r/AskReddit 28d ago

What is a super popular TV show or movie that you can’t stand?

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u/GreyWolf017 28d ago

It is a highschool drama about as much as Fast and Furious series is still about cars. If you want to look for anything realistic, you should look the other way

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u/mundane_days 27d ago

They were in motherfucking SPACE. Glad that's all I saw because good lord...... my son liked it though and he got to bond with his step dad.

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u/Xanderamn 27d ago

Riverdale teens went to space? Maybe I should check it out afterall.

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u/TheKnobleKnight 27d ago

OK RIVERDALE SPOILERS AHEAD PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DONT READ IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE SPOILED

There was a very long story arc about a religious cult leader, it ended with said leader coaxing his followers into a rocket but getting shot and killed before he could launch it.

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u/midnightfury4584 27d ago

Sounds like Heaven’s Gate cult.

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u/that1artsychic 27d ago

Well I know what I’m hate watching this weekend!

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u/faern 27d ago

if religious cult leader can wrangle a bunch of high school kid into rocket capable for orbit. Maybe there some truth to what the cult leader says.

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u/Full_Grapefruit_2896 27d ago

WHYYYYYYY. Bright followers did it better

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u/u2sarajevo 27d ago

Was that Veronica's dad? He was one of the reasons I stopped watching that wretched mess of a show.

Please take no offense if you enjoy the show. To each their own.

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u/AllDaysOff 27d ago

Same. I stopped watching few episodes into season 5 cause shit got old. Even S4 I only really watched for the prep school story. That one was fun as hell imo.

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u/TheKnobleKnight 26d ago

IIRC, Veronica’s dad sold “fizzle rocks”(drugs disguised as candy) to the cult, but wasn’t directly affiliated with them. The leader’s name was Edgar Evernever

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u/Geezmelba 27d ago

Yikes. Talk about jumping the shark.

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u/ThiccDaddy1198 27d ago

Oh goodness, that arc was hilarious!

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u/daesus_ 27d ago

Hes talking about fast and the furious

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u/sadcherry69 27d ago

dawg i thought this comment was about fast and furious since they went to space in the most recent one what the fuck

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u/mundane_days 27d ago

It WAS about FF9......

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u/sadcherry69 27d ago

thank god

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u/JarifSA 27d ago

Exactly. A show isn't bad just because it doesn't fit your idea of what that show should be about. Riverdale never advertised itself to be about the typical American highschool experience. It's about a cheesy cast of American high schoolers solving murder mysteries. That's why I can't stand when people say how cheesy it is. That's literally the whole point.

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u/MysteryInc152 27d ago

It's still a bad show lol regardless.

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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In 27d ago

Wait, so you're saying that boosting NOS in my car won't make a random panel in my passenger footwell open up and start sparking??

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u/mikeyglo 27d ago

Who doesn’t love a juvenile detention underground fight club haha. So much stuff had me like cmon

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u/midnightfury4584 28d ago

and I absolutely do. Probably the best thing to come out of fnf was tokyo drift, and Hobbs and Shaw. Anything with diesel or walker I stay away from.

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u/Xanderamn 27d ago

Tokyo Drifts soundtrack was the best thing to come out of that series.

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u/midnightfury4584 27d ago

It certainly was the last movie about racing. Subsequent films were car chases and spy movies. Might as well be a Bond-esque film.

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u/Xanderamn 27d ago

Friend of mine calls then anime for rednecks, and cant really argue with him.

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u/midnightfury4584 27d ago

Lol that’s quite funny actually.

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u/27hotwheelsupmyarse 27d ago

You didn't have to hit me with that one, that hurt.

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u/GreyWolf017 27d ago

Well, I don't say it's a bad thing. It's mindless fun and there is nothing wrong about enjoying that. Not every movie has to be Se7en or Interstellar

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u/whoknowsanymore 27d ago

FnF 1 was a crime drama, it wasn't a car movie. I'd argue only 2 and 3 were car movies, the rest are crime/heist movies.

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u/Harambe___RIP 27d ago

As someone who watched it last night, the first movie was definitely a “car” movie as well

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u/whoknowsanymore 27d ago

I'm just parroting what the director said.

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u/Harambe___RIP 27d ago

I’m just parroting what I saw last night