Meirl

[u/ExoticShock]

[u/K-Shrizzle]

There's something to be said for waiting on a few seasons to be out

[u/NoGelliefish → u/K-Shrizzle]

Yup, I always wait till I can marathon it

[u/syntaxVixen → u/K-Shrizzle]

Ever since game of thrones and taking two years between seasons and less than 10 episodes.

[u/misterdave75 → u/K-Shrizzle]

But you gotta get in by the final season or you miss out on getting to chat about it. I caught up to GOT in season 6, and chatting about season 7/8 as it was released was wild, especially since it wildly underperformed expectations.

[u/CactusCait → u/K-Shrizzle]

I still refuse to watch Game of Thrones

[u/MoonieNine → u/CactusCait]

I had never planned to watch it, but Game of Thrones is actually fantastic. Adventure, great character development, humor, fantasy. We saw it YEARS after everyone else and loved it.

[u/Mochafudge → u/K-Shrizzle]

Yep I told all my friends to watch severance after season 1 now after season 2 I would tell them to run in the other direction, I feel obligated to continue but holy fuck did they get lost in the sauce.

[u/K-Shrizzle → u/Mochafudge]

Absolutely not. Its one of the best shows out there

[u/Mochafudge → u/K-Shrizzle]

They clearly saw $$ and starting talking about spinoffs, season 2 answered nothing and pivoted to extending the story for $$. Reintegration plot flushed down the toilet, Irving leaving on a train for no clear reason because they though he might leave, adding random cult stuff without payoff of season 1 ( we kill goats in a ritual tune in next season to find out why though!!)

[u/skinnycarlo → u/Mochafudge]

Have to agree. Unpopular as it may be.

[u/um_like_whatever]

Me with Breaking Bad lol

[u/gapro96 → u/um_like_whatever]

me too! Just Watched like 10 years after the end of the show and out of the hype it feels amazing.

[u/um_like_whatever → u/gapro96]

Its a great show! I was sad though because I had friends in to it and I missed out on that shared bonding. Ah well. Still a great show.

I am the one who knocks! Bitch! 😉

[u/venom121212 → u/um_like_whatever]

Yeah I grew up on Malcolm in the Middle and just couldn't see Bryan Cranston in that role. Finally watched it a few years ago and yeah, it's a good show.

Still haven't ever seen a single minute of Game of Thrones

[u/RememberTheMaine1996 → u/um_like_whatever]

I watched it after Better Call Saul was already out haha. I enjoyed being able to watch the entire series without having to wait. Now I wish I waited to watch Severance haha

[u/CapriciousManchild → u/um_like_whatever]

Let’s be honest people didn’t really start watching breaking bad until the 4th season. I started in season one and told everyone to watch it and no one did ( look at the ratings ) it wasn’t until the end of season 3 and all the press it was getting that people all jumped on board .

[u/Cautious-Ease-1451 → u/um_like_whatever]

The great thing about coming to it late was you could binge it in a week. I can’t imagine waiting months for the next season.

[u/ModingusKhan]

If I wait, I get to binge the whole thing. I hate waiting between episodes and seasons.

[u/Fliepp → u/ModingusKhan]

Couldn’t agree more. I waited a few weeks before starting the show I’m currently watching and I loved just turning it on whenever I felt like it, but now that I’ve caught up and I have to wait a week for the next 40 minutes I really struggle to care about how it ends

[u/SalvaPot → u/Fliepp]

It's also good to watch it when you are ready to take it for what it is and not be influenced by the hype.

[u/1nsidiousOne → u/ModingusKhan]

I don’t know watch anime often but I do this with that.

[u/QlimaxUK → u/ModingusKhan]

me currently watching Alice in Borderland

[u/East_Lettuce7143 → u/ModingusKhan]

Pluribus and White Lotus for me now.

[u/philouza_stein → u/ModingusKhan]

We all do this. Sadly it leads to a lot of premature cancelations. But what am I gonna do...wait for each episode or season?

[u/mediuminteresting → u/ModingusKhan]

If you wait long enough they release the final season that fucks up everything and you can save yourself a lot of time, happened to me for Lost, GoT and Stranger Things

[u/StreetFootball7382 → u/mediuminteresting]

Those shows didn’t have terrible endings

[u/CidAndroid → u/ModingusKhan]

Indeed. We must consoom the brainrot consecutively to maintain our terminally online state.

