39 Overhyped TV Shows And Movies That Viewers Say Turned Out To Be A Total Waste Of Time

Buzz Feed

06-04-2025

A while back, I rounded up some TV shows and movies that members of the BuzzFeed Community thought were totally overhyped. In the comments, they shared even more examples — and some of them might surprise you!
Here are 39 of their top responses:
1. "I would have to go with Succession. People keep telling me how amazing it is, the reviews are ranting, and I still haven't finished Episode 3. It's not even that I find it boring. I find the dialogue intriguing to some extent, but I hate every single character. Every one. There is nobody to root for, and I simply do not care what happens next. I am sure I will finish the season at some point, but there are so many other shows that just got me hooked right away."
" Succession. The acting was good, but the story was so horrific. I watched five episodes and then gave up. Maybe it was meant to be a cautionary tale or a biopic about the Murdochs. I just didn't want my psyche poisoned by these wretched people."
— mbsphd
" Succession was disappointing with lazy, contrived dialogue, and the acting was meh. I watched most of Season 1, but it never got better. Overrated."
— kkavila3
2. " Anyone But You, the new 'rom-com' (quotes because I didn't get that vibe) that Sydney Sweeney was in. So many people said that it was good and the leads had great chemistry. I saw none of that. It was so freaking boring! I turned it off 20 minutes in."
"I watched the whole thing, and I didn't see any of that chemistry at all. It felt like 'two hot people stood next to each other' was considered chemistry. I am a sucker for a rom-com — and a Shakespeare-inspired one — but that just didn't work for me."
— garebehr
3. "Honestly, for me, it was The Good Place. They should have just left it at Season 1."
— forgetfulvane
"That show lost me brain cells. Should've been a movie, possibly, if it wasn't so predictable from the beginning."
— jessicagriffin2
4. "This is VERY unpopular, but I hated The Greatest Showman. The music is good; the plot is so. Dull."
"I hated it because they used Hugh 'High Kicks' Jackson and pretty music to make that d-bag [P. T. Barnum] look like a human being when he was the epitome of capitalism in the real."
— monkeybuttmom
5. " Schitt's Creek is the answer here for me. I've tried twice to watch it and just couldn't get through the first episode. It's just not my style of humor at all."
"I finished it, but by the end, I was watching only for the fashion."
— perenti
6. "I thought Top Gun: Maverick was the worst highly-anticipated movie. I honestly feel as if I waited more than 30 years for this movie to come out, and it was just so trite and predictable. Plus, without having a defined enemy, it sort of felt like a 'fill in the blank' enemy. Top Gun never should have had a sequel."
7. " Titanic!!! I walked out after the 40th time they played that awful song!! I don't walk out of movies, but I couldn't handle that one."
8. "I absolutely could not sit through The Revenant."
"It was SO dull. I'm quite fine with tiny casts, survivalism, minimal dialogue, and all of that, but that one was so boring. I feel like Leonardo DiCaprio only got the Oscar that year because the Academy were afraid what lengths he'd go to to try and win one if being brutalized by a bear didn't do it."
— garebehr
"I tried to rewatch it because I ran into an old neighbor who told me her brother is in it. Sadly, I couldn't find him. Too graphic!"
— crafty_gm
9. " Euphoria for me. Probably because I'm not a teenager, but, man, that show was so hyped, and when I watched it, I was just disgusted. It's not innovative or shocking to push alcoholism, drug misuse, and casual sex on the teenage population; it's just gross. And I hate when they say, 'It's not for teens, it's for adults.' What healthy adult wants to watch high school drama peppered with outlandish sexual content? Ridiculous. Hate it."
"Honestly, it felt tragic for the sake of tragedy but not much substance. And with so much to work with, I think it could have been brilliant. But too many extreme storylines that were only about shocking the audience. And agreed the sexualization of teens was gross. I watched Season 1 but didn't bother with Season 2."
— travelcat147
"I watched the first season, and I just couldn't do the second. In my mind, I just couldn't get past the fact that they were portraying teenagers. The least they could have done was make them college-aged. IDK...It was just too much."
— ropre
10. " Everything Everywhere All at Once was one of the most ridiculous, overhyped wastes of time I have ever tried to watch."
11. "Any show that is a reboot, sequel, or prequel to another show or an attempt to revive the corpse of a dead show is likely to fall into this list and be set up to fail. The old shows were good for a time, but times change and so do tastes. Let the audience make up the lives of the characters after a show ended. I would like to add Young Sheldon to this list. Sheldon never needed a backstory. He is more interesting if the audience imagines his childhood."
CBS / Via Netflix
— troper
12. " Only Murders in the Building. It was boring, contrived, and based on a stupid podcast premise. I was greatly disappointed."
