And with that, I get into...

 

Day 07. Least favourite episode of a show you love - Big Trouble in the Big Apple (Dance Moms 4x07)

 

 

Even for trashy reality TV, this was an episode that made me extremely uncomfortable. And I had to go through Arie breaking up with Becca on The Bachelor.

 

This show has had so many highs, but unfortunately where there are highs, there are lows. This season was Abby Lee Miller at her worst, and this episode along with the season finale were ones that I could barely go through because of how blatantly evil and self-righteous she acted. First of all, no student should be made to be afraid of their own teacher, which Chloe was. Secondly, a dance teacher with her repertoire should have faith in her own students because she trained them. Why she felt the need to enter another dance midway through the competition in an effort to guarantee a win is beyond me. That's sabotage. And lastly, the Kelly and Abby fight. That was decades of hatred, torture and turmoil all bubbling up in a candela and exploding in front of these girls' eyes. THEY'RE JUST KIDS. It was an episode that changed the show, and not for the better.

 

"I certainly don't wake up in the morning to intentionally hurt a child's feelings." So breaking these girls' spirits is fair game? Christ.

 

For the record, I love Kalani, I think she's an incredible dancer, but things should not have transpired the way they had, and I feel bad that she got caught in the crossfire. She and Brooke as a duo would have DESTROYED their competition.

 

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in terms of scripted series - No One Eggspects The Spanish Opposition (Total Drama 5x06)

 

 

Gwen and Cameron were a great duo and their friendship is among my favorites regarding her. However, the elimination ceremony was a little forced and it once again proved how OP some of the characters were (Alejandro in particular). What really turned me off though was how they handled Mike's personalities. It made it seem like harming yourself to protect yourself from some innate evil entity was beneficial, when really it trivialized a lot of issues with mental health. It was the same thing in the season finale (how he "got rid" of his personalities), only it just made Mike too OP. But that scene alone granted this episode a spot here.

Day 01. A show that should have never been cancelled: Flashforward

Day 02: A show you wish more people were watching: Episodes

Day 03: Your favourite new show: Maniac

Day 04. Your favourite show ever: Doctor Who

Day 05: A show you dislike: Most Haunted

Day 06: Favourite episode of a show: Black Mirror - White Bear

Day 07: Least favourite episode of a show you love: Homeland - Long Time Coming (4x12)

 

I've chosen Homeland's Season 4 finale which is probably widely praised and therefore shows I maybe like my shows to be flashy rather than understated... I remember feeling that the season started off a bit slow as it was adapting to a post-Brody series but it soon kicked up a gear and brought some incredible episodes (omg Episode 9 is among my favourites ever) and was hurtling towards an epic finale. The end of Episode 11 saw that Dal was one of the bad guys, a brilliant cliffhanger, and then we got.... some family time and the Dal thing is completely ignored for I'm sure the next two seasons.

 

Day 01. A show that should have never been cancelled: Happy Endings

Day 02. A show that you wish more people were watching: Big Brother UK

Day 03. Your favourite new show: Sex Education

Day 04. Your favourite show ever: Parks and Recreation

Day 05. A show you dislike: Friends

Day 06. Favourite episode of a show: "Janet(s)" (S03E10, The Good Place)

Day 07. Least favourite episode of a show you love

 

 

"The Lost Sister" (S02E07, Stranger Things). If you have ever binge watched Stranger Things, especially the second season you will probably agree that there was one episode that was just very off. That was this episode. It was so strange because not only did it have literally zero impact on the show and took you away from a VERY exciting main plot, but it also just featured some of the most unlikeable side characters ever. The episode felt like something someone who never experienced the 80s imagined them to be like and all the characters were super cliché and annoying. While both season 1 and 2 are almost only filled with 9s or 10s, this episode felt even below 5. I hated it so much and I wished I had just skipped it because it ruined a perfect season but thankfully most of the fandom agreed to just pretend it never did happen. Lets just hope they leave this one in the recycling bin for season 3 and don't bring back these super irrelevant and uninteresting characters (other than Eleven obviously).

