Friends, How I Met Your Mother, New Girl -- I can't stand laugh tracks on shows.

Walking Dead -- I didn't find any of the characters likeable.

Game of Thrones -- I don't have cable lol

13 Reasons Why -- I'm a teacher and the kids romanticize the heck out of it and I have a grudge against it now.

Stranger Things -- I tried to but i couldn't get invested.

Vampire Diaries. I watched the first three episodes or so and the helplessness & stupidity of the female lead + the bad acting just made it impossible to watch for me... Sorry

The Walking Dead, Pretty Little Liars, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Game of Thrones

Oh jeez...uh. Game of Thrones, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, Friends, Big Bang Theory, The Office, Orange is the New Black, Breaking Bad, Adventure Time, Bob's Burgers - pretty much anything popular in the last five or so years EXCEPT Stranger Things.

I really didn't like the 2005 reboot of Doctor Who.... Loved the original as a kid, but the Nuwho often frustrated me and was at time obnoxious. There were some good episodes, but a lot of bad stuff too. This show used to be REALLY popular and I wanted to like it. But I didn't.

Also, Voltron: Legendary Defender was a thing..... It sure was a thing. This show has gotten a lot of popularity, but also a lot of warranted criticism. What a mess. The Voltron series deserved better than this adaption.

On a lighter note, any incarnation of the Star Trek series isn't bad, but I just never found myself interested in its particular variety of sci-fi.

Game of thrones! Breaking Bad! Sons of anarchy !

Pretty much anything 'popular' that's come out in the past....oh, 10 years or so?

With examples, I find these things to be one or more of the following;

Very boring - Orange is the New Black Breaking Bad, ect

Trying to be funny but really just not - American Dad (and all other things in that vein) and Big Bang Theory

The animation style just plain sucks - Adventure Time, Rick and Morty

A really terrible adaptation of a great book/book series - Game of Thrones, A Series of Unfortunate Events

Romanticizing something it just shouldn't be - 13 Reasons Why, Orphan Black

Sometimes obviously my opinions change, but I tend to get into stuff long after its initial popularity has worn off because I also think just fandoms as a whole for shows and stuff are a major turn-off and reason I won't touch a show with a ten foot pole :/

Riverdale Vampire Diaries

Game of Thrones. I just can't. I don't. Why. I finally watched the first episode after much badgering from my fellows and actually fell asleep during it. I can usually lose myself in pretty much any decent story but this show...nope. Not gonna happen. Plus, I heard that every character I might ever possibly care about will die, so what the hell is the point?

Re: OP...lol, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Rick and Morty are literally my favorite contemporary shows (older ones being Star Trek and X-Files) while I am very intrigued by Orphan Black but have yet to watch it (I take a while to get around to watching things). But to each their own; I understand! Seriously, why is GoT such a big deal?!

Game of Thrones too! I have friends and family who LOVE it, but I just can't. I've tried watching the first episode like 4 times, and I'm asleep within 15 minutes every time. I wish I could get into it so I could see what all the fuss is about, but I just can't.

Maybe if we just skipped the first episode and jumped ahead it would get more interesting. X'D That would bother me though. I insist on doing things completely and in the correct order or not at all. The whole premise just doesn't really appeal to me anyway. But I do wish I knew why everyone loves it so much.

Before dropping off, I watched through...maybe season 3 or so of GoT? And I do think it picks up as it goes in terms of pacing, but I still wasn't able to get into it. IMO there were/are a lot of very bad writing decisions, haha. Plus, frankly, it's regularly so violent and upsetting that the interesting bits weren't enough to keep me in.

Oh man, that's kind of a big investment for something you never really ended up liking. =/ It's probably best if I just skip it after all haha.

I feel like it might just remind me of all the problems I had with Vikings. I was super into Vikings for the first few seasons but then there started to be too many characters and different plotlines and stuff for me to keep up with, and not to get into spoilers but some big changes occurred that disappointed me, so I just couldn't be bothered with it anymore. I am still sad about that. I really loved Floki and Lagertha. D:

Yeah haha, some of it was fun but I do look back and think "wow I could have been watching something else," lol.

Ohh man that stinks, I'm sorry to hear that Vikings went that way too! I watched a bit of Vikings here and there, and I loved Floki and Lagertha too, so I'm disappointed to hear that something unfortunate happened there. D: Over-complexity of plotlines and an unmanageable cast is definitely a problem that plagues these kinds of shows when they get lots of seasons, I've noticed... it must be tough to manage that as a writer on serial TV programming when you're not sure if your show will get renewed for another season (or for how many seasons).

Yeah, I mean lots of people probably think it's great because they keep doing that with shows and people keep watching, it's just not for me because I have a particularly hard time keeping track of that many characters and all their stories. (For one thing, I have mild face-blindness and couldn't even tell some of them apart...it just started getting so confusing lol.) I guess when shows go on for too long it gets to a point where they have to add in new characters and complications just to continue to have a story to tell. I'm conflicted about this because I'm always sad when my favorite series end, but there does come a point where it might be for the best to wrap it up.

Literally every popular show that exists, to be honest. I'm really hard to please and, when something is popular, it makes me see it in different eyes. It makes me say "this better be the BEST experience ever, and flawless."

Most of the time, they aren't.

I completely agree on that last point! My thought on it is that it's always so much better from a "completed piece of work" standpoint to have a strong series, with solid pacing and a solid end (even if I'm sad that it's over), than it is to have a series that would have been a lot stronger if it had been more concise.

The same thing happens a lot in comics. Stories that have a planned length and ending at the outset are often a lot stronger, IMO. (I'm an author, though, so that definitely influences my perspective!)

I did watch like 4 seasons of game of thrones but i was so lost throughout it and had no clue what was going on..

um to add my own Santa Clarita Diet hehhe i keep looking and it and then like the comedy part throws me off since i like horror zombie but not the two together (comedy and horror) and also I can't get into breaking bad because I dislike watching anything to do with drugs.

Game of Thrones. I have absorbed everything by sheer tumblr dash osmosis though.

As someone who loves ASOIAF... yeah... no. The only clips or episodes I've watched of GoT were watched because I wanted to see how much D&D had fucked it up.

GoT sweetie I'm so sorry D&D did that to you.

Riverdale, Vampire Diaries, Lucifer.