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Shows or media that stress you out (so you gotta stop).

I was watching "Industry" during its debut season and omg all these people were stressing me the fuck out and it was not helping me lol. I never finished, but maybe one day I can go back and finish.

Well, I've been avoiding the Star Wars and Tolkien fandoms due to the fandoms stressing me out. Still loving the actual media, though.

I quit House and Bones because both shows were making me so angry I had to quit. I stuck it out longer than I should have wanting to see the end. But I gave up because they were just making me miserable.

Yeah, I quit Bones around season 6 or so. Also Castle around its 6th season. Both were just pissing me off too much.

I stuck with Castle to the end. I don't think the later seasons where anywhere near as good as the first, but the quality didn't go off a cliff for me the way House and Bones did.

I gave up House in the last season. At that point I might as well have just watched the rest but I just couldn't.

I did not make it that far. I made it too far, though. I watched until HOuse and Cuddy got together and it totally ruined her character. I quit before their breakup/her leaving the show, though. So I missed that horror.

I still won't watch any House eps beyond the third season, even though i still have a giant crush on Hugh Laurie. I'll watch the good seasons but that's it.

I watch through 4 just because I like the competition of the beginning of 4. I just think the wrong three contestants won. But after that I stop.

I am not a fan of the type of reality show that was being referring to in those eps so I had a hard time getting into that part. You're right though. Boy, did they pick the wrong people.

I thought Kal Penn's character was great and I will stand up for him

he had the potential to be a great character but the writers didn't know what to do with him

I tried really hard but I couldn't stomach past the first two episodes of Fleabag, everyone was so annoying and unlikeable and the situations were the narrative equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.

AYRT

I really liked that show, thought it was really good. It was pretty heavy and made me cry. But I could totally understand someone not liking it.

Speaking of emotionally taxing shows, have you ever watched Ramy, if so, what are your thoughts?

That's what I've read about it everywhere online, so I was pretty bummed about not being able to continue it. I've never heard of Remy before, no. Should I look into it?

AYRT

I find Ramy to be such a good show. Amazing really. It's essentially following this young guy (millennial) first gen Egyptian from New Jersey, trying to find his way through life while attempting to keeping/understanding his faith (he's Muslim) while balancing it with all the things that come in life, cultural and familial expectations, his own failings, etc. And who he is. And it's very...idk, real. He's flawed, and the way it's all shot/the narrative voice brings you into his life/the lives of the people around him, and it makes no excuses for him. I personally felt it's a very raw show, and every season I've watched so far has left me crying at the end. Because

TL;DR: it's a very human story, and there's almost a sort of compassion in the way it's told/shot? I'm biased because I like this show, so there's probably plenty of valid criticisms that I haven't read. I still recommend this show. And depending on your own experience, there might be some cultural aspects that you'll get or feel seen in (while I'm not Egyptian, there's certain cultural elements that translated pretty well with my own).

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It's very hard to see someone improving then sabotaging themselves and fucking shit up for their lives. And maybe that's something that you can relate to (I'm sure we all can at different points/circumstances).So if that's something that gets to you/might be a trigger, then maybe caution if you decide to watch. But it's just a very human story.

The second season of Fleabag is one of my favorite seasons of any show ever, but it's hard for me to recommend the show as a whole to people because of how tough the first season is and how you can't just skip it. The second season is very much a payoff to the first season in a lot of ways. Don't feel bad about not making it through, though; it's completely understandable given how unlikeable everyone is at the start of the series.

+1 (op of thread)

*waves hand* I skipped it, and still completely loved S2. I mean, I also knew the basics of what happened in S1 by that point, which helped.

OP of the thread, I highly recommend giving S2 a shot. I noped out for exactly the same reason you did, but then I kept seeing youtube videos of moments from Fleabag and thinking, "Okay, THIS is the show I want to watch." Plus I'd heard about the hot priest, and that whole thing sounded very intriguing. So I jumped to 2x01 and it just clicked, like, ahhh, okay, I get it now, I get why everyone is raving about this show.

Had to take a break from Murdoch Mysteries over the handling of a character/plotline I had been invested in got weirdly fumbled.

I tried watching when it first started and I really liked a bunch of the characters, but I gave up watching after five or six episodes. It was just way too emotionally draining for me to watch every week.

Bojack Horseman. Whew chile. Made it through all the seasons but the last. I just couldn't take it anymore, lol. It's SO GOOD, but it's SO PAINFUL.

I've been driven out of several fandoms by the shippers, who scream at you when you ask for anything that isn't shipping. Stop being so defensive, and so aggro, please. Not everything has to be, and that is okay.

For a while, Succession had sucked me in and I was super captivated and into it. But then I quite for a bit because I started watching Heartstopper and it felt sacrilegious to watch them both at the same time. And when I tried to go back to Succession after finishing Heartstopper, the spell had been broken and I was like, "JFC this is hell."

SA - I should add that this isn't a criticism but actually a testament to how brilliant the show is. It puts you so intensely and claustrophobically inside the character's experience that you start to empathize with them even though they are all just the worst.

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