For me, 2 things come to mind; Berserk & the Long Walk
Berserk may sound controversial, but I just didn’t have a good time watching the 90’s anime. I felt angry while watching it. I just didn’t like the characters for how dickish they were (especially Guts & Casica) and the setting was too miserable for me. And some of you may go, “but the comic is 10x better” (I know it’s manga, I’m just calling a comic to piss of people) I also just don’t like dark fantasy in general, since they’re edgy, pretentious, and worst of all… they’re ugly. There’s a reason why I never played the Dark Souls games, outside of the difficulty
The Long Walk movie is really well made movie with amazing acting. But man was it a miserable movie to go through. Seeing all those kids getting shot by soldiers for being slower was painful to watch.
Side note: there’s a lot of critically acclaimed stuff I like (Cowboy Bebop & the Dark Knight). It’s just that entertainment is so subjective that it’s not mutually exclusive to writing.
Breaking Bad. Well, the episodes I watched.
Every character sucks unrepentantly and I can’t watch it. Same issue with Boardwalk Empire, there are zero good and likeable characters in the entire show, everybody is awful.
Fair. I loved breaking bad mostly because of how well it balanced crime and personal life of Walter white. But he’s a horrible person, so are most characters, cause it’s a crime thriller. It’s just I could overlook that part cause story kept me engaged enough.
I think I just watched two or three episodes and just wanted them to catch one small break but it was just downward spiral which kind of made me lose interest. If they don’t have any success then what’s that point of them losing.
I’m sure it changes later but I didn’t have it in me. I understand that it’s a masterful series.
There are some successes, but they almost always immediately become overshadowed by some new, larger problem. While I personally enjoyed how obstacles were overcome, it is exhausting to watch a constant downward spiral.
Great characters and some interesting plotlines, but the whole thing revolving around drugs and their distribution has been a great put off. I found Better Call Saul more enjoyable for that same reason.
Yup. That show sits in an odd place for me where it’s genuinely interesting but it’s too intense.
Dr. Who
All of them. I have tried.
I love Dr who, but I don’t ever recommend it because it’s a very… specific taste…
It’s kind of silly.
I watched some. A lot? I don’t regret it, but I came away with the feeling I got dropping Supernatural: I’m not nearly done, yet I watched too much already.
Good input. Yes doctor who is very divisive, either you like it or not.
However it’s always pronounced doctor. Never Dr. Fight me, lol.
I might’ve gotten unlucky and been fed a series of episodes that were intensely related to characters developments.
More than once the Doctor was put in a spot that seemed to require an ingenious solution, and instead he banks on reputation or contacts to asspull himself from Daleks or whoever else it is that time.
I could not get into Andor despite really wanting to.
Any specific reason? I’m curious about it as I enjoyed it enormously
I found it slow and simply rather uninteresting. I just couldn’t engage with any of the characters.
The Witcher games. Everyone tells me how great they are and I have tried playing them, but it just feels like a chore and it never hooks me.
Yeah, I didn’t like the gameplay.
Watching quest highlights on YouTube is a good way to enjoy it, though.
TW2’s combat and overall gameplay I could stomach and even enjoy, but for some reason I could never do the same with TW3 (and RDD too, they just felt so slow). Which is a pity cause it looks like a great game if I could just get over its, well, gameplay. 🙃
I did not like Baldur’s Gate 3. I have tried multiple times now and I just don’t like it.
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Same. Tried a few times and but the tough fights took so long I’d start getting impatient, especially when I kept losing and had to keep redoing them. People really love that game so feels like I’m missing out but I just couldn’t get into it.
I feel that if I had more insights regarding dnd and it’s spells and classes I would have a better time.
Game of Thrones
Tried multiple times, couldn’t get into it.
Don’t remember the exact seasons but I think the first couple were a little slow/off. It picks up.
About Berserk, the comic is 10x more miserable, the show literally adapted the happiest part of the story
David Duchovney had a TV show called Californication that a lot of my friends liked and thought was funny. I didn’t like it because, unlike Bojack, the “antics” of the main character was the punchline and I just thought it was very sad.
It is sad, the show ends with him going to prison as a sex offender.
The best parts of that show were the seasonal guests like Rob Lowe and Callum Keith Rennie.
I tried very hard, but I did not enjoy The Outer Wilds.
For those who don’t know, it is a first person exploration game over ~12 planets within a small solar system. There is a core game loop that lasts about 20 minutes wherein you can fly your ship anywhere and explore until the cycle ends.
The thing I really disliked was that you only got ~10-15 minutes of exploration before you had to restart the cycle back at home and go back to where you started. There was also a plethora of environmental hazards that were instant death, all while you had oxygen and fuel to manage. Dying would also reset the cycle so it wasn’t uncommon to spend 5+ minutes getting somewhere only to die and restart a few times. It just made me frustrated.
I did complete it with the help of mods that let me teleport to the key locations. People really liked the story but it really didn’t hit for me. I feel like I was born with the cilantro gene for this game because I really didn’t like it.Opening: “Oh no, a disaster. Everyone I care about could die. I wonder how I can prevent it.”
Ending
“Oh, I’m sorry, the disaster is unpreventable. But you can get to be the person who hits the reset button to bring about an empty world full of nothing! Hey. Did you know Starfield is about to come out??111”
I know!
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They made an episode about that btw. The Gang Desperately Tries to Win an Award.
the later ones were total cringe. season 13+ are exactly what they joked about in the earlier seasons. thier alarming Hollywood face transformation(mar-a-lago equivalent, but hollywood style). i dont think the later seasons were well written, like the earlier seasons(the cast were the main contributors in the earlier seasons) but they gave up after 11-12. Kaitlin turning into a a karen, and ROB getting on roids and getting buff, and all the subsequent drama of him trying to sugar coat it. Rob macs, change his name recently. and his very questionable partnership with ryan reynolds, and a retired football star.
The Office
Back when it was still Twitter, I posted “when does the office get funny? I’ve watched about 6 episodes across 3 seasons and haven’t LOLed once, I just keep wondering why this show is popular”
The Godfather. It insists upon itself.
Just watched it for the first time recently and while I thought it was good it had the problem a lot of male writers/directors have of writing really flat female characters. All of the women only existed for the men to have feelings about or to motivate the men by their death/suffering. Just kinda ruined the movie for me.
I never got hooked on Breaking Bad. I liked it looking back but at the time I had to make myself watch it where as with actually good series I need to stop myself from binging multiple episodes a day.
Succession
Mulholland Drive
Kill BillA few months ago I bought Slay The Spire. I do love roguelikes, I do enjoy card games. I even like roguelike deck builders (balatro is fantastic).
But after a few months I can say for certain, I hate Slay The Spire. I would like it more if it was fun.
