What is the worst storyline you have seen on TV/Film?

[Coombs]

I loved Penny Dreadful and they ruined it! The first season was absolutely brilliant. I wasn't completely on board with everything in season 2, I found some of it (especially the puppet at the end) cheesy, but it still had a lot of redeeming moments (any scene with John Clare). Even season 3 was passable... until that finale. It's like John Logan just got tired of writing for the show and said F it. Adding insult to injury was the "it was foretold" BS afterwards.

I felt season two finale should have been the ending. It's the better ending. Logan literally realized he had to write a whole extra season, and said fuck it. No other explanation. Either that or the man can write movie endings but not show endings.

[Veggie50]

movie Downsizing...

Thought it would be a humorous look at what life would be like when small, but it turned out to be a sad drudging story of a man getting dumped and never getting back up. Including the entirely non interesting asian girlfriend.

[Lane]

I felt season two finale should have been the ending. It's the better ending. Logan literally realized he had to write a whole extra season, and said fuck it. No other explanation. Either that or the man can write movie endings but not show endings.

I've wished so many times that Universal picked up Penny Dreadful for their "dark universe". The actors were excellent, the storyline foundation for the major players had already been laid, and it would've been much better than what they had/have planned.

Manos: The Hand of Fate

Torgo!

[hynx]

I just finished watching the 3º season of Travelers, its on Netflix, i highly recommend you to watch it. Maybe it will change your mind.

aye me too, do you think there should be a 4th season or leave it ambiguous?

[Coombs]

I've wished so many times that Universal picked up Penny Dreadful for their "dark universe". The actors were excellent, the storyline foundation for the major players had already been laid, and it would've been much better than what they had/have planned.



Torgo!

They are apparently doing a fourth season with new characters.

[jakeic]

Personal choice: Highlander 2

Obviously you haven't seen Highlander: The Source.

[Triggered Fridgekin]

I'd suggest you watch the Best of the worst series on redlettermedia.com

There really is no "worst" - just variations of it and it seems endless

Easily my favorite channel on YT and in general.

They sometimes do find the truly worst of the worst though which often leads to interesting forms of destruction like Vampire Assassin only to then get flooded with copies thanks to Mike which can still be seen littered on their HitB set.

[Greyvax]

Everything on the walking dead after season 3

[jakeic]

Indeed...I touched nothing Highlander after that turd

If you don't care about things like lore then Highlander: The Final Dimension is actually an enjoyable movie.

[Jotaux]

The Last Jedi

[Dundebuns]

The Mist TV series. The movie was awesome. I forced myself to watch the last 5 episodes because I had already seen half of it. Regretted it.

[dope_danny]

Season 2 of the walking dead was the most 'writers strike' thing i've ever seen.

[fiestatastic]

That Star Wars movie that should have been retitled, Star Wars: The Great Casino Space Caper

Was definitely the dumbest time I've ever spent on Earth, watching stupidity after stupidity. I've seen parts of some of this other stuff, and sure, a lot of it was stupid, but none of it was close to as stupid as that Star Wars movie.

That Star Wars movie ended a legacy and 30 year franchise, single-handed. Despite being the worst movie ever made it's really the most impressive feat in cinematic history. RIP Star Wars, pretty outstanding for one director to have accomplished that tbh.

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Not like Star Wars was really that great anyway. Those prequels were complete shit, and really the only decent Star Wars stuff other than the original movies was the New Hope prequel movie, the Samurai Jack style Clone Wars thing that was on Cartoon Network and some of the comic book side spinoffs (some Old Republic ones, and the Cade Skywalker thing as far as I remember).

but even despite all that, knowing the franchise was taking a dump.... The casino space caper Star Wars is without a doubt objectively the worst movie ever made. More than Orson Wells movies, future movies and documentaries will be made on how bad it was and how it destroyed a franchise that could have otherwise existed forever.

George Lucas gave up a timeless place in the Smithsonian for however much he got from selling his franchise to Disney.

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20 years from now Star Wars will only be remembered on how shitty something can end up being, a what not to do in storytelling.

[Melius]

every DC superhero tv show. all CW, all trash.

[BrownJames]

The Ring supernatural psychological horror film. Just a bad sequence of story.

[Cosmic Janitor]

SAO after the first season.. it completely succumbed to the genre tropes (harem shit. even more unrealistic character "growth" or more like the system cheating for the main character for no reason) and needlessly piling onto what would have been a good closed story with pure excess fat.

As I stated in the tropes threads: The worst story lines to me in general are:
3. Misunderstandings
2. Doppelgänger
1. Damsel/Hostage plots, especially when a liked character gets neutered and put into this utterly passive and boring role.
Extrta negative points if there is also the constant threat of rape to drive home the point of how bad the bad guy really is.

[omeomorfismo]

napoleon dynamite.
other than the high school setting, why every single american film about ugly schoolboys have the same plot of them reaching the same status of the ones that oppress them? it doesnt make any sense...

btw awesome 2 minute of dance

[Halicia]

Captain America: Civil War
Despite the usual actors nailing their characters the storyline was just ... painful to watch for me.
The bad guys plan is one of the most convoluted and complicated plans ever in a comic/superhero-movie, the characters flip-flop on their opinions and debate-positions, ...

While others hail it as one of the best Marvel-movies for me it is a bust.

I think Civil War would have been a lot better if it turned out Captain America was wrong. It would have forced the question of whether his sacrifice was worth it to defend the "process of justice" for someone that was actually guilty. I think that's still a fight worth having, but it would have allowed for some depth, instead of just stacking a bunch of heroes and then facing off for just another brawl.

And if we're going along with this, I guess I gotta vote for...

Wonder Woman.

I wanted to like it just to spite all the haters, but the whole !@#$ing movie was pointless. The villain didn't get caught in the slightest, he just self-sabotaged for no reason after Wonder Woman failed in "her quest".

[Byleth]

The second season of Helix... So bad it was almost good.

[Evaddon]

The Mist (TV Show)
No Ordinary Family (TV Show)
Heroes Reborn (TV Show)
IronMan 2, Ironman 3
Every season of Supernatural after season 5,I'll give 6 a pass as it wasn't that bad
(I've only tried to watched a few upsides of later seasons, it could be better now but Swan Song was the definitive ending to me).
Thor,Thor:The Dark World

Just to name a few