Television

Supernatural and Smallville were… too long. I can’t even remember where I dropped them, but it was way too far in already.

I do have a hotter take:

NATLA (Netflix Avatar, the last Airbender) is fine. It’s not bad! It’s like an AU with scenes we never got to see.

I see some people rage that they suffered through the whole season, and don’t get the fuss.

The witcher.

Wtf

The Haunting was quite terrible but The Leftovers was far far worse.

Star Trek Enterprise. I ended up hate watching the whole thing hoping it would get better, but it just kept getting worse.

The last ship. I loved it in the beginning. It started out as high quality drama/mystery. It had some issues but was overall really good. Or at least the concept was good enough to overlook issues. But then the issues backed up like a toilet. It got to the point where you're groaning multiple times an episode and the sparkle of the concept dies. I can't remember how far I got into the series, but it was somewhere early in season three. And I don't remember TOO much from it as I feel like I've blocked out most of it.

They even brought in Tania Raymonde who I absolutely love, and I just couldn't. I hated how lazy and dumb the writing turned and how quickly it happened. It should have been more of an exploratory show than action/drama. Like, it should have been about trying to find peoples and encounter new groups to vaccinate, and less about having all these big bads. Yeah some small time bad guys should be there time to time, but it should have been more like the first Star Trek series and less like the walking dead. "God damnit, that guy again?"

And it was so inconsistent. Just about everyone is dead! Society is over! Wait, society is still there in pockets. Nah, some places were basically unscathed. It basically became an action/mystery soap opera. Create as much drama as humanly possible, and make the viewer feel like they're constant victims that somehow overcome everything because they're badasses, then immediately become victims again.

It was absolute trash, and it could have been the most epic adventure show ever. If I had the reigns, I'd have made it stay hard to find civilization. There would be groups and areas that are better at surviving, and have smart solutions to things. But it would be rare. It'd use that same setting, but the feel would be more like Star Trek/fallout-the comedy. The end of the final episode would have the ship struggling with a skeleton crew finally succumbing to a really big storm and sinking. Then it would switch to a view of the earth spinning with a timelapse. The night side would be dark for a long time, 4-8 years or so. Then you see lights again somewhere. And it stays maybe a small area for a while but it picks back up exponentially as they share knowledge/vaccine, and you see society start to reestablish itself, making the ships mission having ultimately successful.

95% of all the shows listed came out in the last 5 years. Interesting trend, that.

I'll break the mould with Sons of Anarchy. It's just so hokey. The crappy music, the dorky "fight" choreography, the annoying characters.... Hard pass.

Under The Dome. Terrific Stephen King epic, with a huge cast of characters, including one of his best villains, and I was really looking forward to the series.

It opened okay, and they did a good job of showing the Dome coming down, but a few episodes in they introduced some weird supernatural nonsense that didn't exist in the original, and I was out.

It really pissed me off. It was a great story, all they had to do was tell it, but they had to get "creative" and fuck it up.