What would you say is the worst TV show that you have ever watched in your life?

Looking back at 7th Heaven has me seriously questioning why I watched it when I was younger.

I was a kid in the '70s. You guys don't have any idea how awful TV was back then. Look up Supertrain or Hello Larry. Did you know Three's Company had a spinoff about the old couple downstairs, The Ropers? They were so dumb it was almost criminal.

The Secret Life of the American Teenager, easily. It's basically a show you can turn into a drinking game because of how bad the dialogue and acting got. Of course, in hindsight, we now know most of the actors weren't even bad actors. Shailene Woodley was terrible on that show but turned out to be an extremely good actor, and I've seen others on that show on other projects where they also had some decent talent, but you couldn't tell from that show with the wooden delivery of their lines. That's a show that proves that the acting can only be as good as the directing and the writing allow them to be. The plots also really sucked.

I don't know what possessed me to watch all four seasons of 13 Reasons Why, but if I ever do the thing, this show will be one of my 13 Reasons.

Does anyone remember a tv series called La Brea? - I couldn't get through the first episode it was so bad.

And just like that (sex and the sequel universe) was f****** terrible. Not funny. Not s***. Plot holes everywhere (characters dying more than once, one character cares all about astrology but clearly uses the wrong month/sign combo etc. etc.). Just so f****** lazy.

The Idol by Sam Levinson

I watched that Velma show with Mindy Kaling. It was as bad as everyone said it would be

The Chevy Chase talk show. Just awful.

Secret invasion.

Manifest

US version of Red Dwarf, god dam that was hard to watch compared to the UK version

Kinda hard to pick just one. Recently, "Kevin Can Wait." Just terrible. Not funny at all. Going further back..."Cop Rock" was an abomination. There was also that show based off the GEICO caveman ads. The ads were funny, but they decided to go in a different direction for the TV show.

Cop Rock.

[The Trouble with Tracy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM72dO6lg6s)

Mama June: from not to hot. I will doomsday scroll and I’ll stop for a bit. I can’t last 5 minutes.

OH! Have any of you seen Blockbuster? OMG. I watched the entire first season. I think the potential was kind of there, but between the acting and the writing...holy hell. That was terrible.

And Just Like That. I’ve never seen a show to lose what made it good so much. I don’t know what the point of it was.

Quark (1977-1978): 8 year old me loved it. It was one of my favorite shows from my childhood. About 10 years ago, I found it on youtube. It did not hold up to my memories. I also lost a lot of respect for 8 year old me.

Invasion

I watched every moment of ill conceived insanity in 13 Reasons Why. Truly a show that never, ever, did anything right. In terms of themes, I'd call it politically drunk, a stumbling buffoon crashing into every possible contemporary issue for teens with the grace of a 3 legged rhino.

I don't know if it's the worst I've ever seen, but "Joey" was terrible.

Post season 3 of Fear The Walking Dead. First 3 seasons are good. Then the show runner got the boot and multiple actors left shortly after. The writers/studio had no idea what to do after that and decided to bring in some characters from The Walking Dead in hopes of getting viewers. It became the Morgan show and spends too much time with his whole pacifism thing. It gets bonkers, but not in a good way. There's Martha, a middle-aged teacher that goes all psycho because no one would pull over on the highway to help her and her husband. There's the camera woman making a documentary. That felt like an excuse to cut down on production costs by shooting everything on a shitty camcorder, sometimes for complete episodes (or close to it). There's the nuke. The episode where there's a crying baby on screen for long stretches. The woman with the skeleton hand. The tower in the middle of nowhere that everyone wants for some reason that's never explained. Horrible casting of Matt Frewer and Colby Minifie as big baddies. There's a couple bright spots. Garret Dillahunt and Keith Carradine show up. They're good, but wasted on this shit show. Anyways, good luck on your karma farming OP.

