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Since I recently posted about the good shows I’ve been watching, I thought I’d be fair and blog about the shows I tried watching but didn’t like well enough to continue.
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I liked Breaking Bad years ago so I figured this series would be right up my alley. Prequel/sequel, whatever… I was here for it. Maybe there was too much time between viewings but I just couldn’t catch the vibe of this show. To be honest I found it more than a little annoying.
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I loved Yellowstone, 1883, 1923 and The Madison – so clearly I’m team Taylor Sheridan. And when I heard he was spinning off a show for Kayce Dutton? I was totally on board … until I saw the first two episodes and realized Marshals had none of the gravitas of its predecessors. Too much bang bang machismo action, not enough character development. I lamented the fact Taylor had let me down, until I read he didn’t write this show after problems with the new management of the Paramount/CBS merger. All I can say is… it shows. Hard pass.
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A friend recommended this comedy to me a while back and after the three stupid episodes I forced myself to watch? I might have to reexamine our friendship. It was that bad.
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I know a lot of people love Ozark but I’m afraid I’m not one of them. We sat through five episodes hoping it would click but all I can say is… meh. It just didn’t hold my interest.
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This is a show I was dying to watch when it debuted. So much hype. So much great press. But we had slow internet then and couldn’t stream. Now that I can? My disappointment was palpable. Yes, the retro vibe was fun but I found it rather boring and honestly… post Me Too movement? The treatment of women was hard to swallow. I stuck it out for 7 episodes but just couldn’t.
Watch Jon Hamm in AppleTV’s Your Friends and Neighbors. That’s so much better.
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River's world..... 
None are on my radar, but neither are any of the good ones. I have a hard time following serial shows.
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My husband never liked series, but now that we can stream? He likes to binge a whole season on a rainy day.
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My daughter used to yell at me when I’d catch a random episode of Lost or Breaking Bad and ask her “Who’s this guy?” Watching them out of order is not a good idea…I guess.
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Ultimately, watching Lost in any order was not a good idea…
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Ha! I never saw more than a few random episodes.
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The show was completely let down by the awful finale that revealed they never had a plan after all…
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Kind of pleased I don’t really watch these days.
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There’s a lot of great programs.
These weren’t.
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Is everything Yellowstone related except for CIS Yellowstone. I think they should make a show called Jellystone.
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I think they did. It stars Yogi Bear.
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Im sure they could tie it in, after all even the main characters can have their pic-in-ic baskets stolen.
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I watched Mad Men when it first came out. I was in the advertising business, so I enjoyed that part of it.
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Mad Men was depressing. Self-centered, self-absorbed people doing whatever occurs to them to do with zero regard for the consequences or how their actions affect other people. It’s an object lesson in what happens when you have no meaning in your life and use momentary pleasure as a substitute.
Sorry for being preachy. I’ll quit now.
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No worries.
I thought I’d enjoy it but totally didn’t.
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I recently watched The Messiah which had some thought provoking moments and it’s not that long and convoluted. I try not to get involved with serials that go on and on and on.
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I love a good long series, but it has to hold my interest.
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I tried to watch a lot of the same shows and you made it further than I did in all of them. Blech. The trend now is all rugged individualism and ‘Murica in Hollywood. I hate it.
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I’ve given up on television. It’s not worth the investment. If you’re lucky, the first season might be good, but then it’s either canceled or everything after that is a poorly thought-out lecture on the latest social issues.
No thanks. I want to watch something, oh, I don’t know, fun and entertaining?
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Shrinking and Ted Lasso. I laugh so much it hurts.
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Both require Apple TV, tho, right?
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Yes.
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Then it ain’t happening…
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Idk i loved MadMen
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I think I might have back then, but post Me Too movement it’s hard to take.
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Oh, wow. Your list includes three of what I consider among the best dramas of the 21st century (Better Call Saul, Ozark, and definitely Mad Men.) Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, I guess!
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I think it’s a matter of aging well. Some do, some don’t.
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