I got through maybe seven episodes. At no point in those seven episodes could I identify what was so addictive about the show.
I've mentioned this to friends who were absolutely obsessed with this show, and their response almost every time was "Oh, you just have to keep watching. It gets really good in a few episodes!".
Sorry, but I shouldn't have to tolerate almost ten hours of content to get to "the good stuff". If a show can't get me at least moderately interested after the first episode, then I likely won't keep watching.
The problem is some shows do just take time before the creators get into their stride. The Wire is a great example of that, the first season takes a long time building up the characters and the story moves at an almost glacial pace, but I'd argue that it's well worth the time. The payoff is tremendous.
This is another show I tried to like! I watched the whole 1st season and wasn't impressed with it. Maybe it gets better down the road but it was like you said, it was slooow and I just couldn't focus.
Well, there's no accounting for taste and ours may just be different :)
I think part of the reason it already appealed to me towards the end of the first season is just how gritty and bleak it was. I don't think there had been any other show at the time it was released that showed just how dark the social environment (or maybe Baltimore itself) really was and it focussed too on the day-to-day lives of people at all levels of the drug trade.
I think historic context is often a big influence when people recommend movies and TV shows.
I experienced the same thing. I know that the show itself is good, but it was so heavy that I needed to be in the right mood to watch it, but I was never really in that right mood.
I think I got about two seasons in, then just stopped watching. The thing is, everyone loved Walter White, but I found him so insufferable that I just couldn't watch him. No I did not want to root for him, like everyone else was doing. When you create a show with an unlikeable main character, usually you make the secondary characters more likeable, at least that was my case for The Sopranos. With Breaking Bad, I didn't like any of the characters... so I just stopped watching.
I'll probably give it another go, but damn it is going to be a chore.
I think now that the series has ended the pressure is off. I'm a fan of GOT and I feel sorry for all the people who aren't, not because I think they're missing out, but because when the season is running all the hype must be inescapable.
Believe it or not, Breaking Bad. I feel like a pariah.
I got through maybe seven episodes. At no point in those seven episodes could I identify what was so addictive about the show.
I've mentioned this to friends who were absolutely obsessed with this show, and their response almost every time was "Oh, you just have to keep watching. It gets really good in a few episodes!".
Sorry, but I shouldn't have to tolerate almost ten hours of content to get to "the good stuff". If a show can't get me at least moderately interested after the first episode, then I likely won't keep watching.
The problem is some shows do just take time before the creators get into their stride. The Wire is a great example of that, the first season takes a long time building up the characters and the story moves at an almost glacial pace, but I'd argue that it's well worth the time. The payoff is tremendous.
This is another show I tried to like! I watched the whole 1st season and wasn't impressed with it. Maybe it gets better down the road but it was like you said, it was slooow and I just couldn't focus.
Well, there's no accounting for taste and ours may just be different :)
I think part of the reason it already appealed to me towards the end of the first season is just how gritty and bleak it was. I don't think there had been any other show at the time it was released that showed just how dark the social environment (or maybe Baltimore itself) really was and it focussed too on the day-to-day lives of people at all levels of the drug trade.
I think historic context is often a big influence when people recommend movies and TV shows.
I experienced the same thing. I know that the show itself is good, but it was so heavy that I needed to be in the right mood to watch it, but I was never really in that right mood.
I know what you mean, just couldn't get in to it
Amen.
I think I got about two seasons in, then just stopped watching. The thing is, everyone loved Walter White, but I found him so insufferable that I just couldn't watch him. No I did not want to root for him, like everyone else was doing. When you create a show with an unlikeable main character, usually you make the secondary characters more likeable, at least that was my case for The Sopranos. With Breaking Bad, I didn't like any of the characters... so I just stopped watching.
I'll probably give it another go, but damn it is going to be a chore.
Agree. EVERYBODY telling me to watch it makes me NOT want to watch it and so far I haven't.
Well, then. this is for you ;)
Bwwwahaaaaa............that's too awesome!! But, "You'll never break me!"
Thankyou DrunkOldMan and idle threat, I am no longer alone
I've not seen it either and I really don't care about seeing it.
I think now that the series has ended the pressure is off. I'm a fan of GOT and I feel sorry for all the people who aren't, not because I think they're missing out, but because when the season is running all the hype must be inescapable.
I'm right there with you, tried watching it and it just felt boring. Then you got the whole of the world clamoring about how amazing it is. Please.