On The Ultimate Series Review, we review and rate of all the series we watch except that sometimes we just stopped watching some tv shows without even taking the time to review it. To help you avoid wasting your time, here are the shows we stopped watching in 2024 without finished the season and why but most importantly we want to hear from you! Tell us in the comments which tv series you stopped watching or if you disagree with our reviews.
Halo – season 2
We really liked the season 1 of Halo as it surprised us with a strong story while still having great action scenes. We remember that the gamer community but also the general audience had given a nice critics of the first season so we were thrilled when season 2 was announced.
Unfortunately, we rapidly found ourselves completely lost. Halo is a definitely one of these series where you will need to have a recap as one year passed since the last season and way too many characters and storylines to remember. The season 2 start with no recap or no explanation as if we are supposed to remember it all. The show becomes quite complicated but instead of it graping our attention, it just made us bored and unbothered.
Watch it if: you are or were a big fan of the game.
Instead watch: The Last of Us for the geek in you
Shōgun
We told you in the article ‘We watched the first episode of these 3 shows for you’ that we will give Shōgun a chance because of the great ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and the costumes but we had our reserves. Well, apparently we know well ourselves because we stopped in the middle of episode 2. The storyline is too complex and has not enough context for us to understand who is who and why we see this scene and why it will have an impact on the story.
Watch it if: you love asian history.
Instead watch: Bridgerton for the costumes
Three women
If you give us Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) and Betty Gilpin (Mrs Davis) in the same series, we will automatically say yes and watch it. Maybe a bad day, maybe a bad mood, maybe another show more exciting to watch at the same time but we didn’t go further than the 2 first episodes. While the story seems interesting, we might have missed the part where we had an explanation about why we were seeing what we were shown.
As you know, we love books adapted into tv show so we might give a chance to the novel and come back to the show later.
Watch it if: women stories told by other women.
Instead watch: Mrs. Davis for Betty Gilpin or Unbelievable for women’s tragedies.
The Regime
Another show that was part of our article ‘We watched the first episode of these 3 shows for you’ is The Regime. We didn’t really know what to expect but the quirky acting of Kate Winslet made us really appreciate the first few episodes of the series. However, we realized at one point that we were not following what we were seeing anymore and we were not understanding the point of the series or where it was supposed to go.
Watch it if: you want to be surprised by Kate Winslet
Watch instead: Veep for the cocktail of politics and humour
Strife
This show was being sold as the new funny feminist series but we think that it was just an easy take on woke culture with raunchy jokes. We really wanted to like the show as we enjoy watching Asher Keddie in Stateless or Nine Perfect Strangers.
Watch it if: you like story about women doing it all
Watch instead: Workin’ moms (definitely)
Population: 11
The show was promoted as ‘by the producers of Brooklyn 9-9‘ which is one of our favorite show so we were sold. Watching the first episodes, we understood it was a sort of parody of this very strange australian true crime / missing person documentary which we saw on Netflix. However, we didn’t continue further as the show didn’t seem which direction to take: it is not a thriller nor it is a comedy. Too bad as Ben Feldman (Drop Dead Diva, Superstore) is always providing us with a good time.
Watch it if: you need to turn off your brain
Watch instead: The Last Man On Earth
Palm Royale
Generally when we stop watching a show, we just give it a few lines in this article and move on but our disappointment was so important that we made a full review: we let you have a look here.
Watch it if: you are a sucker for chic 80’s life style
Watch instead: Loot
The Veil
We signed up to watch this show only because Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men, The Handmaid’s Tale) was in it and that’s enough of a reason. The female lead show’s first episode is giving us action, blood and spy vibes but the main character is played so enigmatic that we just didn’t get her. Maybe we will try watching episode 2.
Watch it if: you like spy story around the worl
Watch instead: Killing Eve
The Sympathizer
Where we watched The Veil for Elizabeth Moss, we started The Sympathizer for Sandra Ho (Grey’s Anatomy, Killing Eve): well too bad for us because she was not in the first episode which is the only one we last. However, we can understand that this show might be interesting because we are seeing another side of the Vietnam’s war and first generation of Vietnamese people in America. For this one as well, we might give it another try.
Watch it if: you are interested in America’s immigration history
Watch instead: we will get back to you on this one..
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What about the series we enjoyed the most?! Go through our reviews to see which series we liked!
Palm Royale – The disappointment of the season
«I felt like I was being promised something great… eventually… and it never shows up.»
Baby Reindeer – Keep the curtains up
We were impressed by the story but then our jaw dropped on the floor when we learned that the main actor was actually the person who the story happened to.
Apples Never Fall – A family affair
Apples Never Fall is a well (screen and book) written family drama where investigation and family secrets and demons meet.
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