Edited February 24, 20196 yr by cantthinkofaname

Day 03. Your favourite new show

Good Girls

 

Day 04. Your favourite show ever

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

 

Day 05. A show you dislike

Riverdale

 

Day 06. Favourite episode of a show

Too hard but The Office: Stress Relief, The Injury, Dinner Party. Hilarious episodes through & through, whilst as a whole it's not my favourite TV show these are definitely some of my favourite episodes of TV

 

Day 07. Least favourite episode of a show you love

The underwater episode of Bojack Horseman

The two above were genuinely my two choices, I can't think of many more but I guess a hell of a lot of Simpsons episodes from this decade count :lol: It's worse bc everyone raves over the underwater episode of Bojack but I just didn't get into it, I understand they always tackle something different in a unique way but it felt like it could have been one gag for a couple of minutes but they somehow stretched it into a whole episode which just dragged for me.

^Good call with Stranger Things, that was such a weird and pointless episode. Often in arc-based series I have trouble thinking individual episodes are bad because the worst are normally just ones that don't move the plot along a lot and therefore blend in but that stood out as being quite awful.

 

Day 1. A show that should have never been cancelled: The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya

Day 2: A show you wish more people were watching: Mob Psycho 100

Day 3: Your favourite new show: The Promised Neverland

Day 4: Your favourite show ever: Game Of Thrones

Day 5: A show you dislike: The Asterisk War

Day 6: Favourite episode of a show: A Loved One Will Always Watch Over You - Violet Evergarden

Day 7: Least favourite episode of a show you love: Meridian & Profit and Lace - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

 

It's such a long series, DS9, and I do enjoy nearly every episode. But there's these two, and I can't really choose which is worse. In Meridian's corner, it's a bland, unrealistic story about a planet that only shifts into our universe once every however many decades. It's filled with hatefully boring guest actors, a will-this-main-character-leave-her-friends-for-days-old-love-oh-of-course-she-won't tripe plot and commits the ultimate sin of being SO bland that I'm insulted it ever got to print. For Profit And Lace, we have the Ferengi male misogynist main character Quark, the aliens who are literal money-grubbing trolls, get given a sex change by the magic of future science all so he can bribe a CEO politician to vote to usher in a new wave of feminism (thereby giving women no agency in thsi radical movement), as the race is horrifically sexist. And then the story gets treated like a farce instead, with no followup for either the Ferengi society or the character himself on his experience of being a woman (it's temporary of course). Just a carcrash of ideas gone wrong.

Also omg I was so chilled and had such a great smile on my face for the entirety of Bojack's underwater episode! It was so relaxing. Almost one of my favourite episodes of that. I guess it's a bit like 'The Fly' from Breaking Bad which also gets some people riled up because it's lacking in something that people normally tune into the show for. But in both of those cases, I see it as a really cool break from the norm, allowing me to focus on things that I don't normally look at in the episodes. Like I noticed the side details in the underwater city far more than I do those side details when Bojack's on land.

It's worse bc everyone raves over the underwater episode of Bojack but I just didn't get into it, I understand they always tackle something different in a unique way but it felt like it could have been one gag for a couple of minutes but they somehow stretched it into a whole episode which just dragged for me.

 

I legitimately skip it everytime I watch Bojack because I just can't stand sitting through it. Bojack reminds me a lot of Community in how they often try new gag formats for episodes and usually succeed, but then every so often it's just a huge misfire and you just can't watch it :lol: G.I. Jeff SUCKED and it literally the worst episode from Community

I don’t mind the Stranger Things episode as much as everyone else but it definitely does stick out like a sorr thumb, and not in a good way!

 

I love the underwater episode of Bojack though, utterly brilliant!

Yeah it's surprising the underwater Bojack episode is so polarising. I for one loved it so much!

Oh White Bear's a brilliant shout for yesterday, I wish I'd thought of that! I agree, sums up everything excellent about the show however difficult it gets to watch.

 

Day 07. Least favourite episode of a show you love: The Haunting of Hill House E10 - Silence Lay Steadily

 

**(Spoilers may follow so scroll past if you're still watching)**

 

 

I loved this series so I hate to use it for a negative category, but of recent cases, it really was a case of a single episode dragging down a whole series :( Just for it to the build the house up to be this terrifying, dangerous entity, especially after what it did to Nell, and it for then to romanticise it and make it seem like we've had the wrong impression for the whole series which wasn't what I wanted. The only thing I liked was the reveal of the red room, that was well done, other than that, it really was dull. I can understand that they didn't take the brainless action route and instead a more nuanced, emotional one to respect the core theme of family, but still, there should really have been more of a threat present.

Day 7: Least favourite episode of a show you love.

