Hey Pandas, What’s A Television Show Or A Movie That You Were Sure Was Going To Be Awful, But Turned Out To Be Awesome? (Closed)

"A series of unfortunate events"

I already saw the movie with Jim Carrey and I was really excited about the series. I turned it off because of the subtitles under the baby, but decided to give it one more chance a while later.

Turns out it's one of the most clever series I have ever seen, I loved it!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I thought it would be bad because the movie was horrid, but the show is now my fave.

Top gun
Maverick

The Queen's Gambit

Peaky blinders

At first I thought it was just some very macho manly maffia action with a lot of blood, drugs and s*x serie. Well, it basically is but it's so well written, very good actors and beautifull filmed. Too bad there are no seasons coming anymore.

The outlander. I know I know. End up being one the best shows I've ever watched lol.

Will and Grace.
I was just switching channels on my television when I came across this sitcom and I thought it was awful but after watching the full episode, I watched it everyday.

Gravity Falls

It's a Disney show that's I guess geared more toward kids (though there were some moments I thought otherwise) but it's SO GOOD. I thought it would just be weird when my dad decided to randomly start it one day, and it quickly became one of our favorite shows ever.

Adventure Time.
It's got some depth to it ya'll.

Degrassi Junior High/High. I heard the other kids raving about it in school. The title sounded like it would be entirely French to me, and since I didn't have much of the same taste as the others in my class, I thought it was going to be like Dawson's Creek.
I decided to give it a try in the mid to late 90s when the seasons were rerunning. It was actually a really good show about learning life lessons and watching these teen around my age go through discrimination, getting in trouble, dealing with complicated issues. It's a little comparable to the Facts of Life, except the kids aren't living under the same room and the plots aren't contrived.
They used real young teenagers. Not adults posing as teenagers.
Some of the original cast is in the newer spin offs of Degrassi. The new spin-offs don't hit as hard. Likely because it's a younger generation than me and they're growing up with different problems. Still interesting, though.

The Batman (with Robert Pattinson). Besides feeling pretty over-saturated with Batman to begin with, I’m not a huge Pattinson fan. But… I really liked it and I really liked him in it!

"Arcane"
Was sceptical at first but then it turned out amazing! Animation was great, the characters were well developed, the story was interesting and the music was awesome!!! Turned out to be one of the better shows I watched lately.

Ninjago masters of spinjitzu. Gotta admit that the first few seasons are really childish, but the season 3 finale and all the seasons after are amazing. 10/10 would recommend.

Ghost's 👻

Terminator: The Sarah Connor chronicles. I love it for some weird reason, even with it's glaring plotholes, silly and illogical moments at times. It's closer to the original two movies than the sequels are, as per my opinion

The untamed (chinese drama) Thought it would be bad when me sister was talking about it. Watched and is my favorite through and through.

GI Joe Sigma Six because I never watched anything GI Joe before. I had no interest in it or even know what it was. I just watched an episode one day just to see what it was. Now I love the franchise and it helped me discover new hobbies such as reading comic books. All thanks to a Saturday morning cartoon on 4Kids. GO JOE!

The Delivery Man with Vince Vaughn. Thought it was going to be a stupid, raunchy movie, but it was actually good. Pretty wholesome too

Quest for fire.

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