X-files had a hilarious parody episode where Mulder was speaking gibberish the entire episode if I recall.
The sandman s1 was very uneven but the one in the diner was top notch tv.
90’s Baywatch. It wasn’t actually all about Pamela Anderson running in slow-motion, and the first season had a number of “Guys, this is actually a real dramatic show about real people doing a dangerous job saving lives” episodes.
IMO Buffy was more than just fine. The episode Hush was nominated for an Emmy, it’s excellent even if you’re not into the show.
Xena was eye-rolling entertaining at best. But then every season or so they would have one really well-done episode. Callisto comes to mind in season 1.
Lost. The first episode is a master-class in both “show and don’t tell” and setting up “mystery boxes.” It was downhill from there.
Nearly everything up until they went into the hatch was gold. Mysteries to the point of putting on closed captions to see the type of sounds the smoke monster made (IIRC, “mechanical whirling sounds”). Then it all just got sillier and sillier and stupider and stupider.
Scrubs was a great show all around, but if you know you know - there are two episodes which are absolute gut punches that the show had no right to be that good.
- My Screw Up
- My Lunch
“Where do you think we are?”
for me this show is paradise
