Party of One: Unpopular TV Opinions

[Browncoat]

But the ads will still run for weeks after the Super Bowl.  Why put them online early?

FWIW, I am also the person who hates to be spoiled for movies and TV shows.

[Raja]

Just now, Browncoat said:

But the ads will still run for weeks after the Super Bowl.  Why put them online early?

FWIW, I am also the person who hates to be spoiled for movies and TV shows.

YouTube then sells advertisers the time for ads during the ads that you want to see,

[andromeda331]

4 hours ago, Browncoat said:

Puppy Bowl for the win!  Though I'll watch football, too, and think about how much my father enjoyed it.  And I'll root for the Eagles, which might be the unpopular opinion.

My family is huge football and Super Bowl fans with their Super Bowl snacks.  While they watch it I watch the Puppy Bowl with the Super Bowl snacks. I look forward to it every year. It's always so much fun and the puppies are so cute. And all are adopted. It's a win win for both of all of us. 

Edited February 10 by andromeda331

[ABay]

Ah, football. 10 minutes of action crammed into 3 hours of television.

[Shrek]

3 hours ago, ABay said:

Ah, football. 10 minutes of action crammed into 3 hours of television.

2 minutes of excitement in this game, it was all over by the end of the first quarter. And the half time show seemed to go on for ever as well.

Now, GET OFF MY LAWN !!!

[Wiendish Fitch]

I never liked Absolutely Fabulous and I feel weirdly guilty about it. It should be up my ally, but I always thought it was rather boring and unfunny.

 

[Dimity]

37 minutes ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

I never liked Absolutely Fabulous and I feel weirdly guilty about it. It should be up my ally, but I always thought it was rather boring and unfunny.

 

There are specific episodes I have liked and a few scenes that had me in stitches but overall I agree with you.  The way Edina treats Saffy just isn't funny to me.

[ABay]

I could never understand what Eddie's editor?publisher? was saying. Magda was the character's name. I think. It's been a long time.

[proserpina65]

20 hours ago, Browncoat said:

Puppy Bowl for the win!  Though I'll watch football, too, and think about how much my father enjoyed it.  And I'll root for the Eagles, which might be the unpopular opinion.

I live about an hour south of Philly, so while I don't care about the NFL, I was rooting for the Iggles.  And I was happy to see that they dominated the game, after all the talk about how hard it would be to beat the Chiefs.

2 hours ago, Wiendish Fitch said:

I never liked Absolutely Fabulous and I feel weirdly guilty about it. It should be up my ally, but I always thought it was rather boring and unfunny.

 

There are a few moments which amused me: "Who is Jesus these days?  Charles Dance" and "LaCroix, baby spew, LaCroix, baby spew" but other than that, I never found the show funny.  I not only don't like AbFab - I actively hate it most of the time.

 

[Bastet]

2 hours ago, ABay said:

I could never understand what Eddie's editor?publisher? was saying. Magda was the character's name. I think. It's been a long time.

I am really good at deciphering thick accents, but Magda was a challenge for me.  Only because I love that show enough to re-watch many times do I know what she said -- I got a percentage each time until it finally came together at some point.  But now when it has been a few years since the last time I watched, I have to strain to listen again.

[Gharlane]

On 2/9/2025 at 8:47 AM, Affogato said:

People who have been following it the whole season/seasons are interested in the outcome. People have parties every year, February can be a hard month and it is a chance to enjoy yourself and be with friends and family. 

I was invited to a party but felt cheated because there were no owls of any kind.

 

On 2/10/2025 at 12:06 PM, Wiendish Fitch said:

I never liked Absolutely Fabulous and I feel weirdly guilty about it. It should be up my ally, but I always thought it was rather boring and unfunny.

I enjoyed the show when it was new, but lost interest when my friends quoted it ad nauseum. I tried watching it fairly recently and I guess things have changed since the 1990's because I definitely didn't like it.

On 2/10/2025 at 1:14 PM, ABay said:

I could never understand what Eddie's editor?publisher? was saying. Magda was the character's name. I think. It's been a long time.

