Day 07: Episode you hate from a show you love;

 

This is so hard, Reality TV is probably easier as there have been episodes I've really hated of Drag Race and Bad Girls Club where it made me give up on their seasons. I'd say the last ever episode of Gossip Girl was ridiculously underwhelming and I pretend the last season in general didn't happen. Dan being Gossip Girl, REALLY?!

 

If we are to say series then second season of 13 Reasons Why has to be up there. I was completely and utterly obsessed with the first series but the second felt like a monotonous chore and lost all of it's power.

I don't understand how people hate Crocodile...it's kinda morbid but incredible. As Klaus said, Metalhead on the other hand....

 

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

Day 02. A show that you wish more people were watching: The Man In The High Castle

Day 03. Your favourite new show: Killing Eve

Day 04. Your favourite show ever: Game of Thrones

Day 05. A show you dislike: Mrs Brown's Boys

Day 06. Favourite Episode of a Show: Game of Thrones - Hardhome

Day 07. Least favourite episode of a show you love: Doctor Who - Love & Monsters

 

Utterly diabolical episode and Fear Her / Dinosaurs etc. were also very close but right now Love & Monsters edges it for me.

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)

 

Day 08. Your favourite twist

 

The Good Place: Michael's Gambit (Season 01 Finale)

 

 

Where The Good Place is actually The Bad Place

like honestly I didn't see that one coming at all! It's so clever, I think because I'd found the tone of the show to be quite light hearted and comical, I wasn't expecting there to be that sort of deep backdrop to it but it's probably my favourite twist in anything I've watched tbh, at least I can't think of anything else that quite compares. Orphan Black has loads of good twists but I feel like they're more expected because of the type of series it is whereas this one is so stand out to me.

 

Day 07: Episode you hate from a show you love;

 

This is so hard, Reality TV is probably easier as there have been episodes I've really hated of Drag Race and Bad Girls Club where it made me give up on their seasons. I'd say the last ever episode of Gossip Girl was ridiculously underwhelming and I pretend the last season in general didn't happen. Dan being Gossip Girl, REALLY?!

 

If we are to say series then second season of 13 Reasons Why has to be up there. I was completely and utterly obsessed with the first series but the second felt like a monotonous chore and lost all of it's power.

Wait WHAT???

 

I never finished the show so had no idea lmao

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)

Day 08: Your favourite twist: The Missing Series 2

 

Game of Thrones has certainly shocked me the most but I’ve gone for something where the twist is a bit more eerie than a death. After a disappointing end to an excellent start for the first series, I liked that the writers were starting Series 2 with a similar premise but a completely different start with the missing child actually being found all these years later.

You then get a brilliantly eerie moment as hints are thrown and you realise the child is actually not the real one and is posing to her. It opens up so much mystery and plot and as I said, it’s so eerie!!

 

I'd say that for the obvious Game Of Thrones is great on the twists, but when I think of the best, the most pure twists, they are ones that shake up my perspective on the show completely. It was always clear that Game Of Thrones was going to be brutal, we just didn't know how that brutality would reveal itself. Shocking, but perhaps less satisfying than the one I'm going to choose.

 

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

Day 8: Favourite twist: Higurashi - When They Cry - Season 1 to Season 2

 

This show is layered with twists upon twists (and I shan't mention them all here, just the central one), not too much to be crazy, but enough that it is certainly not a normal show and that its presentation at the start is nothing like the ending, particularly the way the show changes as one season hands over to the other. Nice little 80s village with a dark secret to start with

but then very quickly half of the main characters die and the world resets without explanation. For a while. It keeps doing this, repeating the events from different perspectives, with completely different plots making it seem like they're unrelated and we're just playing the same situation out following different storytelling alleways, and just new ways to experience the story. For the second season, the twist is that one of the characters is experiencing the same June 1983 over and over and everything we've seen so far all actually happened, in different loops of the same events, and now in order to break it, she must find a loop where she does not die, and preferably no one else dies either.

When I found that out, I was both incredibly shocked and also very pleased at how neatly it had, without me predicting what it was, how it fitted into all of my theorizing about the events in the first season, bringing what seemed random together, and making me very excited to complete the second season and finish the story.

Day 8: Your favourite twist

 

 

Nell being the Bent-Necked Lady all along in The Haunting Of Hill House episode The Bent-Neck Lady.

 

This twist was fantastically constructed with Nell seeing this creepy figure, which then turns out to be her at the moment of her death. It was something I really did not expect.

 

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

 

8. Your favourite twist. Shut Up And Dance - Black Mirror S3E3

 

I'm not going to spoil the twist for anyone who, for some reason, is yet to see it but this has everything I look for in a twist. It's genuinely shocking which is difficult coming for a show renown for its dark twists, and it works just as well on reviewing's as you can spot the clues. You really look at an earlier scene differently when you know the twist too.

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8. Your favourite twist: Teen Wolf 3x24 - The Last Shot

 

 

When I first saw the trailers for Teen Wolf 3B, it kept teasing a couple things. First was Allison's death, which 95% of the fandom guessed within the first episode alone. Next was the Nogitsune, which was another easy guess. The third, which came a little bit after a few episode aired, was Derek getting shot. It did freak some people out because of the confirmations that there will be more than one death in this part of the season, which they were right about, but it wasn't who we thought it was.

