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Knowing how many TV shows there are, it gets hard to pick that one funny or interesting show that is really worth watching. Have you ever experienced that situation when someone recommended you watch something and after you did, you were disappointed and questioning why people like this series so much? Having this in mind, one Reddit user was curious to find out which TV series that seem to receive the most praise are actually overrated. 

The post with 30.2k upvotes was soon turned into a list of various old and new TV shows that a lot of viewers saw as masterpieces, but some people found them to be overvalued and not that good. It included some of the all-time favorites such as Friends and Game of Thrones. Some users explained why some of the series are not so good, stressing some details of the plots. 

Which one of these series do you find overrated? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts and names that haven’t been mentioned in the comments down below! 

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Bust out the downvotes folks: The Super Bowl.

No continuity. They keep changing the main characters every god damn year, the central romantic arc between Tom Brady & everyone on Earth got stale real quick. Weirdest laugh track of any show on this list, guaranteed. The lack of female representation is beyond cringe.

Besides Tom Brady there isn’t a single female character for almost 30 seasons.

But the final straw for me was the way they killed off Kaepernick, finally get a character with real substance & kill him off b/c cancel culture has no f**king boundaries.

Ugh.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Greys anatomy - that show just needs to end.

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Leo Domitrix
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That show needed to end when it started showing sexual hijinks as the primary concern of interns, residents, and doctors. No. Seriously, no. Sure, some hanky-panky may occur, but trust me, we're not sitting on the floor maundering on about what to do with our lives. We're reading another chart, putting on the game face, and dreaming of uninterrupted sleep. (From my days as a med student -onward, anyway.)

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The walking dead is something that always baffled me how it went beyond ~2 seasons.

They had the same loop of storyline repeated in every season - they run, they find shelter, they go out for food, someone gets bitten, they get overrun, they have to find somewhere new. Rinse and repeat for like 10 seasons.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had exactly the same feeling with this show (i.e. the rinse and repeat). It got to the stage where I thought it didn't even need to be a zombie show, it could've just been any generic post apocalypse scenario as the zombies became just an afterthought. I made it to the mid point of season 5 then ended up missing a few episodes. I kept telling myself I'd go back and watch them but as the weeks rolled on and more and more episodes kept building I found that I didn't really care anymore. That to me is when a show is on it's way out, not love or hate for it rather total indifference. Sad really as when it started it was one of my "can't miss" shows.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group How I Met Your Mother. Every episode glorifies Ted’s toxic behavior and makes it look romantic. I get so triggered watching that show

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#5

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group If no one else will say it, I will. Squid game is WAY overhyped. I’ve seen people say it’s the best Netflix show or even the best Korean show. If people give other Asian media a chance they’ll find way better than automatically assuming that the first Asian show they see on Netflix is the best thing ever.

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#6

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Gilmore Girls. Rory is a horrible person

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Most doctor/hospital shows. They can be ok for a while but they get predictable quickly and run for way too long.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The Big Bang Theory

I cannot stress this enough.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sexism, racism, homophobia, gatekeeping nerd culture. I loved the premise but the series is really bad.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group 13 reasons why

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Erika Jones
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh, yes. My daughter was obsessed with it. A show that basically glorified teen suicide!

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Game of thrones hands down, it left good threads hanging but never really stitched them into anything.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Suits - Most of the episodes consists of these high and mighty lawyers consistently running into ‘dead ends’, not knowing what to do, but they will be having a side conversation and the person they’re talking to makes one remark about something AND THAT’S IT, they have found their answers. Onto the next episode to do the same exact thing! It’s cheap writing and office drama, he said she said stuff.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. In reality, neither of them are funny.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Watched the first episode of the new season of Curb last night. Funny as hell, was chuckling away at bits this morning.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group This is Us.

