TV Shows I Gave Up On
1.) Insatiable
I watched one episode of this show and thought it was funny but ridiculous. I had already heard a lot of 'WTF' about this show, so I did a little googling and apparently it gets REALLY ridiculous.
I just couldn't continue knowing how insane it gets. (For further discussion, click on the video to see Alex Myers's entire video discussing the epic crazy of this show.)
2.) Fear the Walking Dead
Oh lord. You know the reasons:
Unlikable characters that you wish would just get slapped across the face/tossed out a window/whatever. As long as they disappear. Because there are some awful characters on various tv shows I've seen, but FtWD takes the cake for the sheer number of terrible characters making terrible choices. I hate them all and want them all to die horrible deaths.
Secondly, the timeline of this show is incomprehensible to me. It is meant to be the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, (at least the first season), but the world they've built makes it seem as if it has been going on for months and months. The retread of of the same old: look for shelter/who should we help/not help/lose shelter for some reason. I had been looking forward to a more genuine beginning. Have random reports of outbreaks but then it gets hushed up. Spreading paranoia, religious groups making their voices known, questions like: can we trust what is being reported/the government/etc. So much wasted potential!
And finally, that Morgan and Dwight showed up, which to me is just fucking insane. Morgan a little less so, but these are characters from several years into the apocalypse on TWD. And suddenly they are appearing in FtWD? I don't know because I stopped watching before they appeared, but to me it just completely negates the whole timeline.
3.) The Walking Dead
I held on mostly through season 6. Occasionally I would just get a recap of an episode, but mostly I watched with husband. And then there was too much Negan. Too many story jumps. Too many characters; it was getting spread too thin and in the effort for writers to cover all these story arcs, emotional development, growth, motivation...so much got lost. The 7th season felt slower than the 2nd to me. And I realize they had and needed guns. But the insane excess of munitions these groups all had. I was like, "Is TWD now sponsored by the NRA?"
For the sake of transparency, I should note that I do still "watch" - that is, my husband will watch an episode and I will be doing something on my computer and occasionally checking in to get a re-cap on the biggest elements of plot.
That's it for this episode of TV Shows I Gave Up On. What TV shows have you abandoned and why?
I also abandoned The Walking Dead, not sure what season, I really really tried to keep watching. I think I made it to season 7? But barely? I was on my laptop more than I was watching. Fear the Walking Dead? FUCK THAT SHOW SO HARD. I hated all the characters almost immediately, and then hated them even more as it went on, which I didn't think was possible. I didn't even make one season, I think my husband tried 2 seasons. Silicon Valley, I loved it but I was just over it before it ended, I didn't watch the last season really. It just went on one/two seasons too long. Orange is the New Black. I watched three seasons I think?
ReplyDeleteI know with FtWD? That show can just run itself off a cliff and die. I never particularly liked it, but I kept thinking "maybe it'll get better, they just need to find their groove." Wrong-O.
DeleteAnd OitNB will definitely be on the next list I do, because I abandoned that as well.