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Saturday, March 16, 2019

TV shows I've stopped watching for one reason or another

You readers of the blog may have noted that I like just about ever TV miniseries that I watch, and it's true that the reviews of same posted on this site are almost always positive. But that's because I post only on series-seasons that I watch in full, or almost in full. There are many that I have watched only for an episode or two and then, realizing that the show is either mediocre (or worse) or not for me because of personal predilections (I tend not to watch many comedies, shows about the supernatural, or animated pix) or in some cases not of interest to my watch-mate, M, who in particular doesn't like shows w/ too much violence (eliminating several of the mob-related shows that I probably would have stayed with). So here's a brief list of some of the shows we've started to watch but that I, at least, abandoned before the finale and never posted on (I don't have a record of dates on these shows, but I think this list covers about the past 2 years):

13 Reasons Why, Glitch, Shetland, The Keepers - don't recall why I dropped these.
Glow - first episode (about female wrestling) was funny and some good plot twists but had little interest in persuing this further.
Last Chance U Season 3 - loved the 1st to seasons, but the 3rd seemed as if it was tilling familiar ground
Time - the true-life story of a false imprisonment; seemed pretty good but had already seen The Night Of, and this seemed like a repetition
Suburra - too violent for someone
Dark - seemed too much like Stranger Things
Anerican Vandal - Season one was a riot, but season 2 seemed like a re-run
Wormwood - huh? don't even remember it
The Returned - I don't remember this one (French) either
Rita - though viewing-partner watched the whole series, I dropped out as I could never believe in the lead character or in the reality of this high school, even in Denmark
The Mechanism (Brazil) - too violent, ditto for La Mante (French), Border Town (Finnish), The Break (Belgian), and Cannabis (French ) - my memory is that each of these shows tried to be as shocking as possible from the first scene (The Break had a little more integrity, but the plot strained credulity)
More violent or gruesome dropouts: Spotless (Fr.), Money Heist (Sp.), The Frozen Dead (!), The Lava Field (Iceland), The Rain (Denmark), Evil Genius
Midnight Diner - Japanese series about weekly happenings in a small diner, cute idea for the first narrative was so preposterous that we stopped right there
The Good Place - too far fetched
Jessica Jones ,Parenthood, Maniac- did I really start to watch these?
House of Cards, final season - really like most of this series but the final season had nothing going on
Sinner - no, too weird
Marking a Murderer Season 2 - First season was great and the followup was worth maybe one episode
Hill House - read the book insteaad
Love Sick, reasonably funny first episode but little desire to see the same story multiple times
The Protector (Turkey) interesting to see a series set in Turkey, for about two episodes
Bojack Horseman - OK if you like animated comedy a la The Simpsons
Sex Education - At least it was intelligent, but had no desire to go beyond the set-up first episode
When Heroes Fly  Israeli - had some promise, actually watched 3 episodes, but the plot became increasingly preposterous
Russian Doll - full of trickery and narrative nonsense and not watchable,
Romance is a Bonus Book - South Korean - could not for a second by into these characters and their relationships, maybe a cultural issue
You - showed enogh promise to hold me for 3 episodes or so, and I liked the use of 2nd-peson narration, bur the plot never really gets off the ground
Shtisel - an Isaeali family drama about an Orthodox community that  liked far more than my watch-partner 



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