Intense emotional sensations to get your weekly cry in which is healthy sure but not the masterpiece everyone’s Mom makes it out to be.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Rick and Morty. It gets waaaay too much credit for a show filled with nonsense and fart jokes.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love the show, but agree about the fan base. There’s an egotistical current that runs through it. Fans always talk about how only intelligent people like the show, and if you don’t it’s because you’re not as gifted as them. (They’ll usually use big words to accentuate their intelligence while doing it). Not a good look.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group This is coming as someone who loves anime and who’s favorite show is naruto. But it’s naruto. That show is great, and 45% filler episodes, do I need to say more?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ugh. How old is this one? And Dragon Ball. The beginning of both is fantastic and full of character development and creates a whole story. But by now both have over stayed their welcome and its all just filling fights and drama. Same crap over and over. Like its been too long either stop or re write

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group How has noone said Sons Of Anarchy? It's ridiculous. We are supposed to believe that their "club" is the most important thing to them all and they would do anything for their "brothers". But they just kill each other.

It almost never shows why someone would want to be in that life.

We're supposed to root for the main character because everyone loves him but all I could think was get those children away from this.

ellajames88 , The Linson Company Report

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group BoJack Horsemen. People act like it’s some kind of masterful psychological deep dive. But it’s just another cheep adult comedy animated show.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

see, i really enjoyed the show and found it meaningful, but the meaning didn't really start to show until the 2nd or 3rd season. so i'd agree that the beginning was kind of "cheap", but i think the rest was really well done. i especially appreciated the depictions of depression throughout. i suppose it's entirely subjective though.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Every character is deplorable and it just isn’t funny.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Euphoria. It has impressive cinematography and is well acted. But the plot is all over the place and the characters are shallower than a shower . The only characters that have any depth and don't come off too stereotypical is rue and Jules.

Its a poor man's UK skins and a rich man's US skins.

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#21

26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Firefly. I haven't heard a single good thing about any season after the first.

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J Rob
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ha ha, only one season and a movie. Lot's of talk about shooting more but Joss Whedon never got around to it. I loved the first and only 14 episodes.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Oh, come on…there’s no debate here. I mean, does anyone beat ‘Money Hiest’?

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group Controversial opinion probably: Dexter. Outstanding 1st season. Then meh all the way to the end.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I absolutely HATED the ending! But I really am looking forward to the continuation of the series, from previews it looks promising (even if they are just trying to appease all those p*ssed off by the horrible ending)

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AnnaBanana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't know that it's being continued! How exciting! Loved the showm

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Sasha
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ditto. Got bored mid season 2. Its a show about a psychopath serial killer, once they gave him emotions it pretty much lost its own plot.

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WildBerry
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He always had emotions because he didn't kill anyone but 'bad guys'. He killed killers. He had emotions and standards and morals. And he was a serial killer. That's the whole point.

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Requiem
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I liked it but stopped watching for awhile. The new season looks wayy better than the rest. Have to catch up before I watch it. I like the premise for the new one even more than him Killing Killers

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John L
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gotta agree. The longer it went on, the more over the top it went.

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F. H.
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would give it a little more credit. Season 2 was fine. Then it jumped the shark.

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Id row
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This show was amazing up until the last season. I can't wait for the new one to start!

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Dana Dara
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I tried watching the first episode and couldn’t become interested, never got through it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I personally beg to differ. The kind of unsatisfactory ending aside, Dexter is one of my most favourite TV shows. And here I go binge watch it again, thanks

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nah, the first season truly is leagues above the rest, but the show was good until season 4; THEN it went bad. I liked Lumen a lot (a lot more than Hannah, ew), but it sucked because they brought in a new love interest waaay too soon and the whole season was badly written. It just got worse after that. I was intrigued by a Deb and Dex romance, but it was terribly written and then they went nowhere with it, I'm guessing because of the actors' divorce. And the final 2 season were just....abysmal.

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Missmegs
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All seasons up through the trinity killer were brilliant. Went downhill each season after that.

