Any and all “reality” TV.
I fully don’t get why people like that. It looks mean and dull and it’s not even reality. The sexy ones also look like a shit stand-in for actual porn, too.
I like one category of reality tv and even then only a small subsection of them: Game Shows. The subsection in particular seems to be Japanese game shows subbed in English, the only ones I know so far tbh are Sasuke and Takeshi’s Castle. As to why, Sasuke is just cool and Makoto Nagano rules, plus it’s fun with the silly competitors. Takeshi’s Castle is just plain hilarious. Conversely I hate basically all american versions, American Ninja Warrior was ass and Wipeout was too, yet both were just stolen rebrandings of their Japanese counterparts with all the whimsy and fun sucked out.
And I’m mainly posting this to solicit recommendations for more Japanese game shows like that which I can pirate.
I would put those in a completely separate category, actually. They’re both older and more real than the “engineered compilation of random unscripted moments” type of thing.
I have no recommendations, unfortunately, haha.
Well people consider Survivor reality tv, so idk I figured it was towards that genre. But whatever we consider it, I like it haha.
Haha okay I love Japanese game shows but I almost can’t call them reality. :P I recommend Silent Library. An older show but great.
I figure if Survivor counts (and people say it does) than those would too, but I feel you lol. I’ll check it out, thanks! The older the better tbh! Takeshi’s Castle was what like 1986ish?
they actively hire models, or attractive people on purpose. and many of them post show career, ends up as mlm, or worst on trumps administration, and of course porn too, sometimes they are pornstars before.
reality has always been trash, and they cancelled shows just so they can have that slop because it brings in the lowest common denominators.
The Office
UK, US, or Aussie?
Literally every country on the planet.
Friends.
Shallow, punchable people who made being dumb fucks a virtue.
I’m pretty sure that was every 20-35 year old in the 90s.
people had problems with it being a white-centric show in NYC of all places. also unrealistic as it was an expensive city and they dont look like they can afford the places.
To be fair, I have friends who love this show but also admit it hasn’t aged well.
The only redeemable one is Phoebe. The rest feel like self-centered assholes, especially Ross and Rachael.
Game of Thrones. To much a period drama.
Big Bang Theory, and all ‘reality’ shows.
The Office
It makes my skin crawl.
It’s cringe pretending to be humor.
I’ve seen so many memes of it but I just couldn’t get into it either!
The memes are funny though lol. Just not the show.
Same. If you want some actually laugh out loud hilarious cringe humor, I highly recommend Peep Show with Mitchell and Webb.
The original UK version of The Office is pretty good too.
The British will always win at police procedural/mystery/dramas and deadpan comedies.
Or the police procedural mystery deadpan comedy A Touch Of Cloth!
I will never forget the dog episode. This show was singed in my mind. Also a favorite of mine.
The turkey incident tho. (I need to do a rewatch.)
I love how you can just say the dog episode and everyone who’s seen the show knows exactly what you mean
Loved the original, but US remake has just all the corners filed and padded.
The British original was even worse! I don’t want to feel bad when watching a comedy!
Gotta laugh or else you’ll cry-ahh humour
I feel this for some British comedy shows. I love British comedies like IT Crowd, Black Books, Fleabag. But man, those shows that think making people cringe really hard is funny like the original Office doesn’t do it for me.
They’re meant to be more funny in a sense that you can relate to them as you’ve been in such situations and can now have the catharsis that you’re not alone in those experiences. And as people usually do with such situations that are awful in the moment, you laugh at them in hindsight.
That’s the intention of such cringe humour. Maybe the ones you listed have elements that relate more to your life than the ones you dislike? Or maybe they remind you of moments where the above just cannot apply to your emotional experience of them, and so they cannot be funny.
same.
Big bang theory. Cannot stand the characters on that show, especially Sheldon
The best concise description of that show I’ve heard was “it’s what people who aren’t nerds think nerds would like”.
