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I didn't waste time watching S03E01 today. While I think the show is good and seems to be a big hit, I think it could fare just as well without all the swearing dialogue all the time. Shrinking has the same problem with the dialogue. I find it's overuse gets to be distracting.
Shrinking also the problem of being one of the dumbest shows I have ever watched. I didn’t even make it one episode. That was some trash.
 
I enjoyed season 1 of Ted Lasso. While I love darker shows like Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, etc., Ted Lasso was a rarity in that most of the characters were basically decent people with good hearts, who sometimes did bad things (like most of us). I found the characters and situations believable overall. Even Ted's annoying qualities were realistic -- I used to have a friend with a heart of gold who was prone to corny jokes and going on and on about things. In any case, season 1 was a breath of fresh air at a time when the world needed it.

I couldn't get past episode 4 of season 2, though. There were just too many hokey cliches from mediocre sitcoms, in which characters say or do unrealistic things for a cheap laugh or a tug on the heart strings. This might sound like a contradiction, but the hokey elements annoy me more than they otherwise would because there are many good things about the show.

Shrinking, on the other hand, is more like season 1 of Ted Lasso, in that the characters behave like believable human beings. I really enjoyed it, and I didn't feel like I was being manipulated by the writers. I assume that most of the people reading this thread know that Shrinking was created by Bill Lawrence (one the the creators of Ted Lasso) and Brett Goldstein (who plays Roy Kent).

Humor, of course, is subjective, and obviously I'm in the minority when it comes to the merits of Ted Lasso, season 2. As for how episodes of a series are released, Netflix spoiled me: I'm for a series being dumped all at once. I wait to watch an Apple series until all the episodes have been released. There are plenty of other things to binge on in the meantime.
 
It doesn’t bother me that TV shows are released weekly on  TV+ or any streaming platform. I actually like the anticipation of what’s going to happen next week & talking about it with friends/family is good.

Back when I was working in the office & was watching season 3 of stranger things, I started talking to a colleague about it & they almost ruined it because they started talking about episodes that I hadn’t seen yet.

The way Netflix now releases half a season of a show then does the other half separately is annoying, though.

Might just be anecdotal experience on my part, but I feel like I’ve dropped way more shows mid-runs when binging compared to watching as they come out week to week. Orange is the new black and Stranger Things are two examples: I watch a new season within a few days, but then the following season is so far away that when it finally comes out, I barely remember what happened, if at all, and I put it on the watchlist to catch up with eventually, but really, I never get back to it.

Don’t know if it happens to a lot of people, but to me that’s a big flaw of the binging paradigm, especially as we have now way shorter seasons (8-10 episodes compared to 20-24) than we used to, meaning an even longer gap between seasons.
 
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Cool! With See and this getting new seasons, the only other shows I'm waiting up on are Foundation and Central Park.

Ted Lasso is such hokey show. There's Severance which is absolutely amazing and MacRumors never talks about it. WHY???
They did. "Check the archives". It was brought up when it got released, and when it won awards (an emmy? Or grammy?)
 
Severence is so painfully slow I can't handle it. It's borderline pretentious at best and nothing at all seems to happen for 90% of it. The last episode was good but every other episode could be 20mins long.
It feels like a student film which was given a budget.
Most of the streaming services need more constraints. Just need to tighten up most the shows significantly
 
I really enjoy it, a breath of fresh air.

Any programme or series I don't like on TV (and there are bound to be some) I just don't watch them.
 
If you can't find good shows now, it's probably because you're not looking very hard (or at all, really). There may not be as many lazily churned-out multicam sitcoms now as you're listing, but there are still lots of good shows. Here are some off the top of my head to get you started.

Bosch
Goliath
Bojack Horseman
Schitt's Creek
True Detective
Succession
Sneaky Pete
Fleabag
Always Sunny
Mindhunter
Atlanta
Ozark
Billions (early seasons)
Jessica Jones
Loki
WandaVision
The Bear
The Boys
Modern Family
Invincible
Barry
Only Murders in the Building

I'm sure there are others but you should have plenty here to get started.


