TV Shows you can't understand why people like?

[Elandyll]

Beside anything reality TV (notable exceptions being SYTYCD & Hells Kitchen, if those are even Reality TV), which I hate, I would have to say

The Walking Dead

Before you grab your torches and pitchforks, let me explain

First, I am a fan of the comic. Big time. But even then, while all the changes somewhat bothered me, it's not the core problem.
I just ... don't find it very interesting. I haven't really felt attached to any of the characters (contrarily to the comic, which takes a heavy toll on you as it goes. -Nobody- is safe), and it is to the point where I still have episode 6 of the 1st season unwatched on my DVR. I just think "I'll get to it when I get to it".

Given the love for this show both by fans and critics, I'm thinking ... Why don't I like it more?
I love zombies, I love the comic... but ... it just doesn't click.

[Moviefan2k4]

Personally, there's not many shows I can stand, which air on TV these days. I avoid almost everything like the plague, with notable exceptions like "The Mentalist" or the CMT network. Here's just a few examples on my "hell will freeze first" list...

30 Rock
The Big Bang Theory
How I Met Your Mother
90210
Vampire Diaries
Gossip Girl

Basically, anything with lots of blood, sex, or language gets no respect from me, and my film habits are very similar. Most of what's called "comedy" these days is just crude, disrespectful, lust-obsessed tripe, and I really see no benefit in such things. In fact, I rarely watch any TV anymore at all, and I only go to the movies less than 10 times a year. Simply put, I miss the days when entertainment was a lot cleaner, and content boundaries weren't pushed as much as they are today.

[Cevolution]

I can't stand America's next top model (and all other reality shows). My fiancee has watched every single season of it, I can understand her being interested in the 1st couple of seasons when the show was fresh, but after so many seasons I can't see the appeal, the show is just so repetitive and how anyone is still interested in it is beyond me. Also what's the deal with all the gay male judges on ANTM looking like weird monkeys?

[ForEver Blu]

Originally Posted by jeffrow

Heroes... Used to love it. I just dont like it anymore. Seems to me that it ran out of ideas. Not sure if Im the only one that gave up on it.But Im guessing im not.

No you weren't, I bailed at the start of S3.



Heroes was a great show, that was ruined with adding too many new characters. That took airtime from established ones, like HRG.


Along with too much focus being placed on that stupid cheerleader and Sylar.



The one show I truly hate and don't get the appeal is Glee.

[Konfusion1230]

I don't understand how people can watch those teen pregnancy shows on MTV. MTV in general doesn't make much sense to me.

I enjoy the music in Glee but have only seen a couple random episodes which I didn't think were bad. I know a lot of people who haven't watched a minute of Glee but love to hate on it.

People also like to hate on True Blood without watching it. A great show that has been affected negatively by the Twilight craze.

Not liking a show is fine but hating on something you haven't seen or know nothing about is something I hate to see.

[mordeckai]

Any reality show.

Other than that I don't get Desperate Housewives, has a whole cast of unlikable characters if not downright hateful.
Also I guess it's not a bad show but I just don't get all the hype on Glee, I watched the first episode and some others and was a big "meh".
And finally I just don't get Everybody Loves Raymond, I sat through some episodes and not laughed once.

People also like to hate on True Blood without watching it. A great show that has been affected negatively by the Twilight craze.

I don't hate True Blood, it's just that I am so SICK of vampires that I didn't even bothered with it.

[JB1986]

1. Reality Shows (Okay, I do enjoy some of the ones that air on the History Channel like "American Renovation" and "American Pickers," but they're actually interesting and you get to see some cool vintage items that I love. And "Kathy Griffin: My Life On The D-List" was great because I personally adore Kathy Griffin. Other reality shows? Blech!)

2. Everybody Loves Raymond (I HATE every character on that show!)

3. The Office (U.S. version, never saw the British version)

4. Any show about finding ghosts

5. Seinfeld (Don't get me wrong I really don't mind the show at all, but calling it the funniest television show of all time? I think not. For me, that honor personally goes to The Golden Girls. Seinfeld is not bad, just vastly overrated.)

6. Retired At 35 (Absolute garbage. I made it about 10 minutes into the pilot, and didn't even chuckle once. A stereotypical joke about a supposedly gay person had me desperately reaching for the remote. I hate cheap jokes like that.)

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by Konfusion1230

I don't understand how people can watch those teen pregnancy shows on MTV.

if i ever have a sh*tty day i turn on MTV to watch "16 & Pregnant" or "Teen Mom" or whatever it's called now to make myself feel better. no matter what happens i know at least i'm not some b*tchy, fat slop with a coke head significant other having a baby at 16 and throwing my life away

so that's how i can watch it. but only for about 10 minutes before i kind of want to hang myself

Originally Posted by JB1986

2. Everybody Loves Raymond (I HATE every character on that show!)

ah man. i love Everybody Loves Raymond. it would likely never be a show i purchase, but whenever it's on, i watch it and find myself watching it for hours on end, if that's what TBS or any other network has running that day. seen each episode about 15 times and still laugh mightily.

only downside is sometimes Marie bugs me. and Amy is an ugly woman lol

3. The Office (U.S. version, never saw the British version)

i love the show (well, loved the first four seasons, the rest have been quickly sliding into Turdville ) but none of my friends do. they just don't get the humor of the show.

