Most Overrated TV Show of All Time?

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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I think season 1 of The Walking Dead was fantastic. One of my favourite seasons of TV ever. It fell off a cliff right after though. Overall, yes, I'd say it's a pretty awful show.

    Also, Dexter went off the rails terribly. I'd go as far as to say the final season is the worst TV season ever; the finale the worst episode of TV ever. The praise the final four seasons continued to get was ridiculous. At least people realized how bad the show had gotten by the end.

    I agree with both of these, though I really did enjoy Season Two of TWD. Season Three was so bad that I just lose all interest, I'm not even watching Season Four now because I know it's going to be the same exact thing as last year, and based off of reviews and plots and whatnot, it appears to be I was right. I know they've tried to spin it into a drama where humans are the biggest enemy in a world filled with zombies, and that's fine, but it just seems like a soap opera anymore, a show that can't make up it's mind. You can't have two seasons straight where zombies are a huge issue, killing off members of your group, and now they just kill them no problem and zombies are put on the backburner, focusing on drama, secrets, and twists among members. Pick what you're going for and stick with it.

    As for 'Dexter,' it was such a great show for the first four seasons, and as soon as the showrunner left at the end of the Season Four finale, it was all downhill. After the excellent S4, I knew the fifth season wouldn't be anywhere near as good, but holy hell, was it bad. I saw a few episodes of S6, hated it, and just stopped there. After reading up on the finale, I knew that was a good idea with how terrible it sounded.
  • To be fair series 4 (which I hadn't seen when I first posted about TWD here), so far has been brilliant. Probably the best one so far, although I still don't think it's as good as people say.

    Series 3 I thought was alright, I liked David Morrisey. Series 2 I thought was awful. So f***ing boring. Series 1 was good.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    @thelivingroyale, I thought season two was great in that it had some really great, action-packed moments, a lot of people were lost, some really crazy things happened (Carl...), and the big question you're itching to find out throughout the first half of the season is answered in a very upsetting way.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    I'll say this - If you took Ross Kemp and all his programmes and fitted them into a black hole I'd shake your f*****g hand!
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    I never really got into the Seinfeld thing.

    Friends usually fails to get my full attention, the women are way to neurotic and the men caricatures.

    Star Trek Next generation & Star Trek Voyager were both shows in the ST universe I gladly avoid.

    All those vampire shows with gorgeous people made for a more female orientated audience generally do not get my time.
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    Friends was popular, but not sure it ever was overrated. Was it rated that high to begin with? And Voyager was always perceived as a weak series, so I don't think it was overrated either, even among trekkies.
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    Ludovico wrote:
    Friends was popular, but not sure it ever was overrated. Was it rated that high to begin with? And Voyager was always perceived as a weak series, so I don't think it was overrated either, even among trekkies.

    Both series ran for a long time, compared with other tv series, so there was a viewers market for it. And as for trekkies I do not rate them very high, I think that there were far more people watching it because of the ST label and because it was scifi on the telly. Something we not always had enough of on the telly.
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    Friends ran a long time, it may have been too popular but overrated? Not sure. Voyager was heavily criticized, from day one until the end of the series. It did last long because of the ST label.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    I personally hate Friends and all that it stands for, regardless of whether it is overrated or not. Unfunny dung from America.
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    Ludovico wrote:
    Friends ran a long time, it may have been too popular but overrated? Not sure. Voyager was heavily criticized, from day one until the end of the series. It did last long because of the ST label.

    true when it comes to Voyager 7of9 's person might have added to its longer stay on the TV.

    Friends is still seen by some as a key to succesfull sitcom, for me the show is just not that impressive, more annoying. Not dung but more MEHHHH.

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    I don't hate it but I don't find it that great. Maybe it is because I don't think many people does that I don't hate it. Yes it was popular, but otherwise critics were good, but not praising it. It did create a lot of clones though, but then it is because the formula worked, it says nothing of the quality of the show.
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    Ludovico wrote:
    I don't hate it but I don't find it that great. Maybe it is because I don't think many people does that I don't hate it. Yes it was popular, but otherwise critics were good, but not praising it. It did create a lot of clones though, but then it is because the formula worked, it says nothing of the quality of the show.

    True but for many people I know it is the best sitcom they know, and I have seen better.