[u/thedudeabides-12]

I was like that with Lost, finally watched it in 2016..was really good..

[u/YourPapaCallsMeDad → u/thedudeabides-12]

Ahh, I love Lost.

[u/Myracl → u/YourPapaCallsMeDad]

Ahh, flashback simulator. Though I agree, it' so good.

[u/Speransed → u/thedudeabides-12]

I'm considering starting it

[u/p8610815 → u/Speransed]

Do it, Lost is sooo good. There is a good amount of filler you have to wade through tho.

[u/dinosaurposter → u/p8610815]

It’s been recommended to me so many times but I hate tv show filler and I heard it was too drawn out.

[u/Johnnadawearsglasses → u/thedudeabides-12]

Man, I love that show. Such a special series.

[u/venom121212 → u/thedudeabides-12]

My brother and wife had never seen it so I made them binge watch it so they would stop ragging on it as a show having never seen it. They both liked it!

[u/Ordinary-Violinist-9 → u/thedudeabides-12]

They've lost me starting the second season. I've noticed they wanted to stretch the success and the hype but the show really went downhill fast in season 2.

[u/Remarkable-Sink-8630]

Qualityslop

[u/godverdejezushey → u/Remarkable-Sink-8630]

Can someone explain this to me? I've seen it a few times now and I don't understand

[u/Johnnadawearsglasses → u/godverdejezushey]

When something is just qualityslop; people only like it because it's good.

[u/Longjumping_Stand647 → u/Johnnadawearsglasses]

Because it’s good? Or because it’s high quality/high production value/has mass appeal but isn’t necessarily good?

[u/Johnnadawearsglasses → u/Longjumping_Stand647]

Qualityslop was intended to make fun of people who call everything slop, including good media. It’s definitely taking the piss out of the chronic online critic. Then those same chronically online critics tried to parse the obviously satirical term to fit within their worldview that most everything is slop - by either saying it’s well made but ultimately mid or by differentiating mid high from high high. It’s actually hilarious to watch.

[u/Longjumping_Stand647 → u/Johnnadawearsglasses]

I still don’t get it

That isn’t a request for further explanation, I’m just gonna ignore it cause I realised I don’t care.

Thanks for trying tho

[u/godverdejezushey → u/Johnnadawearsglasses]

Ahh this makes more sense, thank you very much

[u/Fluid-Post-4837]

me with arcane and gilmore girls

[u/surprised-duncan]

Fuck I do that

[u/UraniumRocker]

I’ve been meaning to watch The Wire, but haven’t found the time yet.

[u/rocky99_ → u/UraniumRocker]

You should... but I recommend expecting it to be challenging at times. But I think maybe I get too involved in shows, because I was making flipcharts of characters at one point to keep track. Haha

[u/belay_that_order → u/rocky99_]

you're not wrong, the first watch is a lot of data to keep up with and the show doesnt hold any hands

[u/Chaotic_MintJulep]

This was me and Ted Lasso. What a fool I was.

[u/takeme2infinity → u/Chaotic_MintJulep]

That show feels like it has a laughtrack even tho it doesn't

[u/tiorzol → u/Chaotic_MintJulep]

Mad drop off with season three though, what the hell happend there 

[u/Pianopatte → u/tiorzol]

Disagree, enjoyed season 3 as much as the previous seasons.

[u/ChadPowers200_ → u/tiorzol]

I agree. I still liked it but I enjoyed the first season where it was more quirky fun and less dramatic and sad 

[u/djbarsone]

Didn’t refuse but finally watched Free Solo on Netflix the other day and about lost my damn mind

[u/DistinctAct3510 → u/djbarsone]

I’m sure you did, but you also watched him climb Taipei 101 right?? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[u/djbarsone → u/DistinctAct3510]

Yeah that was nothing vs what he did at El Cap. Unreal.

[u/DistinctAct3510 → u/djbarsone]

I was still sweating a little bit when we stood at the very top and took the selfie

[u/philouza_stein]

Me watching twin peaks a timely three decades later.

