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As much as I tried to get into it, I couldn't get myself into Game of Thrones.

Game of Thrones, the Expanse, Breaking Bad

I stopped watching the Big bang theory around season 3.

And I think I've only seen one game of thrones episode...

Vikings. It started off okay. I just wanted to see vikings do cool viking stuff. But it became a drama about Christianity taking over, which might be historically accurate, but didn't interest me at all. I straight up didn't like any of the characters at a certain point.

If I reduce it to the shows where I watched more than a few episodes:

• La case de papel: The start of the second season quickly turned me off, because it seemed like everything just got bigger for the sake of it.
• Vikings: I tried many times and I did always like it, but for some reason I never felt the urge to finish the first season.
• Altered Carbon: It's already an exception that I watched the first season despite not loving it that much from the very beginning. Therefore I didn't even bother watching the second one. It's also one of these Netflix shows that suffers from sex sells overload.
• Narcos: I think I stopped midway through the third season, simply because I wasn't interested in that kind of big action, although obviously I shouldn't have been surprised.

Severance - So. Goddamn. Slow. Every scene was slow. The lines were delivered slowly. From all the characters. Always. And somehow even the action scenes are slow?? Like when dude is in the hallway loop, that whole scene dragged on for way too long. I couldn't get past the second episode. Ain't nobody got time for that.

The new version of Lost in Space just has people in danger constantly and then making the dumbest decision in that situation possible.

Same with 'suits', I really liked it in the beginning, until it was just too painful to watch. Each storyline was set up in a way that there was one path for the protagonists to take that would lead to certain disaster, and lo.and behold, at the end of every episode that path is exactly the path they took.

This happens until you start wondering if you're just looking at the dumbest lawyers or astronauts in existence.

Most anything in recently years, TBH. I always check out what's popular with the reasoning that something about it has to be good if so many people like it, and it used to work out pretty well. Not so much in the last 5 or 6 years.

Better Call Saul. I liked Saul in Breaking Bad and learning more about him and his past was great, but I hated knowing how low he has to be by the end for Breaking Bad to make sense. The higher he climbed in the show, the more of a tragedy it became. Just had to put it down some time near the end of Part 2 when he started doing stuff to his brother.

On the one hand I do still want to know what happens to his brother, but on the other hand I hate watching a car crash I know is about to happen before its shown the first signs of drifting into the wrong lane and (mentally) shouting at the screen to stop making stupid decisions.

Worth mentioning that although I acknowledge Breaking Bad would not really happen at all if not for Walter and his pride, but I still despise how much he lets his pride destroy him over and over again. As such I also don't particularly care for the later seasons of Breaking Bad, but at least with those I didn't really know the end so I didn't know how much it was going to keep going downhill beforehand. Oddly enough for this reason I feel like I may have enjoyed Better Call Saul more before having watched Breaking Bad.

Handmaid's Tale.

Never got through even a single episode.

Would it be worth it? Is there vindication or is it just endless boring patriarchy?

Walking Dead. There's like several shows and a dozen seasons each, although I actively avoided it since it started about, not into zombies shows.

Squid Game, never really like dubs and just didn't get into listening Korean yet.