Hulu
— bestcookie705
13. " Wednesday. Tim Burton is my favorite, and this is the only thing of his that I don't like. I watched the first three or four episodes or so, too, so it's not like it was an 'I couldn't get through the first episode' deal like Stranger Things was. Wednesday honestly felt like an attempt to take what little occult material there is from The Addams Family while also capitalizing on them being 'creepy and cooky... mysterious and spooky' (at least in TV show, but it is more prominent in the movies) and make it their whole identity. The werewolves, sirens, vampires, etc. in this show really rubbed me the wrong way — it's just not what the Addams Family is about, and this wasn't them."
Netflix
— mo2758
" Wednesday is so boring, ISTG."
— pinkduck56
14. " Stranger Things is overhyped. It's one of the shows that taught me that, if EVERYONE is talking about it, I probably am not going to like it. Three seasons were out when I watched, and it was one of those things where I felt like I had already wasted so much time that I kept watching, waiting for it to get better. And nope. I think people are into the atmosphere more than anything else."
Netflix
— carnabystreet66
" Stranger Things could have SO easily just been a one-season miniseries. My partner and I just started it last year, and when we saw the final episode of Season One, we were like, 'Uh...Shouldn't it just end here?' I think we didn't even make it two episodes into Season 3, and by then, it was already exhausting/stupid. We kept thinking we'd watch it at some point, but there's nothing making us want to."
— violetnylund
15. "I noticed yesterday that Oppenheimer was available on Prime Video, so I said, 'What the heck, I'll see what all the buzz was about.' It was the most boring and overrated historical movie I've seen since Amadeus."
Universal Pictures / Via youtube.com
— certified_drapetomaniac
"Totally agree on Oppenheimer. It took me three tries to get through the entire film. IDK how they managed to make a movie about the invention of the nuclear bomb boring as hell, but manage it they did. Such a shame, because it had a great cast. Skip the film; read the books instead."
— caelesto
16. "My God, The Witcher was so bad. The books, the games — phenomenal. The dialogue of the show was so horrible, only made worse by the acting. I tried to get through three episodes 'cause people said it got so good after that. And people loved that song, 'Toss a Coin to Your Witcher.' But it was all garbage. My wife and I love Henry Cavill. But she couldn't even make it through one episode. God, it was awful."
Netflix / Via youtube.com
— jpcheshire
17. "I really loved Mad Max: Fury Road, so I was excited to see Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the new prequel that just came out. I had heard good reviews, but I really don't know why. No spoilers, but basically, the ending was just too ridiculous. I felt like the whole movie was just a rehash of all the other Mad Max movies."
Warner Bros. Pictures / Via youtube.com
— zazupitz
18. "For me, it's Ted Lasso. It's always being advertised and winning awards, and people recommend it to me all the time. I think I watched two seasons and just had zero interest. Maybe because I don't like sports, although most of the people who told me to watch it also don't care for sports, so I don't know."
Apple TV+ / Via youtube.com
— nosurprises
19. " Avengers: Infinity War and End Game. The MCU had been building up for years for these movies, and they were so disappointing, they killed any interest I had in future MCU movies."
Marvel Studios / Via Disney+
— monikap6
"Exactly! I feel like Captain America: The Winter Soldier was the best MCU film, and it just kind of went downhill from there. The early stuff was good; it had the right mix of humor and action with some decent writing. Whenever it started to rely on you watching EVERY SINGLE MOVIE to be able to enjoy one, it made it less fun. Now, it's pretty much just copy and paste the same story with different heroes."
— monikap6
20. "For me, it's always been Star Trek: The Next Generation. I loved the original, but I only watched it out of order in re-runs as a kid. It was clearly made in its time, but it was brilliant. I struggled through several seasons of TNG and could feel the boredom physically. I absolutely believe a ton of talented people were involved, including cast members, but it was mind-searingly dull."
Paramount Television / Via youtube.com
— slysnail38
21. "How can you not have Halo on this list? I was SOOOO excited for a Halo TV show. First episode, he takes off his helmet 'to appear more human.' JOHN DOESN'T HAVE EMOTIONS. He doesn't care if he appears nice and kind or not if the mission gets done. O,h and he sleeps with a Covenant alien spy? Not my John, not my Halo."
Paramount+ / Via youtube.com
— lottaottars
22. "Most recently, Midsommar. I just don't get the hype. I was maybe expecting something different, but all I felt was disappointment when it was over."
A24 / Via youtube.com
— cleverturkey53
"Yep. People were actually saying it was a woman-empowerment movie. But I just saw a self-obsessed woman who watches her friends get murdered and thinks this place is cool."
— dukeofdumb
23. " Interstellar. Absolutely hated that movie. Do not understand the hype."
