Top five TV shows most people seem to love but you hate

Scrubs
Family Guy
Eastenders
The West Wing
Match of the Day

Friends X 5

Scrubs
Family Guy
The West Wing

OTMx3

seinfeld
curb your enthusiasm

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Lost
The Sopranos
American Idol
Weeds
and lately I'm tempted to say Mad Men

American Idol
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Hate's is too strong a word, but I really don't get the love for:

The Wire
The Sopranos
Coronation Street

(all very similar you notice)

Oh yeah and:

Lost

And I've really tried with all those.

oh yeah!

Lost
the West Wing
the Sopranos
The Wire
The Office

(not hate, just not interested)

west wing is a big one for me. show made me want to barf.

Friends
Family Guy
American Idol
Jon & Kate
any number of reality TV shows

Family Guy
Anything shown on BBC3 ever (that isn't Monkey Dust): Mighty Boosh, Little Britain, Gavin & Stacy, other things.

Oh yeah, Lost! And Heroes!

i don't really hate any current show (except Family Guy & American Dad), but I was rooting for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip to fail

I was rooting for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip to fail

oh me too, as hard as I possibly could

i felt like such a troll on that studio 60 thread. hated it so bad. i guess i just hate that guy.

i actually watch family guy and american dad even though i don't like them much. sunday is a slow night for me.

you can't HANDLE the Sorkin

^^ NB if I were Aaron Sorkin I think every minor dispute I had with anyone would end with me saying "you can't HANDLE the truth -- I WROTE THAT, BITCH"

Sopranos
The Office (US)
Law & Order
Mr. Show
Buffy The Vampire Slayer

may fave show right now is the one where people run an obstacle course and fall in the water and john henson makes fun of how fat they are so of course take everything i say with a grain of salt.

kinda surprised by all the sopranos hate! i bailed before the last two seasons, but i liked it fine up until then. i just got tired of waiting three years for a new season.

yeah i don't get aaron sorkin either, def rooted for studio 60 to die. i watched the west wing for a while though b/c my high school government teacher would show us taped episodes whenever it was too hot out to teach

good to see people finally have a venue to say they don't like friends! that show needs to be knocked down of its pedestal IMO

"hate" a strong word, but definitely not feeling "Fringe".
i'm thinking "House" is a bit overrated
i've never made it through a single reality show ever.

i'm willing to admit i never really gave "Buffy" a chance, but what i saw was pretty unwatchable that one time.
"Studio 60" was a huge pos, but you "West Wing" haters are breaking my heart. (i'll admit it gets real dicey after season 3)

may fave show right now is the one where people run an obstacle course and fall in the water and john henson makes fun of how fat they are so of course take everything i say with a grain of salt.

― scott seward, Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:41 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait...john henson aka The Skunk! i had no idea he was back!

i'm getting into the West Wing now after being slightly put off by it before, but it helped that the first Sorkin thing i saw was Sports Night, which i think is a lot easier to take.

oh yeah, that "Sports Night" ssucked , too

Sorkin's def a gamble

lol xpost

Why I like The West Wing: More4 showing the episodes where they discuss how politics should be about aspiring to be the smartest man on the room just as Sarah Palin became the Republican VP choice and just thinking lol, sorkin never thought it would be that bad, he was just zinging bush.

i want to say i hate joss whedon but maybe i just hated the girl in my 2-D design class who wore tshirts from the television without pity store

Toby = personal hero

yeah totally my fav character a lot of the time

buffy
true blood
friends
entourage (why would i want to watch a show about a bunch of douchebags when i can go to any bar in my town and see similar douchebags IRL?)
family guy

the obstacle course show is wipeout and my son loves it

I thought about saying Entourage, but I don't actually know that many people who care about it

and lately I'm tempted to say Mad Men

me too. Not "hate," by any means. I really love the set & costume design, acting, writing & general attention to detail. Probably one of the all-time best "period" depictions in television, really. But I got about eight episodes into the first season & decided that all those great things weren't enough to make me care about the characters enough to commit to the whole, big serial-drama experience. I appreciate subtlety & nuance, but this is an extended dramatic series & so I would also like some conflict, mystery & intrigue mixed in. Do those elements escalate as the series progresses, or should I just move on?

entourage (why would i want to watch a show about a bunch of douchebags

OTM

i think i move in douchey circles, b/c lots of friends of mine love "entourage" (the honest ones admitting that, yes, the characters are a bunch of douchey twats).

wipeout reminds me a little of Battle of the Network Stars which I loved as a kid

the challops! they do nothing!

