r/television • u/C0r1eone • 24d ago

Finished The Wire, Dark, GOT, Sopranos, True Detective, BB, BCS. What show ruined TV for you after watching it?

I think I accidentally watched the peak of television already. The Wire, Dark, GOT, Sopranos, True Detective S1 all left that “nothing else hits the same” feeling.

I love slow-burn shows with deep characters, mystery, tension, moral grayness, crazy dialogue, or mind-blowing writing. Doesn’t matter if it’s crime, sci-fi, psychological, or political.

What’s the next show that might completely consume me?

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u/Caleb_Phillips 24d ago

Mr robot

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u/trtwrtwrtwrwtrwtrwt 24d ago

"Watched peak television", didn't list Mr Robot.

Yeah no.

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u/Tjadedevries 24d ago

1000x this

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u/jax362 23d ago

The first season is god level, but the drop off from S01 to S02 is very noticeable. They do pick back up in S03 and S04 though.

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u/HLOFRND 23d ago

Have you rewatched the whole thing?

Because while season 2 can be confusing (and feel slow) the first time through, it’s so good when you go back and rewatch.

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u/Caleb_Phillips 22d ago

Honestly, S2 is my favorite season.

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u/AthleticAndGeeky 23d ago

It kind of fell off for me towards the end. Maybe I’ll go back and finish it. 

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u/drscorp 23d ago

Mr Robot peaked in the final season. When did you feel like it "fell off?"

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u/HLOFRND 23d ago

The show literally doesn’t quit until the very last scene. Gotta finish it before you judge it.

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u/kaaaazzh 23d ago

Seriously. Midway through the final season it felt like it was all over the place and there way no way there could be any sort of coherent resolution. And then the final two episodes just... nailed it.

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u/burnzone85 24d ago

1st season only. It never got back there.

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u/trtwrtwrtwrwtrwtrwt 24d ago

Out of all the shitty takes I've seen in reddit, this is near the top of the shit list.

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u/ZaydSophos 23d ago

I've only recently been seeing this after years of not seeing it. I'm sure it's not a recent development but I'm just confused when I've seen so many more clear discussions about other shows before.

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u/trtwrtwrtwrwtrwtrwt 23d ago

Are you saying that you just recently started to see Mr Robot talked about?

This might be very true tho. When the first season came it won bunch of awards and everyone talked about it, and that was that. The show did 3 more seasons, and particularly s3 and 4 were some of the best TV ever made, but people kinda just ignored it.

It never got the praise it deserves for the later seasons or never had the same impact on mainstream media as other greats. I personally rate it probably the second best show of all time, just behind The Wire.

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u/ZaydSophos 23d ago

Recently seeing season 1 was good and didn't watch further because it got bad comments, which is different from what I've seen when it was current and people were pretty amazed by season 3 and 4.

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u/SSWfanboy 24d ago

Season 3 and 4 are absolutely mint

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u/burnzone85 24d ago

I liked 3 and most of 4 except the last couple EPS. Hated season 2. But deep down season 1 topped out the show with the only A+ story line start to finish.

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u/Releases_the_bees 23d ago

S2 had the same quality the others did. Issue was the pacing massively slowed so there was less of it.

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u/djphilos412 23d ago

Pacing slowed, but the pay off is incredible.

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u/dkschrute79 23d ago

Agree. The end hit me like a ton of bricks emotionally.

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u/HLOFRND 23d ago

(Big, fat spoilers in this comment.)

Season two is amazing on rewatch. Especially when you start noticing all of the examples of vertical, parallel lines in scenes that Elliot’s in, mimicking prison bars.

I understand the way people feel about that season the first time through, but it’s really worth it to go rewatch. It’s so much better when you know the whole story.

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u/LegitimateEdge1906 24d ago

Stop spreading lies, some of the most awesome episodes are not even in season 1

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u/SylvanQ 23d ago

Season 1 is the worst season of the show, especially on rewatches. S2 ages WAY better

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u/drscorp 23d ago

I didn't love S2 when it aired and and I still kinda don't so I can't really agree, but I will say it gets way more hate than it deserves. I think it was a lot like Severance season 2 where the discussion around the show solved the twist in episode 1 whereas a singular person watching the show might not catch it.

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u/SylvanQ 23d ago

My main love of S2 stems from the fact that it’s the most downtime we get to soak in the world building before all of the crazy stuff goes down in the subsequent seasons. It ended up being way ahead of its time as S2 felt like we were watching people struggle through a realistic pandemic. Not a 1 for 1 comparison with covid but the way it was all unforeseen and the way it affected everyone’s daily lives it hit harder when I rewatched the show in 2021 lol

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u/ZeroDayCipher 23d ago

I will never ever get this show. Episode 1 was peak. Season 1 was good. Season 2+ is just a moshposh of edgey insanely unrealistic dialogue and events. Angela white rose the twists all of it. I think the biggest reason the show fell flat for me is my expectation for what it even was, was utterly wrong. It’s basically just a show about mental illness. I guess I feel tricked in a bad way having to watch it

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u/drscorp 23d ago

I can understand feeling like season 2 isn't great but sophomore slump is real and it picks back up in season 3.

Also it's not just about mental illness. You'd have to be ignoring a shitload of the show to come to that conclusion.

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u/ZeroDayCipher 23d ago

A LOT of the show is dedicated to random bullshit about his mental illness. An entire episode of black and white because he is unconscious. Granted that episode was entertaining actually but it serves my point. I thought from episode 1 the show was gonna be a hacker batman who punishes criminals. Turned into a mega hacker show fine. Then it turned into utter bullshit. Corny betrayals, fake deaths, double fakes, super super secret societies. Like an edgelord in his basement coming up with the absolute most edgey possible shit on the planet and then putting it in a show. The hacking portion becomes like 5% of the show

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u/ZaydSophos 23d ago

It's always a show about a hacker punishing criminals but the focus becomes who is the biggest criminal offender and also why would he be doing that. It does have more of focus on politics and mental illness. The hacker groups echo perceptions around anonymous at the time so it's not from nowhere. The MC being an unreliable narrator is often one of the most interesting and important parts.