Paramount Pictures / Via youtube.com
— keepintabs
24. " Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life was so bad. Such a disappointment, especially what they did to Rory's character."
Netflix
— badwolfenstein
"I really think A Year In The Life should just be scrapped, and they should start over. I love Gilmore Girls, so I'd like to see a reboot or limited series or something done well. AYITL just sucks so fucking hard. They really butchered it. If I was them, I'd be like, 'Okay, that's officially not canon. Let's retry this.'"
— goety
25. "I know I will be an outcast here, but I had a difficult time with The Sopranos. I watched it on streaming just a couple of months ago. I couldn't get into how dumb the whole gang was. I realize they were not supposed to be loveable, but I couldn't even like any. I gave up at the end of the second season. To me, the hype was really over the top."
HBO / Via youtube.com
— marvelouseagle25
26. " The Talented Mr. Ripley was awful!! It's the only movie I walked out of!"
Paramount Pictures / Via youtube.com
— sharebear817
27. "I'm gonna add Breaking Bad to this. Sorry, 10,000 episodes of 'don't do drugs, it's a bad thing' is just not entertaining."
AMC / Via Netflix
— lottaottars
28. "The new Napoleon movie with Joaquin Phoenix was so so bad, I fell asleep throughout most of it."
Columbia Pictures / Apple Original Films / Via youtube.com
— innergrandma46
29. "Why isn't The Blair Witch Project on the list? 🤔"
Artisan Entertainment / Via youtube.com
— tyfherring
" The Blair Witch Project. If you didn't fall for their marketing, it was just a really boring movie full of panicky people."
— trendyasteroid14
30. "The live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender reboot that Netflix did. I get that you have to change some stuff when you go from animated to live-action, but some of the plot points they changed made absolutely no sense. It's not even Avatar anymore, even though the casting was amazing, and the costumes and effects were on point! The writing just fell short for me and could have been more true to the original."
Netflix
— congdongracie24
31. "I really dig most of Wes Anderson's work, but Asteroid City did not work on any level. It literally felt like Wes was trolling the audience, trying to make a terrible picture, and seeing if anyone would call him out on it."
Focus Features / Via youtube.com
— hwh
32. " Napoleon Dynamite. I remember being so excited to watch it because, at the time, everyone was so obsessed with it, and I just did not get it. I'm not opposed to a 'weird' or unconventional movie in the likes of Harmony Korine, David Lynch, etc., but Napoleon Dynamite just wasn't for me."
Fox Searchlight Pictures / Via youtube.com
— jainelaine
33. Not one of The Matrix franchise movies was watchable after the first one. The first one was groundbreaking and quite spiritual in its way. The three subsequent movies were ALL action and no substance."
Warner Bros Pictures / Via youtube.com
— ellie4me
34. " Babylon. I wanted to throw up in the first five minutes. Three hours and £4.99 I won't get back."
Paramount Pictures / Via youtube.com
— kathryna456a720b8
35. " Cloud Atlas. Full of talent, but a terrible film."
Warner Bros. Pictures / Via youtube.com
— heroicmagician35
36. " Snowpiercer. Everyone I knew raved about how good it was, but it bored the crap out of me. SMH."
Radius-TWC / Via youtube.com
— princesst86
37. "For me, on the pedestal of most overhyped movies is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. For the first time in my life, I wanted to leave the cinema hall during the screening. But I overpaid for the ticket, and that was literally the only thing that kept me going until the end."
Sony Pictures Releasing / Via youtube.com
— antoinette_yoo
38. "I have since come to learn this is a somewhat different opinion, but I really disliked M. Night Shyamalan's The Village. First of all, it wasn't scary or suspenseful, and I guessed the twist ending right before it happened. And I was hoping what I thought wouldn't be it, but it was. This was back when M. Knight Shyamalan was still the king of twist endings. He had come off at least three movies that people seemed to love because of their endings — The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. I went to see The Village because I loved The Sixth Sense and was creeped out by Unbreakable but in a good way. The Village didn't do it for me, and I know people who really disagree with my opinion and say this movie is one of his best. Really, after that, his movies started to tank, and now there is hardly anyone who says he's as good as he was 20-25 years ago!"
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution / Via youtube.com
— joannaw4377e18ce
39. And finally: "Even big Marvel fans didn't like Secret Invasion."
Marvel Studios / Via Disney+
— wildflower_daydreamer
" Secret Invasion had SO much potential. I was incredibly excited for that show, thinking it was gonna drastically change the MCU, and it ended up being… absolutely nothing."
— psychickid62
Now, in your opinion, what's a criminally UNDERRATED movie or TV show that totally deserves more hype? Why? Share your thoughts in the comments!
Note: Some responses have been edited for length/clarity.