 

 

The Ex (The Amazing World Of Gumball)

 

I was going to put The Boombox on there, mainly due to Gumball and Darwin bickering and it being dragged for half of the episode, but after rewatching it, the bickering parts didn't drag it down as much as it did when I saw it during my Gumball binge in 2017 and I did find a couple of funny moments on there like the Miss Simian's Retiring scene.

I would have also gone with a more recent episode The Cringe, due to most of the cringe comedy falling flat for me rather than being an amusing guilty pleasure like with the last two Hot Dog Guy episodes from Season 4 (i.e. The Hug and The Awkwardness), but I eventually decided to settle with The Ex.

This continues the Gumball and Rob arc from the marvellous overlapping S4 closer/S5 opener The Disaster/The Rerun, in which Rob was the main antagonist of (reminds me of the good old days when Rob was Dr. Wrecker and had a fiendish British accent provided by David Warner). In The Ex, Rob sends a message to Gumball saying that Banana Joe is his new nemesis and that he doesn't hate Gumball anymore. This would have given the potential for a good progression for the show to see Gumball and Rob move on from their old ways, but instead Gumball acts sad about it to the point where it gets kind of annoying. That is until he decides to team up with Rob on his plans to destroy Banana Joe upon a suggestion made by Penny (albeit he made it up in his head while ignoring her). It was going to be amusing to see both of them work on evil schemes involving booby traps, but the plan was thwarted because Gumball tried to take a picture of Joe walking into that trap using the flash. Rob then reaches his breaking point where he is mad at Gumball and is back to hating him while shaking Gumball back and forth (and Gumball is making an honest-to-god smile, which kind of made me chuckle, while a song parodying Whitney Houston's 1992 hit I Will Always Love You is playing in the background).

If there were some positives about this episode, it had to be the callbacks to the Rob episodes in Season 4 in beginning of the episode. Plus Penny was a decent character in this and I could understand why she didn't want Gumball to obsess over Rob. Gumball getting a form from Banana Joe saying that he was breaching intellectual property rights by doing a banana dance and the yellow guy who wanted to cut Gumball's brakes on his bike both gave me a laugh, and the I Will Always Love You reference was okay.

Overall, despite some ample gags, The Ex was a weak way to revert back to the status quo of the Rob and Gumball arc, and ends up being a sub-par episode. Rob does get his shining moments later on in Season 6's The Spinoffs in which we have a clipshow episode... without Gumball :o

 

 

 

I love the underwater episode of Bojack though, utterly brilliant!

 

I loved it too.

Day 6: Doctor Who - The Idiot's Lanturn

Day 7: Doctor Who - The Impossible Astronaut

Day 01. A show that should have never been cancelled: Don't Trust The B**** In Apartment 23 (Also Sense8 and Faking It)

Day 02. A show that you wish more people were watching: The Bold Type

Day 03. Your favourite new show: Killing Eve (Also The Haunting of Hill House)

Day 04. Your favourite show ever: Orphan Black (Also American Horror Story and Brooklyn Nine Nine)

Day 05. A show you dislike: The Big Bang Theory

Day 06. Favourite Episode of a Show: Brooklyn Nine Nine - 05x09 & 05x10

 

Day 07. Least favourite episode of a show you love:

 

The 100 : Thirteen (Season 03 Episode 07)

 

How could i not bring up this f***ing episode, it ruined me and i'm pretty sure i will be mentioning this again at some point in this challenge. I loved The 100 and it was in its prime in season 2 and into season 3 right up until this episode and then it just plummeted. It wasn't just a case of them killing off one of my favourite characters ever, it was the way they did it and i know it's just a show and this will seem dramatic but it put me off ever watching it again. Well, I finished season 3 but I've literally not watched an episode since and have no desire to whilst it's still being written/produced by the same folk that made the decisions in episode 03x07. Anyone who remembers my reaction to this will know exactly what i'm talking about :kink:

I just remember the five stages of grief and it took you years to get to acceptance

1. A show that should have never been cancelled. American Vandal

2. A show that you wish more people were watching. Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.

3. Your favourite new show. The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

4. Your favourite show ever. Friends

5. A show you dislike. Gogglebox

6. Favourite episode of a show. Remedial Chaos Theory - Community S3E3

 

7. Least favourite episode of a show you love. Charlie's Home Alone - It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia S13E8

 

It's Always Sunny has managed to remain great since its inception but the 2nd half of the latest season (13) for the first time has had some poor episodes. This and the 2nd part (The Gang Wins The Big Game) are by far the poorest episodes the show has ever produced. This episode just doesn't feel like a Sunny episode. It's an odd ultra-violent parody of Home Alone with absolutely no laughs. The 2nd episode feels much more like a Sunny episode but the problem with that one is that it's just not funny. Such a shame coming after some classics coming earlier in the season.

