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The 15 Most Overrated Shows We Wish People Would Shut up About

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Nazarii Verbitskiy

TV Shows & Movies - May 26th 2026, 17:00 GMT+2

Abbott Elementary — 15. Abbott Elementary (2021-present)
Abbott Elementary built entire identity around being the nice workplace comedy that doesn't make you cringe, and somehow that became enough for people to declare it revolutionary television. The mockumentary format feels borrowed rather than earned, turning what should be natural classroom chaos into staged moments that land with the subtlety of a school bell. Everyone keeps praising how authentic it feels, but authenticity doesn't automatically make something funny or interesting. The show mistakes good intentions for good comedy, leaving viewers to applaud the sentiment while forgetting to laugh. | © ABC

Cropped Severance — 14. Severance (2022-present)
Severance builds entire premise around one sci-fi concept that sounds clever in theory but creates more confusion than genuine mystery in practice. The workplace satire elements feel forced when wrapped around memory-wiping technology that the show never quite knows how to explain or explore meaningfully. Everyone keeps calling it a brilliant meditation on work-life balance, but most episodes just watch people wander sterile hallways while the script drops cryptic hints that don't add up to much. The visual design does all the heavy lifting while the actual story spins its wheels. | © Apple TV+

Dexter — 13. Dexter (2006-2013)
Dexter turned a serial killer into television's most likeable antihero, and for four perfect seasons, that impossible balance actually worked. The show's forensic detail and Michael C. Hall's controlled performance made Dexter Morgan feel like a twisted puzzle worth solving. Then the writing collapsed so spectacularly that the finale became a punchline, complete with a lumberjack twist that made fans pretend the whole thing never happened. Eight years of investment ending with one of the worst conclusions in TV history should have killed the endless praise, but people still talk about those early seasons like they redeem everything that came after. | © Showtime

The Boys — 12. The Boys (2019-)
The Boys promised to deconstruct superhero stories by making the heroes into corporate-sponsored psychopaths, but it keeps hitting the same notes over and over. Every season follows the exact same pattern: Homelander does something unhinged, the team scrambles to stop him, and then everything resets so they can do it again next year. The show's idea of subversion mostly involves adding gore and swearing to familiar superhero plots rather than actually reimagining what those stories could be. What started as a sharp satire has become the thing it was supposed to be mocking. | © Amazon Prime Video

Stranger Things — 11. Stranger Things (2016-2022)
The first season of Stranger Things worked because it felt like a love letter written by people who actually understood what they were referencing. But then the show got bigger, louder, and more obsessed with its own mythology, turning the Upside Down into an overcomplicated mess that required flowcharts to follow. Every new season added more characters, more monsters, and more reasons to split the cast across multiple storylines that never quite clicked together. What started as a tight homage to 80s horror became a bloated nostalgia machine that forgot why anyone cared in the first place. | © Netflix

Friends — 10. Friends (1994-2004)
Friends turned six attractive people hanging out in a coffee shop into the blueprint for how sitcoms should look, sound, and feel for the next thirty years. The show's real achievement was making mundane conversations about dating and jobs feel like the most important thing happening on television, which worked perfectly until you realized how little actually happens across ten seasons. Every joke lands with the same rhythm, every crisis gets resolved with the same warmth, and every episode ends with the same feeling that these people will never change or grow. The cultural grip comes from comfort, not comedy, which explains why people still quote it but rarely laugh. | © NBC

Sons of Anarchy — 9. Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014)
Sons of Anarchy starts as a gritty biker drama about family loyalty and moral compromise, then slowly transforms into a soap opera where every character makes the worst possible decision at every possible moment. The show mistakes escalating violence for dramatic weight, piling on betrayals and deaths until the emotional impact gets completely numbed. Kurt Sutter clearly had big ideas about American outlaws and Shakespearean tragedy, but the execution gets so heavy-handed that scenes meant to feel profound just feel exhausting. Seven seasons of one more job and protecting the club becomes a marathon of misery that confuses brutality. | © FX

Succession — 8. Succession (2018-2023)
Succession build reputation on razor-sharp dialogue and corporate backstabbing, but the endless cycle of Roy family cruelty starts feeling repetitive once you realise none of these characters will ever actually change. The show mistakes misery for profundity, trapping viewers in boardrooms full of people who hate each other without offering much reason to care which terrible person wins. Every season promises consequences that never quite stick, because the whole machine depends on keeping these monsters exactly where they are. What gets praised as "complex character work" often just feels like watching the same arguments with better suits. | © HBO

