Popular series you tried but couldn't get into

[Neo Emolga]

Were there any television or Netflix series you watched for a little while but couldn't get into despite their popularity/ratings or what other people told you?

My friend and I tried to get into Arrow and we watched most of the first season, but we pulled the plug on it when we both agreed we really weren't enjoying it anymore. A lot of Arrow feels drawn out, there's way too much emphasis on Oliver's time on the island, and the past and present gets muddled together that doesn't flow right and gets very confusing. I also didn't think the acting was all that great. Some actors are fine, but there are many that feel too artificial. Some of the action scenes were great, but they felt too few and far between.

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This show, is not so much popular, but moreso saturates one channel for 80% of it's block. And that show is: Teen Titans GO. This show is a gargantuan middle finger to everyone watching, and to old fans of the old show, and shows it has caused to become cancelled. This is nothing but random outburts of hitting things, drier humor than a year old cracker, and teaching kids to cheat. Not a show worthy to even grace a poo.


Can't think of any shows atm, but i will come back and edit when i do.

[Blaquaza]

I see where you're coming from with Arrow. Personally, I think the first season was pretty good, the second season was amazing, the third mediocre and the fourth abysmal in every way. It's gotten so bad that I'm giving season 5 the three episode rule, so if its quality is anywhere near the garbage that was season 4, I'm not bothering, even though I'll still watch the other shows in that universe.

I couldn't watch The Walking Dead. I really enjoyed the first season, but I got so ridiculously bored halfway through the second season that it became too much of a chore to watch, so I dropped it. That's the only show so far that I've actually dropped, which says a lot.

[EmeraldSky]

I was into Once Upon a Time for a while, but then it started to get really confusing around Season 2 (and at the rate they're adding new characters, it's gotten even more confusing...)

[Lucifer]

I was into Once Upon a Time for a while, but then it started to get really confusing around Season 2 (and at the rate they're adding new characters, it's gotten even more confusing...)

They are also ruining classic characters but I digress.

For me, Vampire Diaries. A few years ago, I streamed it until about halfway through season two, ended for the night and just never went back. That speaks for itself. I've heard that it gets bad later but I'll give that what I did get through is far better than the books they are based off of if you can believe that.
I think when I got over Twilight I got over the whole teenage vampire thing in general.

Also The Walking Dead. I watched the first season, primarily to see one of my favorite actor's cameos. He turned out to be the tank zombie in the pilot who gets a bullet to the head literally 3 seconds after he arises. By then I was interested enough to want to see the main character, Rick Grimes find his family. At the point where they wanted to return to Atlanta for that jerk, I was done.
I never was huge on zombies.

I don't know to the extent to which it counts because I was into it, but there is also Grimm. I fell out of it early in like the 4th season because it felt like it was getting gimmicky. Yet for some reason I'd neglected to unfollow the official Twitter account so I have an idea of what happens since and am not impressed.

There have also been a couple of shows that I failed to get into initially but upon giving a second chance had a different opinion.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
My mom used to have the DVDs and practically shoved them in my face, sometime when I was in high school but this was before Twilight and it was Twilight which got me into vampires. So when I watched the pilot it just didn't appeal to me.
Interestingly, I only went back to it years later (2013) after I'd started watching the spin-off Angel and got to the Faith arc, by which time the crossover information was difficult for me to follow.

- Once Upon a Time
It just didn't initially hold my attention once Grimm came out but I started to watch it again (or more accurately catch up) when my best friend started watching it. We follow it together now and had enjoyed it's second and third seasons particularly but are less than pleased with their most recent storylines. This new season seems to have promise though.

[Suicune's Fire]

This show, is not so much popular, but moreso saturates one channel for 80% of it's block. And that show is: Teen Titans GO. This show is a gargantuan middle finger to everyone watching, and to old fans of the old show, and shows it has caused to become cancelled. This is nothing but random outburts of hitting things, drier humor than a year old cracker, and teaching kids to cheat. Not a show worthy to even grace a poo.
I loved Teen Titans so very much. Teen Titans Go is a blight upon this earth and I want it to leave and never come back. WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST CONTINUE TEEN TITANS?