Isn't Magda Welch? I think they're sppsd to be the Brit version of someone from the Appalachians.🤷‍♂️

[Shrek]

1 hour ago, Gharlane said:

 

Isn't Magda Welch? I think they're sppsd to be the Brit version of someone from the Appalachians.🤷‍♂️

It's WELSH, people from Wales are WELSH, totally different meaning to welch. She's supposed to be a little strange because she's not from London, she could have been from Scotland or even Liverpool & the joke would have been the same.

 

[Gharlane]

2 hours ago, Shrek said:

It's WELSH, people from Wales are WELSH, totally different meaning to welch. She's supposed to be a little strange because she's not from London, she could have been from Scotland or even Liverpool & the joke would have been the same.

Darn you, autospell! 😀

[Misslindsey]

My very unpopular opinion is I like Santos on The Pitt. I actually, like all the characters. I may not like everything they do or say, but still enjoy watching them all. 

[Affogato]

9 hours ago, Misslindsey said:

My very unpopular opinion is I like Santos on The Pitt. I actually, like all the characters. I may not like everything they do or say, but still enjoy watching them all. 

The one show, one hour idea sounds good in theory, but there are too many extreme emergencies and everyone has only been there four or five hours, but it seems longer to us. Maybe to them, as well. 

[proserpina65]

Riffing off something in another thread: I like that most shows don't have theme songs anymore.

[sistermagpie]

On 2/19/2025 at 8:46 AM, Gharlane said:

Isn't Magda Welch? I think they're sppsd to be the Brit version of someone from the Appalachians.🤷‍♂️

 

On 2/19/2025 at 10:10 AM, Shrek said:

It's WELSH, people from Wales are WELSH, totally different meaning to welch. She's supposed to be a little strange because she's not from London, she could have been from Scotland or even Liverpool & the joke would have been the same.

 

I think it's the opposite. She sounds 100% Londoner to me--she just talks very fast and her specific local accent is strong.

Edited February 27 by sistermagpie

[Shrek]

I have no idea but it's still WELSH not welch.

[Spartan Girl]

In light of Michelle Trachtenberg’s horrible and untimely passing, I will say once and for all:

Dawn Summers deserved better from both the writers and the fans. All her whiny and obnoxious moments can be chalked up to Whedon originally wanting a little girl to be cast, and staying in that mindset because he hates teenage girls. He acted shocked that fans hated Dawn, paying lip service to defending her publicly while privately ensuring that the writers continued to write her as bratty (while bullying Michelle behind the scenes).

And despite her many flaws, she still didn’t deserve the vitriol from fans. It’s only now some of them are stating to wake up and realize that there were other characters that deserved the hate more. 

[proserpina65]

5 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:

In light of Michelle Trachtenberg’s horrible and untimely passing, I will say once and for all:

Dawn Summers deserved better from both the writers and the fans. All her whiny and obnoxious moments can be chalked up to Whedon originally wanting a little girl to be cast, and staying in that mindset because he hates teenage girls. He acted shocked that fans hated Dawn, paying lip service to defending her publicly while privately ensuring that the writers continued to write her as bratty (while bullying Michelle behind the scenes).

And despite her many flaws, she still didn’t deserve the vitriol from fans. It’s only now some of them are stating to wake up and realize that there were other characters that deserved the hate more. 

Eh, I couldn't stand the character of Dawn and don't agree that she deserved better from the writers at all.  I don't, however, believe that Michelle Trachtenberg should've been blamed for Dawn being annoying as shit.  She was an actress doing the best she could with the crap character she was playing.

[Spartan Girl]

I will always maintain that knowing Joss Whedon is a sexist jerk puts all of the show’s characterization in a new light. Would Dawn have been written any differently with someone else in charge and not a misogynistic asshole who was bullying Michelle and countless others behind the scenes? We’ll never know.

Edited February 28 by Spartan Girl

[Affogato]

21 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

Eh, I couldn't stand the character of Dawn and don't agree that she deserved better from the writers at all.  I don't, however, believe that Michelle Trachtenberg should've been blamed for Dawn being annoying as shit.  She was an actress doing the best she could with the crap character she was playing.

