Movies and TV Shows

ok but why did you watch 3 seasons of a show you didn't enjoy

Parks and Rec is a great show....If you just straight up skip season 1. Season one did not have its legs and I can't really believe it didn't get canceled before season 2.

The expanse

It's very good, has me from very beginning, but there's a lot going on to keep track of. My wife and I have restarted it about 4 times but haven't made it through the first season, so we decided we need to find some time to really sit down and binge it, because if we walk away from it for a few days we lose track of everything that was going on and need to start over again.

I tried watching an episode of Schitt's Creek when it started but it just didn't click for me. My sister convinced me to just watch through the first season earlier this year and it got so much better with each season. So quotable, great comedic timing, character development, loved it.

Going through a similar thing with Star Trek atm. Didn't give it much attention until I passively watched a couple episodes that my boyfriend had on. Hooked on Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks now.

The wire. Think I started season 1 about 5 times. Then I stuck it out. Hands down the best show I’ve seen.

The Office

I never watched much TV, and ignored the hype. Then I tried season 1 while on Netflix, and was bored. Recently I skipped season 1, and really got hooked mid-season 2. Now I have my mom and aunt hooked.

British version of the Office. Still not into it.

Actually, why qualify it? Any version of the Office...

Breaking Bad took me a good 6 episodes or so. It starts off so dark and unappealing.

BSG (the remake) took me 3-4 episodes. Same deal.

But my god, they’re both pure gold.

Probably going to be Lost. I'm 3 episodes in as of 2008 and haven't gone back yet...if I ever do, it will be the longest to get into for me by far.

In seriousness though...As others have said, The Office and Parks & Rec took me about a season to get into.

Arrested Development, I admit, took me a few episodes.

Always Sunny took me about a season...I think just to get into a groove of the style or something, I dunno.

Not me but a friend of mine recommended a show.... I think it was sons of anarchy. Where they pitched it to me, with no exaggeration on my part, as "you just have to get through the first two or three seasons, then it gets really good".

I have not watched the show.

I watched the first four episodes of the Expanse, and then just skipped to the second season.

I know that's not exactly "long", but I didn't want to waste my time trying to get into it and it looked promising. Very glad I did it like that. This was back when there were only 3 seasons out.

The Wire.

I downloaded the entire series in 2010, hoping I could binge-watch it while I'm still on night shift. Couldn't get myself to finish the slow boring pilot, set it aside, and forgot about it completely.

More than 10 years later, I see it on HBO Max remastered. Managed to survive EP1, and quickly after that, I couldn't wait to watch every other episode.

I've always said the best shows are the ones wherein you can name every character to even the smallest one and know why they stuck with you. The Wire is one of those and remains my favorite of all time.

For some reason it took me a long time to click with Schitt's Creek.

For me it's "The Mighty Boosh": https://youtu.be/FiU-oCWPhx0

I fell in love with my now ex-wife (then girlfriend) in no small part because she had great humor and I liked a lot of the shows she liked.

So when one day in 2010 she raved about "The Mighty Boosh", of which she owned all DVDs including the live stuff, I had to check it out.

I started watching S01E01 and felt like watching someone's fever dream trying to recreate a kid's show. Same for the second, third etc episode.

Usually I'd have long given up on that show. But there had to be something to it, if she loved the show so much.

So I started watching season 2 ("Milky Joe" or "The Priest and The Beast", I can't really remember) and it clicked immediately. From there I binged all other episodes + season 3 + season 1 again - and I loved it all and couldn't understand how I didn't like it initially.

And thanks to that I discovered other gems from the same "circle" like "Snuff Box", "Garth Marenghi's Dark Place", "Luxury Comedy" and "The IT Crowd" (some episodes haven't aged well, but others are just filled with gold).

Succession. This show was so boring I didn’t even bother to watch the final ss.

I finally started GOT when season 7 started. I got to season 5 when season 8 ended. I didn't finish watching the show after that.

Breaking Bad. Watched the first 10 minutes or so of the first episode then gave up on it for over a year. Eventually gave it a second chance and couldn’t binge the whole thing quickly enough…

The Wire. I tried watching that show like four times, and only ever made it an episode or two. it starts so slow and boring.

The Americans. But boy once we got into their world, we couldn't stop.

West Wing. When it came out years ago, (24 actually...) I saw a couple episodes and it didn't interest me. But about 8 years ago I ended up watching every episode on Netflix and loved it. But wow, if I had to slog through to season 4 of a show to enjoy it, I would never get there.