Wipeout is somewhat fun but totally makes me cringe. That bit where people stand on platforms and have to jump over the revolving bar -- yeah everything's padded and helmeted but I still sit there awaiting the inevitable broken arm or concussion

their bodies get twisted in very unnatural ways when they fall off those huge red bouncing balls!

Wow, I did not realize how many people hated Sorkin as much as I do. I can't think of many shows I hate outside of his, usually I just don't watch. But West Wing etc. are so overbearing and overpraised.

^^^OTM

Never saw "Sports Night"
Hated "The West Wing" after the first season
Hated "Studio 60" after the first episode

it's liberal porn. which is, like, the worst kind of porn.

guys, a LOT of people hate sorkin

I watch Entourage for the women, does that make me shallow?

No time to scroll properly so dunno if it's cracked a mench so far but....the ever hey-look-at-me-I'm-as-edgy-as-all-fuck-and-so-unPC-I'm-criticproof 'Married With Bloody Children'

it's not the fact that they dressed up as women that was funny, it was their good impressions of middle aged women and their concerns that was funny.

that shit never gets old.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/70/188629873_4b18c9d1de.jpg

Dave Foley was a MAN???

No but seriously, this has already been said, but one of the things I liked about that show was that it wasn't all "haha we are clearly men dressed up as women" -- surely half of the reason they did it all the time was that each of those dudes was spectacularly good at being a woman of a certain age. (I was about to say that I wouldn't be thrown if I ran into Bruce McCullough as someone's aunt at a family reunion in Wisconsin, but I can't really single him out when they each had really awesome and distinct personalities as women.)

I mean when it gets down to it their women characters aren't an ounce more constructed or camped up or whatever than most of their MEN, which is kind of awesome

^^^nabisco OTM. Monty Python is different, they didn't even try to pretend to be actual women, but the KITH guys were really good at becoming their female characters. Foley as a no-nonsense business woman is kinda uncanny, for ex.

yeah the kith dudes were committed and serious about playing women, it wasn't even a joke it was just them playing different characters.

they're all such perfect and complementary types, like maybe:

Foley = droll, competent, no-nonsense lady
McCulloch = mousy nervous woman tittering at others
McDonald = the prim stylish one who's more "sophisticated"
Thompson = the sassy gossipy ringleader type who cracks jokes that make others say "you're terrible"
McKinney = the type who says the "you're terrible"

(all of which are seriously more naturalistic and credible than, say, McKinney playing the big deep-voiced boss guy who writes "you're fired" on his eyelids)

i am realizing that there is almost nothing on tv that i will not watch + eventually like.

― horseshoe, Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is kinda where i'm at, too -- like i wasn't on the Lost bandwagon until i got caught up about a year ago, saw some Arrested Development recently that took the edge off my (still lingering) dislike for it, don't REALLY wanna watch Mad Men or The Office or the Sopranos or Buffy but if i got bored and Netflixed a couple discs my resistance would break down. I kind of feel like TV is in a class of its own as a medium in which things that are popular/revered almost always have some really strong undeniable appeal (whether it's a lowest-common-denominator appeal or not), and sometimes asserting your taste is just about not giving yourself chance to be seduced by that appeal.

i feel that way about a lot of TV--i think its something about never-ending serialized narratives, you know, where given a basic standard of writing and plot development after spending 20+ hours with a group of characters its hard not to invest in them to a certain extent

"The Philanthropist" seems to have gotten a ton of good reviews but based on the one episode I saw it seems like the most expensive, pandering expression of white guilt I have ever seen. The only thing I actually liked was the usage of Ayub Ogada's "Kothbiro" and even that was more of a "thank God they're playing some good music during this horrifyingly saccharine revelatory scene" reaction than anything else.

every reality show

I did see The Soup showing clips of reality shows the other night, and my mind was srsly blown at the sheer wtf of it all. People WATCH THESE? I mean, I will watch some really bad teevee, I'm not pretending I won't. But.......THAT??? Wow.

