I don't understand Parks and Rec.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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The Office
It makes my skin crawl.
It's cringe pretending to be humor.
Same. If you want some actually laugh out loud hilarious cringe humor, I highly recommend Peep Show with Mitchell and Webb.
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I've seen so many memes of it but I just couldn't get into it either!
The memes are funny though lol. Just not the show.
Loved the original, but US remake has just all the corners filed and padded.
The British original was even worse! I don't want to feel bad when watching a comedy!
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Friends.
Shallow, punchable people who made being dumb fucks a virtue.
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Big Bang Theory, and all 'reality' shows.
How I Met Your Mother. Most laugh track comedies I found barely tolerable at best but that show fucking sucked major ass and I don’t trust the judgement of anybody who liked that show.
For reals. That show is so absolutely unfunny, it astounds me that anyone could enjoy watching it
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Big bang theory. Cannot stand the characters on that show, especially Sheldon
The best concise description of that show I've heard was "it's what people who aren't nerds think nerds would like".
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I mean, this is Lemmy, it's a show about making fun of us.
And honestly I'd respect that if they put effort into it, but "lol nerd" is like 90% of the plot.
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The Orville.
I'm sorry! I'm a trekkie so I really wanted to love it. I can't stand Seth McFarlane, though, and apparently it isn't just his animated shows like Family Guy or American Dad that I hate.
It started out being a Seth McFarlane show but quickly became a pretty legit sci Fi show. McFarlane has always been a Trekkie, he was even in Enterprise, so he actually tries to do right by it once he gets most of the Family Guy type humour out of his system
I'm convinced that the only way he got it greenlit was by selling it as "family guy in space" even though that's not what he wanted to do. So he hammed that up for the first couple of episodes to make the suits happy before phasing it out and making the show he actually wanted.
That.....makes a lot of sense lol. That's exactly how it plays out, yeah. I think it's a wonderful addition to Trekkie-type show catalogues, personally.
Yeah, or that it wasn't even sneaky, they just all agreed a couple of those episodes up front would broaden the appeal, and felt confident people would stick around once they got attached to the characters and into the sci-fi
Would it help if I told you that his particular brand of humour stops being the focal point after a bit? Iirc it doesn't last into the second season and is then replaced by actually thoughtful storytelling with light humour sprinkled on top.
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Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones
Couldn’t get past a season and the fandoms are just obnoxious.
It feels like all the breaking bad characters were designed to be the heel. I couldn't stand any of them, and if I can't stand any of the characters, why would i bother continuing watching the show?
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Game of Thrones.
The incest didn't bother me, but pushing a child out a window hit the wrong note with me and my wife.
That's mild compared to later seasons. It does get pretty fucking sadistic.
I see where you're coming from and it's not for everyone.
Wait until you read literally any bit of human history.
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Arrested development and it's always sunny.
I really don't care for cringe humor where everyone is an idiot.
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Lost.
god help me it was so fucking boring and riddled with holes. I still don't understand how it was so popular.
They did 2 things well (from an economic perspective) in my vaguely shit memory:
- built of the success of castaway a few years earlier and survivor
- marketed the absolute hell out of it pre-release. I remember hundreds of ads showing in the months leading to to it.
It paved the way for a lot of long running, high budget tv shows like heroes, supernatural etc...
I also severely disliked it.
The Sopranos
Same! I gave it way more time than it deserved because so many people raved about the show. For me, it was like a snail-paced soap opera about the least likeable people in the world.
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Mr.Robot
So much drugs, depression, late stage capitalism.
Idk wtf I was watching. Too dark and too confusing. I thought I was watching a WW2 Holocause movie, the vibes was depressing AF.
Did I mention the drugs?
So. Much. Drugs.
There were More Drug Scenes than Plot Scenes that I actually understood.
(Maybe I just have a smooth brain who knows 🤷♂️)
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The Mandalorian.
Succession.
I love the Mandalorian, but the people on succession were all just so horrible that I couldn’t stomach watching it anymore. I didn’t wanna be around thoseawful awful people.
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Altered Carbon. I couldn't get past the first episode. I love sci-fi but this just feels pretentious.
Yellowstone. I wanted to like it because Americans riding horses and doing cowboy gun things is a vibe, and I wanted to get that without actually having to travel there and be around Americans. It’s just so bad though.
It didn't intrigue me but the old white guys at work like it so I knew there was something wrong with that show
conservative white people love the show.
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