I don't mean stuff that was obviously bad on sight (to you) and so you didn't bother with, or even necessarily content you just checked out of before the first episode was done. But a series that you ultimately felt wasted your time and abandoned due to its total lack of quality.

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[–] remon@ani.social 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Rings of Power and the ATLA live action remake.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m sure there’s worse, but the most recent one I can remember is Alien: Earth. I was forcing myself to finish it halfway through the season. The plot moves forward by way of people being stupid. I get that someone has to make a mistake (if not by malicious intent) to trigger events, but to have it used every single time something needs to happen is annoying. And it doesn’t help that the characters involved in the series are supposed to be geniuses, scientists, and engineers. Also, the facility of a trillion dollar company securing alien species has worse security than your typical office building.

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was super amped for this one, but started getting weird vibes around episode 3 or 4. There are a hundred ways that you could have things go wrong bringing hostile alien species to earth, but the show just relied on people constantly treating them with less care than they would a pet iguana.

Slogged through the rest just in case, but it just felt like Jurassic Park with infinitely sloppier writing.

[–] Batmancer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I was very excited too. My love for Alien universe content carried me through the series.

The actors having to portray child geniuses that were sheltered children with deadly diseases now being in super android adult like bodies led to some weird acting choices I think. I rolled with it though because I thought how the fuck should I know how that kid would’ve acted right there.

Loved the aliens, androids, cyborgs, and retro-future tech. They will bring me back to watch season 2 probably.

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[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

True blood. I knew some people who were just obsessed with it and I watched a lot of it and just couldn’t stand it.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Mayfair Witches.

Interview with the Vampire is fantastic, and AMC paid a lot of money for all of Anne Rice's IP, but Mayfair was doooogggggshiiiiiit.

Still hyped for IwtV season three, though.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It’s a shame that the meddling they did to Mayfair witches ruined the story. I’d been waiting a long time for a show written around the first book of the series.

The creative changes they made to Vampire Chronicles elevated the story, but here they got rid of two of the main and most interesting characters and storylines (love interest Michael Curry, and Talamascan Aaron Leightner) and then tried to replace them with some new character they had come up with. Just a really bizarre and sad choice.

At least they gave the new character a different name. That opens the door to just writing him off and bringing in the characters from the book. But I haven’t seen or read any indications that the producers/writers plan to course correct this show.

I do hope we will get some more Anne Rice shows. Talamasca has been entertaining, and her Mummy book would make a fun single season series.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Gilmore girls, back when it was airing I had a reason to record the airings and check the quality and it was like if you designed a show specifically about nothing I can possibly care about.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Invasion on AppleTV.

I watched the first season all the way through. It’s like there’s a good idea there somewhere but I think the characters all pissed me off making stupid decisions and, I think, a lot of dumb plot choices.

I don’t really remember much other than being mad because it seemed like it could have been good but it just wasn’t and I kept going with it.

I’m surprised it got more than one season.

[–] Late-Boomer-57@piefed.ca 10 points 1 day ago

"there's a good idea somewhere" So many shows don't know how to come to grips with the main thesis, so the producers and writers just do what they know how to do; write soap operas.

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[–] CrownPaisley@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Probably an unpopular opinion but even after watching the entire 1st season of Welcome to Derry I don't think I'd watch season 2, season 1 didn't really pull me in.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What was that underwater SciFi series that had that Jaws guy as a captain?

Edit: it was Sea Quest

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: Dolphin side-kick. Great show. I rest my case, your honor.

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Willow one. Very by the numbers and nostalgia bait on one hand while throwing out a bunch of things from the original on the other.

[–] Spitefire@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Also a soundtrack I can only describe as "baffling."

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I made it through it's abysmal season 2 so I didn't check out, but Helix from SyFy might take the cake for me as far as time wasted (on season 2). I liked season 1 quite a bit but in typical SyFy fashion of 15 years ago or whenever it was they had paid for season 1 and then waited to see how it did before deciding to purchase season 2. By that time a lot of the actors had moved on and I'm guessing a lot of the creative talent behind season 1 as well and season 2 was a shark jumping affair from the get go.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Season one was amazing. You have to wonder what went wrong.

[–] Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 day ago

A Discovery of Witches was like a bad fan fiction. Every fan fic trope was present and accounted for.

[–] ooli3@sopuli.xyz -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

Pluribus.

I binge watched it starting on Ep3, because Red Letter Media was gushing about it.

It is not slow, it is boring. Nothing happen in an Episode, except one tiny event at the end so you can get excited for next episode.. but then nothing happen again. The main character is unlikable. She was funny in her "bitchy" ways, until she decided to not do anything anymore about the virus for a while.

The Spanish dude was cool in his no-compromise approach, then do a 180 at the end for no reason.

So they start with cool characters and undermine them by changing their motto operandi for no reason, except dragging the serie for 1 more episode.

The only way the whole virus premice would make sense, is if it is an alien ploy to invade the earth. But then it will become a totally different show. I'm only still invested because i want to know the explanation for the virus. And if there is no explanation for such a weird virus, it is a waste of time

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I wish I could remember. I usually try to give shows like 3 episodes and give up then but I know there have been a few where I pushed through a season for some reason and was like why did I do that. I think its more often that a series was good enough to start with and then goes south but I (sometimes we with my wife) am hoping it will turn around. So season 2 of american gods was like that. As we got to the end of the season it felt like alex watching the violence films in clockwork orange. Boys did not get that bad but its an example of many series where Im pretty glad to see it wrapped up and im no longer enthusiastic about seeing it. Don't even remember when I gave up with walking dead but it was around the time of neegan good.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Firefly.

Just some stinko-pee-yoo acting and writing.

[–] ghostlychonk@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

I felt the same. It's a poorly written space western with a lead actor who cannot act.

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