I believe she may have been originally meant to be younger but I think having an older person acting younger provided important cognitive dissonance. She had just been born. I also suspect that she took a while to become accepted because tv viewers don’t like change, and because she was supposed to be annoying to Buffy, our POV character in the family. 

Edited March 1 by Affogato

[Anduin]

This came up IRL today. Back in the 80s, there were two miniseries based on the books of John le Carré, starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley. Spy stuff at the opposite end of the spectrum as James Bond. I watched them both and found them utterly boring. But weirdly, a genuine intelligence agent said on the making of, real spies only wished the job was that interesting. Wow and yikes.

[Zella]

Le Carré was an intelligence officer, so he wrote from experience. I loved the books precisely because George Smiley was such a desk jockey. LOL 

[Anduin]

1 hour ago, Zella said:

Le Carré was an intelligence officer, so he wrote from experience. I loved the books precisely because George Smiley was such a desk jockey. LOL 

Yeah, I know. Just crazy how I could find it so utterly dull, then discover that the real job was worse!

[Zella]

11 minutes ago, Anduin said:

Yeah, I know. Just crazy how I could find it so utterly dull, then discover that the real job was worse!

Yeah it's definitely one of those jobs that seems like it would be glamorous and exciting. I've read quite a bit about real-life moles like Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, and I think one of the personal incentives for spying for them--beyond the money, which of course was a huge incentive--was to also have the kinds of adventure you're supposed to have, in theory, as an intelligence officer but that they weren't experiencing at all. 

[Anduin]

1 hour ago, Zella said:

Yeah it's definitely one of those jobs that seems like it would be glamorous and exciting. I've read quite a bit about real-life moles like Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, and I think one of the personal incentives for spying for them--beyond the money, which of course was a huge incentive--was to also have the kinds of adventure you're supposed to have, in theory, as an intelligence officer but that they weren't experiencing at all. 

Yeah, I can see that!

[proserpina65]

On 3/4/2025 at 4:12 AM, Anduin said:

This came up IRL today. Back in the 80s, there were two miniseries based on the books of John le Carré, starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley. Spy stuff at the opposite end of the spectrum as James Bond. I watched them both and found them utterly boring. But weirdly, a genuine intelligence agent said on the making of, real spies only wished the job was that interesting. Wow and yikes.

I loved those series!  Precisely because they weren't James Bondian.

[scarynikki12]

I've been watching old episodes of Poirot and every episode includes someone remarking on how he's a famous detective. Maybe a hundred years ago this was an actual thing but were detectives really famous like other celebrities at one point? The same thing happens in every Murder She Wrote episode but at least Jessica is a best selling author and actual celebrity. 

Anyway, my UO is post-80s based mystery shows need to stop doing the Christie format where the murder is explain with a lot of conjecture. Accurate conjecture of course but still. Christie was and is the gold standard of mystery storytelling but the writers taking inspiration from her aren't doing that great a job and should just take a different approach.

[Affogato]

14 hours ago, scarynikki12 said:

I've been watching old episodes of Poirot and every episode includes someone remarking on how he's a famous detective. Maybe a hundred years ago this was an actual thing but were detectives really famous like other celebrities at one point? The same thing happens in every Murder She Wrote episode but at least Jessica is a best selling author and actual celebrity. 

Anyway, my UO is post-80s based mystery shows need to stop doing the Christie format where the murder is explain with a lot of conjecture. Accurate conjecture of course but still. Christie was and is the gold standard of mystery storytelling but the writers taking inspiration from her aren't doing that great a job and should just take a different approach.

https://www.ranker.com/list/list-of-famous-detectives/reference
 

starts with Pinkerton. 

[ShadowHunter]

I don't like or care about The White Lotus at all. I tried to watch 2 different seasons and honestly it just feels like a better acted and budgeted soap opera.

[tribeca]

On 3/9/2025 at 7:00 PM, scarynikki12 said:

I've been watching old episodes of Poirot and every episode includes someone remarking on how he's a famous detective. Maybe a hundred years ago this was an actual thing but were detectives really famous like other celebrities at one point? The same thing happens in every Murder She Wrote episode but at least Jessica is a best selling author and actual celebrity. 

