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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
I agree completely with your assessment  only made it through 2 seasons
I'm now binging How to Get Away With Murder - was originally repelled by, but now fascinated by a repellent cast of completely FU characters that can apparently pass law school exams whilst running amok in the service of a sociopathic lawyer. |
Oh, god, I couldn't get through even the first season. I was so repulsed by all of them--all totally worthless, all repugnant, with no value as humans, at all (and the inevitable implication that somehow, all lawyers are like that) and the ridiculous reactions of everybody, to everything, all the time. Couldn't do it.
There have been increasingly few programs, new programs, that I can tolerate. Maybe it's them; maybe it's me (mostly, I think it's a combination of both, due to reasons I shan't discuss here) but most new shows, I make it through half an episode, MAYBE and that's it.
Some shows, like the Netflix shows, start out good-to-great and then, OMG, they taper off to unwatchable.
Umbrella Academy, started off super and then Moses on a Pony, Season 2 was just intolerably dimwitted and...well.
October Faction, again, started off terrific and within a few shows, I would have been happy to kill their kids, myself. No compunction, no hesitation. I mean, who on earth actually puts up with that mouthy crap from their teens and apologizes to them, for their jobs, etc.? If that's how kids are raised today, no wonder they're all so screwed up.
The Order--again, started out good, fairly cute. But Season 2 was like Season 2 of
The Alienist---"Let's do all girls, all the time! Make Women everything!" and both shows were ruined.
I started out really liking
The October Faction, but they'd killed off most of my liking within 3 episodes and by the last one, I was rooting for the monsters to kill the teens and very possibly, their parents, too.
It's not just supernatural shows, either--it's true for everything. The whole "Hill House" series/group (?) on Netflix. The
Hill House one was fine, but then the others...yuck. Using the same cast, the same ensemble, over and over--that's a gimmick and it rarely works (I remember when A&E did that with The Nero Wolfe series, and it suffered for it, too), and they simply felt miscast.
It's hard to find shows that hold up, any longer. Most of them just...either suck from the jump, or have promise initially and then fall off to the pits. I don't know if it's just that I've lived this long, so everything is a retread, or if putting the accountants in charge of approving shows means that nothing innovative or creative gets approved, or...what. But it's hard to find anything with any
pop any longer.
Embarrassingly, I find myself watching stuff from 20-50-60 years ago, out of sheer boredom and irritation.
Hitch