 

I agree with the Stranger Things episode mentioned but I don't agree with the Bojack choice, it's ok but it does remind me of a Spongebob episode which I thought done the concept better.

 

Massive shout out to Crocodile (Black Mirror S4E3) as that is my least favourite episode of TV I've ever seen. I only didn't pick it as I prefer Sunny as a whole and I watched it more recently.

Edited February 25, 20196 yr by LewisGT

I hate seeing Crocodile be so divisive, I love it! Although maybe it would have worked better had it been in Series 1/2. Now if youmd have said Metalhead....

I just remember the five stages of grief and it took you years to get to acceptance

lmao literally, i'm still not over it tbh

Catching up~

 

Day 1: A show that should have never been cancelled: Faking It

Day 2: A show that you wish more people were watching: Atypical

Day 3: Your favourite new show: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Day 4: Your favourite show ever: Doctor Who

 

Day 5: A show you dislike: The Big Bang Theory

 

This was more difficult than I thought it'd be. There's very few TV shows I've watched that I've found myself disliking, but The Big Bang Theory sticks out like a sore thumb. I haven't seen all of it either (episodes here and there when my friends have had it on), but what I have seen is just... not funny in the slightest. Most of the cast seem pretty unbearable too which definitely wouldn't make a case for me giving it a proper go any time soon.

 

Day 6: Favourite episode of a TV show: Waterloo Road, S3 Episode 20 [the fire]

 

Very difficult to choose for this one too, so there's a few honourable mentions below too. :lol: This is definitely an episode of television that will forever stick with me for so many reasons. Back before the move to Scotland etc, Waterloo Road was one of my favourite shows ever. Eva Pope as headteacher Rachel was absolutely fantastic and there was always so much drama in the storytelling - the best of that being this episode. With the school going on fire, Rachel being exposed as an ex-prostitute in front of the whole school, Chlo being trapped in the toilets during the fire, Donte running to save her after a series of bitterness towards each other, Davina unconscious at the end of the episode (I cried) and of course Rachel being trapped under all the rubble at the very end (I cried again, 1000x more). I was an emotional mess at this episode, and it was British drama/television at its best.

 

Honourable mentions:

Grey's Anatomy, S8 Episode 24 'Flight' - I'm probably forgetting some incredible episodes, but this is definitely a good shout for, probably, the best episode of Grey's. There are so many emotional moments throughout this episode where it just hits you right in the gut, and THAT moment between Mark and Lexie brings me to tears every time.

Waterloo Road, S4 Episode 1 [gun in the school] - this one was almost as dramatic as the fire! I remember being so excited that it was an hour and a half long too, and that Rachel was back, more drama, etc. It was a pretty great, and intense, 60 minutes of TV!

Desperate Housewives, S6 Episode 10 'Boom Crunch' - seemed like a happy, jolly Christmas-themed episode on the surface, and next thing you know there's a plane crashing through the lane! I was in complete shock when this happened, and there were so many emotional moments throughout the episode! The scenes with Lynette and Gabi in the aftermath too were incredible. :cry:

 

Day 7: Least favourite episode of a show you love: Black Mirror, S4 Episode 2 'Arkangel'

 

Another difficult one. Was close to just putting one of Dinosaurs on a Spaceship / Love & Monsters / Fear Her from Doctor Who, but then this popped into my head! I don't particularly *hate* this episode, but I feel like it was such a brilliant and fascinating concept that could have made for a classic Black Mirror episode and it all just kinda fell flat on its face. I was bored for some of it, confused for some more of it, intrigued throughout a couple of scenes, but just... not really feeling anything by the time it finished.

 

Day 06: 'Bang' from Desperate Housewives sticks out like a sore thumb, it had me SHOOK when I was younger. The acting, the tension, everything I needed.

YES! :heart: I watched Desperate Housewives completely out of order, missed out seasons 2 and 3, but was floored when I got to this. Probably one of the only times I actually found myself loving and rooting for Lynette though. :lol: