I recently decide to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm and I only really started to enjoy the show after season four.
I feel like a lot of dramas like The Americans, Dark, and Narcos take me a little while to get invested but it's typically only a season.
Parks and Rec is a great show....If you just straight up skip season 1. Season one did not have its legs and I can't really believe it didn't get canceled before season 2.
I can’t really believe it didn’t get canceled before season 2.
I agree ... how did it not get cancelled?
it was only 6 episodes and i guess had goodwill from the office writers? idk NBC tried to cancel parks and rec all the time at its peak so its amazing how it didnt get instantly canned
Season 1 is terrible, they were basically trying to do a The Office spin-off but the humor fell completely flat.
The wire. Think I started season 1 about 5 times. Then I stuck it out. Hands down the best show I’ve seen.
I was hooked by episode 4 when Bunk and McNulty are at the crime scene
British version of the Office. Still not into it.
Actually, why qualify it? Any version of the Office...
American Office is a bit of an acquired taste as Dry Humor often is...
The Office UK is where I became convinced that Ricky Gervais is one of the least funny comedians of all time, nothing has been able to change my mind.
That was my beef with it. "OK, it's a comedy and the central premise is how not-funny someone is..."
See...
Bad Media is interesting because the ineptitude is usually comedic. It's why I consider it a step above "Boring Media"
The problem is Bad Media that is intended to be comedic is the most toxic substance known to man. A comedy is supposed to be funny, being inept at a medium can be funny, but being inept at comedy causes the funniness of both to cancel out and create.. Anti-Lulz
Ricky Gervais can generate Anti-Lulz no problem
The Wire for my parent and myself also.
We watched it once, got a few episodes in, and we were like “we’ll come back to this I’m sure”
Seven years later, we finish The Sopranos. “Well I guess this is kinda like it…”
Nah, but we got through season three at least!
I didn't really get captivated by The Wire until season 3. It had some really memorable moments, but it was a show I had to force myself through until season 3. Especially season 2, since the dock workers didn't catch my interest.
I watched the first four episodes of the Expanse, and then just skipped to the second season.
I know that's not exactly "long", but I didn't want to waste my time trying to get into it and it looked promising. Very glad I did it like that. This was back when there were only 3 seasons out.
Probably going to be Lost. I'm 3 episodes in as of 2008 and haven't gone back yet...if I ever do, it will be the longest to get into for me by far.
In seriousness though...As others have said, The Office and Parks & Rec took me about a season to get into.
Arrested Development, I admit, took me a few episodes.
Always Sunny took me about a season...I think just to get into a groove of the style or something, I dunno.
Got into deep space 9 about ten years ago. It was on TV when I was a kid but it never clicked. The environments and characters were too weird and I didn't understand wtf was going on. Well, people seemed to love it so I decided to start watching from the beginning, and... Yeah. My only regret is I'll never be able to watch it for the first time again. ;_;
For some reason it took me a long time to click with Schitt's Creek.
West Wing. When it came out years ago, (24 actually...) I saw a couple episodes and it didn't interest me. But about 8 years ago I ended up watching every episode on Netflix and loved it. But wow, if I had to slog through to season 4 of a show to enjoy it, I would never get there.
The Americans. But boy once we got into their world, we couldn't stop.
For me, if a show isn't good during the first season, then it's very unlikely that I'll watch the rest of it. I'm really not someone who plays the game of skipping seasons, unless it's absolutely called for.
That said, Deep Space Nine is an amazing show, but one that has a bit of a rough Landing. It feels like the show legitimately did not understand that Sisko and not Quark was the main character until a producer cleared up the misunderstanding with the writers. And although Quark is the best part of the show, it does get a bit more interesting when the events revolve around the cardassians and bajorans, after all there are only so many ways you can raise the stakes of a show from inside of a bar.
That being said, when it comes to Classic mst3k, I find the Mike years to be vastly superior to the Joel years, to the point where if I'm rewatching the series just to have noise in the background while I'm doing something else, I'm going to exclusively choose from the list of Mike episodes. If I'm watching it just watch it though the Joel episodes actually have a chance to shine. I understand this is a bit of a controversial take. That being said if we are talking the modern incarnation of the show, then I'm definitely going to go for a Joel episode over anything having to do with Riff trax.
I mean RiffTrax isn't bad per se, but sometimes I get a aging Rockstar trying to relive The Glory Days vibe from it.
While on the subject, having someone start It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia with the first season is just setting them up to writeboff the show as jist "meh"
The Ranch
Something like nine seasons and I'm still not sure if I like it.
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
Caught a few episodes of the first season but it never stuck with me.
I was told that it gets better after season 3. It did get better in season 2.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is one of those shows where I definitely recommend skipping the first season. Normally even if the first season is kind of bad, I still recommend people watch it in order to familiarize themselves with the show. But the jump in quality after Danny DeVito joins the cast.. really is that severe, especially since he brings a whole bunch of other changes to the show. Such as Deandra no longer being the voice of reason, but being just as unstable as everyone else, which is a very welcome change because the woman being the one smart person is a sitcom cliche that is honestly quite tiresome. Plus her delusions of grandeur are funny as hell.
I would dare say that the first season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is painfully unfunny aside, where is the rest of the series is just downright amazing.
