walking Dead

Interesting to read people’s view on The Blacklist. I’ve just finished the first season and enjoyed, but I was thinking ‘how do they keep this going for 8 seasons?’.

I gave up on House of Cards very early, just didn’t like it.

 

[Recidivist]

The Wire. I know it’s the greatest show of all time, but I’ve tried twice and can’t get past half way through S1 Ep2. I have no clue what the characters are saying.

Anyone got a Werther’s please? Also, I seem to have lost my glasses , keys, and wallet…

Had the same problem but put on the subtitles and, hey presto, it started making some sense.

Have this problem with a lot of American series, partly down to their variety of accents and partly down to the directors’ predilection for pointing the camera anywhere but the face of the person talking……


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[Brovion]

We're on the verge of giving up on The Wire. We're about five episodes into season 1 so it's still early days, but it's very boring. We also gave up on Westworld after Season 2. Season 1 was great, Season 2 was utter rubbish.

 

[brighton terra]

I gave up on Killing Eve after about 30 minutes! I also gave up on Breaking Bad during the first episode, but gave it another chance and ended up loving it and watching Better Call Saul as well.

Should I give Killing Eve another try?

 

[Klaas]

I gave up on Killing Eve after about 30 minutes! I also gave up on Breaking Bad during the first episode, but gave it another chance and ended up loving it and watching Better Call Saul as well.

Should I give Killing Eve another try?

I just opened the thread to add Killing Eve. Loved the first series, gradually bored through the second until I realised I didn't give a shit what happened after the end of series cliffhanger. Never watched S3.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Snowpiercer.

I thought the film was okay, the series is toilet by comparison.

 

[Brovion]

I just opened the thread to add Killing Eve. Loved the first series, gradually bored through the second until I realised I didn't give a shit what happened after the end of series cliffhanger. Never watched S3.

Yeah, first series was absolutely brilliant. Second series not nearly so good and it got a bit formulaic. Third series - WTF? We're watching the fourth series more out of a sense of duty than anything else as it is the last one, and really hoping that somebody does actually kill Eve.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Killing Eve - just ludicrous story lines.
Game of Thrones - just can’t get on with most fantasy stuff
Downton Abbey - gave up half way through the first episode. Have dipped in to it since but….. no. We are just prejudiced against anything the overly bumptious Julian Fellowes has anything to do with.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I nearly gave up on Season 2 at that farmhouse - jees what a borefest. Got past that and it did get better, but then it hit another downward slope so I was ready to jack it in.

Then Negan turned up and had the doris dripping like a busted fridge, so I was stuck with it again. But eventually we both got bored with it. I can't even remember what season we got up to in the end.

That is a pretty good summing up of The Walking Dead. It kept me watching until season 7 or something, then it suddenly jumped forward like 2 years and they'd formed communities and it was a giant WTF, although that ended pretty well with key character's heads on stakes with their mouths moving. There was a lot of dirge to get to that point though. I had a look recently at what was happening and cannot believe they're at season 9 or 10. That must be like watching Eastenders for some people, only with more engaging rounded characters.

 

[schmunk]

European Cumbath

Have you tried the spin-off series, European Cumbidet?

 

[Stat Brother]

Interesting to read people’s view on The Blacklist. I’ve just finished the first season and enjoyed, but I was thinking ‘how do they keep this going for 8 seasons?’.

I gave up on House of Cards very early, just didn’t like it.

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