Shows that are runaway hits that you never "got"

dave said:
Friends

Yeah, Friends was even worse than Big Bang. Awful.

jeffl said:

apple44 said:
I don't think we're supposed to like the characters in House of Cards. What kept me watching was waiting to see if any of them would get caught doing what they do.

 I’m sure you’re right, but if I don’t like a single character, I’m not going to be interested in a show.  Breaking Bad had the kid.  GOT had Jon Snow.  


I loved Hill Street Blues because I loved every character.  


But that’s just One man’s opinion.  I get how folks love Billions.  But I want them all in jail.  I want to be able to root for someone.  I need a good guy.  

I agree. If there are no redeeming characters, I think they should all meet their quick demise. (This is why I hate the Batman movies. Gotham-ites are horrible people.) I struggled through the first three seasons of Breaking Bad. I disliked it--a lot--but my friends kept telling me, "Just wait." I detested the characters enough that the kid leaves no lasting impression on me. Couldn't tell you if it was a girl or a boy.

flimbro said:
Seinfeld
Fight me.

 ^ This!

Portlandia. Insufferable.

any iteration of the Apprentice shows. Couldn’t work out why someone would want to put themselves through that torture, just to be humiliated  so publicly. 

Just like being in any of the Gordon Ramsay programs. Why?? Why so publicly, and with someone so rude?

Bottom rung of hell: Two and a Half Men.

bub said:
Bottom rung of hell: Two and a Half Men.

Nooooo. It was great before Charlie Sheen left. 

Tom_Reingold said:

dave said:
Friends

Yeah, Friends was even worse than Big Bang. Awful.

 I truly hated Friends.  Watching these half employed idiots waltz around their palatial NYC apartments while my wife and I bumped elbows in our barely affordable 300 square foot dump was intolerable.

ElizMcCord said:

bub said:
Bottom rung of hell: Two and a Half Men.

Nooooo. It was great before Charlie Sheen left. 

Lowbrow humor, but yes, I loved it pre-Ashton.  Sometimes it is just what hits the spot.  Like how Patrick Stewart loves Beavis and Butthead. 

spontaneous said:

ElizMcCord said:

bub said:
Bottom rung of hell: Two and a Half Men.

Nooooo. It was great before Charlie Sheen left. 

Lowbrow humor, but yes, I loved it pre-Ashton.  Sometimes it is just what hits the spot.  Like how Patrick Stewart loves Beavis and Butthead. 

 I love Beavis and Butthead.  Lowbrow and genius all at once.

Any of the Bachelor or Bachelorette shows. Actually most any reality shows, except I like American Ninja and the performance shows like Dancing with the Stars or the singing ones (various). Still, I do not make sure I watch them, so does that really count ?

Yes, I agree on the apprentice shows, too.

Sex in the City. Maybe that came out when I was swamped with mom life, but when I tried to catch the wave later, nah.

There are so many, actually. :/

Hazel. 

Mr. B is sharp enough to be a law partner? Didn’t buy it for a minute.

DaveSchmidt said:
Hazel. 
Mr. B is sharp enough to be a law partner? Didn’t buy it for a minute.

I Dream of Jeannie

I had my doubts about the whole genie thing. I think she was a dancer at a club or something in Daytona. She was definitely in cahoots with Roger Healey (clearly a coke head), probably trying to hustle square *** astronaut Tony for his pension money and that tight GTO he was driving.

"Oh whatever you say Master..."   yeah, right.

I think Seinfeld was great and ground-breaking but I have no warmth for it.  They were a bunch of a**holes, which was a major premise of the show.  Still, as far as comic takes on the modern single urban woman, ten minutes of an Elaine-centered episode was funnier than anything I ever saw in Sex and the City.   Didn't get it at all.

flimbro said:

I Dream of Jeannie
I had my doubts about the whole genie thing. I think she was a dancer at a club or something in Daytona. She was definitely in cahoots with Roger Healey (clearly a coke head), probably trying to hustle square *** astronaut Tony for his pension money and that tight GTO he was driving.
"Oh whatever you say Master..."   yeah, right.

You ain’t kidding. Just get a load of the guy who came up with the scheme.

My mistake. Wrong Sheldon.

bub said:
I think Seinfeld was great and ground-breaking but I have no warmth for it.  They were a bunch of a**holes, which was a major premise of the show.  Still, as far as comic takes on the modern single urban woman, ten minutes of an Elaine-centered episode was funnier than anything I ever saw in Sex and the City.   Didn't get it at all.

 You were never supposed to have warmth for Seinfeld.  The show was about how comedians get their material.  THAT was the major premise.  Having self-centered characters (performed by great actors) was a creative requirement.

Friends, on the other hand, is Seinfeld for stupid people.

Sex in the City seemed to be a show about all the things that I didn't like about living in NYC back then.  I worked with people like that, I certainly didn't want to have to watch them on my own time.

I was, at one point, forced by a family member to watch Sex in the City 2 and it was two hours of the most vapid racist nonsense I have ever suffered through. 

dave said:

bub said:
I think Seinfeld was great and ground-breaking but I have no warmth for it.  They were a bunch of a**holes, which was a major premise of the show.  Still, as far as comic takes on the modern single urban woman, ten minutes of an Elaine-centered episode was funnier than anything I ever saw in Sex and the City.   Didn't get it at all.

 You were never supposed to have warmth for Seinfeld.  The show was about how comedians get their material.  THAT was the major premise.  Having self-centered characters (performed by great actors) was a creative requirement.
Friends, on the other hand, is Seinfeld for stupid people.

 I don't mean warmth in the moment of watching.  I mean my feeling about the show with the distance of time.  Over the years, my affection for it decreased and Everybody Loves Raymond passed it on my list.  Also a show built around a standup comic but it often transcended sitcom-iness and dug deep while always being funny and never putting halos on anyone.  

Perhaps its also a function of getting older.  When I was the age of the Seinfeld characters and living in NYC, their aren't-we-smarter-and-funnier-than-everyone-else attitude seemed cuter than it does now. 

I Love Lucy. Never found her funny.  And don’t get me started on Jerry Lewis.   

LOST. Felt completely lost watching it.

Game of Thrones, bother he show and book series.  I love fantasy but the excessive violence was too much and the sex (never thought I would say this) was distracting.

Anything labeled "sitcom". Ugh.

Any sitcom that retreads old story lines from older sitcoms

This is an interesting thread that asks a question about what makes something popular for so many people but others just don't enjoy it at all?

It's also fascinating to see the disdain some people express for fans of extremely popular media that they themselves don't enjoy. Why insult so many people just because you don't like a show that millions do/did? 

mrincredible said:
This is an interesting thread that asks a question about what makes something popular for so many people but others just don't enjoy it at all?
It's also fascinating to see the disdain some people express for fans of extremely popular media that they themselves don't enjoy. Why insult so many people just because you don't like a show that millions do/did? 

 Because those people obviously have horrendous taste!

Can’t say I agree on the least with calling out Friends, Seinfeld and the X-Files, but I can’t believe no one has mentioned Twin Peaks (which I also adored).  

mrincredible said:
This is an interesting thread that asks a question about what makes something popular for so many people but others just don't enjoy it at all?
It's also fascinating to see the disdain some people express for fans of extremely popular media that they themselves don't enjoy. Why insult so many people just because you don't like a show that millions do/did? 

 This is more than a little over the top.  The gist of just about every comment is the poster's explanation for why he/she doesn't like a popular show.  Didn't see much heaping of abuse on those "stupid other people."   It's just a matter of opinion.

I am never over the top.  All of my posts are reasonable and well thought-out.