Which were the worst shows of 2024? : showsandmovies

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Velma?

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Was that this year?

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought I heard about a season 2 that was maybe this year. Clearly no one cares enough to check

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

I don't have basically anything you'd call "television." I don't have cable, I have the things on hand I'd need to build an antenna, I don't do any of the streaming services, so the way I learn about it is people screaming about it on Lemmy and Youtube. And it feels like people screaming about the Scooby Doo Scented Feminazi Grievance Hour happened a lot closer to the pandemic than a 2024 Season 2 would permit.

[+] scytale@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] egrets@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I genuinely enjoyed Night Country until it became clear they weren't going to answer the questions they raised. I liked the cast well enough, really enjoyed the setting, liked the music (despite the general consensus) and thought the character interplay was fairly good - if sometimes melodramatic.

I went into it confident that the intrigue would be resolved, but it just petered out. It could have been great, but the longer you watch it, the more you feel like they wrote every episode as they went along and painted themselves into a corner.

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

That ending was sooo bad. How did it suddenly turn into ocean's 11?

[–] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

House of the Dragon Season 2 and Rings of Power Season 2. I hoped that they would improve from Season 1 but both of them have disappointed and are off my watchlist.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I don't feel the narrative of the second season of House of the Dragon stood up to the first, but the "worst show of the year" seems a little melodramatic?

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago

Agreed. I enjoyed it well enough. Definitely not even in the worst 50% of shows I saw this year. Let's call it average.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I actually think Rings of Power season 2 is an improvement from season 1. Not a lot better, but better.

House of the Dragon season 2 just ended too abruptly. What we got was pretty good, but with some problems. Season 3 should start with a banger.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago

Those two were definitely disappointing

[–] MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I really enjoyed House of the Dragon s02. It was one of the best things I saw this year. Not close to the worst.

[+] zante@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Creature Commandos

Why can't DC ever do anything good? BtAS was the only thing they ever did right, and boy was it ever done right.

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not a show, but Dune 2 was . . .

just bad.

[+] scytale@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think it was partly because I had just finished reading the books, and the first movie did a spectacular job of honoring those, while the second movie just kinda forgot the book existed. Actually, at times it felt like the movie was trying actively to forget about the book, which defeats the whole purpose and message of Dune. It also, ironically, makes the movie into almost exactly what Frank Herbert was trying to critize, which is the idolatry and corporatization of shallow things (without all the religious stuff, which is a whole different/ same thing). Idk, I guess it felt more Disneyed and a big money grab than a real story. Otherwise, it was a technically good movie.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was a great examination of free will and fate. Loved it. But I haven't read the books, so that didn't bias me.

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I definitely think reading the books had a huge part to play in my experience. I would be down to give it another shot with a different mindset, but I suspect I'll have the same opinion.

[–] janonymous@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Interesting! I read the book before the first movie and felt pretty let down, especially by it's treatment of Lady Jessica. I liked the second movie a lot more. I think I just managed to dial more into the audio-visual journey of it all, instead of comparing it constantly with the book in my head.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I like the books and liked the first movie. However something about this one was just off. I think it was the editing. I got bored and turned it off about halfway through.

He is a hit or miss director for me. I loved Arrival but hated Blade Runner.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

I'll probably open a similar thread on !movies@lemm.ee tomorrow

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