I tried to get into Sons of Anarchy and sort of couldn't. I also tried to get into Assassin's Creed and while it was fun for a bit, it quickly got repetitive. I understand that the first one isn't as good as the others though. I remember watching True Blood's first episode which was terrible and I just couldn't stop laughing at it the whole way through. I also tried to get into Attack on Titan but I didn't get far. I still want to watch it but I have a feeling that I'll need to watch heaps more before I'll like it. I do like Adventure Time, but I couldn't get that "I THINK YOU'RE THE BEST THING" relationship with it.

[Neo Emolga]

I couldn't watch The Walking Dead. I really enjoyed the first season, but I got so ridiculously bored halfway through the second season that it became too much of a chore to watch, so I dropped it. That's the only show so far that I've actually dropped, which says a lot.

AGREED, I actually dropped out of watching the Walking Dead during the start of the fourth season and meant to come back to it, but never did.

The first season was great, but yeah, they're stuck on the farm for the entire second season and it does get very dry and drawn out. There were really only a few things that kept me interested enough to keep going, and it at least got me through the third season until I just felt like so little storyline progression was going on from each episode into the next.

Around the fourth season, I was forcing myself to watch it just to stay on top of it with everyone else... but gave up.


I was into Once Upon a Time for a while, but then it started to get really confusing around Season 2 (and at the rate they're adding new characters, it's gotten even more confusing...)

I feel like Once Upon a Time could have been so much better, because like you said, it started off really well, and then just got to be a muddled mess. That's another one that I dropped out around Season 2 and just didn't get back into it.


I tried to get into Sons of Anarchy and sort of couldn't.

Don't feel bad, I dropped out around, you guessed it, Season 2 (that seems to be a very common time for me to quit watching a series). That was mainly because I was watching it with my friend Tommy, he skipped ahead on his own and since he didn't want to watch the same episodes again, I just stopped watching it, also. Eventually he quit as well.

I think the problem there was it really didn't feel like that much was changing from episode to episode. It was pretty much the same issues and conflicts over and over and it did get very dry as time went on.

[Suicune's Fire]

Don't feel bad, I dropped out around, you guessed it, Season 2 (that seems to be a very common time for me to quit watching a series). That was mainly because I was watching it with my friend Tommy, he skipped ahead on his own and since he didn't want to watch the same episodes again, I just stopped watching it, also. Eventually he quit as well.

I think the problem there was it really didn't feel like that much was changing from episode to episode. It was pretty much the same issues and conflicts over and over and it did get very dry as time went on.
I only went for a few episodes before I stopped actually. I couldn't really get into it in the first place. xD And darn, that sucks. I understand that completely!

[Blaquaza]

AGREED, I actually dropped out of watching the Walking Dead during the start of the fourth season and meant to come back to it, but never did.

The first season was great, but yeah, they're stuck on the farm for the entire second season and it does get very dry and drawn out. There were really only a few things that kept me interested enough to keep going, and it at least got me through the third season until I just felt like so little storyline progression was going on from each episode into the next.

Around the fourth season, I was forcing myself to watch it just to stay on top of it with everyone else... but gave up.
I've heard of a lot of people that stopped watching it around then, so maybe season three is worse, which just makes me even less keen to even give it another try.

Literally nothing of note happens in the second season from I think the second episode onward. I already got some of the events spoiled for me (by myself, because I wanted to see if the story was going anywhere), so at that point I just felt like there was no need to pick it back up. And then I read that one of the characters I liked most at that point had died as well, so any slight incentive I had to start watching again was taken away.

My friends talk about it in school all the time (only really when it's airing, though), and whilst I'm sad that I can't talk about it with them, I just don't care about the show enough to give it a second chance as well. It's a shame though, because I thought the first season was great.