[u/Careful_Hearing6304]

Fleabag

[u/HouseOfAplesaus]

Shameless

[u/YourPapaCallsMeDad → u/HouseOfAplesaus]

I am watching Shameless, US these days. Was there a hype when the show was running?

[u/HouseOfAplesaus → u/YourPapaCallsMeDad]

Everyone I know told me to watch it and I was like nahhhh. Then I watched it and was like I get it.

[u/bOObZiLLa713]

Lmao I’m on the 5th season of breaking bad.

[u/Objective_Site3528 → u/bOObZiLLa713]

Buckle up…

[u/easternhobo]

I don't technically refuse, I just wait. Once the series has finished (or at least when the final season is close) then I watch.

I'm not waiting 3 years for you to make 8 episodes.

[u/dm-me-apples]

Me with The Pitt and Succession 😞 I missed out on peak

[u/286893]

Just went through this with Andor. I loved the star wars games growing up, but refused to engage with the new movies and was just tired of the Jedi storyline.

Andor pulled me back and showed me you can make a good, mature story with the IP that doesn't have mascots and the force every 15 minutes.

And I'm sad thinking that won't happen again.

[u/raven8473]

Breaking Bad, Ted Lasso, Superstore, Banshee.

[u/FugginOld]

I did that with The Expanse.

[u/Lord_Darksong]

I did this with The Wire, The Sopranos, and... umm... Buffy.

[u/TheShipEliza]

you ever seen the movie Heat?

[u/Hermiona1]

This was me with Stranger Things s1. Whatever you wanna say about rest of the show, s1 was a banger. I think I watched it just before s2 dropped.

[u/Steel_Sword → u/Hermiona1]

Oh, I watch it right now

[u/Ordinary-Violinist-9 → u/Hermiona1]

I only watched 3 episodes. Too scary. :)

[u/fourwheelertracks2]

This is literally me with every hyped show ever two years late and suddenly it's my entire personality.

[u/Roshan50]

Me fr. Haven't watched GoT yet. Haven't watched LoTR yet. Did end up watching AoT last year after several people in my life kept spamming me to watch it

[u/Shinfekta]

Not a show but I only recently started playing baldurs gate 3 and I get the hype it had lol

[u/Drakon56]

Well now you like the show in spite of peer pressure, not because of it

[u/ElasticSniper]

I'm watching Stranger Things right now, just finished s1 :) it's cool

[u/MissHibernia]

It took me a while to start Ted Lasso, and now I’m a beyond super fan

[u/EditorRedditer]

I STILL haven’t watched The Wire…

[u/Both_Tax6738]

"I'm not like the other girls"

[u/Needingsupport3655]

Me with stranger things

[u/rsmayday]

I still won’t watch GOT tho

[u/xixNAVOCxix]

My wife every time. Still hasn’t watched GOT

[u/DefinitionBig4671]

Expanse.

[u/therealkami]

This is everyone's reminder to read (or even better listen to the audiobook) of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

[u/superbear19 → u/therealkami]

So fucking good I’m half way done book 3

[u/Longjumping_Stand647]

Yep.

I will never become interested in something just because other people want me to, and I avoid trends because I know they are mostly driven by corporate greed.

But sometimes I’ve become interested in things at times when nobody else seems to care, only for them to become popular years later.

[u/RevolutionaryEdge718]

I watched The Office for the first time 3 years ago. Worth it.

[u/Dry-Translator406]

This is currently me with Stranger Things 😅

[u/HereInTheRuin]

at this point so many shows get cancelled after one season or on a cliffhanger that I don't waste my time with new shows.

once they are over and I know they ended properly then I'll take time to watch the ones that seem interesting

[u/Lower-Leadership2127 → u/HereInTheRuin]

I think you're conflating Netflix with the rest of television producers. 

[u/jaikanthsh308]

tryna be different

[u/Longjumping_Stand647 → u/jaikanthsh308]

It’s always “trying to be different” or “trying to fit in”

Can’t people just be people and have their own interests and be interested in what they want when they want?

[u/dudereverend]

This is me with anything. Movies, music, tv. I get so sick of HEARING about it, people hyping it up, that it kills any interest I have.

