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What Popular Show/Movie Did You Never Understand The Appeal Of?

BirdinHand said:
Lost.

Never understood the fascination with that show.

(And basically every reality tv show, ever 😂)
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Oh my god, me too! When I first heard about the premise I thought it might be up my alley. I started watching with some friends in college... and I quickly lost interest. I don't know if it was something about the script, production... or something else. I just couldn't get into it.
 
Gilmore Girls is another one, for me. My family became OBSESSED with the show. My wife and I never understood. The interactions seemed so forced and unrealistic. Wife and daughter hang out in coffee shop every day firing off little quips at each other as if it was casual banter. I just found it annoying.
 
Geoist said:
Gilmore Girls is another one, for me. My family became OBSESSED with the show. My wife and I never understood. The interactions seemed so forced and unrealistic. Wife and daughter hang out in coffee shop every day firing off little quips at each other as if it was casual banter. I just found it annoying.
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See, that’s what I liked about Gilmore Girls and Friends.

They were simply light hearted fiction - there was nothing too heavy in the plot lines.

Both of those shows are on my “mindless tv” list - along with The Office, Seinfeld, Golden Girls…and a couple others I can’t recall.

When life gets heavy or my brain is racing and I need to zone out - I can put them on and fall asleep and take a nap. 😂
 
BirdinHand said:
Lost.

Never understood the fascination with that show.

(And basically every reality tv show, ever 😂)
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I watched the Real World up to the year they were in SF. After that, lost interest. And have not watched reality TV since, including Survivor, Amazing Race, or a very weird Naked and Afraid which I see clips of on the TVs at the gym.
 
BirdinHand said:
See, that’s what I liked about Gilmore Girls and Friends.

They were simply light hearted fiction - there was nothing too heavy in the plot lines.

Both of those shows are on my “mindless tv” list - along with The Office, Seinfeld, Golden Girls…and a couple others I can’t recall.

When life gets heavy or my brain is racing and I need to zone out - I can put them on and fall asleep and take a nap. 😂
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Seinfeld and Frasier have always been my go-to for light-hearted comedy. And I understand how some could counter my argument against Gilmore Girls by saying those shows were unrealistic in their interactions, but I just felt Gilmore Girls took it to another level that just annoyed me.
 
Part of my disinterest in reality/competition shows is their formula - how much drama can be generated between participants. That gets cringe after a very short time.

I can remember being a kid watching reruns of Three's Company and not liking how much drama happened between characters based on misunderstandings. Same thing with the melodrama on talk shows like Maury Pouvich. I don't think I've ever had the right mindset for that sort of entertainment. ;)
 
BirdinHand said:
Lost.

Never understood the fascination with that show.

(And basically every reality tv show, ever 😂)
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Agree on the so called 'reality shows'.
Have never cared for any of them.
And the commercials you see for the new ones just keep getting dumber and dumber.
 
Geoist said:
Seinfeld and Frasier have always been my go-to for light-hearted comedy. And I understand how some could counter my argument against Gilmore Girls by saying those shows were unrealistic in their interactions, but I just felt Gilmore Girls took it to another level that just annoyed me.
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Frazier is another classic.

Gilmore Girls is definitely a different flavor.
 
Geoist said:
As much as I hated it, I did enjoy watching my mom torture my dad in the late 90s by always playing it. :ROFLMAO:
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I have memories of it playing at just about every dance/prom, etc event in my younger years and it was just so forced cringe.

😂
 
KingLeo said:
Agree on the so called 'reality shows'.
Have never cared for any of them.
And the commercials you see for the new ones just keep getting dumber and dumber.
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There was a Canadian reality show a few years ago called 'Mantracker' that was sometimes good. It had a following in the US.
Another one called 'Survivorman' was not bad sometimes.
Neither series lasted ten years, though.
 
The Walking Dead. It had a couple moments of creativity, but to me it felt like just more boring zombies when the culture was already flooded.
 

What Popular Show/Movie Did You Never Understand The Appeal Of?​

Sitcoms
 
ASHES said:
The Walking Dead. It had a couple moments of creativity, but to me it felt like just more boring zombies when the culture was already flooded.
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Agree.
I think I watched maybe the first 2 or 3 episodes of season 1 and stopped from boredom.
And yet how many 'spin offs' are there now for it?
I do not get the appeal what-so-ever.
 
The older I get, the less I want to watch stupid sitcoms and comedy movies. Network reality TV is also now a non-starter for the most part. I mostly like to watch interesting stuff on youtube.
 
Helix said:
The older I get, the less I want to watch stupid sitcoms and comedy movies. Network reality TV is also now a non-starter for the most part. I mostly like to watch interesting stuff on youtube.
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YouTube is not immune from it's share of stupid crap also.
But I am with you in that I watch very little network TV.
 
KingLeo said:
YouTube is not immune from it's share of stupid crap also.
But I am with you in that I watch very little network TV.
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Oh, I know. I have kiddos. You wouldn't believe the youtube shit they watch. We try to control it, but the stupidity of some of it is incredible.
 
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