What show took you the longest to get into?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨CorrodedCranium@leminal.space⁩ to ⁨moviesandtv@lemmy.film⁩

I recently decide to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm and I only really started to enjoy the show after season four.

I feel like a lot of dramas like The Americans, Dark, and Narcos take me a little while to get invested but it’s typically only a season.

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STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
ok but why did you watch 3 seasons of a show you didn’t enjoy

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- CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s not a show I disliked and it wasn’t a show I needed to pay incredibly close attention to so I watched it while I ate breakfast
  
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  - PlasticExistence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think the later seasons are better than the early ones.
    
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- NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sometimes there’s some elements that really shows the potential and brilliance that is interesting enough to keep pushing forward. So while it might not hit the point of must see TV right away, going in with the knowledge that it hits its stride in season X helps keep things in peespective. When I’m informed of something like that I’m willing to put up with the slow burn if the pay off is to be great, and there’s at least some redeeming qualities about the show until then.
  
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- originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  extreme boredom and “everyone seems to like it, I must be wrong” are dangerous bedfellows
  
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  - Bizarroland@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That's how I feel about arrested development.
    
    It was just five seasons of watching horrible people be horrible people with like one funny event or joke per episode at best.
    
    I regret the time I wasted watching that show.
    
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Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- 1bluepixel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I have such a troubled relationship to The Expanse S01 too.
  
  I read the novel and thought the writing was meh, so I dropped it at some point.
  
  Then my friends were telling me the show was great, so I gave it a go but got bored at about the same point and stopped.
  
  So other friends insisted it was great, so I tried it again with my wife. She complained about the show, but we decided to really see what this show was about and stick with it no matter what.
  
  Turns out I thought the story was heading into some sort of “space zombies” tale, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. And the characters I thought were so bland and indistinguishable in S01 gained so much nuance that they’re now so clear in my mind years later.
  
  It’s definitely one of my favorite sci-fi shows of all time. I guess it’s worth listening to your friends and sticking with things sometimes.
  
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- Drusas@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  My friend who recommended it to me before I had ever seen it basically said the same, but I loved it from the beginning.
  
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- gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I still think it’s worth watching from season 1 - there are a couple of pretty good episodes and it sets up some stuff that comes back later on, like building the park in the vacant lot. Plus, it’s only 6 episodes IIRC.
  
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HereToLurk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The SNW/LD crossover episode was one of the most anticipated things of 2023 for me and fully delivered, just the perfect loveletter to being a Trekkie whilst also building on a fair number of personal plot developments.
  
  If you’ve not already watched it I’d check out Prodigy too - it’s probably the most underrated Nu Trek series imo being aimed at younger viewers. That said I loved it as an adult (ostensibly) and am praying season 2 gets picked up soon.
  
  As to the topic, I can’t think of anything as even series heavy on world building/low on action at the start like Andor or The Expense drew me in from the beginning.
  
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jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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decadentrebel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- aaron_griffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Exactly the same experience for me. I have friends ready to waterboard me over this, but I still haven’t made it past ep2
  
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- PsychicPsquirrel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It also has a very high rewatch value. Each time through you notice something you missed the previous times.
  
  I find myself rewatching occasionally it when I introduce someone new to the series.
  
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Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Jersey Shore. I never understood the hype and never watched it. I still haven’t.

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judgeholden@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The Wire for my parent and myself also.
  
  We watched it once, got a few episodes in, and we were like “we’ll come back to this I’m sure”
  
  Seven years later, we finish The Sopranos. “We’ll I guess this is kinda like it…”
  
  Nah, but we got through season three at least!
  
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  - NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I didn’t really get captivated by The Wire until season 3. It had some really memorable moments, but it was a show I had to force myself through until season 3. Especially season 2, since the dock workers didn’t catch my interest.
    
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WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- secondaccountlemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I still argue that season 3 has to be one of the best seasons of any show made. Period.
  
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shundi82@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For me it’s “The Mighty Boosh”.

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 - and I loved it all.

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).

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IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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…

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- HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah Breaking Bad and stranger things are those shows that everyone else loves, that I just can’t get into. I have been meaning to go back to them though.
  
  I don’t know that I ever will.
  
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- InLikeClint@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Have you given House of the Dragon a chance?
  
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  - iwasborninafactory@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Nobody should. Fuck that.
    
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- CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I wonder what other shows people stopped watching because they heard it had a bad ending.
  
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  - NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Does source material count? I watched Attack on Titan and loved it and when I found out the final season was not the final season I read the Manga. Was disappointed by the last arc and haven’t picked the anime back up, but at the same time was glad I got through it quick as opposed having the conclusion dragged out over years and then being disappointed like I was with Game of Thrones after a two year long wait. Which wouldn’t have been as disappointing if the wait wasn’t so long, and not a week by week slow delivery of disappointment over it being released all in one day for people to get over quickly.
    
    It played a determining factor of whether I would watch House of the Dragon or not. Had the book not been complete I would not have watched the show not wanting to go through another multi year investment into stories and characters with a one to three year long time gap between season ending in disappointment.
    
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neocamel@lemmy.studio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The Ranch

Something like nine seasons and I’m still not sure if I like it.

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EchoCranium@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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InLikeClint@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I recently decided to dive into It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I always knew I'd like it, but goddamn is it funny. I'm currently at the end of season 4.

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- ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t think you understood the question. Lol
  
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  - InLikeClint@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh shit, I'm so baked. Yeah oops. Oh fuck. Umm. I don't really give a show a chance if I even suspect I'll dislike it. So I don't think any show.
    
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otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve been using Trakt and I now have a tag for all the shows I dropped.

Ones I stuck with might be the office or Parks and Rec

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Death_Equity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
One Piece. It took like 300 episodes.

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HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
For me, if a show isn’t good during the first season, then it’s very unlikely that I’ll watch the rest of it. I’m really not someone who plays the game of skipping seasons, unless it’s absolutely called for.

That said, Deep Space Nine is an amazing show, but one that has a bit of a rough Landing. It feels like the show legitimately did not understand that Sisko and not Quark was the main character until a producer cleared up the misunderstanding with the writers. And although Quark is the best part of the show, it does get a bit more interesting when the events revolve around the cardassians and bajorans, after all there are only so many ways you can raise the stakes of a show from inside of a bar.

That being said, when it comes to Classic mst3k, I find the Mike years to be vastly superior to the Joel years, to the point where if I’m rewatching the series just to have noise in the background while I’m doing something else, I’m going to exclusively choose from the list of Mike episodes. If I’m watching it just watch it though the Joel episodes actually have a chance to shine. I understand this is a bit of a controversial take. That being said if we are talking the modern incarnation of the show, then I’m definitely going to go for a Joel episode over anything having to do with Riff trax.

I mean RiffTrax isn’t bad per se, but sometimes I get a aging Rockstar trying to relive The Glory Days vibe from it.

While on the subject, having someone start It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia with the first season is just setting them up to writeboff the show as jist “meh”

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