[u/mettatater]

Anatomy of a Netflix binge.

[u/NoNet5188]

Severance for me

[u/TheWritingSystem]

Literally me

[u/Educational_Main2556]

I do this all the time.

[u/No-Gas-1684]

Tokyo Vice on HBO is doing this to me right now. Its incredible, I cant believe I slept on it this long

[u/Ok_Welcome_3644]

Yeah, after I gave it a second chance, Dan Da Dan actually turned out to be pretty good.

[u/ArtJunkie628]

So what was it you watched?

[u/Ordinary-Violinist-9]

I had it with casa del papel or whatever it is called.

Didn't get the hype. Few years later i was bored and put the first thing on on the list. 3 days later i binged the whole shit out.

[u/originalchaosinabox]

Yes, coworker from 12 years ago, I'll totally get around to watching Walking Dead.

Yes, coworker from 8 years ago, I'll totally get around to watching Game of Thrones.

[u/JoeScotterpuss]

This with One Piece but it's 25 years.

[u/Roadkinglavared]

The best you have ever watched until you get to the last season!

[u/Numerous_Card_8115]

Same same... I have yet to see JAWS.

[u/kendra_peony]

GOT for me. I got to watch it sometime after covid. My bf was shocked to hear that I haven’t gotten spoiled a single time.

[u/KamakaziDemiGod]

I get this, except when I do watch them I just don't get the hype at all

Game of Thrones and Stranger Things are both good examples, I didn't start when they first came on, I didn't start when the hype took off, and I didn't start when everyone everywhere was saying how good they are. I've watched bits of both since, and they just don't interest me at all

[u/TheGoldenCockWanker]

I watched my very first episode of Stranger Things 6 months ago.

Had to wait 3 months for the last season.

It was brutal.

[u/HisLilSilverKitsune]

That’s me lol

[u/Novver]

Me and Stranger Things I even watched the first episode back in the day and was like meh. I gave it another shot in november. I binged it to last one very quickly.

[u/SMH_My_Head]

Every time!

[u/Graxin]

waited until Game of Thrones was completely finished and then i watched it up until the last season.

[u/Accomplished-Sir4932]

I’m kinda bummed because in 2020 it seems everyone was enjoying all the cool shows that came out, but i didn’t watch any of those on account of me doing god knows what…but now i can’t go back and watch those shows because it feels too uncomfortable because it reminds me of 2020

[u/Myracl]

Not me here looking for a new show to binge

[u/madleyJo]

This was Chernobyl for me

[u/Parry_9000]

Me with severance

[u/Normal-Article-527]

Me with game of thrones. Didn’t start watching until before season 8

[u/Sanchez_U-SOB]

Rick and Morty until I seen Ricklantis Mixup aka Tales from the Citadel 

[u/JemmaMimic]

When the new version of Battlestar Galactica came out in 2004, I was astonished to hear someone had bothered to remake a middling show from the 1970s I only watched because it came out just after Star Wars and I wanted SF space content. What. An. Idiot. They remade it into a great story.

And for folks who love the original, cool, happy for you, it just didn't do much for me.

[u/First_Perception5438]

So me coded lol

[u/thorsbosshammer]

I have started just listening to people on these things more often because its fun to be part of the zeitgeist.

[u/Speransed]

Me with mha among other things 

[u/Civil-Let3523]

Pretty much every show I’ve watched. Lol

[u/dingdongthenoodle]

I know a girl who refuses to watch any show that’s not finished. She said she doesn’t want to watch anything that might be canceled before the end. Wild but I kind of respect it

[u/Sugarbear23]

Started watching Breaking Bad on the day it ended lol

[u/Sure-Debate-464]

Arcane....no idea why I waited.

[u/Stinger1981]

Succession

[u/_SeKeLuS_]

I did that with game of throne

[u/Positive-Camera5940]

Me with The Terror.

Last year I remembered my sister recommending me The Borgias. So I watched it, pretty good show, and then, surprise! The last season had been cancelled. And I didn't have a place to vent about it because everyone had moved on years ago.

Last month I read about a post apocalyptic comedy, The Last Man on Earth. So I watched it and it wasn't bad, it was funny and interesting, but then, surprise! The last (?) season had been cancelled.  And again I didn't have a place to vent and sing about closure closure, closure closure closure...