Anyway, my UO is post-80s based mystery shows need to stop doing the Christie format where the murder is explain with a lot of conjecture. Accurate conjecture of course but still. Christie was and is the gold standard of mystery storytelling but the writers taking inspiration from her aren't doing that great a job and should just take a different approach.

Whenever I watch these shows all I think is if these people would just shut up they would get away with everything. 

[Zella]

7 hours ago, ShadowHunter said:

I don't like or care about The White Lotus at all. I tried to watch 2 different seasons and honestly it just feels like a better acted and budgeted soap opera.

I've never watched it and likely never will, but I am deeply obsessed with finding out all the gossipy tea on the behind-the-scenes drama from the third season. LOL 

[Annber03]

1 hour ago, Zella said:

I've never watched it and likely never will, but I am deeply obsessed with finding out all the gossipy tea on the behind-the-scenes drama from the third season. LOL 

I've never seen this show, either, and I had no idea there was any BTS drama! Do tell, anyone who has any info!

[Zella]

1 hour ago, Annber03 said:

I've never seen this show, either, and I had no idea there was any BTS drama! Do tell, anyone who has any info!

It's convoluted, but the creator, Walton Goggins, and Jason Isaacs seem to be in a race to be the messiest and most chaotic. 

I think Goggins is winning handily, though, based on rumors of an affair with his much younger costar, whom he's called his soulmate, even though he himself is married, and though he apparently has his soulmate blocked on Instagram, he dedicated an 18-page story to her to the tune of Fleetwood Mac's "Silver Springs." Meanwhile said costar soulmate is giving interviews about how she felt enmeshed with him on set. There is also a complicated series of unfollowings and blockings between him and her and between his wife and Sam Rockwell's partner, who once was a couples friend with Goggins and his wife and was also in this season and is apparently now friends with said young costar soulmate who felt enmeshed. 

Jason Isaacs has hinted at tension on set and romances and friendships that burned. 👀 

Meanwhile the showrunner is apparently mad about the composer quitting, but in the grand scheme of things, that's just nowhere near as interesting as whatever the hell else has gone down. 

Edited Thursday at 04:57 AM by Zella

[Annber03]

54 minutes ago, Zella said:

I think Goggins is winning handily, though, based on rumors of an affair with his much younger costar, whom he's called his soulmate, even though he himself is married, and though he apparently has his soulmate blocked on Instagram, he dedicated an 18-page story to her to the tune of Fleetwood Mac's "Silver Springs." Meanwhile said costar soulmate is giving interviews about how she felt enmeshed with him on set. There is also a complicated series of unfollowings and blockings between him and her and between his wife and Sam Rockwell's partner, who once was a couples friend with Goggins and his wife and was also in this season and is apparently now friends with said young costar soulmate who felt enmeshed. 

*Blinks* 

...woooooooooooooooooow... 

Okay. Yeah. That is some crazy BTS drama, for sure. 

(That whole "18 page story to the tune of 'Silver Springs' thing is tripping me out, what the hell? That is wild.)

[Zella]

22 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

*Blinks* 

...woooooooooooooooooow... 

Okay. Yeah. That is some crazy BTS drama, for sure. 

(That whole "18 page story to the tune of 'Silver Springs' thing is tripping me out, what the hell? That is wild.)

Yep, it's 18 photos of them together. It's just . . . a lot. LMAO And every time I think it has settled down, it flares up with something new and over-the-top. 

[DearEvette]

I heard the pieces of the Howard Stern interview with Mike White about the composer guy. He sounded a little perplexed why the guy went to the New York Times.  I liked this quote the best:

Quote

 

"I just don't think he respected me. He wants people to know that he's edgy and dark and I'm — I don't know, like I watch reality TV."

Mike continued, “We never really even fought. He says we feuded [but] I don't think I ever had a fight with him — except for maybe some emails."

 

And then he called the guy giving out the interview just before the finale "a bitch move."  LOL.

[Ohiopirate02]

7 hours ago, Annber03 said:

*Blinks* 

...woooooooooooooooooow...

(That whole "18 page story to the tune of 'Silver Springs' thing is tripping me out, what the hell? That is wild.)

I don't follow any celebrities on Instagram and could not care any less about who follows who and who blocked who on Insta. But, this is giving me A-Rod after he cheated on JLo vibes, and I'm here for it.