    I prefer Steven Moffats version better (of Sherlock & DW)

  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited November 2013 Posts: 17,727
    Ludovico wrote:
    I don't hate it but I don't find it that great. Maybe it is because I don't think many people does that I don't hate it. Yes it was popular, but otherwise critics were good, but not praising it. It did create a lot of clones though, but then it is because the formula worked, it says nothing of the quality of the show.

    Well, I suppose that it says that the show was of a good enough quality and thereby was successful enough that it was replicated for many other American "comedy" shows.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Anything Chuck Lorre creates. Guy’s the Woody Allen of TV sitcoms. Lots of drinking and the audience will laugh at every other line. He’s the creator of 6 sitcoms on the air now. 5 on CBS alone. Playing favorites, CBS? Sure seems like it.
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    Loved Big Bang Theory when it was about four socially awkward science and sci-fi geeks trying to understand the world around them. Then they turned it into just another relationship sitcom.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    cooperman2 wrote: »
    Loved Big Bang Theory when it was about four socially awkward science and sci-fi geeks trying to understand the world around them. Then they turned it into just another relationship sitcom.

    That series is ultimate cringe to me. I remember catching it on TV a couple of times in college and the laugh tracks atop some awful dialogue and situations were too much for me.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    You think it's bad with the laugh track, try it without the laugh track...

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    You think it's bad with the laugh track, try it without the laugh track...


    I actually checked it out immediately after I made my comment and it's even worse. Hell, most sitcoms with laugh tracks do nothing for me, but you take those away and it just seems like an awkwardly timed serial killer comedy (especially this series). Awful.
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    Friends!! No contest!
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    You think it's bad with the laugh track, try it without the laugh track...


    I actually checked it out immediately after I made my comment and it's even worse. Hell, most sitcoms with laugh tracks do nothing for me, but you take those away and it just seems like an awkwardly timed serial killer comedy (especially this series). Awful.

    I don't know if you felt the same way, but I watched a few episodes without knowing much about the show, and I couldn't believe that I was supposed to accept them as friends. They are more like a group of people that have come together because they have no one else, but at the same time, they dislike each other too much to just go their own way. They would rather stick together, and act shitty to one another.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Creasy47 wrote: »
    You think it's bad with the laugh track, try it without the laugh track...


    I actually checked it out immediately after I made my comment and it's even worse. Hell, most sitcoms with laugh tracks do nothing for me, but you take those away and it just seems like an awkwardly timed serial killer comedy (especially this series). Awful.

    I don't know if you felt the same way, but I watched a few episodes without knowing much about the show, and I couldn't believe that I was supposed to accept them as friends. They are more like a group of people that have come together because they have no one else, but at the same time, they dislike each other too much to just go their own way. They would rather stick together, and act shitty to one another.

    Yes, I didn't know much about it but in between the canned laughter and the constant digs, I'm not sure what the series was offering up. Nerd humor is the whole schtick, I suppose? I just couldn't see the appeal at all.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    Twin Peaks. It started strong but quickly went downhill , becoming a convoluted, pretentious mess.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    talos7 wrote: »
    Twin Peaks. It started strong but quickly went downhill , becoming a convoluted, pretentious mess.

    Have you seen Twin Peaks The Return it's brilliant, more than makes up for the majority of season 2.
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    MaxCasino wrote: »
    Anything Chuck Lorre creates. Guy’s the Woody Allen of TV sitcoms. Lots of drinking and the audience will laugh at every other line. He’s the creator of 6 sitcoms on the air now. 5 on CBS alone. Playing favorites, CBS? Sure seems like it.

    Going back to my comment, I would say Two and a Half Men is the most overrated TV show of all time. Nobody changed, it treated women like mean, stupid objects, it set TV up for reality shows, and people wasted time and money on watching Charlie Sheen play himself. The number one rated comedy until The Big Bang Theory? Really, world? (Particularly America)! How many controversies can a show realistically survive? Evidently, no one enjoyed working on it. They always act so negative. People wanted to be Charlie, but they end up like Alan wasting their time on Chuck Lorre shows, with 2.5 men being the biggest example.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Band of Brothers. So much praise for this utterly boring, schmaltzy show. It throws every cliche in the book at you, and the dreadful score doesn t help. It s the same horrible score as in every other project Tom Hanks is involved in. It is the equivalent to his standard facial expression.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    The Sopranos. It ain't all that.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    echo wrote: »
    The Sopranos. It ain't all that.

    It's sweet perfection to me but I get it's not for everyone. Tried to get my girlfriend into it but she started to lose interest in the second season. Definitely not for her.
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