no help here, no TV...Here’s the short list:
ALL
Well, my first nomination to MUST MISS is the Syfy series “Helix”....what a piece of boring, aimlessly ambling CRAP!
I just wish that it had the imagination and determination of the final episodes of Stargate Universe where, admittedly the first half dozen episodes were boring boring boring, DID try to redeem itself and produced a few good final episodes (after it had already self-injected itself with the cancellation serum). At least it ended with something hopeful. Helix will live infamy with the crap conclusion of that writer dope-induced series LOST [just damn. I am ashamed that I even watched that hallucination.]
Any Law and Order after Ben Bratt left.
Law and Order....SVU.....stink bomb
Any New Sitcom
99% new dramas
My binge watching favorites:
The Tudors
LOST
and for giggles:
Xena the Warrior Princess
no help here, no TV...I list all also. Television-free for 13 years and counting.
Shameless
House of Lies
Girls (duh)
Cosmos
Orange Is The New Black
Who needs to watch crap that is just thinly-veiled leftist propaganda? I’m praying that Game of Thrones isnt filled with the same bilge when I start watching it today.
Anyway, I rather just scour YouTube for quality shows people have uploaded like “War Walks”. Stuff that doesn’t make you feel molested after watching it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72wUyowkfQA
War Walks - The Somme
Under the Dome (Dumb).
The first few episodes were good but it has been a ridiculous free fall ever since. Season 2, ep.1 just aired and it was exponentially more stupid than the season 1 finale. It’s sad to think about what it could have been. I highly recommend missing this series entirely.
We find ourselves further out of the pop culture orbit with the passing of time. TV free for 12 years, we no longer know who the celebs are that are destroying themselves on the covers of the checkout mags.
But we have become friends of Austen and Dickens.
p.s. thx for the linkDominion etc. Blasphemous.
Business SyFy channel has
Shrinking Deficits Grumpy Politicians
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Redundant History Lessons
How to waste trillions and get richer blowing it
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Anything that has ‘The Housewives of’’ in its title.
On the next thread you post, ask people what foods they don't like so that you can avoid them. If you follow their advice you'll eventually starve.........
There was already one series listed that I especially liked, so there you go. Everybody's viewing tastes are different and you'll learn nothing if you listen to everyone.......
Much easier to ask what is GOOD to watch, as the list is considerably shorter.
Longmire, Hell on Wheels. Doctor Who. Those are the only 3 shows I find worth watching and would sit through a couch marathon for. (well, and 2 guilty pleasures I will not name).
I AM looking forward to the Ron Moore/Starz production of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series of books. Getting Starz because of it.
Anyone else here a Sassenach?
Bones. Unfortunately my wife likes it for some reason. Flaws are to numerous and onerous to list here.
I am an unapologetic TV FAN. Big screen. Home theater. Etc. The wife and I LOVE it. Yeah, there’s a lot of drek (always has been) but SO much good material out there.
But on to the question. A recent series that I tried twice to get through the pilot but couldn’t as everything about it is bad .. story, acting, etc ...
Sominion on SyFy. TERRIBLE show.
My current favorite (yeah I know not in the question) since Breaking bad is done is Walking Dead.
Back in 1952 we were the first family in our neighborhood to get a TV. The station came on around 5 P.M. and went off at midnight. For the first 15 minutes etc. there was a test pattern.
I remember some of the kids told me that TV was going to be on in the daytime. I can remember wondering how you would be able to see it in the bright light. Stations commonly went off the air for an hour at a time. I remember WJDM in Panama City changed their call letters and everyone said it was because people claimed the letters stood for: Wait Just a Damn Minute.
There were some really good shows on. Dobie Gillis, The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, The Hit Parade etc.
I am now retired and about the only shows I watch are reruns of the old shows.
Daytime TV can only be described as “Garbage” Maybe garbage is not a strong enough word. It is sickeningly bad. At times 90% of the people on are Black and that is not hyperbole.
Now if the Black shows were funny like “Amos and Andy”, it would not be so bad but these shows are about who is my Daddy, fights, unbelievably trashy interviews etc.
There is not a single primetime show which is really good. I do sometimes watch the sort of crime mystery show with Lester Holt. For a while “Smallville” was pretty good despite being unbelievably PC such as all the Dr.s Psychiatrists Scientists etc being Black and/or Female, usually both. After six or seven seasons, it got unwatchable too.
In short today’s TV is worse than awful.
I think “Turn” turned out to be a pretty lousy series. I remember thinking “what was the point of that” after I finished watching the last episode.
I won’t watch anything with a queer character or that promotes homosexuality or other perverse lifestyles.