[Moved to Piefed] Television

I didn’t care for Breaking Bad, but I did enjoy “Better Call Saul” up until the last season. 🤷‍♂️

Really? Damn, I mean to each their own, but the show started getting really interesting in the episode where Walter brought in the fulminated mercury...

Some of the early episodes really show their age. It's definitely still worth watching in 2025, but it is an old show at this point.

Yeah I couldn't stand it, and came to the comments because I was sure it would already be mentioned.

I stuck through season 1, pretending that the character's arcs were believable and fast forwarding through some of the brutality, then gave up.

A friend convinced me to try again, but the seconds time I gave up after the season with the shots of the pool debris at the start. The payoff on that felt cheap and vaguely a violation of chekovs gun. After that I had to tell the friend who wanted me to watch it that I was done and wouldn't be trying again.

I'm so with you. I don't think I know a single person who has seen Breaking Bad and didn't like it. Meanwhile I hated it.

BBT is critically acclaimed in the same way the Big Mac is the world's most popular burger.

Also mostly sex jokes disguised as smart people humor. It quickly gets old.

It's lowkey offensive to autistic people too. Young Sheldon did much better at that

They may as well call it The Big Gangbang Theory because it portrays nerd/geeks the same way porn portrays sex.

It took me several attempts to watch parks & rec. It ended up being one my favorite. I've tried The Office a couple times and couldn't do it. Same with Sunny.

Hey, at least you didn't have to suffer through the ending.

My dad is always stunned that I never really got into GoT. I tuned in for a couple of seasons at the beginning, but life just got too busy for these kinds of big shows.

The first couple of episodes drag, but it picks up later. You might try the books instead. Or even the audiobooks — the narrator for those does an excellent job.

I can understand this one. I enjoyed the series enough to go back and read the books, but the acting overall was not great

It took me a very long time before. I finally watched that show a few years ago. I didn’t care for it in the beginning, but towards the middle it got a bit more interesting. I didn’t care for the ending. Overall, it’s not gonna be one of those shows I go back to and binge again and again. But I was glad to at least have seen it once.

Same, why should I care about these people?

The only character that seemed like an actual character in S1 was the manager, and...

Watching just the first season of Stranger Things was probably the right way to do it. The first season is a complete story, and all the other seasons just feel like Netflix milking its success for $$$.

Other shows where you can watch the first season and stop for similar reasons: Handmaids Tale, Westworld.

So, S1 of the expanse was my favorite season by far, mostly because I loved the introduction to the belter ethos, it set a tableau for the rest of the season which was much more action oriented.

Would you mind naming a couple shows you actually do like? As a huge Arcane fan, I'm intrigued to hear what you consider good.

I mean, it had some Justified to it, but you can't beat some good old Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.