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jgvol

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #812 on: July 17, 2025, 12:50:17 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on July 17, 2025, 11:12:44 AM
would be my answer but the show was so boring and stupid I couldn’t keep watching it and gave up on it almost immediately.

I’ll say walking dead, but not sure it counts because I didn’t watch every season. it started off great but just got so bad I actually quit watching it- but I kept watching for a couple seasons longer than I would’ve just based on the strength of the first 3-4 seasons.

Good call on WD.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #813 on: July 17, 2025, 12:57:59 PM »
Shows that started off meh but got good......I'd go with Person of Interest with Jim Caviezel.  I watched the pilot back in 2011 and didn't watch it again because it appeared to be the same, major-network, procedural, plot-of-the-week crap.  And it really was, for most of the first season.  Years later my sister asked me had I watched it because she thought I'd like it.  She knows me pretty well so I gave it another try on Netflix, at the time.  It did develop an over-arching plot that became better and better over time.  But s1 was still quite meh. 
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MikeDeTiger

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #814 on: July 17, 2025, 12:58:59 PM »
Quote from: jgvol on July 17, 2025, 12:50:17 PM
Good call on WD.

The Walking Dead is the okayest show ever that was supposed to be great.  It had its moments for sure, interspersed with a lot of episodes that go nowhere, get nothing done, and bore you to tears.  
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utee94

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« Reply #815 on: July 17, 2025, 01:00:03 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on July 17, 2025, 12:57:59 PM
Shows that started off meh but got good......I'd go with Person of Interest with Jim Caviezel.  I watched the pilot back in 2011 and didn't watch it again because it appeared to be the same, major-network, procedural, plot-of-the-week crap.  And it really was, for most of the first season.  Years later my sister asked me had I watched it because she thought I'd like it.  She knows me pretty well so I gave it another try on Netflix, at the time.  I did develop an over-arching plot that became better and better over time.  But s1 was still quite meh. 
Parks & Recreation is the poster child for this IMO.  Its first season was so, so terrible.  I couldn't watch it, it was cringe-worthy.

And then it got much better.  Ron Swanson is my favorite TV character of all time.
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jgvol

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #816 on: July 17, 2025, 01:00:20 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on July 17, 2025, 12:58:59 PM
The Walking Dead is the okayest show ever that was supposed to be great.  It had its moments for sure, interspersed with a lot of episodes that go nowhere, get nothing done, and bore you to tears. 

Rick was the show.  And when he left, it became obvious.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #817 on: July 17, 2025, 01:01:42 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on July 17, 2025, 12:58:59 PM
The Walking Dead is the okayest show ever that was supposed to be great.  It had its moments for sure, interspersed with a lot of episodes that go nowhere, get nothing done, and bore you to tears. 
I thought it was pretty boring the whole time.  My i s c & a aggie wife liked watching it and I watched the first couple seasons with her, but I just stopped, I couldn't take it anymore.

I think it might have made a good movie.  It didn't need to be a TV show and it definitely didn't need to have 11 seasons or whatever it did.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #818 on: July 17, 2025, 01:02:33 PM »
And at least 4 spinoffs, at this point. 
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« Reply #819 on: July 17, 2025, 01:03:49 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on July 17, 2025, 12:57:59 PM
Shows that started off meh but got good......I'd go with Person of Interest with Jim Caviezel.  I watched the pilot back in 2011 and didn't watch it again because it appeared to be the same, major-network, procedural, plot-of-the-week crap.  And it really was, for most of the first season.  Years later my sister asked me had I watched it because she thought I'd like it.  She knows me pretty well so I gave it another try on Netflix, at the time.  It did develop an over-arching plot that became better and better over time.  But s1 was still quite meh.
never saw it but I really like the actor- might check it out. 

I'd actually say Breaking Bad was like this to me. The first half of the first season was pretty slow and kinda meh and then towards the end it just kicked into another gear and it went on to be one of the great tv shows of all-time. 
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« Reply #820 on: July 17, 2025, 01:05:54 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on July 17, 2025, 01:02:33 PM
And at least 4 spinoffs, at this point.
yeah and I think the OG show had like 15 seasons. that show is the poster child for milking the ffffffuuuuuck out of ip. they squeezed and whored every last dollar out of that thing. 
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« Reply #821 on: July 17, 2025, 01:13:15 PM »
Quote from: jgvol on July 17, 2025, 01:00:20 PM
Rick was the show.  And when he left, it became obvious.
To me he was always just that creepy stalker dude from Love, Actually. :)
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #822 on: July 17, 2025, 01:15:17 PM »
To me, the show had too many episodes of slow drudgery, even when Rick was on it.  It was never immune from needing to be cut way down on episodes per season. 

I admit Jeffrey Dean Morgan played a great Negan, and a lot of the show while he was leading the Saviors was pretty good. 
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #823 on: July 17, 2025, 01:17:26 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on July 17, 2025, 01:00:03 PM
Parks & Recreation is the poster child for this IMO.  Its first season was so, so terrible.  I couldn't watch it, it was cringe-worthy.

And then it got much better.  Ron Swanson is my favorite TV character of all time.

Hmm... I enjoyed it, but I came in to the series late. I had never watched the early stuff but then my wife and I started it from the beginning. She just had NO interest and couldn't get into it after maybe 4-6 episodes of season 1. Maybe we should have just stuck it out.

We also tried starting Curb Your Enthusiasm and the first few episodes were just... Not good.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #824 on: July 17, 2025, 01:21:55 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on July 17, 2025, 01:17:26 PM
Hmm... I enjoyed it, but I came in to the series late. I had never watched the early stuff but then my wife and I started it from the beginning. She just had NO interest and couldn't get into it after maybe 4-6 episodes of season 1. Maybe we should have just stuck it out.

We also tried starting Curb Your Enthusiasm and the first few episodes were just... Not good.
Parks & Rec Season 1 was truly awful. I can see how y'all wouldn't get into it from watching that. They were pretty clearly attempting to mimic the look and feel of The Office and it absolutely didn't work.  Then they abandoned a lot of that and it got a lot better.

There are still episodes from Season1 I've never seen, and I'm fine with that.

As far as Curb, I liked it okay but it was really just more of the same as Seinfeld, and I felt like Seinfeld had covered all that ground sufficiently and I didn't really care to see more.  So I doubt I watched much beyond the first season and even then, didn't see the whole first season either.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #825 on: July 17, 2025, 01:32:11 PM »
Yeah, and that was something about Curb that worried me going in... Since I didn't even like Seinfeld. 
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