Tv shows you should like but don't

Anyone have one of those shows where it seems like exactly the sort of thing they would like but for what ever reason don't.

Doctor Who would be this for me since despite my love of both Science Fiction and Alternate Universe fiction some thing about this show just annoys me.

edited 15th Apr '12 12:04:17 PM by KingNerd

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Victorious. I like Victoria Justice and the premise of a wacky performing arts school was appealing, but the writing is so awful I can't stand it.

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30 Rock. All my friends love it, and I like shows that are supposed to be similar (Arrested Development, The Office, Parks and Rec), but I just don't find it funny!

And I love Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin!

The Office. I love Parks And Recreation, but can't stand its sister show. It doesn't help that when it first came out, I thought it was a reality show. I don't like iCarly either, though I thought I would since those Kid Com shows with lots of Getting Crap Past the Radar usually entertain me. It just feels too far fetched. What are the chances that a bunch of high schoolers would have a web show that everybody in the world knows (without themselves being famous)?

I agree on Doctor Who. Don't know why... suppose it's just too hierarchial for me, with the Doctor being the only interesting character and at the same time so superior that he has to be the mentor all the time. At least Jack gave him something to play off of. Maybe I could watch the series with Donna...

Glee I think is colossally overrated. Maybe I would like it more if the flaws weren't glossed over and denied all the time, but overall it's just the wrong genre and age bracket for me.

There is no TV show I should like.

I LOVE Parks and Rec, I have a small like for The Office. IMHO, like many sisters they are very different when you compare them from a close perspective. They look similar in the format and they have roughly the same people behind. But each show seems to be set in a bizaro world of the other. In The Office, everyone is crazy in an unsympathetic way, whilst in Parks everyone is crazy in a sympathetic way. And to me it is a world of difference.

Criticizing Doctor Who is sort of Unwinnable by Design. Maybe a fresh slate would be nice, but you'd still end up with the same dynamic.

Anyway, if I'm going to complain about Doctor Who, I prefer to be sportsmanlike and single out the writing. (I can't remember the last time I saw a satisfying season finale on TV.)

I ought to love Tru Blood, since I'm all up in vampire fiction. I think it's the lack of sympathetic characters. Bill is alright, but...

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I'm not in the male ages 16-24 bracket anymore so I'm not sure what I'm "supposed" to like. American Pickers irritates me. Since I love Pawn Stars, I guess I'm supposed to be enthralled by those 2 wandering the country peddling crap.

Also, Star Wars. Oh yeah, I went there.

edited 4th Dec '11 5:51:46 PM by anathame

Star Wars isn't necessarily a TV show. Well, not a live action one. But if you're talking about the prequels, then yes.

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Buffy and Firefly. One's too hip and serious for its own good and the other is just yet another Star Trek/Star Wars retread.

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While you won't find me disagreeing that Firefly is immensely overrated (though still fun), I don't really see how it's a Star Wars/Star Trek retread? The only real thing they have in common is that they are sci-fi and that they take place in space.

I dunno, about should like, but there are some shows I've tried watching because I found the premise intriguing and/or thought they might be entertaining.

On the subject of Star Trek, while it isn't necessarily something I should like, since it tends to consists mostly of stand-alone episodes (though I do like some other shows that do)among other reasons, you'd think I would enjoy one of the series. But I've never really been able to get into it, watched about 2 seasons of TNG and 2 season of DS 9 and just lost interest. I was especially hoping to like DS 9, since I'm a huge Babylon 5 fan and all, might give it another chance later since it isn't like I really hated it or anything.

Carnivale: This show sounds awesome, but for some reason, what I saw of it just didn't really click with me. Mostly chalk this one up to being a problem on my side though.

Dammit, I'm sure that there were other shows, but it seems like I've forgotten most of them, precisely due to not finding them interesting. I guess that for a few shows that I thought I might like, but which didn't grab me Supernatural, Reaper, Fringe, Leverage and Kurosagi come to mind right now. Oh yeah, a big one, X-files. Used to be really popular and it does sound interesting on paper, but when I tried watching it I could never get past the first season. For shows I kind of enjoyed, but just didn't have enough sustained interest in and just kind of didn't continue Heroes, Lost, First Wave and Alias come to mind.

edited 22nd Dec '11 6:11:23 AM by Mathias

Can you name a sci-fi series that doesn't draw inspiration from Star Trek or Star Wars? You have the space western theme (Star Trek), the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits (Star Wars), the Action Girl (Star Wars), the series focused around a crew (Star Trek, with some Cowboy Bebop thrown in) and the occasional eye candy (Star Trek).

It's nothing original and simply a disposable sci-fi series.

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While it might come from the Outlaw Star influence, I think Firefly is more likely drawn from Blakes7, just like Farscape and Andromena- hence the "crew on the run" plot. Even then, you can see these are all fairly different shows. I'd say that the most they have in common with Star Trek is that they belong to the same genre of Space Opera.

I can see where you'd see the Star Trek/ Star Wars influence though. I once thought that Mal was sort of like what Kirk/ The Good Captain would be like if he became Han Solo (or vice versa).

edited 5th Dec '11 6:04:19 AM by Jordan

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Mad Men. I love most of AMC's shows to death, and the premise sounds intriguing. However, I just can't get into it.

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Firefly, I just cannot get into it. I am dead center in it's target demographic and it's still just, "meh," to me.

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I like Firefly on the whole. Most of its problems might have been cleared up in later seasons. My issue is with Simon and River. Sean Maher was miscast in his role; there's just something off about him. Summer is fun in small doses, but I personally don't find her that sexy, and she came off as yet another riff on the Slayer.

edited 5th Dec '11 11:57:50 AM by johnnyfog

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Dexter and Doctor Who.

Watched both for a while, then stopped due to a loss of interest.

Excuse me, how is Star Trek a Space Western?

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It was pitched as "Wagon Train in the stars". In fact, a parallel could be seen between the Starship Enterprise crew and the people left behind the East to explore a new life West. Just replace the Southwest with outer space and a covered wagon with the Starship Enterprise. Also, Kirk and Spock could basically be seen as cowboys in the future (Kirk is the sheriff of a small town, Spock and McCoy are his deputies and characters like Khan, Mudd and the Tribbles are outlaws trying to take over the town).

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I have the opposite reaction,I LOVE The Office but I can't stand Parks And Recreation at all

Oh and I just can't enjoy Castle either

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But Castle is Bones without the annoying bit characters.

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Sort of an off-topic question, but I read here that the second season of ''Parks And Recreation is much better than the first. Can the first season be skipped entirely?

With The Office, I really want to get into it because the characters seem interesting, but the Cringe Comedy is hard for me to get through.

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The office is good for the first few seasons, but early on it succumbs to Seasonal Rot.

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@ Buscemi I'm sorry, Firefly is too deriative of Star Trek because it's "about a crew'? And of Star Wars because it's got one, actually more than one, of the same basic stock of character in it. That's just nonsense.

As for the topic, I don't know, the original Office maybe? But I know why that's not very funny, it has a lack of actual jokes in it. T Baker's run on Doctor Who is probably my best bet.

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I was positive I would love Tom Baker. As it so happens, Pertwee is funnier.

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