For me, 2 things come to mind; Berserk & the Long Walk
Berserk may sound controversial, but I just didn’t have a good time watching the 90’s anime. I felt angry while watching it. I just didn’t like the characters for how dickish they were (especially Guts & Casica) and the setting was too miserable for me. And some of you may go, “but the comic is 10x better” (I know it’s manga, I’m just calling a comic to piss of people) I also just don’t like dark fantasy in general, since they’re edgy, pretentious, and worst of all… they’re ugly. There’s a reason why I never played the Dark Souls games, outside of the difficulty
The Long Walk movie is really well made movie with amazing acting. But man was it a miserable movie to go through. Seeing all those kids getting shot by soldiers for being slower was painful to watch.
Side note: there’s a lot of critically acclaimed stuff I like (Cowboy Bebop & the Dark Knight). It’s just that entertainment is so subjective that it’s not mutually exclusive to writing.
If you watched through peter capaldi’s entire run and didn’t like it, you’re free from ever needing to try it again. Some of those episodes were masterpiece magnum opuses, built, layer by layer, as towering behemoths of interwoven , humanistic cultural lore. You cannot watch them. You just earn them. Much of doctor who is like that, especially as it gets super fucking good. I’m talking probably some of the best television that exists, maybe one in the top three tv things that exist.
And if you couldn’t get there, that’s okay. People have different tastes, different experiences, different enjoyments.
With doctor who, though, it’s really easy to hate if you don’t understand it or tolerate the British cheese.
I’m curious what you’d put as your top tv things (shows, eps, stories, whatever), and also why you didn’t like doctor who.