[[Desolate Divine]]

Arrow
I watched the first three seasons. Season 2 was amazing and season 1 was pretty good. Season 3 was meh, and I lost interest by season 4 with just about every character dying then coming back to life.

The Walking Dead
I watched the first season and stopped there. Just couldn't.

Misfits Season 4 Onwards
I loved seasons 1-3, and have tried numerous times to watch 4 and 5. But its just not the same. I managed to get two episodes into season 5 but just couldn't. I'll always love the first three though.

Friends
I actually want to get into it, but know that I don't have time right now. Maybe when I am done with uni for the year.

[Neo Emolga]

I've heard of a lot of people that stopped watching it around then, so maybe season three is worse, which just makes me even less keen to even give it another try.

Literally nothing of note happens in the second season from I think the second episode onward. I already got some of the events spoiled for me (by myself, because I wanted to see if the story was going anywhere), so at that point I just felt like there was no need to pick it back up. And then I read that one of the characters I liked most at that point had died as well, so any slight incentive I had to start watching again was taken away.

My friends talk about it in school all the time (only really when it's airing, though), and whilst I'm sad that I can't talk about it with them, I just don't care about the show enough to give it a second chance as well. It's a shame though, because I thought the first season was great.

Season 2 held my interest because I was really wondering what happened to Sophia. And they milked that like crazy for how long it took before you finally find out what happens:

She becomes a zombie also and she was being kept in the barn the entire time. I know, so anticlimatic.

I also wanted to know if certain characters survived. The Walking Dead killed off a lot of characters I liked, making it feel a lot like zombie Game of Thrones as far as that goes.

Season 3 really is even less eventful than Season 2. The main characters spend pretty much the whole season in a prison, of all places. And I guess at Season 4, I kind of hit my limit. The only characters remaining were ones I didn't care too much about and the overall storyline was being dragged out way too slowly to hold my interest over.

I won't deny that I did like it for a while. Season 1 was obviously the best and they kept it moving at a steady pace, but after that, it just got filler junk dumped all over it. Maybe sometime I'll go back to it, but I don't know.

[Noblejanobii]

I'm not much of a TV show person, but I just could not get into the Jason Bourne movies. I don't know why, because I love James Bond but Jason Bourne just could not hold my interest.

I have also been trying to get into Attack on Titan, and I've watched the first episode, but I find myself procrastinating watching the next episode, so I suspect I may not be into it but I'm still going to give it a chance.

[Neo Emolga]

I'm not much of a TV show person, but I just could not get into the Jason Bourne movies. I don't know why, because I love James Bond but Jason Bourne just could not hold my interest.

Jason Bourne movies are VERY complex and use a lot of crazy lingo and junk like that, and I had to watch the series several times to be able to understand just what pray tell was really going on. Once you figure out what's happening, it's actually very interesting, but yeah, it's not something that's easily going to make sense right from the start.

I've only watched the first three movies so far though (Identity, Supremacy, and Ultimatum). Most James Bond movies are pretty straightforward and don't require too much knowledge of previous movies to be able to understand what's going on. Jason Bourne ones, however, are all over the place and it's a bit of a puzzle to piece together, but once you start connecting the dots, things start to make sense.

[Noblejanobii]

Jason Bourne movies are VERY complex and use a lot of crazy lingo and junk like that, and I had to watch the series several times to be able to understand just what pray tell was really going on. Once you figure out what's happening, it's actually very interesting, but yeah, it's not something that's easily going to make sense right from the start.

I've only watched the first three movies so far though (Identity, Supremacy, and Ultimatum). Most James Bond movies are pretty straightforward and don't require too much knowledge of previous movies to be able to understand what's going on. Jason Bourne ones, however, are all over the place and it's a bit of a puzzle to piece together, but once you start connecting the dots, things start to make sense.

