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Survivor: This Is Where the Legends Are Made (2024)
Unwatchable
The casting is SO bad. They haven't cast anyone normal people can relate to. It feels like watching an SNL parody of Survivor.
We've watched 45 seasons of Survivor and we just can't do this one.
The producers need to remember which past cast members have become "Survivor Legends" and start casting those types again or it's the end of a dynasty. Casting 3 tribes that are nearly entirely weird, eccentric & damaged is NOT good TV.
We watch Survivor because of the cast. And the ability to find favourites we can relate to and cheer on, while hating villains and laughing at a few eccentrics. An entire cast of incomprehensibly odd ducks is just UNWATCHABLE.
Sex, Explained (2020)
Went way too far down the alternative lifestyle road
This series uses stats collected from the population as a whole, but then used almost exclusively gay, lesbian, and other alternative lifestyle speakers/experts to discuss those stats. With over half of their "sex scenes" depicting LGBT. Frankly I'm as liberal as they come, but this is how you make something totally non-relatable. Over 90% of the population does not fall into those groups. This was advertised as "sex in the human species" but quickly became all about sex from the perspective of less than 10% of people. That's a different show altogether.
13 Reasons Why (2017)
Terribly annoying
I can't figure out why people are so enamoured by this show. I can sum it up in a few sentences.
Pretty girl has mental issue. Believes the tiniest imagined slight by teenaged peers is devastating even though everyone, including her is doing the same TINY slights to one another daily, most without even realizing they are because they're young.
The show then tries to find some deeper meaning that every single person she knew is partly responsible for her suicide. Seriously?!?
Every episode I watched all I could think was, this is ridiculous BS. Nothing bad has even happened to her, and her peers have had the same or worse happen to them (not that they have had a tough life either).
Suck it up. Grow up. Learn how to deal with life cause it's not that bad and you're all living an EASY life of privilege in a 1st world country. I was in the popular crowd in school and I and all my friends had far worse things happen to us. Then you laugh it off and move on.
It scares me that so many viewers were somehow able to relate to this garbage piece of trash. We're living in a nation of whiny, privileged children feeling sorry for themselves.
Firefly (2002)
Politics and the canceling of a GREAT show.
Anyone ever done research on why this FANTASTIC show was canceled???? Rumor has it FOX had an executive level change happen, and trying to belittle what the original Execs did and justify the change in management, they "killed" all the shows brought in by the former execs.
Firefly was a victim of politics. Shown out of order on television, NO advertising, continually changed airing nights, missing episodes... yet it still had surprisingly good ratings... but FOX still refused to continue the series?? ...and worse yet refused to sell the rights to the SCI-FI channel...
I'd say "Firefly fans unite and petition", but many people before me have already tried the whole internet petition thing, and of course this show still isn't back on the air.