Shows you wanted to like but ended up being let downs

[Bucky]

1) Californication - I just finished renting my way through the X-Files when Californication came out on DVD. So I rented it, because when you get right down to it, it was David Ducovny's attitude that carried his first show far far more than the somewhat hokey overblown plot about a mega government conspiracy. But the show was just a mess: throwing in a precocious daughter just to make Ducovny more likeable, using tired set ups to make even boobs boring, and ridiculously unbelievable female characters. Ugh.

2) Heroes - I like superheroes; the fantasy of it, the angst of keeping a noble secret, the cost a hero pays in holding the line between good and evil. The idea of making them uncostumed ordinary people should have sold the series. But when I watched it, they kept having the heroes make ridiculously bad mistakes just to keep the one villain in the piece at bay. You don't send six superheroes after one villain and expect me to find that heroic. Finally they ship the goofy Hiro off to medieval Japan in season two for the biggest, most pointless distraction imaginable. Bah, I gave up right then.

3) Star Trek: Enterprise - It's not all bad--the notion of taking Trek back to its roots was a good idea. The all powerful technology of the 24th century makes the protagonists' problems really hard to get worked up about. Enterprise should have been about how plucky humans manage to elbow their way past more established galactic species to become the dominant power in Starfleet. The problem is that most of the crew just weren't all that interesting as human beings (the same problem that TNG had). Kirk, Spock, and McCoy by God had serious balls when they flew through space. Every crew since then has been full of technobabble and magic psuedoscience solutions and all they've got swingin' below are a bunch of raisiny sacks full of pimples.

[Mojambo]

1. Glee.

Obvious humor. Almost offensively stereotypical characters.

And a snide kind of "we're too clever" vibe that turned me off hardcore.

Really don't understand what people are seeing in that show.