TVLine's Worst Television Shows Of 2023
TVLine's #2023InReview Continues! Our Picks for the Year's 10 Worst TV Shows: https://t.co/10YhJEjYur
- TVLine.com (@TVLine) December 5, 2023
Now that 2023 is almost over, let's look back at this year's worst tv shows, according to TVLine.
Number 9: Velma (Max)
"On paper, Max’s Scooby-Doo original was everything we could want from an adult animated series: Familiar IP with a modern twist, shepherded by Mindy Kaling? Jinkies, sign us up! And yet, even with comedy veterans on the creative team and an all-star cast voicing the Mystery Inc. gang, Velma hardly made us laugh at all upon debuting in January. What we hoped would be clever, subversive humor was instead disappointingly cynical and endlessly self-referential, stamping out any endearing qualities in Velma and her ever-sarcastic peers."
Number 7: The Flash (CW)
"It pains us to include the longest-running Arrowverse series’ farewell run, but… we reckon that if you ask most anyone involved, they’d be first to admit (and many have) that Season 8 used up the last of the good stuff, assumed as it once was to be the final season. Season 9, as a result, could only underwhelm week after week, with underbaked takes on Red Death and Eddie Thawne’s resurrection, a barely mourned Frost, a squandered Supergirl crossover and a pointless bottle episode. Even Oliver Queen’s improbable return and Nora’s lonnnnng-awaited birth could not liven up this sloth-like sendoff."
Number 3: Secret Invasion (Disney+)
"We’re already on record detailing exactly why and how this Marvel series made us super-mad. (R.I.P., [Spoiler] and [Spoiler], to cite but two big reasons.) But what’s even more frustrating about what Secret Invasion did to, and with, certain characters is the fact that, upon seeing The Marvels ignore it all (!), we realize that this six-episode series was five hours of our life wasted. You are literally the better for not having bothered with it."
Number 2: Fear the Walking Dead (AMC)
"As the first Walking Dead spinoff lurched toward its grave, you’d have been hard-pressed to say that it in any way resembled the promising drama that debuted in 2015. Characters changed motivations so often that viewers considered their deaths mercy killings. Plot twists got so silly that a pair of enemies escaping from quicksand while zip-tied together seemed comparably plausible. Catchphrases were repeated with such regularity that if we’d drunk every time they were uttered, we’d have all croaked of alcohol poisoning. Ultimately, the show became so laughably bad, more than 40% of TVLine readers gave the series finale a grade of 'F'.”
[OP: just kiddin’ you had it all along]
Number 1: The Idol (HBO)
"Was it really that bad? Well, having seen every last excruciating minute of HBO’s aggressively ugly showbiz drama, we can say with authority: Yes, actually, it was. Sam Levinson seemed to think his takedown of the music industry was revolutionary, but it was riddled with clichés, and even the small bits that worked were drowned out by incredibly unsexy sex scenes and unintentionally funny dialogue. The real lowlight, though, was The Weeknd’s hopelessly wooden performance as sinister club promoter Tedros, a turn so completely devoid of charisma that it might be the single worst TV performance of the past decade. So in that way, The Idol was revolutionary after all."
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What's your worst shows you've seen in 2023, ontd?