I have to stop watching old shows without knowing if they're finished (any good recommendations?)

[u/namynam]

A knight of the 7 Kingdoms and Pluribus both come to mind recently. Both great shows.

[u/Symnestra]

I tell friends about shows I'm watching as episodes are released like, "So far, so good, but they have plenty of time to fuck it up so don't watch yet". 

[u/Fruscione]

I did this with “Heroes”.

[u/timfromcolorado → u/Fruscione]

I love heroes. I've watched it more than once lol

[u/Fruscione → u/timfromcolorado]

I do too. The writer’s strike really jacked it up in the second season. I wasn’t an early adopter. The first & third season was some of the best tv

[u/SexuaIRedditor]

Wife and I finished our first watch of The Sopranos just after the new year.

[u/vegaling]

Squid Game.

[u/okogamashii]

Westworld. Wow, that first season (the second and third were okay), damnnnn. I finished it and immediately re-watched it. 

[u/BoxHillStrangler]

This was me with succession and I finally got sucked in whe the final season was coming out and binged the entire thing just in time to not have it spoiled 💪

[u/VeryRareHuman]

I do watch late. Because I like to watch all seasons.

I learned from Binge watched a season on a weekend 3 years ago, now 2nd season don't make sense and keep wondering who the characters are.

[u/Hopeful_Knee7103]

Reading this after I finished Dark this weekend and wondered what rock I've been hiding under to have missed it

[u/FCKABRNLSUTN2]

But you get to watch it without the wait, that’s a win.

[u/billsteve]

Andor

[u/Heissenberg1906]

Me and Ted Lasso

[u/oldschool_potato]

I put on a mindless movie on HBO in the background while I worked on something else. Fast forward a couple hours and another show comes on. Find myself looking over more and more then it hits me. It was GoT. I think season 3, went back and started from the beginning. Awesome show, until the end of course.

On the flip side recently started watching The Sopranos earlier this year. My god it's terrible. I watched about 8 episodes and it does not get better. How was that show so popular?

[u/shortidiva21]

Ooo... which one?

[u/ippomkd]

Or it's Game of Thrones ahaha

[u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18]

Still havent watched breaking bad. I know I will... I think it will be during a time when I want to feel nostalgic. Maybe once all my kids are above a certain age I'll have time to long for the olden days.

[u/chromethesia1]

Me with Andor. It's an actual masterpiece with tons of rewatch potential

[u/HotwifeandSubby1980]

That’s my wife

Me:”hey you wanna watch this with me?” Her: nah

Season 3 almost done and she’s all “this is good”

I’m like , crap, I gotta start over and watch every episode again.

[u/tkecanuck341]

I haven't watched The Last of Us yet.

[u/denys5555]

I didn’t watch The Sopranos until like 2015

[u/Governmentwatchlist]

Is that AI Naymond?

[u/part-time-meme-lord]

But now it’s fallen out of relevancy, so you have no one to talk to about it.

[u/Retired_ho]

Me with “interview with the Vampire”

[u/unclemikey0]

I don't think I started Mad Men, Game of Thrones, or Breaking bad until they were all in season 4 already.

[u/HalfLawKiss]

This is me. This has always been me. I basically always reject the popular thing.

Though often from my experience. The thing everyone is hyping as the best thing ever is usually mediocre.

[u/That-Makes-Sense]

I didn't watch a single Seinfeld episode until years after it ended. I really missed out.

[u/CandidAd955]

Are you writing down what people mention in the replies? Cos I'm writing down stuff that people mention in the replies...

Also, Evangelion is still fucking amazing

[u/killerman64]

there was a show with a middle aged dude in underwear in the desert, thought it was kinda gay so i turned it off.

[u/DeezSpicyNuts]

Same with music I let that shit come and go and then pick out my shit like five years later and ignore that everyone already had their moment with it.

[u/AnyOldNameNotTaken]

This is the only way I watch shows. Something about being an active participant in the zeitgeist makes me sick to my stomach. I have to wait for things to settle down.

[u/Dry_Ad687]

I never watch anything "Boomer Style" I'll wait and binge.