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farcough187 t1_iucaok4 wrote

What you need is a palate cleanser show. Something lighter and less drama-heavy or something you've watched before. Sitcoms are a good choice for me.

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Educational-Tower t1_iucbj2p wrote

Or spend some time watching movies, reading novels, or just away from a screen…

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LazyDivide774 t1_iud1o4o wrote

If you've watched a dozen shows including some that have gotten very good reviews without getting into any of them, you should probably take a break and not watch anything for a while.

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nianp t1_iud2iua wrote

I find a significant genre change for the next show helps.

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im_a_dick_head t1_iudexo6 wrote

Replying to farcough187 (#336,122)

This exactly. I watched Reacher right when it came out and it was so good that no other show would compete at the time so I watched Blue Mountain State right after. Alan Ritchson is in both shows, I heard good things about BMS here so I decided to give it a go. It was exactly what I needed.

It's good to watch a care-free comedy after a heavy action or drama show.

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anasui1 t1_iufcpco wrote

only if it's of significant lower quality. Look, I love Supernatural but rewatching it after Bosch was a most jarring experience, took a while to adjust myself to it

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spinereader81 t1_iufhcgj wrote

I go through that if I try to find another series as close to the one I loved as possible. I'll find great shows, but they just won't completely fill that hole in my heart. So I'll just try shows that ibterest me but aren't very similar.

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Kryoptic t1_iugqlge wrote

I can't believe you couldn't get into Euphoria. I know it's a little over the top, but I cried at least a few times over those first couple seasons.

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Pretty_Garbage8380 t1_iuig397 wrote

What helps me is that my tastes are so completely narrow and focused that I can go long periods between shows and I can wait for a show to stand the test of time. I only really enjoy Sci-Fi/Fantasy. And what has made me even more patient is the utter annihilation of any interest I had in all my old favorites: Star Wars/Star Trek/Dr. Who/Marvel/DC/et al. If you like the modern stuff, awesome! I do not. My life is too full of dour, gritty, realism for me to gravitate towards that when I am trying to escape.

I just finished Farscape, which is amazing. I tend to avoid any modern shows (after 2015) because they are usually too on the nose. I may give the Expanse another try, but I am worried it will end without a proper send-off. I already mourned all the Sci-Fi I used to love, so modern retellings in skin-suits won't ever appear on my radar.

I will probably give Lexx a try at some point soon. I may also re-watch Quantum Leap, as that is always entertaining. So much great entertainment has already been made, that I will take the internet's suggestion and leave the new stuff to the kiddos. "It wasn't made for me," and I agree. Let it succeed or fail or be meh or whatever.

In watching shows (mostly) from the pre-streaming era, I realized that what I truly love is 22+ episodes per season (some shows clocking in at 45 minutes an episode). So much time to get to know the characters. Writers who aren't doing commentary on a particular political party, but politics in general, war in general, morality in general, religion in general.

Shows that aren't afraid to have heroes who actually succeed. Shows not written by algorithms. I can bide my time, because the delight of finding a hidden gem full of content is worth it (to me) over waiting 9 years for 3 seasons of whatever passes for entertainment for today's masses.

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