2013 Bottom 5 TV Shows

 

I know there is a lot worse television out there than what is on my list, but what I picked here were shows that I watched or continue to watch and wonder why I do. They made me angry more than giving me any enjoyment. Did you watch something more horrible than what I listed? Please let me know so I can avoid it!

1. True Blood

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This show has been going downhill for a while now. I barely made it through the first season, but loved the second and third season. As I have discussed with Amy many times, they made a mistake when they killed Franklin. He was the best over-the-top character. They could have made him turn Tara into a vampire way back when and they could have been the “Spike and Drucilla” of True Blood, tormenting everyone (vampire or not). Instead, we had to wait until season five for Tara to turn into a boring vampire. The show was always a campy, silly show, but it seems to have forgotten what made people like it. There were so many boring story lines the past few years. They brought werewolves into the show, but then they kept doing the same boring story about pack masters. The books the show is based are not well-written, but they did better stuff with the werewolves than the writers of this show. Does anyone care about Sam on this show? Has he ever been given anything useful to do besides own the bar and moon over Sookie? Everytime the story switched to him, I wanted to close my eyes and wait for the next scene. I was thrilled when I heard next season is the last one but I think they should have just wrapped it up this past season. I don’t think I even care to watch it beyond this one. Eric and Alcide running around naked is not enough to make me want to continue watching. At least we did get to see Eric naked before I finally gave up.

2. Dexter

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I am of the opinion of many people that this show should have wrapped up with John Lithgow’s Trinity Killer. It was a tragic ending with Rita, but I would have been satisfied with that. It kept going and I kept watching. The season with Colin Hanks and Edward James Olmos was horrid. I almost gave up on the show then, but heard it had improved with the seventh season. That was okay, but thought they should have ended it then. It had one more season to go though. I had seen the previews with Dr. Vogel and was intrigued. Then, I was bored watching it. I actually would have been okay if everything had wrapped up all nice and neat like it almost did in the second-to-last episode. Then it all went to hell in those last few minutes with the killer guy getting away and Deb getting shot. I went along with the ludicrousness of Dexter killing the guy in police custody on tape, walking out of a hospital with Deb’s braindead body while no one notice to the most convenient boat dock right next to the hospital, and how Hannah drugged the P.I. that had found her on the bus. Then Dexter faked his own death, which seemed unnecessary since who was following him at that point? Everyone was dead! I could even buy that if he was still meeting up with Hannah who was taking care of his son, but he doesn’t. He goes off to become a lumberjack? WTF. How does that make sense? Lame! Maybe I should have made this my number one worst show of the year.

3. How I Met Your Mother

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This show used to be funny. It is also one that should have ended a while ago when they promised they would, but they kept extending it out again and again. I liked Robin and Barney when they got together the first time, but thought it made sense to split them up. To get them back together has not been funny or sweet. The elaborate trick to get Robin to accept Barney’s proposal was horrible. Why this last season has been set at their wedding weekend is bizarre. Did anyone really want this? There have been a couple episodes where we get introduced to the mother that I have enjoyed, but everything else has been bad. The episode where Marshall rhymes stories? I wanted to jump through the television and stab forks in his eyes. This show has made me hate all the characters. At this point I am just watching it until the end to torture myself.

4. Community

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I have loved this show from the beginning. It did get a bit odd in the third season, but I still loved the Law & Order parody episode. Dan Harmon is apparently hard to work with, but not sure why they didn’t just cancel the show instead of firing him. The show has never had a big audience and he wasn’t just the creator, but had his hand in every episode. It was his show and that came through in the fourth season without him there. This past season was just not funny. I watched a few episodes and thought I was being too harsh on it. Then I rewatched a random episode from the second season and laughed so much that I realized that all the humor had been removed from the show. I actually quit watching it while episodes stacked up on my tv. When I heard Dan Harmon had been hired back, I thought I might as well trudge through the rest of the fourth season. It was tough. All the characters were just stereotypes of their characters and acting in really irrational ways from how they had grown from the first season. It turned into bizarro Community. I am willing to give it another chance with Harmon back in charge. I have also heard good things from critics that have seen new episodes that start this Thursday. I can’t wait! This is the only show on this list that I actually want to see more of it!

5. Under the Dome

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I thought the show had a lot of promise after the first episode. Then the second episode came with the Reverend/mortician mistakenly starting the slowest fire to his house. He did it so slowly I thought it was intentional. Why couldn’t he put it out before it turned bad? It didn’t get much better after that. Dean Norris overacted, which was a shame after watching him in Breaking Bad. People would freak out about lack of resources one second and then be hunky dory the next and an unending supply of whatever they needed was available. There were bad kid actors and no one to really care about. I did enjoy watching it just to make fun of it and I plan to do it again next summer because I want to see what other ridiculous plot lines they put into play.

 

 

 

 

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