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Macaw
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree. Season 5 had potential, but I think they rushed the ending on that one. I really liked season 7 and it set up a possible theme of the Miami PD vs. Dexter. Of course, season 8 jumped the shark and ruined a great TV show.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I for once have to agree. My father swears up and down over this show and every time I travel to visit he makes a point to either push me to watch it with him, or talk about it. The first season was pretty decent then falls apart.

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Lucy Hill
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I switched off after it became evident brotherly-sisterly love was the direction in which it was going. Great 3-4 seasons, massively fell off after that.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idk I think 1-6 was cool. It's starts going off on season 7 and 8 totally jumps the shark.

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SobyKay
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agreed! Watched it all except the final season, hoping it would get better but it didnt. The first was the best, then all down hill from there.

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Jude Corrigan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Loved Dexter, except the ending. Glad a new series is due on a couple of weeks.

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Devil's Advocate
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Other than the last season and the ending, and the constant tease of another season that never appears, Dexter is gold.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dexter was good at the beginning. A weird POV from a sort of anti-hero, who in truth is a criminal...

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Karis Ravenhill
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agreed, good in the beginning, but as soon as he got the blonde never-ending-whining girlfriend, but he refused to kill her, I noped outta the show. I came for orchestrated murders cleverly hidden from police, not to watch a dude tolerate another uber-needy girlfriend.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agree with good first season the rest was not that great. But I liked the sister character a lot.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i genuinely thought it was supposed to be a tounge-in-cheek kind of joke show, like Psych, but it turns out it was just a very bad drama.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here is what they should have done with Season 8. The Miami police department investigates the death of Laguarta with Batista leading the charge. Debra Morgan leaves a little bit of evidence at the crime scene so that they could trace it back to Dexter. The whole show is a cat and mouse game between the police department and Dexter. There is no villain, and instead, Dexter becomes the bad guy with Doakes as his inner conscious throughout the show. The last episode has a major showdown between Debra and Dexter. Hanna plays a minor part throughout with Dexter in sole custody of the son. Either way, the show should have been Dexter vs. Debra with Dexter escaping (to make room for more seasons) or dying at the hands of his sister.

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Macaw
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seasons 1, 2, 4, and 7 were brilliant. I love this show, but seasons 6 and 8 were pretty terrible. Season 3 and 5 were a mixed bag.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The last season was horrible and should have ended the previous season, but highly disagree.

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Hugh Willie Mungous
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It did drag on. I mean - I watched it all but . . . . . . it DID drag on.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Riveting the 1st time around, then there’s all the plot holes you could drive a truck through (I’ve watched it all 3x, lol) Heard there’s a follow up in the works, and am looking forward to it

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dexter is easily one of the greatest and smartest TV shows ever. To show allowed a glimmer of hope that change might not be impossible and that a 'normal life' might achievable.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wasted more time posting this than I gave the first episode. Just awful.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's great if you pretend that Deb killed Dexter at the end of season 7. After that is a no-go zone

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Edit: Dean-alings! I never said I don't like the show, just that it is overrated in it's praise! I love the first couple of seasons.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My first exposure to it was the paintball episode. I sat enthralled from beginning to end, and that doesn't usually happen to me.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The West Wing. S**t writing, frequently misogynistic, racist, homophobic and anti-progressive, and the milquetoast political takes have influenced an entire generation of liberal politicians to be a bunch of wieners that never accomplish anything. Admittedly the cast is great, except for Bradley Whitford, but everything else about that show is disgusting and to see it heralded as a political masterpiece makes me want to barf.

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26 TV Shows That Don’t Deserve The Praise They Get, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group The Mandalorian. Actors are bad, it's always the same thing every single episode. Mando arrives at a planet, needs something from from the inhabitants, they agree to give it to him in exchange of a mission, he agrees, it doesn't go smoothly, and eventually gets what he needed while baby Yoda does something unexpected (whether it be disappearing or using the force to prevent Mando from being killed).

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