Shows That Don't "Click" With You

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Caproni said:
I enjoyed BATES MOTEL almost all the way through. There was some I missed about halfway through, and I didn't really care for the post-Norma deceased story line, but it was a good show at the beginning.​
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That's when I finally watched again to see how they do the Psycho part and I was delighted. I thought it was brilliant. I watched the first half of Bates Motel Season 1 and lost interest, didn't bother to watch again until I became aware of Norma's death.

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THIS IS US was one of my favorite shows, but this last season has really put me "off", and I just don't care to watch it like I once did.​
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You wrote in another thread it is because Covid and racism as issues that put you off. I'm also starting to have doubts about This Is Us since the start of this season but for other reasons.

I dislike how they constantly add new characters (this season the worst example of having no real impact because it's a few episodes ago and it is probably never mentioned again: the Asian guy who knew someone of the family to make it not too spoilerish) and forget to continue with others that were introduced two seasons ago (Deja's boyfriend, uncle Nicky). Too many random characters that come (surrogate mother) and go (the other Jack) while the adult Pearsons kids move too slow in their stories. And still no episode that tells a bit about Miguel - I know more about Kate's neighbour and the guy Toby met at the parking lot two episodes ago!

Also in the same episode with the old dude at the parking lot they tricked me with the introduction of new characters who actually weren't part of the story (so it's not a spoiler!): another flashback into the 1960's but with some inventor for technology that developed our smart phones... no relation to any of the Pearsons or anyone they know. It was like a kitschy commercial (we keep you connected in this hard times, as SNL could film it as a parody). I felt betrayed! Really cheated! This is what happens if producers think they can "educate" us. Sorry, I click on Google's history logos for that!!! And it's hard to swallow because I still watch Riverdale which hints I don't set the level high (but it never disappointed me too much). But my love for This Is Us is now between Sue Ellen's exit with the never-mentioned again film and J.R. in the asylum.
 
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This is a hard question for me to answer.
There are a few shows that I feel like are part of my own life and still think about and dream of them being continued in some way.
Then there are the ones that I watched and enjoyed at the time but felt no great sense of loss when they ended.
The shows that didn't click or just didn't appeal enough to watch, I guess I don't tend to remember at all.
 
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Neighbours I watched from 1988 to 2005. To this day I still quote something that Harold Bishop said to character that just lost his brother to illness... "life is all about change, sometimes it's beautiful sometimes it's painful. But it is usually a mix of both"

I hold that sentiment dear to the extent that I keep repeating it to myself as I said goodbye to the stranger that became my friend at the cancer hospice in 2017.

Neighbours was a constant in my life. But now I just don't watch it. Can't explain why.
 
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Karin Schill said:
This is probably not gonna fall in good soil with our British posters but I tried to watch "Coronation Street" when I was like 17 and I was bored to tears.
The pacing was too slow, there were plenty of characters and when one of the major plot is a missing cat... :fp:

I realized at that time that daytime soap operas really wasn't my thing.
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Well to begin with Corrie isn't a day time soap with it being on at 7.30pm and 8.30pm and having rarely deviated from that sort of broadcast slot in it's run. I think it gets cut when shown abroad during the day occassionally.

What year it was you were watching would probably help pinpoint if you just didn't like the format or the era. A show that's ran that long has put out some dross but also some masterpieces. It's a different show now than it was in the 70s or 80s

I can't get along with a lot more of the US daytime soaps because of how hammy they are to be honest.
 
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For those of you who mentioned "The Sopranos" I totally get that. I enjoyed it, but probably because I binge watched it years after it finished its original run. If I had been watching week by week, I don't think it would have held my attention.

To me, it was just good - not great. And I never understood why it was always considered such a masterpiece.
 
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Well to begin with Corrie isn't a day time soap with it being on at 7.30pm and 8.30pm and having rarely deviated from that sort of broadcast slot in it's run. I think it gets cut when shown abroad during the day occassionally.

What year it was you were watching would probably help pinpoint if you just didn't like the format or the era. A show that's ran that long has put out some dross but also some masterpieces. It's a different show now than it was in the 70s or 80s
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I tried to watch it in the late 1990s. I thought it was a daytime soap because the episodes were broadcast in the afternoon over here. They also showed five episodes/week which is ususally what the daytime soaps produce unlike the prime time dramas that has one episode/week.
 
