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The Cleveland Show (2009)
Same jokes every episode
This show overuses the same jokes over and over again.
1. Gay Jokes (From Cleveland Jr., Terry, and sometimes even Cleveland) which are just flat out weird and make me uncomfortable. This was especially highlighted in the first episode of Season 3.
2. Sex Jokes which just get old because every episode is talking about how Cleveland and Donna are going to have sex.
3. References to Family Guy which are trying to tie this failed show to one that was funny and successful.
4. Overusing Holt as the sad excuse for Quagmire and that annoying Bear which has never once said anything funny
House of Cards (2013)
Time to be that guy who hates the show everyone likes
It may only be because I'm not old enough to understand, but the episodes are so long, drawn out, boring, and complicated that I couldn't bear to watch the fourth episode. The season overviews seem interesting, but it takes almost 13 hours of pointless and confusing dialogue to see the few good moments that the season synopsis points out. Most people love this show and hate Designated Survivor (show on ABC) but honestly its the other way around for me. This show is long and confusing while that show never has a dull moment. After reading about it, I decided it just highlights political scandal and exploiting people for the characters own agenda.
The Last Man on Earth (2015)
Finally, a different kind of show
This is unlike any show I've ever seen before. Nothing even comes close. It's pretty funny, and I usually disregard the bad reviews because even on the best shows there are horrible reviews and I'm not sure why. I watched this show because I looked up Will Forte after rewatching "Lab Rats." Honestly, you should check out that show because his character is way funnier there (even though he only appears in physical form in one episode) But this show isn't too bad. Tandy provides most of the humor, while Todd is just kinda weird and sometimes insane, Melissa is just really bitchy, Carol can be funny at times, Phil 2 is just such a friggin' douchebag, Erica (see "Melissa") and Gail is just some drunk old lady who can occasionally say something funny about once every three episodes. The reason I watch is because of the plot, it's just so different in a good way that you can't stop watching. Tandy/Phil just has it so bad, you feel bad for him but you know sometime he'll get his justice, but his bad luck provides continuity for the show. I just wish they'd tone it down with talking about sex all the time, and the whole "everyone wants to f**k Todd" thing because that's just so unrealistic. (also, I haven't yet started Season 3 so calm down if I missed anything or anything has changed since then)
Jessie (2011)
I used to love this show... when I was 12
Out of 100 episodes, I probably enjoyed about 25 watching the series now that I'm older. The reason I'm rewatching the series is because my brother is now watching it, and I see now that the humor was just so juvenile. In contrast, a lot of the humor is inappropriate sexual innuendo to appeal to parents. The stereotypes are horrible, with the smart Indian kid, sassy black girl, dumb blonde girl, gross white boy, and the two adults who get no respect. Also, Jessie's dialogue is so cringey. They seem to put a laugh track every time one of the kids highlights one of the flaws in the adults (like how Jessie is lonely). They make some shitty joke about a serious topic and slap a laugh track. Example:
Kid: You're lonely and a loser and you can't get a boyfriend
LAUGH TRACK
Jessie: I'm gonna go cry now
LAUGH TRACK
Designated Survivor (2016)
Amazing show but very unrealistic
People, calm down with the negative reviews. The best reviews I've read say that the pilot was the only good episode, but I don't believe there were any dull ones. Also, this isn't propaganda. It's a show that took a real part of our government and fictionally remade it to model a scenario where the unthinkable happens. Like, imagine Ben Carson suddenly becoming president overnight. It's hard because it has such a low chance of happening, which is what was running through my mind during the pilot. There's people on here saying that the actors and characters (such as the xenophobic governor of Michigan) are "propaganda," and that the series is too over dramatized and exaggerated and what not, but give the show a break. It's literally about a scenario that has never ever happened before. Nothing has even come close. It's kind of like movies about the future. The writers have to completely start from scratch because they have no idea what this situation would actually look like, and they portray the chaos brilliantly. Only thing wrong with the writing is how the Asian FBI agent Hannah Wells is somehow ALWAYS alone. My parents and I make fun of that when we watch the show. I mean, there are so many FBI agents, but somehow she's always doing everything alone, and it especially gets unrealistic when she is required to report to the president. All in all, I can't wait for Season 2, and I hope the writers can do another good job with it.
Bizaardvark (2016)
It has some flaws but it's better than the other stuff
First of all, I think the writers did a terrible job with trying to make this show modern and relatable. They're so out of touch, they have little understanding of what YouTube is really like. First of all, everyone in "Vuuuuuuuugle" seems to have only one purpose, like their channel is only devoted to one thing that's so ridiculous that no YouTuber would never actually do it (like horse face guy) There don't seem to be any normal video makers, no vloggers, no gaming channels, no comedy channels, none of that. Everyone on here seems to be saying that it's a ripoff of iCarly, but the only thing they share is the whole "video" aspect. Literally nothing else.
But, when it all comes down to the big picture, this show isn't THAT bad. I really enjoyed the first episode, but I absolutely hated episodes 2-4. The next 10 or so episodes were nothing special, they were okay. But around the end of of the season I actually started enjoying the show more. At least it doesn't have that stupid "we have a secret that nobody can find out about" plot that's been beaten dead by now, and at least it has okay humor, and it's not all just gross fart jokes and juvenile humor like that. And lastly, the characters aren't stereotypical. The main character, an Asian, isn't a typical smart Asian which all the jokes revolve around. All the characters have their own personalities, which most shows can't seem to do nowadays.