[Zella]

1 hour ago, DearEvette said:

I heard the pieces of the Howard Stern interview with Mike White about the composer guy. He sounded a little perplexed why the guy went to the New York Times.  I liked this quote the best:

And then he called the guy giving out the interview just before the finale "a bitch move."  LOL.

I didn't realize their feud has all these components. Now I'm reeled in by this too. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

White Lotus behind the scenes drama is truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Edited Thursday at 01:40 PM by Zella

[DearEvette]

Right? The funniest part was, I was listening to the interview and my frame of reference for Mike White has always been School of Rock, so all I could hear was Ed Schneebly talking.  So I am thinking, who the hell gets into a feud with Ed Schneebly?

[ShadowHunter]

16 hours ago, Zella said:

I've never watched it and likely never will, but I am deeply obsessed with finding out all the gossipy tea on the behind-the-scenes drama from the third season. LOL 

That I agree with lol.  TWL S4: The drama of S3.

[Haleth]

I just finished TWL last night and am disturbed that there was such BTS drama. I only watched because I enjoy watching Goggins and Isaacs.

[Cloud9Shopper]

I’m starting to get bored with 9-1-1. I’m not yet bored enough that I won’t come back for Season 9 but the second half is Season 8 feels tired. Oh look Maddie got kidnapped again! And now Chim will almost die for the fourth time! Eddie’s still not back yet so nothing much is happening there either. I’m not even saying I want characters to die and I get that they’re first responders and this is a risk of the job but the drama isn’t that compelling anymore. 

Also it feels like the Buck/Eddie speculation is starting to swallow the fandom and is becoming annoying. I’m not even against them being together and see the potential but a lot of fans are acting like it’s the only storyline and are becoming the annoying shippers who think they’re entitled to see these two get together. Shipping tends to ruin everything. 

[Raja]

2 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:

Also it feels like the Buck/Eddie speculation is starting to swallow the fandom and is becoming annoying. I’m not even against them being together and see the potential but a lot of fans are acting like it’s the only storyline and are becoming the annoying shippers who think they’re entitled to see these two get together. Shipping tends to ruin everything.

And then demand a TV-MA+ level of physical intimacy that no other characters on the show have displayed.

[DrSpaceman73]

On 4/9/2025 at 2:23 PM, ShadowHunter said:

I don't like or care about The White Lotus at all. I tried to watch 2 different seasons and honestly it just feels like a better acted and budgeted soap opera.

I do watch the show but i wouldn't argue with you kver that assessment. 

[libgirl2]

On 2/10/2025 at 11:06 AM, Wiendish Fitch said:

I never liked Absolutely Fabulous and I feel weirdly guilty about it. It should be up my ally, but I always thought it was rather boring and unfunny.

 

I'm new to this thread but I was thinking about this show recently. It had moments that weren't bad but overall, I just didn't think it was funny and I love British humor. It felt annoying. 

[andromeda331]

10 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

I do watch the show but i wouldn't argue with you kver that assessment. 

 

16 hours ago, Cloud9Shopper said:

I’m starting to get bored with 9-1-1. I’m not yet bored enough that I won’t come back for Season 9 but the second half is Season 8 feels tired. Oh look Maddie got kidnapped again! And now Chim will almost die for the fourth time! Eddie’s still not back yet so nothing much is happening there either. I’m not even saying I want characters to die and I get that they’re first responders and this is a risk of the job but the drama isn’t that compelling anymore. 

Also it feels like the Buck/Eddie speculation is starting to swallow the fandom and is becoming annoying. I’m not even against them being together and see the potential but a lot of fans are acting like it’s the only storyline and are becoming the annoying shippers who think they’re entitled to see these two get together. Shipping tends to ruin everything. 

Neither would I.

[Shielded Toad]

I enjoyed The Rings of Power and have become much more interested in J.R.R. Tolkien because of it. This is after having seen The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movies and read the books... I'm not sure why. It just worked for me. 

I  live under a rock and didn't even know about White Lotus or that Walton Goggins was involved. For all of the wrong reasons,  that gossip was fascinating...