"I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!" was too terrible even for me.

British I'm a Celebrity used to be pretty good, and was the reality show people who don't like reality shows watched for a couple of series.

Are shows like American Idol, Hell's Kitchen, or Project Runway reality shows, or more like contest/game-shows?

Just seems like those shows are substantially different than Flava of Love, or whatever.

Well yeah, there's actually a skill competition with those shows as opposed to gross displays of human buffoonery.

to be fair, a good percentage of people watching certain reality shows are watching them as a sort of unabridged version of The Soup

lol

it's basically the Joel McHale home game, where you get to make the snarky joke to your viewing companion

this is why watching reality shows with other people is a lot of the time less bearable than watching them by yourself

i'm not sure they're generally intended for people with rich social stuff going on at the moment

The Wire
Its Always Sunny in Philly
The Big Bang Theory
Lost
The Office (US)

But I am super fucking into Law and Order: Goldblum Edition
I liked Reins too. Pissed when they canceled that.

help i'm a celebrity was unwatchable once they got rid of the drunk drugged baldwin cuz at least when he was on there was a morbid fascination about whether he would just drop dead from sweating so much.

worst ever reality on right now is the newlywed thing on abc. couldn't get a more unlikeable bunch of people in one room if you tried! it's kinda staggering really.

all supernatural detectives need to be banned for at least the next 20 years. sorry patricia arquette, really i am. god knows i've loved your ditzy ass for years now.

haha just yesterday I was imagining a new network show called The Boggler, about a supernatural detective who solves crimes by shaking up the Boggle thing and then going "oh, it says someone named Mark did it"

"Mark Bfaelop"

starring peggy hill as the boggler

good corporate tie-ins for that one

ornery police chief: "your ability 2 solve this mysteries so quickly boggles the mind!"

thanksgiving episode about genetically engineered serial killing turkeys called "Gobble Boggle"

i am out of boggle related "jokes" so quickly

boggler breaks his boggle board one week, tries to solve crimes on his own, gives up saying: "This case BOGGLES my mind."

Hate:
American Idol & countless imitator talent shows, and any of those new primetime type game shows (Can you stump a 3rd grader or w/e it's called)
CSI Miami

Meh:
Lost
Office (US)
House M.D.
CSI (all of them except Miami which I hate)

The Simpsons

I don't watch enough TV to include four others.

"I can't make sense of this broken board. It's all BOGGLEDYGOOK!"

Sorry.

The Simpsons

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, June 27, 2009 2:58 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

Uh, isn't your user name a Simpsons ref?

Also I'm surprised that anyone could actually HATE Sopranos or The Wire.

snrub plays by his own rules. he's a maverick. a loose cannon.

Back when I started on ILX the Simpsons had only been crap for about five-six years. But now it's gotten to the point where they've been so bad for so long that you watch any random episode on syndication and there's like an 80 percent chance it'll be terrible. I know lots of other people like them, but I don't even find most of the quotes on the Top 100: Simpsons moments/dialogue thread all that funny.

"American Idol"
"Seinfeld"
"Friends"
"The Sopranos"
"Project Runway"

You forgot "Dora The Explorer"

six feet under.
battlestar galactica
south park
ER
House (i guess i don't really like medical dramas in general.)

do that many people actually love friends these days? seems like the challop these days is to like it.

Arrested Development
Arrested Development-like shows

millions of people love friends. they just tend not to be the type of people who post on internet message boards all the time.

Big Bang Theory

If you ever enjoyed one minute of this you are the bottom of the barrel.