 

Pay attention to the gunshot wound's position in this gif. Seems fatal, right? But wouldn't he have taken a much shorter time for him to die if it was as fatal as it was? That's why I was convinced that he wouldn't die that season. The real kicker was

Kate returning

(I'm just putting it in spoiler tags so y'all would watch the show to get it)

because you'd think that people stayed dead when you first watch the season, and Peter returning was more of Lydia's doing because she was a banshee. However, in season 1, Kate asks Chris if you could get turned by a werewolf scratch, by which Chris responds with "If the cut is deep enough". Her turning into a were-jaugar at the end of the scene sold this as the best twist.

 

 

Honorable Mentions:

 

Melissa & Chris getting together

- Teen Wolf 6x10 (this one felt like such a blindside)

 

Liam goes wolf in public

- Teen Wolf 6x13 (this one would have been the one I'd talk about because the first couple episodes had been teasing this and the fandom had been fearing for this for the entire season, but it was kinda hampered by the fact that the show killed off their one bisexual character after giving him 10 minutes of screen time the previous season)

 

Reality Pick: Colton dumps Hannah B. - The Bachelor 23x7 - read my recap on the Bachelor thread to get more of an insight.

Some excellent shouts in here, Shut Up & Dance and Haunting especially and The Good Place was the first one I thought of to mention! I really didn't expect that extra intelligent bit of social commentary.

 

Day 08. Your favourite twist: the ending of White Bear / Black Mirror

 

Black Mirror's an anthology show so I can mention it twice x

 

But srsly this stuck with me for months, after feeling for the utterly hopeless character throughout the episode so much and for it to be then revealed that

SHE is the one that actually did the most heinous act

and then her breaking down after knowing this and still getting attacked leaves you seriously questioning your beliefs - who are you sympathising with? Does this pitchfork mod mentality have consequences? When that would look impossible earlier in the episode, stunning stuff, in fact, the essay I wrote about this got me onto my Masters course!

I'd agree with The Good Place and Black Mirror's twists, so good and well thought out!

 

I actually think mine is the first series of American Horror Story with Violet realising she was dead, I really didn't see it coming at all but looking back it's so obvious. It was so well thought out and shows Ryan Murphy can make good TV when he doesn't try to be too trashy!

Has to be The Good Place for me too, like I loved it but it seemed like it might have limited legs, but the season 1 finale really threw everything up in the air and changed everything. I can't think of many shows that did that in such a great way!

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)

Day 08. Your favourite twist. The Good Place: Michael's Gambit (Season 01 Finale)

 

Day 09. Your favourite TV moment/scene

 

Brooklyn Nine Nine - The Party (Season 1 Episode 16) Gina dazzling some psychologists

 

This is the first scene that came to mind, it's honestly one of my favourites from the entire show, I can watch it a million times and i cackle every time :')

 

(watch this one for brief context first)

 

 

THIS

 

Day 9: Your favourite TV moment/scene

 

 

The fight between the Daleks and the Cybermen in Part 2 of Army Of Ghosts/Doomsday (Doctor Who [Nu Who Series 2])

 

 

One of Doctor Who's most tense moments. Loved seeing two of the most threatening monsters in Doctor Who get put in the same room and them raging war against each other. It especially gets better when the Daleks levitate the Genesis Arc into the sky to free the millions of Daleks imprisoned in there.

^That was a great two parter, but the best moment for me was their disses to each other when they first meet, one of my favourite Doctor Who moments, 'You are better at dying' :heart:

 

Day 09. Your favourite TV moment/scene: Planet Earth II: Snakes and Iguana chase

 

 

Maybe not of ALL TIME, but that's a little hard but I got to shout out to some nature documentaries and this is my favourite in recent memory. Had more drama and tension than you'd find in most thrillers and twice the aesthetic beauty and it happened live. A deservedly award winning scene *.

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)

Day 08: Your favourite twist: The Missing Series 2

Day 09: Your favourite TV moment/scene: The Office US - Wedding Dance

 

 

I love how the writers used the momentous and long time coming event of Jim & Pam’s wedding to celebrate the show and the cast. I remember watching this and just having a massive joyful smile on my face as it is such a perfect celebration

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

Day 6: Favourite episode of a TV show: Waterloo Road, S3 Episode 20

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

 

Day 8: Your favourite twist: George is the patient (Grey's Anatomy, S5 Episode 24)

 

White Bear and The Good Place are both great shouts! Wasn't expecting either of those and they were both done brilliantly too. My personal favourite has to be from Grey's though. Watching the season 5 finale thinking 'okay this is pretty tame', then realising that the disfigured patient that had been run over by a bus pushing someone out of the way was actually George O'Malley... shook. Such an emotional moment when Meredith finally realises as he's trying to tell her. Often go back to the scene itself and just watch it over and over. :lol:

 

Shoutout to Season 1 of How to Get Away With Murder too; wasn't expecting

Frank

to be Lila's killer at all and it was all very well revealed.

 

Day 9: Your favourite TV moment/scene: Stefan kills Enzo / Bonnie turns Stefan human (The Vampire Diaries, S8 Episode 11)

 

This was such a heartbreaking moment. Bonnie and Enzo were one of the best TV couples I've seen, and they just had to take their happy ending away from them. The whole scene is so powerful from start to finish - not expecting anything to happen to Enzo, Stefan storming in ready to kill Bonnie too, her using the cure on him to turn him human, and then finally letting out her scream that would break the curse when she holds Enzo in her arms. :cry:

 

Brooklyn Nine Nine - The Party (Season 1 Episode 16) Gina dazzling some psychologists

 

 

Gina can be weird, but kind of funny as well.

Gina can be weird, but kind of funny as well.

Gina is incredible, such an amazing character and Chelsea Peretti is a comical genius x

That B99 moment was indeed incredible. Gina is one of the funniest character ever, dare I say