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Karin Schill said:
This is probably not gonna fall in good soil with our British posters but I tried to watch "Coronation Street" when I was like 17 and I was bored to tears.
The pacing was too slow, there were plenty of characters and when one of the major plot is a missing cat... :fp:

I realized at that time that daytime soap operas really wasn't my thing.
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A missing cat is a very serious thing my friend. :danc:
 
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Karin Schill said:
I tried to watch it in the late 1990s. I thought it was a daytime soap because the episodes were broadcast in the afternoon over here. They also showed five episodes/week which is ususally what the daytime soaps produce unlike the prime time dramas that has one episode/week.
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Yeah we're a bit unusual in the UK in that these shows are on in Prime Time and consistently some of the highest rated shows on telly (at least until very recently for EastEnders, Corrie still holding up (although it hasn't topped the chart yet this year with so many big ticket entertainment and drama shows)- (as I'm sure you're aware with your nod to trepidation in touching a golden goose of British television.)

The late 90s is widely considered a pretty poor era of the show depending on the exact timeframe. The heydeys being the late 70s and 80s and the mid-noughties for entirely different reasons, so you probably chose a pretty bad time to jump in.

It's 6 episodes a week now as well!! Interestingly it rated better when it briefly returned to 3 due to Covid, so it's not just foreign fans irked by the excessive number of episodes.
 
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I think it's the number of episodes per week that confuses a lot of people. In the US, primetime shows almost always air only once per week. In the various other dayparts, however, you get the "strip" format (Monday through Friday) for most shows--like daytime soaps. Even the early prime slots (7pm-8pm) tend to be M-F shows. Even if a soap was airing twice a week, Americans would probably grumble and complain about it being "confusing"--missing episodes that don't air in what they assume is its once weekly time slot. I think they tried to air multiple episodes per week of Peyton Place and Our Private World in the 1960s, but stopped doing it because the public had become so conditioned to once-per-week.

At their peak, networks did air multiple episodes per week of such primetime game shows as American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, and Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, though as soon as their popularity waned their networks quickly cut them back. And of course there was the infamous Jay Leno debacle, where NBC tried to start a weeknight talk show in the 10pm slot identical to the Tonight Show he had hosted weeknights at 11:30. They were hoping to cut expenses by filling an hour of primetime with the same kind of cheap talk show they'd had on in late-fringe for decades. And people tuned out in droves! NBC quickly went back to airing different series every night at 10pm.
 
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there are a lot The Big Bang theory i tried watching it many times and i thought it was awful but i did try and watch it i love the theme song though as i'm a huge BNL fan i even went and saw them in concert in (1999) when my brother took me and that's the last concert he ever took me too as a matter of fact
 
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A missing cat is a very serious thing my friend. :danc:
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I understand that know. I'd be devastated if something happened to our family pet. But back then I didn't have pets so it was harder to relate.

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Yeah we're a bit unusual in the UK in that these shows are on in Prime Time and consistently some of the highest rated shows on telly (at least until very recently for EastEnders, Corrie still holding up (although it hasn't topped the chart yet this year with so many big ticket entertainment and drama shows)- (as I'm sure you're aware with your nod to trepidation in touching a golden goose of British television.)
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Yes I do know that it's a very popular show in the UK. I just didn't realize that it was being broadcast in the evenings!
 
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I had the impression that it was implied that they were Miguel's parents but I could be mistaken.
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No. But I assumed that too until the final scene with the characters which explained it. That's why I felt really cheated.

If the producers wanted to thank the people responsible for connecting us via smart phones then why didn't they film it just for a web release? Also: why not thanking the person who invented the telephone? Most people connect via phones and not visually.
 
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It might be perfect timing for me if I like a show or not. I remember when NCIS, Bones or Monk debuted I gave up after the pilot, but years later I gave them another try and understood why viewers like it. Same happened with 24: Maybe I wasn't ready for it when it premiered, but years later I finally realized how good it was.
 
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