I agree about Ricky Gervais. I actually liked him in The Office, but in everything else - before and after - he is just fucking awful. Talk shows, stand-up, speeches, podcasting, he is a desperate, strained and insecure performer. When he's telling a joke, it's like every word has had to be pressed out of a gland with a clenched fist before the next word can be milked free; it's clear he's just saying the words in the correct order, and not performing it. He is never present and 'in the moment', and seems to be in a perpetual state of panic about his own inadequacy. If he were actually a decent person instead of whatever the fuck he has become, I wouldn’t be saying this about him. But he's a cunt, so, yeah. His imposter syndrome (which is entirely deserved in his case) makes the media he's in unbearable to consume.

To see just how truly awful the man is, watch that Talking Funny documentary. It's him, Jerry Seinfeld (the least-funny paedophile in the world), Chris Rock and Louie CK all in a room together talking about comedy. Ricky is obviously feeling the full force of his imposter syndrome throughout. It's probably the most glaring example of what I'm talking about.

I simply don't get his success. Like, I can understand the success of paedophile rings, but I can't fathom how Ricky has made it so big. One of life's great mysteries, I guess.

Harry Potter, even ignoring how much of a piece of shit the author is the books just aren't particularly well thought out.

I'm just here to see if anyone has any wrong opinions about something I love.

Big Bang Theory

A big part of why many of the things in this thread haven't aged well, is because a lot of what made these shows original and unique was copied to death following the fame of the original.

If you weren't there for the original release of a piece of media, there's a good chance you're not necessarily seeing it in the context where the accolades make sense.

Seinfeld basically invented the 3 camera sitcom and a lot of the key tropes in the format. If you go back today having not watched it before, the vast majority of it just comes across as a boring sitcom, because every sitcom to follow took notes from the way they did Seinfeld.

It's the same with the UK office, it basically invented the modern mockumentary format as well as the cringe comedy era that followed (and gave us things like peep show). If you look back now without that context, it just looks like a generic combination of both those things.

Disturbed's cover of "Sound of Silence." I like the original Simon & Garfunkel, or at least the more upbeat version of it. And I like Disturbed (see below). But this cover absolutely blows.

Yes, I know the lead singer is a grade A shitbag. I liked the band long before I knew anything about any of it and have since stopped listening to them.

The James Cameron Avatar movies.

American football. Fox turned it into a video game you can’t play.

Mens soccer. Stop with the fucking cry baby drama! Women’s soccer is better in this regards.

My aunt Gisela promised to bring me into touch with my father. In reality, she simply darkened the room and, with a lowered voice, gave a bad imitation of my deceased dad. That’s one medium I could do without.

Paying a subscription to watch sports.

You're right and you should say it. Ricky Gervais has always been weird and off-putting and the idea that he was ever good has always baffled me. I never enjoyed The Office. When my dad tried to get me into Extras I just found all of Ricky's parts annoying. When my sister told me how great Derek was, I just found the whole thing simultaneously tasteless and bland, like it couldn't commit to being offensive but didn't put the work into being real. His standup is often clever, but always the kind of clever that is let down by a complete lack of emotional intelligence. The man just does not understand people, but thinks he really does.

The US version of The Office, LOL.

Watched 8 episodes and would rather watch paint dry for the rest of my life than watching the rest of the series.

Your mom's OnlyFans page.

For me it's Friends. I don't get all the hype about it until today. I tried watching a few episodes but it was nothing special. It was just a sitcom, nothimg special about it.

Mad Men. Everyone on that show is a fucking scumbag and not in a funny or interesting way.

Also Thor Ragnarok. I hate it for the reasons people say they hate the next one but it was the same people that said they liked Ragnarok so Idk what the fuck is going on there. I'm not watching the second one to find out.

3 body problem. What a fucking terrible shit waste of paper.

I thought the American version of The Office wasn't much better. Just constant cringe humor, it's exhausting.

Breaking Bad for me. I just can't stand it and find the characters and the situations just unpleasant and undesireable to watch.

Woah surprised no one mentioned South Park yet, it quite common in discussions like this.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Its not just that the humor is unfunny (and basically just bigotry porn with a side of cringe), its that none of the "friends" in the show are even friends with each other. The whole show is just a bunch of assholes being bigoted assholes and then you are supposed to think that its funny.

Kinda surprised I didn't see breaking bad already listed. I guess I'm one of the few who dislikes it. I don't like tragedies in general. Life is already a tragedy.

I'm sure it was extremely well executed and totally worth making, but it's not my flavor of ice cream.

Dr. Seuss. I really don't know why, but that stuff is creepy and disturbing in a way that almost nothing else is. All of it. The art, the writing, the themes. I literally just can't even.

Dave Matthews band. Also, any "jam" band in general.

The US Office is unironically a better show because it understood what path it wanted to take as it went on and stop trying to rely heavily on cringe comedy to focus more on absurdist but still relatable scenarios.