For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.
I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don’t think he was ever funny not even a little.
His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it’s so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.
Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.
I have friends who are into jam bands and I’m glad they go to live music shows. However, I’m the type of person that likes movies that are a tight 90 minutes long, and one of my favorite songs of all time is less than 2 minutes long. My time is worth money, treat it like it is. I don’t need to listen to a 15 minute guitar solo.
I’m lead tou nderstand that drugs are often involved in developing appreciation for jam bands.
Are you currently on drugs? No disrespect if you are, but it took me awhile to unpack that sentence.
“I’m going to need you to write a concise sentence before I let you go.”–Cop about to perform the Strunk & White sobriety test
Sadly, no, stone cold sober.
the Strunk & White sobriety test
got me good
is there an AP style variant?
I’d imagine a devilishly complicated citation of a book by a married couple two-generations into hyphenated last names about their ancestors published by their parents’ eponymous publishing house.
All new Star Wars movies and tv shows
Disney somehow made me absolutely apathetic to Star Wars, an IP that as a kid I used to go to sleep daydreaming about while listening to the soundtracks. The whole thing just feels stupid af now, and it’s not just because I got older. It used to feel grounded in something, and now it feels unhinged.
Blame Kathleen Kennedy. She took a huge dump all over that and then smeared it around.
She did a fucking awful job. Had no idea what she was playing with or how to play with it.
I’m inclined to think she hated Spielberg and the franchise after working with him for years, and decided to destroy his legacy.
Spielberg
…Y’mean…“Lucas”?
goddammit, I just watched something about Spielberg and had his name in my head…
Heehee I mix them up all the time, too. :P
Andor notwithstanding
Bergdoktor
I thought the American version of The Office wasn’t much better. Just constant cringe humor, it’s exhausting.
Big Bang Theory
Yeah I hate fake nerds on TV. Big Bang Theory being the absolute worst.
Obligatory Portlandia Nerd PSA (invidious link)
I grew up with actual nerds in the 89s and 90s. No one was like Big Bang Theory. We were not cool.
My aunt Gisela promised to bring me into touch with my father. In reality, she simply darkened the room and, with a lowered voice, gave a bad imitation of my deceased dad. That’s one medium I could do without.
Funny and original comment. Nicely done
I am trying to watch “The Wire” (on ep. 10) because it is one the highest rated show on imdb, but it doesn’t click in me. It is high quality product. Acting, music, camera work are all good. But is just boring for me, and I force myself to do it.
Same was with The Sopranos btw.
P. S. Ricky Gervais is funniest comedian for me. I watched his Life’s Too Short, After Life and I like it a lot. For me it’s very funny and bravely. Never watched British The office, may be shouldn’t, thanks.
Agree, I actually think he is a fantastic actor and that’s missed in the role, don’t confuse the role with the actor and the tone of UK black comedy. Yes he roasts but it’s in a highlight kind of way and tends to be pointed at mocking privilege and arrogance. I’d suggest trying his other stuff like afterlife.
The wire’s magic is that every character seems real, more like the show is a documentary rather than a TV show. And it carries all the way through, the quality never ends. You have to accept that you are watching a slow burn documentary, else you won’t get it.
You’re the first person I’ve ever seen that made it that far into The Wire and didn’t like it. Are you American? If not, I think that maybe makes more sense. For Americans, it’s just such a great representation of so many things that every city experiences. And the fact that you see the same story from so many different perspectives is just SO compelling. I think it should be watched/taught in high schools because of how many perspectives it gives on the plights of society in American cities.
Only When I got to season 3 did I understand why people rave about it. Each season is like an onion layer.
I think it takes a different approach mentally to enjoy it. Especially compared to anything modern. I’m working through it slowly myself and just finished season 3. I watch it with friends tho which maybe makes it easier to watch.
All that said, if it’s not clicking after 10 hours, could be best to put it down. You can always try again later.
If the actual premise of the show isn’t interesting, then it may not matter how quality it is.
Hmm. I don’t know how I would feel if a person told me they found the premise of The Wire uninteresting… it’s a deep look at poverty, political corruption, black American life in inner city Baltimore, commentary on police and our justice system etc etc etc… there’s a lot to chew on, unless you came from the same background as the characters idk how a person could find the premise boring intellectually, and even then I’d still be surprised. The pacing however… yeah season one is slow
While I personally liked the show, it is heavy. Not everyone likes watching shows about serious topics.
Harry Potter, even ignoring how much of a piece of shit the author is the books just aren’t particularly well thought out.
Paying a subscription to watch sports.
I’m just here to see if anyone has any wrong opinions about something I love.
Letterkenny. Absolutely zero laughs out of me and something about it just induces a headache. I wanted to like it, gave the entire first season a watch, but my god it was painful.
Star Wars, Marvel movies, basically film in general. Goes for TV shows too.
It wasn’t until my mid-twenties that I concluded that video is just not an entertainment medium that works for me. I tried really, really hard to like it, and I gave all of the really popular films or TV shows or even YouTube videos a fair shot.
A big part of why many of the things in this thread haven’t aged well, is because a lot of what made these shoes original and unique was copied to death following the fame of the original.
If you weren’t there for the original release of a piece of media, there’s a good chance you’re not necessarily seeing it in the context where the accolades make sense.
Seinfeld basically invented the 3 camera sitcom and a lot of the key tropes in the format. If you go back today having not watched it before, the vast majority of it just comes across as a boring sitcom, because every sitcom to follow took notes from the way they did Seinfeld.
It’s the same with the UK office, it basically invented the modern mockumentary format as well as the cringe comedy era that followed (and gave us things like peep show). If you look back now without that context, it just looks like a generic combination of both those things.
Just to mention it, this is literally named the Seinfeld is Unfunny effect on TVTropes
I think the bigger issue is that most of the show isn’t that good. Less than half the seasons are good, and the lows from the bad seasons are really low. Watching it on a streaming scenario exposes this a lot more than reruns of the good parts.
The Office (US) pretty much killed laugh tracks in US sitcoms.
Seinfeld didn’t invent the three camera sitcom, but it was important in creating modern sitcoms that didn’t have a lesson to learn at the end of redeeming protagonists.
Ahh so THAT’S what they meant with the whole “It’s about nothing!” thing…
I believe “I Love Lucy” is credited with inventing or popularizing the three camera sitcom. Not to dampen’s "Seinfeld"s contributions or the point of your comment, but I just wanted to add that small correction.
Friends…
I would rather watch women’s tennis or a fishing show. I don’t fish, I don’t play tennis.
Macgruber. I’ve tried two different times to watch it once while sober and once while high, and it just, I fucking hate it. I don’t know what it is. Everything about it is terrible. I cannot complete the movie.
That and the Broadway edition of Cats. 15 or 20 seconds in and for some reason watching the actors dance around in cat costumes trigger some sort of primordial anger, rage, terror, something in me.
I was screaming at my family to stop it, I had to physically leave the room.
Cats.
primordial anger, rage, terror
This is a typical response.
So you say it brought forth deep emotions. It moved you.
(never seen it, idk…)
Oh yes, it stirred something deep inside. This show could be used as an ipecac substitute. I may be particularly sensitive as I was on crew for this production many moons ago.
Just stab yourself in the ear with a rusty knife, you’ll get the gist of it.
An additional beneficial side effect of watching the first, I don’t know, two minutes of cats if you can make it that far is it will confirm for you forever whether or not you are a furry.
I am solidly in the not a fucking furry crowd.
not a fucking furry crowd
I misread this as “not fucking a furry crowd” at first which changes the meaning a bit!
