Cringe worthy series

[iacchus]

Burn Notice

That was a great show. I should probably dig it up and do a rewatch

 

[PaladinNO]

That was a great show. I should probably dig it up and do a rewatch

I'm already doing a new download of the whole series. A 720p rip was fine on a 24" 1920x1200 monitor, but things have progressed since then.
Got plenty of storage space to "burn" now too, so a ~200 GB download won't really be "noticed". See the quoted words...? Get it? Okay, I'll see myself out now. ^^

Seriously though, there was a scene where the main actor, Jeffrey Donovan, was supposed to be very angry. And he did such a good job of it, that when the camera zoomed in on his face, I for a moment unintentionally physically backed away from my monitor and hoping it wasn't me he was angry with.

That one scene made me pause, find some popcorn, and kept watching episodes for several hours.

Let's just say that the acting in Game of Thrones didn't leave the same kind of impression.
...Except maybe the guttural cry of Michelle Fairley in season 3, episode 9.

And speaking of Game of Thrones and cringe worthy series - other than the shots of Emilia Clarke's...personalitiy, they fumbled the ending so hard, I am considering deleting all of that series too. I wanted to stop watching after they replaced Ed Skrein anyway. I liked him so much better than...whoever they got as a replacement for the role of Daario Naharis. Even took me a while to realize it was supposed to be the same person. I mean, when a show as hyped up as Game of Thrones can't even keep the same actors, how good can it be?

 

[Monocrom]

I guess Three's Company was so bad nobody could even remember it to add to the list.

Well, the cringe moments were intentional.

 

[Galane]

The 100. If anyone does an "Everything Wrong with The 100" video it would have to be five minutes less than the runtime of the entire series.

Only worth watching if you like great costumes, sets, props, that the show invented a full language with several dialects, and other things it done did well. Unfortunately the story is terrible and 99.95% of everything to do with science, technology, and medicine in it is flat out wrong.

Five minutes on Google per script could have made the series one of the greatest SF series ever made. I can't decide if the writers were running the biggest trolling ever, or were just too lazy to do *any* research, or actually believed that all the world's nuclear weapons could be hacked into remotely and launched, that bone marrow can be transplanted between any people (there was ONE very brief mention of typing), that all the world's nuclear reactors can explode simultaneously - creating a blast wave that scours almost all life from the surface of Earth, and that all the nuclear warheads exploding will make Earth's atmosphere permanently radioactive. Oh, then there's having people stuck on a space station in orbit for 97 years developing radiation resistance in a few generations so they can survive on Earth.

Not caring at all about spoilers. It ends with ascended energy beings forcibly ascending almost all the surviving humans whether or not they want it. One more instance of "Ascended beings are a$$holes" trope.

 

[Toulouse42]

So we tried Burn Notice last night. We lasted about 10 minutes. Definitely cringe.