It’s always easy to think ab🀅out what you liked on TV.
But going back over the year to recall truly awful material, tired shows and other puzzlements 💫takes some work — because if something is that 🥀bad, you want to banish it from your mind and not admit you wasted 10-to-12 hours on this drivel.
That being said, here ♛are our candidates for the worst shows of the year.
1. “True Detective” (HBO)
The Nic Pizzolatto noir drama, overpraised in Season 1 and openly derided in Season 2, is a 💫perfect example of how a series can veer from pinnacle to nadir in one fell swoop. Everything that was right in the first go-round — writing, casting, directing — was so laughably wrong in Season 2 that “True Detective” became the Sunday night show to hate-watch.
2. “The Bastard Executioner” (FX)
A “Game of Thrones” r🍸ip-off so egregious that creator Kurt Sutter (“Sons of Anarchy”) sensed our misery and took it off 🤪the air himself after one season because the ratings were so bad. Stick to motorcycles, my friend.
3. “I Am Cait” (E!)
Here was narcissism masquerading as empowerment. Here was bottomless self-i💦nvolvement masq🌟uerading as public service. While Caitlyn Jenner’s struggles with her gender identity may be a watershed moment in the history of American sports, “I Am Cait,” as presented, was uninspired TV.
4. “Scream Queens” (Fox)
After much hype and an avalanche of promotion, this sorority murder- mystery was a huge misfire for creat🅠or Ryan Murphy, who was under the impression that the arch, gory storytelling that made “American Horror Story” such a success on cable would transfer to network TV. And let’s just get this off our chests: Emma Roberts, who plays sorority queen Chanel and reigns as Murphy’s pet ingénue, can’t act.
5. “Grandfathered” (Fox)
John Stamos’ comeback vehicle was one long baby joke. As a single ag🌺ing bachelor who discovers he has not only a son but a grandchild, the likable star tried to get this cornball comedy off the ground, but man, it just stays there.
6. “Million Dollar Listing New York” (Bravo)
Like many Bravo shows, this one is completely fake, with properties that are sold before filming ever starts. The personalities of realtor Frederick Eklund and his colleagues are so unappealing, it’s surprisi𝓡ng anyone would do business with them.
7. “Wicked City” (ABC)
A noir drama that seemed to have the right combination of ingredients — a sordid locale (LA), a bad-boy star (Ed Westwick) and crime-blotter credentials — but no one cared and “Wicked C꧃ity” lasted only three episodes.
8. “Bones” (Fox)
How is this show, now in its umpteenth season, still on TV? The word “tired’” does not begin to describe what is going on here, week after week. Ev🍒eryone has more money than they will ever spen💛d. Let’s call it a day, already.
9. “2 Broke Girls” (CBS)
About as funny as “The Mothers-in-Law,” another loud, pointless female two-🅺hander. These characters have been wa𒅌itresses now for four years; even they must know it’s time to move on.
10. “Ballers” (HBO)
It’s almost impos♛sible to work up any interest in this series about the ups and downs of spoiled jocks in the greater Miami area. They play football, they get laid, they win/lose money. Rinse, lather, repeat.