Plenty of good jokes out there still. If it's casual racism, sexism, homophobia, etc that you're after then yeah, that's gonna be harder to find, but it's still available if that's your cup of tea.
Also there are enough good shows that have been made in the past and right now that if no one ever released another show anyone with a job could never hope to watch all the truly great shows or movies. There is so much.
 
am i loosing it? i thought i watched season 3 couple of years ago?
wasn't season 3 where there wasn't enough episodes are they are padded out with a couple that are a bit odd and only feature one character?
That’d be 2 where they did an episode each on Coach Beard, Rebecca and one where they concentrated on Nate and his parents. Where we 'almost' feel sorry for him 🤣

Shows are already only like 8-10 episodes a season. If you cut them down any more they might as well just be a movie.
Best for binging. Just watched a UK crime/whodunit (Vigil) set on a Trident Submarine which was 6 episodes and perfect for 2-3 nights.
 
TED DIES
My favorite part of posting this is that it was upvoted enough that it made the top comments under the news story page and the spoiler tag doesn't work there and it therefore spoils everything.
 
I liked Season 1, gave up watching at some point in Season 2 due to infestation with wokevirus which made it preachy and unfunny, now a Nike partnership? Nope.
 
I liked Season 1, gave up watching at some point in Season 2 due to infestation with wokevirus which made it preachy and unfunny, now a Nike partnership? Nope.
How do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you use a term like “wokevirus”? What does that even mean? The show is funny and delightful.
 
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I didn't waste time watching S03E01 today. While I think the show is good and seems to be a big hit, I think it could fare just as well without all the swearing dialogue all the time. Shrinking has the same problem with the dialogue. I find it's overuse gets to be distracting.
I can see that, particularly with Shrinking. I think I notice it less in Ted Lasso because of all the British accents but definitely Shrinking. It won't keep me from watching them, but you are right; it does take something away from it.
 
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I didn't waste time watching S03E01 today. While I think the show is good and seems to be a big hit, I think it could fare just as well without all the swearing dialogue all the time. Shrinking has the same problem with the dialogue. I find it's overuse gets to be distracting.
Yea what is there to watch outside of kids stuff that isn't overloaded with mature content? I think Spirited was the only thing I found so far.
 
I never said I was offended. There is also no need to get acerbic over reading a post you disagreed with.

Edited to add: Listening to people curse over and over is irritating to me because I find it uncouth, lacking in decorum and to the unknowing, a lack of any real meaningful vocabulary that is germane to the subject at hand. The fact that it is written into the script so much leaves me with the impression that the writers lack ability to do any better.
Yea it's not just A WORD. Like on Only Murders in the Building. Steve and Martin swear occasionally for approprate reasons. Not every sentence or worse like Selena. I like Cena but couldn't get through five mins of Peacemake because it was profanity three times a sentence.
 
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How do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you use a term like “wokevirus”? What does that even mean? The show is funny and delightful.
My apologies, I don't expect you to take me seriously, mostly because I don't care.
 
Considering this is predominately an English/UK, you should watch game shows like "8 out of 10 cats does countdown". So much swearing but it's actually funny. Some people look for reasons.

Personally, I will turn off anything that has the Southern Californian / Valley Girl talk. It's way worse than swearing, because it is pretentious and fake, trying to sound better than other people. Now that is distracting!
That's like Steve Martin in Planes Trains and Automobile. I think he swore more in that scene than I ever heard him swear total in every other movie of his I watched.
 
Had to stop midway through s02 since everything felt off to me, pacing, plot, it didn't work. The show seemed to have moved on from being about the team's growing success -and struggles- to something where some of the characters just happen to play soccer sometimes. I enjoyed watching the relationship between Ted and his boss develop in s01, Ted's gonna show her what they're capable of. Yet the Ted in s02 seems not to be too bothered his team's just bad now.

None of that had anything to do with swearing or "wokevirus" nonsense.
 
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