5. Seinfeld (Don't get me wrong I really don't mind the show at all, but calling it the funniest television show of all time? I think not. For me, that honor personally goes to The Golden Girls. Seinfeld is not bad, just vastly overrated.)

funny because i think Seinfeld is one of the best comedies of all time and The Golden Girls is utter crap

[Agent Bond]

Seinfeld - Jerry Seinfeld is one of the most overrated comedians of all time! Like Tracy Morgan, he is NOT funny! Kramer is the one who carried the show!

Lost - I never got into it and after hearing about the final episode fiasco, I'm glad I didn't.

Jersey Shore - Its because of shows like this why America is the laughing stock of the world.

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

Lost - I never got into it and after hearing about the final episode fiasco, I'm glad I didn't.

come on man! don't let some fools who can't follow it or expected something else entirely stop you from looking into what i consider the best show ever to be created (no exaggeration, honestly). it baffles me how many people watched the finale and then b*tched left and right because they thought it was gonna be some giant free for all of answers, when that was never what the show was about or aiming at.

it would have been like if a comedy's final episode is super serious and contains no laughter. it doesn't fit what came years before it.

and that's why many people dislike the Lost finale, because, for some reason, they expected it to suddenly "break character" when there was no indication that was gonna be the case. always makes me laugh when i hear that excuse / "reasoning" time and time again

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

come on man! don't let some fools who can't follow it or expected something else entirely stop you from looking into what i consider the best show ever to be created (no exaggeration, honestly). it baffles me how many people watched the finale and then b*tched left and right because they thought it was gonna be some giant free for all of answers, when that was never what the show was about or aiming at.

it would have been like if a comedy's final episode is super serious and contains no laughter. it doesn't fit what came years before it.

and that's why many people dislike the Lost finale, because, for some reason, they expected it to suddenly "break character" when there was no indication that was gonna be the case. always makes me laugh when i hear that excuse / "reasoning" time and time again

I actually have to agree with Agent Bond, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. I gave it a few episodes or so in first season and that was it.

I guess there is a plus to that though. I can't be one of the people to knock the finale. It was fine to me since I never saw it.

[X12Celtics3]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

come on man! don't let some fools who can't follow it or expected something else entirely stop you from looking into what i consider the best show ever to be created (no exaggeration, honestly). it baffles me how many people watched the finale and then b*tched left and right because they thought it was gonna be some giant free for all of answers, when that was never what the show was about or aiming at.

it would have been like if a comedy's final episode is super serious and contains no laughter. it doesn't fit what came years before it.

and that's why many people dislike the Lost finale, because, for some reason, they expected it to suddenly "break character" when there was no indication that was gonna be the case. always makes me laugh when i hear that excuse / "reasoning" time and time again

Just because somebody didn't like the finale doesn't mean that they had an unreasonable expectation for answers. I loved the first five seasons, but the entire sixth season was incredibly disappointing. I felt the pacing in every episode (with very few exceptions, one of them being the excellent Ab Aeterno) was poor, the overall season pacing was equally bad, and the entire concept behind the season was just cheesy for my tastes. There were certainly good things about the last season, and its obviously worth watching if you liked the first five, but the sixth season is easily the worst season by far in my opinion.

Anyway, to not watch the show just because of this would be a mistake because the first five seasons are amazing and even the sixth season is pretty good compared to most TV shows.

[JamesKurtovich]

I don't seem to enjoy How I Met Your Mother as much as other people.

[Samus Aran]

Originally Posted by Agent Bond

Lost - I never got into it and after hearing about the final episode fiasco, I'm glad I didn't.

Regardless of which people liked how Lost ended and which people hated how Lost ended, the worst thing to come out of it were people who didn't watch Lost, misread what was being written about the finale and then proceeded to act like they were the authority on Lost.

One really bad offender was ESPN sports talk radio host Jason Smith going off on Lost after it ended because of what he read. He didn't watch the show, but he read something that made him think the ENTIRE SERIES was a "dream" or "never really happened." Being completely wrong about something and continuing to beat that wrong note just made him sound like a douche.

[menaceuk]

LOL at all the LOST talk.

I wonder how far some of these who didn't like it got in the show ?

[Lemmy Lugosi]

I watched a handful of eps of Lost and was bored to tears.

I hate procedurals with the intensity of a thousand suns.

I'm not fond of well over 98% of all sitcoms.

I do watch COPS, though.