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For Sale Mar 28, 2026 at 9:58 PM

What’s a show with an IMDB rating below 8.0 that you liked?

Posted by AccomplishedPhase178


I know IMDB seems very TV generous so I will assume anything with a rating below 8.0 is terrible. But what is a series that has a rating below 8.0 that you enjoyed?

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VampireHunterAlex Mar 29, 2026 +3
Used to frequent IMDB on the daily, but ever since they shut the boards down nearly a decade ago, it’s gone steadily downhill.
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KennyShowers Mar 29, 2026 +2
The death of IMDB forums is one of the great losses of the internet.
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ImLaunchpadMcQuack Mar 29, 2026 +1
IMDb ratings are worthless. They’re for grown men to cry about Disney movies and Black women.
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KennyShowers Mar 29, 2026
Totally agree, any audience score is garbage.
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Media-consumer101 Mar 29, 2026 +1
Exactly. And no ones going to like everything. There are super popular shows with 9.0 ratings on IMDB that I didn't enjoy watching at all. You can only objectively look at quality of art to a certain extend, the rest is just personal taste and preference. IMDB ratings can't determine what shows you'll like.
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Kadde- Mar 29, 2026
I think IMBD episode ratings are very accurate in 90% of the cases. Overall IMBD ratings however are not accurate. See mr robot/the leftovers/12monkeys. 3 shows that should be much higher rated.
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KennyShowers Mar 29, 2026 +1
Mr. Robot and The Leftovers have solid scores, but also have kind of a mixed reputation with the average Joe Schmo public. Mr. Robot was a huge hit in S1 but lost people with S2, so there's a lot of people who saw enough to feel like they have an opinion on it, but cut bait before it got great again. The Leftovers had a lot of hype being from the same creator of Lost so probably had a lot of people tune in early, but it isn't really a surface-level crowd-pleaser and even though I think it's brilliant it wouldn't shock me if the normies not looking for metaphysical explorations about grief and faith couldn't get on board.
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KennyShowers Mar 29, 2026 +2
A big reason for a perceived over-rating of a series is self-selection. If somebody watches an episode of a show and they don't like it, they probably just forget about it and don't rate it, so the people who end up rating it will be fans to begin with. It plays into critics too for TV, very few if any TV critics review anywhere close to every major series, so writers end up assigned to stuff that's already up their alley and may be more generous. Then when you get to seasons 2-3+, the only critics left will be ones who like it enough to continue, so you get a lot of inflated scores for post-1 seasons of series. Movies it's less of a thing, not hard to see somebody sitting through a 2 hour movie they dislike and then rating it accordingly, and many critics see basically every wide-release movie.
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KennyShowers Mar 29, 2026 +1
One that comes to mind is Girls. It's not one of my favorite shows and I'll probably never rewatch it and I know people f****** hate Lena Dunham, but a lot of its criticisms really missed the point. Yea they're immature and whiny and selfish and short-sighted, that's the show, it's literally the name. If they had it all figured out it'd be called Women.
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AloneAd6684 Mar 29, 2026
Mainly sitcoms for me, Spin City, Grounded for life, Heroes, Smallville, The Flash, Empire, Ballers, One Tree Hill, Home Improvement, Rules of Engagement, The O.C, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, My Wife and Kids, One on One, Superstore, Two and a half men
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