To be fair, the scene where Penny gifts Sheldon something like the glass Leonard Nimoy drank out of, for Christmas, had me crying with laughter. That’s about it, though.
Edit: The napkin he used, and then signed with a note.
i remember the sub that was discussing big ban theory how they turned penny into a stem professional into a total “bimbo” by the end of the series.
I remember watching the pilot for the show, I was like, “oh this could be refreshing away from the stupidity of the rest of tv!”. I was already onto anime by that point and had entirely stopped watching cable.
But no. Apparently, when the actual show started airing, it was EXACTLY as you describe, and a massive disappointment. Xbox and bad quips and trying to get girls? Absolutely not.
When Sheldon says “Bazinga” I throw 10 metric tonnes of popcorn at the screen. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen /s
That show is literally trash.
I mean, this is Lemmy, it’s a show about making fun of us.
And honestly I’d respect that if they put effort into it, but “lol nerd” is like 90% of the plot.
Silicon Valley also makes fun of nerds, but it’s for nerds. BBT just made nerds the butt of the joke.
They’re not nerds. They’re geeks at worst and really just programmers.
How I Met Your Mother. Most laugh track comedies I found barely tolerable at best but that show fucking sucked major ass and I don’t trust the judgement of anybody who liked that show.
same. i stopped watching when i realised i didnt laugh at a single joke all throughout the first season
The last 2 seasons of that show were total and utter dogshit. The earlier seasons are great though.
For reals. That show is so absolutely unfunny, it astounds me that anyone could enjoy watching it
I couldn’t take getting through half of the season (at least I think I made it halfway through)
I don’t understand Parks and Rec.
- Attack on Titan
- The walking dead
- Vinland Saga
- Game of Thrones
- Arrested Development
- Curb your Enthusiasm (can’t get past the first episode)
Sopranos.
The Mafia and gangster genre has just never appealed to me. I always find the characters annoying and one-dimensional.
Agreed; Tony has a problem. Tony gets angry. Tony solves problem by killing/having killed said person responsible for the problem was very much the dominant and highly repetitive story line. There was some nuance, sure, but not enough for my liking.
Altered Carbon. I couldn’t get past the first episode. I love sci-fi but this just feels pretentious.
Severance. So. Goddamn. Slow.
I felt the same. I also think that we viewers have so much more information than the characters… so even though there’s mystery, we see the mysteries coming like 2 full episodes in advance. Yawn
Totally. I enjoy the premise of the show, but the delivery is sleep-inducing.
The Sopranos
Same! I gave it way more time than it deserved because so many people raved about the show. For me, it was like a snail-paced soap opera about the least likeable people in the world.
Might be the only person I’ve ever seen in my life who disliked the Sopranos. I assume you don’t eat Gabagool?
I assume you don’t eat Gabagool?
Gabagool? Now that’s a word I had to look up, but luckily Wikipedia once more was able to come to the rescue:
The pronunciation gabagool has been used by some Italian Americans in the New York City area and elsewhere in the Northeast US, based on the Neapolitan language word capecuollo (pronounced [kapəˈkwollə]) in working-class strata of 19th- and early 20th-century immigrants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capocollo#Etymology
So it turns out that I do like to eat it, but I normally just call it coppa.
Game of Thrones.
The incest didn’t bother me, but pushing a child out a window hit the wrong note with me and my wife.
The incest didn’t bother me
Uh…
Wait until you read literally any bit of human history.
I tried watching the first episode and turned off after 30 minutes because nothing happened. I had friends who loved watching it but it just seemed like a soap opera aimed at men—the drama was way too heavy for me.
Don’t check the Red Wedding scene on Youtube
Honestly good you got out. I still think about some of the darker parts of the books. The older and more aware I become the sicker they make me feel.
That’s mild compared to later seasons. It does get pretty fucking sadistic.
I see where you’re coming from and it’s not for everyone.
To clarify, the incest didn’t SHOCK me. Kids out of windows did.
