It gets really good after the first 31 episodes

Not just for series, this is the same with games.

"The first 50 hours of Final Fantasy 14 suck, but the expansions afterwards are worth it!"

"The game starts at max level!"

I can't stand it. And it's not like the game magically gets much better, it just feels pretty okay for someone who just wasted months of their time on the bad parts. Of course you'll enjoy mediocre parts later on after suffering through that crap.

A game has to start being fun ten minutes after the tutorial tops. Why play it otherwise?

Also, the episodes are an hour long each...

It's like they suffer from "sunk cost fallacy" but with entertainment.

'I've already watched 30 episodes of this show... But I can't stop now. Not until it gets good!'

One Piece fans lmao.

I enjoyed even the first season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but it really starts to pick up in Season 2 when they introduce Danny DeVito's character. Well, it really starts to pick up when his character evolves into trash goblin mode in like Season 3/4. Well okay actually seasons 5/6/7 are where it gets REALLY good!

Me with Bojack. I straight up tell most folks to skip the first 5 episodes and start with 1-6. The jump in quality the show does when it gets to "The Telescope" is staggering, it doesn't feel like the same show.

This is season 1 of Parks and Recreation. It didn't really start to get it's footing until season 2. I'm glad I stuck with it, so many great characters!

Just has to grow its beard.

so that's why streaming shows suck, they rarely make it that far.

Shit, if a show doesn’t interest me after 30 minutes I’m done with it. If the story only gets interesting after the forced exposition dump part of the script, then the script needed more work before they filmed it. In my opinion anyway.

I was sold the moment bug aliens took over Starfleet, and Picard and Riker blew Commander Remmik the fuck up!

Every Star Trek ds9 and tng person ever

I actually liked the first season of TNG.

I was told to stick it out one more season for each season of breaking bad. Watched the whole show and it never got better. I hated it.

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I started reading Neal Stephenson's book 'Anathem.' Threw it down after twenty pages, because it was just ridiculous. A few months later someone told me to stick with it, the plot really starts coming together around page 200.

Yes, I read it, and yes, it takes 200 pages to start making sense.

Yep, went the same route myself. I'm looking at you, Critical Role campaign 1 👀

But for others I always recommend start with the 3rd now.

This image is fucking with me because the way it's drawn reminds me a lot of Family Guy, and Family Guy is one of those rare cases where this concept is inverted and the show starts going to shit after season 3.

This is Picard for me. I thought season one was alright, season two was hot garbage, but season three is what star trek fans had been waiting for all these years. Perfect conclusion, but boy was it rough getting there lol

Star Trek TNG.

It's literally Season 3, too.

Annoyingly, there are one or two really good episodes in Seasons 1 and 2. But the majority are total crap.

Clone wars be like

Fucking jojo

I really don't get the hate for friends. It's just a tv show with funny bits here and there.

Honestly my biggest blunder of this was telling my boyfriend we watch Miraculous Ladybug and that it gets really good in season 5. I honestly lucked out that we both found it a riot from start to end, it's now one of our favorite shows.

All hail Avis

Me recommending Amphibia (it has like 3 good episodes)

American TV seasons are really a commericalized Stockholm syndrome, innit ?

That's how Andor fans talk to me