The Expanse
Stranger Things
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300+ posts and I only see about 13 or so, time for a new instance I think. Does lemm.ee really censor so much or is it my client.
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The Orwell
If you can wade through the sludge (like ST:TNG S1), it really becomes incredibly thought-provoking in especially season 3.
I mean, the Orville is more like a comedy, not everyone is into that.
Have you watched The Expanse? That's more of what more realistic space sci-fi looks like.
Also: For All Mankind, depicting an alternate space race where the Soviets won the race to the moon, and the space race didn't end, and continued on, base on moon, maybe even expanding further into the solar system (no spoilers, you'll have to watch).
Ironically, I couldn't stand Expanse's pilot and I don't think I got past the first few episodes. It was just so slow and nap-inducing...
I also didn't like it the first watch. Then a few years later I ran out of stuff to watch and tried again. It's very confusing on who the "bad guys" are until season 2. I just google some minor spoilers and about the "bad guys" and it was enough for me to continue on watching.
Season 1, nothing really happens, it feels more like a prequel. Season 2 is when shit really begins.
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Breaking Bad. I tried twice, got a little farther each time but, just lost interest.
The Expanse but I'll try to give it another shot one day.
The first season shows 2 perspectives - detective in asteroid belt and some of the most bland, basic and incredibly uninteresting dude going somewhere. Just kept falling asleep during those scenes.
I heard the layer seasons are quite interesting so I hope to at least skim through it or read the books but tbh the first season feels like it ruined the world for me already.
Wheel of time just finished the latest season in the background and its fun just bad. I've tried reading the book before and it's pretty terrible nonsense too so my expectations were already quite low. I do find the main plot point of basically temu Buddhism and the Witcher cocktail very atractive but it's just so poorly executed. All characters are meaningless. The world has so many plot holes that the wheel might as well just stop rolling right there.
Carnival row - not sure if this counts but it really sucked past season 1. It felt like something was there but it was really ruined by poor writing and Cara Delevingne and her character are so incredibly bad it really ruined any chances the show might have had.
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I watch quite a lot of series and enjoy some of them. TV has never been too good, and nowadays its the most obvious that write-as-you-go model has blatant flaws. Storytelling is difficult enough already, but it's worse when you don't know how many episodes you actually have to tell the story, and you have to argue with other writers to include your scenes and plot lines.
I constantly find myself enjoying miniseries the most. The ending makes the story. So, the second best shows are those where every season or series has a self-contained opening and ending arcs. Cliffhangers bore me, most hooks are lost on me. Usually when characters seem to meander and roam aimlessly is because the writers are lost as well. And plots of convenience (where magically something just happened by chance to create or resolve a new plotline, or deus ex machina) just completely bore me.
So, anyways, to answer the question. True Blood lost me completely midway second season. Awesome world, but the writers didn't know how to write for shit.
The Boys. First season had raw charm with some cool punk tracks, then season two sterilised it and it seemed to become another day time TV show. Had a similar experience with Black Mirror once that got the American/Hollywood treatment. Always Sunny lost its charm when the gang went to Ireland. Aweful end to what was otherwise a good series. But I mostly dislike American TV.
I liked that in the beginning of The Boys it was mostly normal humans approaching supers with creativity. In later seasons it seems more like superheroes against supervillains with some normal people on each side. Like a marvel series but with gore and obscenities.
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