What is the most overrated sitcom of your lifetime?

[just444]

enough distance from the finale now that i feel confident in saying The Good Place was the most overrated sitcom of my lifetime
- zou bisou bisou where are you (@lilgrapefruits) August 12, 2024

source 2 3this twitter post making a case for The Good Place being overrated received quite the response

Comments

[jojito]

[ginainabottle]

I have never felt so deeply understood by a first comment before.

[anagramofbrat]

fuck this show.

[arisma]

Every clip I've ever seen of it has been against my will and left me feeling depressed at the state of the world.

[silverstarry]

Even if The Good Place was overrated, it still wasn't terrible. I enjoyed watching it when it aired and I just did a re-watch earlier this year and still liked it. Maybe I am but a simple peasant with terrible taste, but I would rewatch it again in the future.

[sunsetburgundy]

[alwayspolaris]

And was it really overrated? It got the appropriate amount of acclaim that it deserved for its originality and pathos, and people occasionally quote it, but people didn't get weird about it. It was a nice show.

[silverstarry]

I remember it got good reviews during the first season, but it didn't seem to have the cultural cache of Friends or Seinfeld where everyone was talking about the show the day after it aired. It didn't have tons of merchandise, sweep major awards every season, or seem inescapable (like Game of Thrones). For all those reasons, I would agree that it wasn't overrated.

ETA: I think it depends on the definition of overrated. The literal definition should be a show that was good but that people claimed was great. But I think a lot of people use overrated to mean "other people liked it but I did not."

[theactualworst]

Big Bang Theory

[kary1591]

Don’t kill me ONTD, but “Community” for me.

[theactualworst]

Hdu

[kary1591]

I’m sorry Britta 😭

[theactualworst]

[nutmegdealer]

big bang theory
the office
superstore

[squirrels_oh_no]

What is it with millennial men who think saying The Office is the best show ever is like... their entire personality? It's not that good of a show, and if you think you're Dwight Shrute's gift to mankind, fuck off.

[silverstarry]

I think the reason that I (a non-millennial female who worked at a small local company) enjoyed The Office is that they captured a lot of the minutiae of working in a boring ass office (rather than glamorizing it). Some of the situations were exaggerated but the overall feel of seeing the same 10 people all fucking day for 40 hours a week and some of the stupid disagreements, gossiping, forced company spirit stuff, etc. that you have to endure was accurate in a way that 99% of work situations hadn't been portrayed on tv before. It definitely veered off into the ridiculous but I liked the show originally because the setting felt real and relatable.

[5368f65]

...also i know liked the uk version cause it was like, what, 2 seasons, and then it was just over. the us and the german versions are just too long for me. there are not THAT many office jokes that one can make.