With the way television shows have become so deeply ingrained into pop culture, even if you don’t watch many of them, it’s hard not to know which are popular at a given moment.
For those who do watch them, though, there are probably a few you’ve seen receive massive praise and yet you couldn’t understand why people loved them so much.
Someone on Reddit asked people to share the shows they believe are completely overrated, and people were happy to air out their grievances.
*Gilmore Girls*
“Rory is a horrible person.”
Others were quick to jump on the Rory-hating train, but one reply presented a theory that would explain the show’s framing, “My honest fan theory: The show is being told from the perspective of Rory’s memory. It explains about everything. Like how an entire town is emotionally invested in a single mom and her kid.”
*The Walking Dead*
“[…] [The Walking Dead] is something that always baffled me how it went beyond ~2 seasons.
They had the same loop of storyline repeated in every season – they run, they find shelter, they go out for food, someone gets bitten, they get overrun, they have to find somewhere new. Rinse and repeat for like 10 seasons.”
*Suits*
“Most of the episodes consists of these high and mighty lawyers consistently running into ‘dead ends’, not knowing what to do, but they will be having a side conversation and the person they’re talking to makes one remark about something AND THAT’S IT, they have found their answers.
“Onto the next episode to do the same exact thing! It’s cheap writing and office drama, he said she said stuff.”
*Sons of Anarchy*
“It’s ridiculous. We are supposed to believe that their ‘club’ is the most important thing to them all and they would do anything for their ‘brothers’. But they just kill each other.
“It almost never shows why someone would want to be in that life.
“We’re supposed to root for the main character because everyone loves him but all I could think was get those children away from this.”
*This Is Us*
“So you know when a little kid does something funny and adults laugh? Then they keep trying to be funny and everyone goes ‘okay okay’. This Is Us is that but with crying.”
Many users agreed with this, saying they found the show to be rather excessive in its sadness with little else to keep it up.
*Euphoria*
“It has impressive cinematography and is well acted. But the plot is all over the place and the characters are shallower than a shower. The only characters that have any depth and don’t come off too stereotypical is Rue and Jules.”
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*Lucifer*
“I absolutely adored this show in the early seasons but the quality dropped when it was ‘saved’ by Netflix and S5 and S6 were just god awful. […]
“At its heart, this was a procedural crime show. Of course it was still silly in a lot of ways but it had good heart and was funny and charming. This all drained away and to say the final couple of seasons were a chore would be an understatement.”
*Stranger Things*
“I thought each season would be like a monster of the week type thing. A new horror. A new phenomenon. Nope. Same thing every season.”
Tons of replies agreed that this would have been the best course of action rather than dragging the same cast and the same monster out across seasons. Some even said they were grateful that season four will be its last.
*Dexter*
“Outstanding 1st season. Then meh all the way to the end.”
“[…] I completely agree,” said one reply, “I watched every season through to the very last, and each time I went into the show with a false belief they’d finally find a way to get it back on track again. But they just never did; it was absurd and stupid […].”
*Rick and Morty*
“For someone who really likes Rick and Morty this is completely true. I like it cause it’s funny and decently cleverly written but I’m sick of it being praised as some kind of new philosophy.
“Recent seasons even take the piss out people who treat the show like that, it’s not some ultra smart new thing, it’s just another adult comedy that’s quite funny sometimes and nothing else.”
*Lost*
“That’s because Lost is its own separate issue. Very few shows, if any at all, have ever established that gigantic of a universe, with lore and history, with fans desperately trying to decode secrets, only to have it become clear over time that they never had an ending in mind. […]
“They just kept adding stuff, mostly cool, until it just starts to feel like they are dragging the show to a contractual end.”
*Supernatural*
In response to this entry, someone compared Supernatural to another beloved show of the same genre, “I love [Supernatural] , I love [The X-Files] but they both suffered the same way. The overarching story was too much.
“When all I really ever wanted was Scooby-Doo style monster of the week episodes with the characters I really loved, instead of drama for drama’s sake.”
*Shameless*
“[…] at some point it turned into the same repeated stories over and over and over and over again. Just the same trouble each character get’s into all the time. Nothing new or exciting happened, and it was always [destined] for that, because at some point each character was going to have to ‘make it’ or just be damned.”
*It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia*
“Every character is deplorable and it just isn’t funny.”
“That’s the point I think, it’s just a show about horrible people doing stupid things and getting their comeuppance,” explained one user, “Kind of like [Friends] if everyone was an arsehole. But then again, it’s not for everyone […].”
*Curb Your Enthusiasm*
“The constant cynicism and negativity of the humor is annoying as hell. The [show is] 90% complaining. Curb is funny as hell but I don’t enjoy it.”
Another reply added to this sentiment, “[…] I can’t stand the ‘uncomfortable humor’ of things like Curb now. Life’s awkward enough, I don’t need to dwell in someone else’s neuroses.”
*Parks and Recreation*
“First couple seasons were great. It became such a slog after that though. It got so caught up in the sappy ‘nice’ moments towards the end that it seemed to forget it was meant to be funny. It just became unwatchable to me after a while.”
*Grey’s Anatomy*
” [Grey’s Anatomy] – that show just needs to end.”
“The story is soo thinned,” wrote one reply, to which many others agreed, “Everything that could possibly happen to a group of people happened to them. It’s like some final destination [expletive].”
*Breaking Bad*
“It’s good. Great, even! I enjoyed watching it and don’t regret the time spent doing so.
“But if people didn’t regularly reference and talk about it online, I wouldn’t have thought about it much ever again. It was very entertaining and well made but that’s just not enough to make a lasting impression in my mind. It’s not a masterpiece. “
*Game of Thrones*
“[…] it left good threads hanging but never really stitched them into anything.”
This comment sparked a debate regarding the early seasons, which many people still love. One comment in particular detailed where the show started dropping in quality by saying, “It was ultimately a victim of its own hype. The moment they started running out of book material, the wheels started loosening.”
*The Mandalorian*
“Actors are bad, it’s always the same thing every single episode. Mando arrives at a planet, needs something from from the inhabitants, they agree to give it to him in exchange of a mission, he agrees, it doesn’t go smoothly, and eventually gets what he needed while baby Yoda does something unexpected (whether it be disappearing or using the force to prevent Mando from being killed).”
