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.
1season and 2 were a really god monster of the week hunting show. Downhill from there but still watchable
kripke was the showrunner from 1-5, not that surprising. but season 6-15 was dabbs and the other guy, and they just wrote fanfiction/gay, whatever the audience were fetishizing about the cast. 6,8,11 were decent though, but the rest were just filler, and trying to shoehorn the “jack” character in the show was very telling, having an archnephilim/nephilim was interesting plot though. the show was heavily criticize how they marginalized “pagan” gods though.