I recently decide to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm and I only really started to enjoy the show after season four.
I feel like a lot of dramas like The Americans, Dark, and Narcos take me a little while to get invested but it’s typically only a season.
Jersey Shore. I never understood the hype and never watched it. I still haven’t.
Got into deep space 9 about ten years ago. It was on TV when I was a kid but it never clicked. The environments and characters were too weird and I didn’t understand wtf was going on. Well, people seemed to love it so I decided to start watching from the beginning, and… Yeah. My only regret is I’ll never be able to watch it for the first time again. ;_;
I recently decided to dive into It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I always knew I’d like it, but goddamn is it funny. I’m currently at the end of season 4.
British version of the Office. Still not into it.
Actually, why qualify it? Any version of the Office…
American Office is a bit of an acquired taste as Dry Humor often is…
The Office UK is where I became convinced that Ricky Gervais is one of the least funny comedians of all time, nothing has been able to change my mind.
That was my beef with it. “OK, it’s a comedy and the central premise is how not-funny someone is…”
See…
Bad Media is interesting because the ineptitude is usually comedic. It’s why I consider it a step above “Boring Media”
The problem is Bad Media that is intended to be comedic is the most toxic substance known to man. A comedy is supposed to be funny, being inept at a medium can be funny, but being inept at comedy causes the funniness of both to cancel out and create… Anti-Lulz
Ricky Gervais can generate Anti-Lulz no problem
ok but why did you watch 3 seasons of a show you didn’t enjoy
Sometimes there’s some elements that really shows the potential and brilliance that is interesting enough to keep pushing forward. So while it might not hit the point of must see TV right away, going in with the knowledge that it hits its stride in season X helps keep things in perspective. When I’m informed of something like that I’m willing to put up with the slow burn if the pay off is to be great, and there’s at least some redeeming qualities about the show until then.
It’s not a show I disliked and it wasn’t a show I needed to pay incredibly close attention to so I watched it while I ate breakfast
I definitely agree. I’m working on season 6 now and really enjoy it.
I’m not too sure why. Maybe it feels a little more structured compared to early seasons.
extreme boredom and “everyone seems to like it, I must be wrong” are dangerous bedfellows
That’s how I feel about arrested development.
It was just five seasons of watching horrible people be horrible people with like one funny event or joke per episode at best.
I regret the time I wasted watching that show.
Horrible people being horrible is a staple of great sitcoms, at least in the UK. Peep Show, IT Crowd, Black Books, Father Ted, Blackadder, Steptoe and Son, The Office, Bottom, The Young Ones, Til Death Us Do Part… the list just goes on.
I guess that’s why I find American stuff like Always Sunny, Arrested Development and Seinfeld more satisfying than stuff like Friends or Modern Family that always has to have a moral.
You’re definitely entitled to your opinion. But I found the initial run of Arrested Development to be one of the best written sitcoms ever. Also, part of the point is that the main protagonist and his son are good people who stay and support their terrible family members out of loyalty.