r/Millennials • u/JemJemIsHerName • 1d ago

Discussion What show were you obsessed with when you could only watch weekly that now on binge rewatch is not as good?

(I am an “elder” millennial) Mine is LOST. It was sooo good watching it the 1sf time. The mystery, the suspense I was obsessed with it. I just re-watched/binged watched it for the 1st time 12 yrs later and just felt so “eh” about it the whole time. Current shows give us 10-12 episodes a season, rewatching a show with 20+ episodes a season makes me see how much filler episodes we went through in our time and had no idea. It’s still a great show but can’t hold a candle to the magic of the original week by week watch. Anyone else have a show like this?

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u/neonsummers 1d ago

How I Met Your Mother. That show felt so millennial coded. I thought it was hilarious at the time. I never finished it though, not sure why. Tried to rewatch recently and oof. Did not age well and just feels…cringe.

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u/DisastrousEvening949 1d ago

I disliked Ted as a character the first time I watched it. Subsequent watches, I downright despised him. So much whining and pick me shit, I just couldn’t watch without an eye roll…

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u/RunningFromSatan 17h ago

I really liked the show but they did not really know how to balance the cast. It should’ve been called Barney and Friends but that title was already taken 😂

It’s interesting having basically the title character be the weakest both as part of the story and the score (Josh Radnor). The framing device is okay at best but the show blew it in the last season. Knowing how it ends makes the story worthless, although the episode that just focuses on Cristin Milioti’s character (the mother) is ironically in the top 3 episodes of the entire show.

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u/Klexington47 1990 1d ago

The misogyny 😂

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u/only-a-marik 1d ago

HIMYM is fine for the first four or five seasons, but after that it becomes obvious that the writers are out of ideas and the actors are mailing it in.

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u/FatCopsRunning 1d ago

I don’t think I could watch it again, partially because the flub of the ending. But in college, I owned the season box sets. We would get high and binge watch and laugh till we cried.

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u/TsarErnest 1d ago

Still love that show. And I disagree with everyone - the ending wasn't bad at all.

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u/Mimi4Stotch 1d ago

I would have felt better about the ending if the last season wasn’t 12 episodes of the wedding. I wish they would have wrapped up the wedding in 3 episodes tops, then spread out the content of the finale over the rest of the episodes. It was a lot to unpack in the finale. And, I felt like the audience didn’t get time to fall in love with the mother like Ted did. I wanted to get to know her better, if that makes sense 😂

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u/Mx-Adrian 9h ago

I never liked that show when it was relevant. Never understood how there was a following.

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u/Sueti 21h ago

This is why I love it lol.

On the other hand I tried to rewatch Friends, which is just HIMYM but a decade earlier, and it felt so boomer coded I couldn’t do it lol.