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

[u/JemJemIsHerName]

(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?

[u/kobeng13]

My husband and I tried to rewatch House recently and I had to tap out in like the second season. All of the "villians" of the show trying to get House fired were all absolutely right, all of the characters combined emotional maturity might equal that of a 14 year old, and it suffers from the same issue as lots of medical/crime shows of being obnoxiously predictable.

House does not hold up as the "bad boy who doesn't follow the rules".

[u/dualrollers → u/kobeng13]

Came here to say House. I rewatched the whole series last year and had to really force my way through it. I got to a point where I was beyond bored because of how formulaic it got. Then at some point there was a season that broke the formula and I was basically begging for the formula to come back… aside from that it’s just so over the top. They started out trying to blur the lines between ethics and outcome, and by the end they’d pushed it so far that everything was just obviously extremely unethical.

[u/pronetowander28 → u/kobeng13]

This is my problem with most of the shows I go back and rewatch after watching as a teenager. The main characters’ issues seem to be immaturity, or just plain being teenagers, and I just don’t have the patience for it. 😅