Two Broke Girls. For me, canned laughter never felt more forced

It's hard to say this one because I did also enjoy every stupid minute of it, but All's Fair. Maybe the apotheosis of bad acting (Kim Kardashian) met with a bad writing (Ryan Murphy) met with the most ridiculous editing ever. It's absolutely terrible but I actually still recommend it lol

Yellowstone. I hate it so much. I couldn't make it through 3 episodes. Its just a newer version of Dallas or Dynasty. Nothing more than a soap opera for middle aged people.

Mulaney was absolutely horrible. Bafflingly bad considering everyone who was involved.

Judging by the comments most of you are lucky to have not seen truly terrible TV shows.

Galactica 1980 was so bad that even as a child who loved Battlestar Galactica I could tell it sucked and had no interest in watching beyond the first episode.

A friend’s kid was in a Disney show called Best Friends Whenever so I was excited to watch it to see him. I couldn’t take even ten minutes because it was so cringy and unfunny. How can Disney not afford good writers ?

Scandal But it took me two seasons to realize just how bad it was. It was like eating junk food and I couldn't stop.

The 700 Club

I’m so disappointed in humanity that The Kardashians wasn’t a one season failure. Peak valid reality tv.

Picard season 2 might be it for me. Beyond the "meh" first episode, it was pure trash. Some of the worst writing you'll see in a mainstream show.  If I find a show to be bad then I'll almost always bail on it. But I'll generally give Star Trek shows a full chance due to my love for the DS9 era and earlier. Even Enterprise was alright. 

Any of the many "dumb husband + hot wife" shows Tim Allen did after Home Improvement

Under the Dome

Cop Rock

La Brea, but to be fair it was so bad I had to watch the whole thing!

Glee. Watched a bit of it lately and holy smokes, the show doesn't remotely hold up on so many levels. Maybe not the worst show I've ever seen, but can't think of anything worse off the top of my head.

Has anybody said Touched By An Angel? That show was the most clawing, faux moralistic garbage pile on TV in its time. The soft focus bleed lighting to reveal the ‘angels’ was so corny. Caveat: I am not religious, so maybe it was just bad to me.

The Apprentice

That 90s show That show about lawyers starting Kim Kardashian. I can’t even remember the title. That video store sitcom starring Melissa Fumero. I also can’t remember the title. Kyle XY. 24 Legacy Edit: Adding that short-lived show by Courtney Cummings. To this day, I’m not even sure if it’s an actual show I watched or if I just made it up. Going Bananas - Anyone remember Roxana Banana?

The secret life of the american teenager. Absolutely dreadful, have watched it 5 times over out of sheer hate watch

Landman is truly awful.

I’m embarrassed by how many of those aggressively mid Netflix original/Harlan Coben “thrillers” I’ve watched all the way through. They don’t even have the guts to truly suck, which would require taking any kind of narrative or stylistic risk and might’ve at least made them accidentally interesting at points, but their unshakeable commitment to algorithmic mediocrity makes them worse than bad imo.

Iron Fist - Season 1

Any of those Harlan Coben adaptations on Netflix, though I’ll admit they do get a laugh out of me.

Any show with "housewives" in the title. The people that watch those shows believe the moon landings were fake. This world makes no sense.

I watched the soap opera Passions for a while and it is objectively a terrible show.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but The Apprentice

Halo.

Homeboys In Outer Space

A recent one that comes to kind is All's Fair with Kim Kardashian. It was nice to look at the outfits and the scenes where Sarah Paulson eviscerated Kim's character with insults were fun. But other than that it was uncomfortably bad. If they leaned into the camp (and dropped the black hole or charisma that is Kim K) it could be so fun.

DTF St. Louis. My friend was like "the dialog is so eccentric this show is so well written" and I'm like... No human would speak like this. Also every episode could be 35 minutes at most but they're all around 55 and so many scenes draaaaaaaaaaag on and made me feel awkward. I LOVE David Harbour and Jason Bateman so it sounded great. I was like... Why am I watching this lol.