Yeah I’ve had people that try to get me into anime and they’ll say some shit like “it’s really boring but after season 7 ITS AMAZING, oh and also season 192 is the best”
Spy Family is a good one to try. Its about a make shift family between a spy, an assiasn and a young kid who can read minds. They all have to keep their true identities secret from eachother in fear of losing their cover family.
Good from the start, good in the middle and on track to be good in the end.
A lot of anime is goofy and absurd and you have to roll with it. Some good ones will have a seemingly goofy premise but end up dark as hell and keep you up at night.
If you want somethibg more relaxing and less time commitment, the Studio Ghibli movies are good. The art and stories are great. Most of the movies don’t have a predominant villain, but are more about personal challenges and the characters growing to overcome whatever the outside problem is.
“My Neighbor Totoro”, “Ponyo” and “Spirited Away” are great examples of this.
“Castle in the sky” is fun.
If you like action spy/theif type movies “Lupin III Castle of Cagliostro” is a good one from the 70’s.
Like american/western shows, there’s a lot of garabage mixed in, and sometime even the popular stuff might not be to your taste. (I never got into dragon ball, despite it being one of the most popular anime)
Sorry didnt mean to make a long post, just started typing ideas…
I added a lot of text to each thing when I read someone else say something like “recomendations without giving any reason to watch are annoying”, and I thought good point!
This is why I have my three to six episode rule. If a TV show cannot capture my interest in three to six episodes depending on its run time, whether it’s an hour or 30 minutes. Then it’s not worth my time. If a TV show cannot prove to me why it’s interesting or worth watching in the same amount of time that a movie takes to tell a complete story, then what’s the point of even watching it?
There is basically no series that increases in quality over the seasons. Some wave a bit but if you don’t like it in the first few episodes you won’t like it later.
Almost every series decreases in quality after each episode. Game of Thrones. Great series in the beginning a bit slow in the middle and badly rushed in the end. The end is ok quality.
Lost great concept medium quality. Should have ended after season 3.
Steins;Gate amazing first season. Very sad second season. Third season only for real fans.
Gintama… Well gintama is gintama and there is no rating hate it or love it, no in between.
I forced myself to watch through the first season of Breaking Bad, the second was meh, but starting from the third and until the end it became the best series I ever watched. The same happend to a friend, he wanted to stop watching, I told him to go on and at the end he loved it.
Better Call Saul also got better as episodes went on.
The Foundation series had terrible pacing in the first season, and they massively improved on that in the second.
Idk, I think it depends on the type of show maybe? Or the presumed prestige of it. I feel like a lot of procedurals I’ve watched get better once they get their legs under them. They not bad in the beginning but once the characters have been established and the writers get the hang of doing crime/mysteries they get more fluid.
“If you just suffer through the first 9 episodes it gets REALLY GOOD!”
Yeah or I could not.
Yeah I’ve had people that try to get me into anime and they’ll say some shit like “it’s really boring but after season 7 ITS AMAZING, oh and also season 192 is the best”
Spy Family is a good one to try. Its about a make shift family between a spy, an assiasn and a young kid who can read minds. They all have to keep their true identities secret from eachother in fear of losing their cover family.
Good from the start, good in the middle and on track to be good in the end.
A lot of anime is goofy and absurd and you have to roll with it. Some good ones will have a seemingly goofy premise but end up dark as hell and keep you up at night.
If you want somethibg more relaxing and less time commitment, the Studio Ghibli movies are good. The art and stories are great. Most of the movies don’t have a predominant villain, but are more about personal challenges and the characters growing to overcome whatever the outside problem is. “My Neighbor Totoro”, “Ponyo” and “Spirited Away” are great examples of this.
“Castle in the sky” is fun. If you like action spy/theif type movies “Lupin III Castle of Cagliostro” is a good one from the 70’s.
Like american/western shows, there’s a lot of garabage mixed in, and sometime even the popular stuff might not be to your taste. (I never got into dragon ball, despite it being one of the most popular anime)
Sorry didnt mean to make a long post, just started typing ideas…
Ok I’ll add it to the list
see above comic
Yeah, I meant to give one maybe two ideas…then I went overboard. Sorry about that. I did at least avoid anything that took 7 seasons to “get good”.
I do that too, but with tech stuff. Someone asks me about something, and next thing I know I’ve written three paragraphs.
Don’t worry. Not OP, but I think he was just joking in the context of this comic. You obviously love those and liked your recommendations
Not too worried, but appricate the reply.
I added a lot of text to each thing when I read someone else say something like “recomendations without giving any reason to watch are annoying”, and I thought good point!
I’m just buggin’ :p
Have a great day!
apart from Bojack and The Good Place, those are worth it
Except both of those had good first seasons. They get way better, but doesn’t mean they were bad to start with.
Yeah but Bojack s1 wasn’t great… There I said it :x
that was my experience as well! but I’ve heard people complaining that the first seasons of both nearly didn’t grab them
Sadly this is true for some shows…The Office (US) is like that… That said I guess you wouldn’t miss that much if you skipped that first season…
This is why I have my three to six episode rule. If a TV show cannot capture my interest in three to six episodes depending on its run time, whether it’s an hour or 30 minutes. Then it’s not worth my time. If a TV show cannot prove to me why it’s interesting or worth watching in the same amount of time that a movie takes to tell a complete story, then what’s the point of even watching it?
People kept raving about Schitts Creek, so I muscled my way through two seasons and just didn’t care.
Same here. I didn’t care after watching the 1st season. It was very meh.
Same, I watched it when it first came out and gave up after the first season.
There is basically no series that increases in quality over the seasons. Some wave a bit but if you don’t like it in the first few episodes you won’t like it later.
Almost every series decreases in quality after each episode. Game of Thrones. Great series in the beginning a bit slow in the middle and badly rushed in the end. The end is ok quality.
Lost great concept medium quality. Should have ended after season 3.
Steins;Gate amazing first season. Very sad second season. Third season only for real fans.
Gintama… Well gintama is gintama and there is no rating hate it or love it, no in between.
Many Star Trek series take some time to find their tone and pacing. Granted, some never manage to do so…
The office?
Better Call Saul was one that I found started slow but eventually I was hooked, after two or three tries to get into it.
I forced myself to watch through the first season of Breaking Bad, the second was meh, but starting from the third and until the end it became the best series I ever watched. The same happend to a friend, he wanted to stop watching, I told him to go on and at the end he loved it.
Better Call Saul also got better as episodes went on.
The Foundation series had terrible pacing in the first season, and they massively improved on that in the second.
Idk, I think it depends on the type of show maybe? Or the presumed prestige of it. I feel like a lot of procedurals I’ve watched get better once they get their legs under them. They not bad in the beginning but once the characters have been established and the writers get the hang of doing crime/mysteries they get more fluid.