See, I understand what's going on so it's not that. I'm just not into it for some reason. I've seen the first two Jason Bourne movies but I just could not get into it. I don't know, I've probably watched too much cinema sins because the whole first moving I was just sinning it in my head.

[Neo Emolga]

See, I understand what's going on so it's not that. I'm just not into it for some reason. I've seen the first two Jason Bourne movies but I just could not get into it. I don't know, I've probably watched too much cinema sins because the whole first moving I was just sinning it in my head.

That's totally fine.

I like these movies for the fact that the action is pretty intense, feels realistic without any gimmicks like exploding pens or laser watches, and the way Jason Bourne improvises solutions and tries to evade escape (most of the time) are pretty nifty. The car chases are especially action-packed and every Jason Bourne movie has at least one put into them. There are parts that do feel a little unrealistic and wouldn't happen in real life, but for the most part, it does seem pretty believable. I think the writers deserve a lot of the credit for these movies.

I won't deny that there are parts with a LOT of useless filler that are not at all interesting to watch and don't contribute to the storyline. I understand they might be for character background, but weighing the time it takes against how important it is just makes it feel like it isn't really worth it.

[Noblejanobii]

That's totally fine.

I like these movies for the fact that the action is pretty intense, feels realistic without any gimmicks like exploding pens or laser watches, and the way Jason Bourne improvises solutions and tries to evade escape (most of the time) are pretty nifty. The car chases are especially action-packed and every Jason Bourne movie has at least one put into them. There are parts that do feel a little unrealistic and wouldn't happen in real life, but for the most part, it does seem pretty believable. I think the writers deserve a lot of the credit for these movies.

I won't deny that there are parts with a LOT of useless filler that are not at all interesting to watch and don't contribute to the storyline. I understand they might be for character background, but weighing the time it takes against how important it is just makes it feel like it isn't really worth it.

I'm one of those cheesy people that loves cliche gadgets so that might be part of the problem. XD

I mean I've also always been more for an emphasis on action with romance on the side but it always felt so... rushed with Jason Bourne. I mean it does with James Bond too but by like the third movie I was numb to it. Though some of the scenes were really funny, most of it just felt boring to me.

[Neo Emolga]

I'm one of those cheesy people that loves cliche gadgets so that might be part of the problem. XD

I mean I've also always been more for an emphasis on action with romance on the side but it always felt so... rushed with Jason Bourne. I mean it does with James Bond too but by like the third movie I was numb to it. Though some of the scenes were really funny, most of it just felt boring to me.

Hey, cliche gadgets are fine too, there's a time and place for them. :3 I actually don't care very much for romance parts, and I know the Bourne movies are very touch and go with those, like you said.

Call me crazy, but I like some of the more recent James Bond movies (not the ones with Daniel Craig, I just don't think he portrays James Bond all that well) over the older, "classic" James Bond movies that had filler conversations that basically sedated me. I know they really amped up the action scenes, shootouts, car chases, explosions, and all that jazz in recent times and I like that. Stuff like Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The World is Not Enough is more of the stuff I like.

[Noblejanobii]

Hey, cliche gadgets are fine too, there's a time and place for them. :3 I actually don't care very much for romance parts, and I know the Bourne movies are very touch and go with those, like you said.

Call me crazy, but I like some of the more recent James Bond movies (not the ones with Daniel Craig, I just don't think he portrays James Bond all that well) over the older, "classic" James Bond movies that had filler conversations that basically sedated me. I know they really amped up the action scenes, shootouts, car chases, explosions, and all that jazz in recent times and I like that. Stuff like Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The World is Not Enough is more of the stuff I like.

Cliche gadgets are the best man! I love them because it's just like oh you think this is lip stick WRONG IT'S A FREAKING LASER.

Yeah the new ones are much better in my opinion. Personally Quantum of Solace is my favorite but they're all really good. Tomorrow Never Dies is a very close second though.