Overrated TV shows

Grey's Anatomy for sure, how is it still on the air?

Friends

Any Real Housewives franchise

Grey’s Anatomy

Friday Night Lights

Saturday Night Live

This Is Us

Brothers and Sisters

NCIS

Ellen's talk show. Our local news starts at 5 and her show is on from 4-5 so sometimes I end up seeing a few minutes of her show and all the fake niceness and screaming is awful.

Seinfeld, for sure. I cannot bear the characters or their style of humor.

The Simpsons, alas. Why can't people admit: it really hasn't been good for the last couple of decades? It's just a money machine for the creative team at this point.

Mad About You is largely forgotten now, but it was hailed as "classy" in its day and its leads were enormously overpaid.

Friends, I was the demographic for it back when it aired and I thought it sucked.

Is anyone rating a Real Housewives show highly, R2? Otherwise your list is spot on.

Brothers and Sisters in particular started strong and devolved into truly terrible TV.

Lost was great and then the last season just ruined it. I have seen reruns of it and I can't even watch it again.

The Big Bang. Not funny.

The Bad Place

Oops it's so overrated I got the title wrong. The Good Place

I liked the first season of Lost. After that it simply went downhill for me.

Game of Thrones couldn't hold a candle to the book series, in my humble opinion.

The first time I viewed Seinfeld I hated it. Years later, I watched it again, and actually enjoyed it. I found things I could relate to. Sometimes things will happen in my life, and I'll say to my partner, "This is like an episode of Seinfeld."

Agree about The Good Place, I tried several times and just couldn't get into it.

Seinfeld

This Is Us (CM being a major factor)

Big Bang after season 4 or 5.

Modern Family after season 3.

OP, do you mean overrated when they existed in real time or overrated now in hindsight? If the latter, Seinfeld is the king of overrated. I thought it was hilarious at the time but we must have been in a more selfish place then. Now I cringe if I stumble on it. Well-written, yes. But the characters are self-righteous, self-centered assholes.

Not highly rated r6, but they have large audiences. Which either means that they are guilty pleasures or folks love to hate watch them.

R13

I think that’s more about you changing, not the show. Your sense of humor, or what you find funny, does change as you age. I loved South Park the first couple of seasons. Now if I see them, I might smile occasionally, but it doesn’t elicit the laughs it once did.

Give me five years and I’ll have no sense of humor. I already scream “Get off my lawn!!” but at least i don’t call the cops.

How I Met Your Mother. Such insufferable characters. Barney (NPH) as a ladies man was just too much of a stretch. And why the hell would Robin like him or Ted. Ted Mosby, whiny sad sack. Lily and Marshall were also a smug married couple. Robin was the only one I liked.

R15 You are correct! I'm hoping that my sense of humor keeps changing and doesn't just disappear. Some old stuff still tickles me: I can go back to original SNL shows and laugh my ass off but the last ten years leave me blah. In real time, I enjoy Superstore and bits of Brooklyn 99 so I guess I'm not hopeless.

[quote] The Simpsons, alas. Why can't people admit: it really hasn't been good for the last couple of decades?

Ummm...everyone admits it. It's the common opinion, even among die hard fans.

Breaking Bad

It's hard to judge the entire series as it's difficult to maintain quality over multiple seasons. Very small number of series longer than 3 seasons manage to do so. Lost has a really good first season HIMYM was good at beginning And so was Game of Thrones until the creators gave up after season 4.

The Big Bang Theory is an overrated show filled with overpaid actors.

Sex and the City

Breaking Bad! Holy Shit that Jessie was a cry baby!

Breaking Bad was consistently good till the very end. Alan Paul is terrible actor though.

I never understood the acclaim Girls had. And found Ally Mcbeal very grating.

R20 Three seasons is the key. Or perhaps a certain number of episodes? That was the beauty of Fawlty Towers and the original (British) The Office. The creators had a vision and knew beginning, middle and end before filming. Some of these series start out strong but have no vision and just drift away into blah.

R23 Jesse was a BITCH!

[quote]Grey's Anatomy for sure, how is it still on the air?

I don't think the ratings have dropped enough for ABC to can it. I watched seasons 1-5 and back then I thought it was a bit overrated. I remember some friends and relatives ditched after some of the storylines became too over the top.

Recall the series Weeds. A shrink pal of mine calls it a big fuck you to suburbia.

Overrated by the public or by critics and journalists?

The good place would be better if the main character wasn't so annoying.

How I Met your Mother was so good at the beginning but then it became more mean-spirited and dragged as it went along. I found Barney's character in particular really irritating. The Barney character will not age well in reruns. And it had the worst ending of any sitcom.

I found Master of None to be incredibly overrated. I never laughed once.

Fuck the Simpsons and it's brainwashed Scientology actress.

The Big Bang Theory irritates me for the fact that even the way it portrays the nerds is so fucking outdated, like something from the 80s. I get we are supposed to find that funny but it's not. The laughs are so predictable, it's no wonder it has a laugh track.

Golden Girls

[quote] Golden Girls

NOW you've done it! Expect to bear the wrath of the DL!!!

Mad Men

I agree about MAD MEN, but we should have a subcategory of once-distinguished shows that completely lost their way and ran on fumes.

MM is a textbook case. That ending, and a lot of the final season, was just weak.

The Game of Thrones.

Nicely filmed dark fairy tale shit for kidults being worshipped as sophisticated dramatic accomplishment.

Stranger Things

So klutzy in their attempt at casual time period reference-dropping.

Friends, Cheers, et all.

Better Things. Pamela Adlon is not funny.

Oh, I cannot bear her, R41. I think she owes her entire career to her relationship with Louis CK.

R37, I agree the last season of MM was weak, but I thought the ending was brilliant. My brother and I discussed how the show was going to end and he said Don was going to work for Coca-Cola. I thought about that later on was thinking to myself that Don would have to pull a real stunner for them. And thinking what CC was doing at the time, that famous commercial was in the back of my head.

Friends (the most overrated show ever) Any Real Housewives (except for Atlanta) Seinfeld Cheers/Frasier How I Met Your Mother The Good Place Superstore Full House & Fuller House Big Bang Theory (after Leonard & Penny got married) Reboots of Magnum, Macgyver, & Hawaii Five 0

And that's just the top of my list

Anyone who doesn't love The Good Place is an ignorant boob. It was the best show on television the last few years.

The most overrated, at least by the Emmys, is easily Modern Family.

R37 I really wished Don Draper had blown his brains out in the first episode of that last season. I was really sick of him and his angst. Most of the other characters (Peggy, Joan, Roger, even Pete) had shown some growth over the years. Was his angsty-ness just melodrama or was it some brilliant writing to show that he was as empty and hollow as all of the advertising slogans?

I'm sure it's been discussed elsewhere, that character just really annoyed me.

Another one for Mad Men. I hated the character of Dan Dapper. Piece of garage. Not a big fan of Jon Hamm. It's not to hard to play yourself. I tried to rewatch it, since we're all stuck at home and I just can't do it. Friends is another. Didn't think the pretty people were all that funny.

Modern Family, Modern Family, and Modern Family

The Good Wife. They were right to make Helen Hunt their first choice for the role of Alicia.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The actress who plays Midge is so over the top.

R50 and that is what so many of us love about the show. The over the topness.

Acclaimed shows I will never, ever watch because they do not interest me:

FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS

THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL

THE WIRE

WESTWORLD

People who know me have long stopped talking up these shows to me. We don't all like the same thing, and that's just.... fine.