Peaky Blinders — 7. Peaky Blinders (2013-2022)
Peaky Blinders turned post-WWI Birmingham into a playground for slow-motion swagger and razor-blade fedoras, but the style always mattered more than the story. Cillian Murphy's Tommy Shelby broods through six seasons of increasingly convoluted plots that mistake complexity for depth. The show peaked early with its gritty family dynamics, then spent years chasing bigger stakes that never felt as grounded or compelling. All that atmospheric cigarette smoke couldn't hide how hollow the center became. | © BBC

Ted lasso — 6. Ted Lasso (2020-2023)
Ted Lasso built a reputation on the radical idea that niceness could carry a television show, and for a while, that actually worked. The problem came when the show kept doubling down on Ted's relentless optimism as the solution to every problem, turning what started as genuine warmth into something that felt calculated and cloying. By the final season, the folksy aphorisms and belief-in-yourself speeches had become so predictable that even the show's biggest fans started rolling their eyes. Three seasons proved that kindness without complexity gets exhausting fast. | © Apple TV+

Big Bang Theory — 5. The Big Bang Theory (2007-2019)
The Big Bang Theory turned nerd culture into a laugh-track punchline, treating scientific references like props in a joke shop rather than actual interests real people might have. Four seasons in, the show was still explaining why Sheldon saying "Bazinga" was supposed to be funny, while the audience kept getting cued when to react to references they probably didn't understand either. The formula worked for twelve seasons because it let people feel smart for recognizing the setup to jokes about physics they'd never actually studied. CBS turned geek stereotypes into comfort food television, and somehow that was enough. | © CBS

Family Guy — 4. Family Guy (1999-2022)
Family Guy built reputation on shock value and pop culture references, but somewhere along the way, it forgot that random doesn't equal funny. The show's signature cutaway gags became a crutch that let writers avoid actual character development or coherent storytelling. After more than two decades, the jokes feel increasingly desperate, relying on outdated stereotypes and offensive humor that mistakes cruelty for cleverness. What started as irreverent satire devolved into lazy writing that treats its audience like they'll laugh at anything as long as it's loud enough. | © Fox

Game Of Thrones — 3. Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
Game of Thrones spent eight seasons building the most elaborate fantasy world on television, then torched all of it in a final season that felt like watching expensive fan fiction. The show that once made every conversation feel inadequate suddenly made everyone an expert on how stories should end. Characters who survived impossible odds for seven seasons started making decisions that contradicted everything we knew about them, all so the show could reach predetermined plot points as quickly as possible. The cultural grip it had was so complete that its collapse felt personal to millions of people who had spent years defending it. | © HBO

Scrubs — 2. Scrubs (2001-2010)
Scrubs built its reputation on blending goofy hospital comedy with moments of genuine emotional weight, but the balance tips wrong more often than fans want to admit. The fantasy sequences and internal monologue device that made early episodes feel fresh quickly became crutches for lazy storytelling. Zach Braff's J.D. starts as a relatable everyman but curdles into an insufferable narcissist who treats his friends like emotional support props. The show's nine-season run includes at least three seasons too many, including a final year that nobody asked for and fewer people defend. | © NBC

Euphoria — 1. Euphoria (2019-2026)
Euphoria turns teenage drama into a neon-soaked fever dream where every emotion gets cranked to eleven and bathed in purple light. The show mistakes visual excess for depth, treating high school like a warzone of trauma where everyone speaks in therapy-approved monologues about their pain. Sam Levinson's direction often feels more interested in making each scene look like a music video than in actually exploring what these characters want from each other. All that stylistic noise ends up drowning out the genuinely good performances from Zendaya and the rest of the cast. | © HBO

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Every few years, a show comes along that the internet decides is a masterpiece, and suddenly you can't escape it no matter how hard you try. These 15 series got more praise than they probably deserved, and it's time someone said it out loud.

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Every few years, a show comes along that the internet decides is a masterpiece, and suddenly you can't escape it no matter how hard you try. These 15 series got more praise than they probably deserved, and it's time someone said it out loud.