Amazon television review quote quiz

Welcome to one of our occasional quizzes, where you simply have to identify, in this case, the television programme that’s being talked about in the following Amazon customer reviews. There’s a link to the answers at the end if you get stumped….

Good luck!

1.“YES WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH, HAVING GROWN UP WITH THE ORIGINAL SERIES WITH ALL ITS BIG EXPLOSIONS, LASER FIRE AND ROBOTS MADE OF TIN AND FLASHING LEDS, WHAT MORE COULD YOU WANT. WHAT WE GET IS A LOAD OF RUBBISH AND ROBOTS THAT LOOK LIKE HUMANS (THATS NOT BEEN DONE BEFORE). OK ALL THE CHARACTER NAMES ARE IN THERE, BUT XXXX  A GIRL COME ON. I DON’T SEE THIS SEIRES GETTING ENYWHERE,THEIRS JUST NO SPARK.”

“Each character has very little going for them, the show is a very cheap soap opera set (sometimes) in space”

“If you like soap operas with poorly drawn, cliched characters I think you may enjoy this…….”

2.“I award this American brain-dead series 1 star because i am grateful to it for persuading me to quit watching TV. I am now on a visual diet of dvds – The Sopranos, 6-Feet Under, Miami Vice etc… XXX is complete garbage for a generation of lazy brain-dead couch potatoes who watch a series that does not have anything resembling a plot or good acting. At least the actors/ actresses are beautiful, as is the location.”

3.“Despite the hype, and all the trendies saying what a mahhvellous show it is, actually it is pretty dull. Boring characters, little conflict, confusing scripts, same stuff repeated ad nauseam”

“I had 1000’s of hours of viewing movies, television series, and television programming behind me before I sat down to watch this series on DVD, season one, the box in my hand. I was very dissapointed. This series stinks. I watched only episode 1, and have the experience and perception to know that it won’t get any better.”

“I really disliked this show, i watched the entire first season in two days, i only did so because i was waiting for it to become interesting. After so many glowing reviews, i could not belive how just plain awful this show turned out to be. I would rather watch reruns of Barney Miller”

4.“The real fault for this painful to watch show lies with the production team, who didn’t seem to make any right choices when developing this series. I found particular fault with their decision to make the XXX  team a bunch bickering, self-obsessed, petty individuals who couldn’t work together or stay focused on the investigation at hand in any of the episodes”

“This series could have been great but it is the worst written series I have ever ever ever ever ever seen. And I watched Full House growing up”

“I sat through 4 or 5 episodes, of which only one was amusing (the nymphomaniac) then stuck the lot back in its box and returned it for a refund. (Which Amazon promptly paid, so I’m not complaining!)”

5.“Lazy screenwriting in the Police Academy 14 mode but with no coherence to hold it together: you’d have to be very drunk and drifting in and out of consciousness to get on the right level.”

“Feminist-inspired codswallop”

“an attempt by the powers that be to make more money out of the XXX franchise. Whether or not the creators of the original show really wanted to flog the horse some more is unknown, it may be just a case of the BBC pushing for some extra cash”

6.“How can one person be kipnapped so many times, how can one person be beaten so badly yet the next minute get up without a mark on them, etc, etc. It you like your entertainment to reassemble reality in any shape or form do not buy this utter pile of rubbish.”

“This is the most revoltingly inhumane piece of garbage I’ve ever seen. It treats human lives like accessories, to be disposed of for dramatic effect. It is easily the most vile and manipulative piece of nonsense ever seen on television. Every contrived cliff-hanger and televised death is an indictment on the stupidity that this programme stands for.”

“This show STINKS! I got suckered into getting it because it was recommended to me by my brother. Now his movie recommendation privledges have been revoked and I’m stuck with a crappy series.”

7.“it took the cockpit of one of the best shows on television and dumped fuel at 50,000 feet”

“At least X-Files had the good graces to die a horrible death after giving us 5-6 solid, can’t miss seasons before going completely off the rails.”

” This show is a stupid waste of time. It jumps back and forth in time so much, not even the writers know where the story line is.”

8.“It’s about time the BBC released this here in the US. I can’t wait for the rest of the seasons to come out as well. Such a high-quality enduring comedy is hard to come by anymore with the broadcast waves full of reality tv, American Idol, and NASCAR. We deserve something more stimulating, and this is it!”

“This has got to be the funniest show I have every seen. I laugh all the way through it. I am not kidding. Everyone has great lines, but Nick has the best. I caught a peek at it on KTEH one night and rented it…then had to have it. My Granddaugther loves it as much as I do. I can’t wait until the third season comes out. I’ll buy that one too.”

“True English humor with a touch of sinister sarcasm plus all the wittiness you would expect. Have been waiting for BBC to release other seasons to dvd in region 1 but still none yet.”

9.“The animation is absolutely horrid to start with. No, unwatchable, and that’s the truth. Not only are the individual edisodes absolutely devoid of comedy, but the fact that the developers wouldn’t even take the time to make the animation consistant, forget pleasant, just consistant. With terrible and outright lame storylines for the episodes, the least they could have done was their job.”

“crudely drawn with poor writing and a huge lack of any funny jokes.”

“This “show” is the biggest heap of mindless rubbish I have ever seen. It is NOT funny or even clever. Another fine example of mind emptying rubbish on the idiot box that appeals to ignorant fools with all the IQ of a flat tyre.”

10.“What I didn’t like at all is that the creators had just taken out numerous bits from popular movies and tried to spoof them.The whole sitcom is countless unfunny spoofing. For instance we all remember that scene from Pulp Fiction with the toaster where Bruce Willis kills Travolta.OK, you can watch it again in XXX.Nobody kills anybody here.”

“like when they got the dog they come back to the flat and start tlking about how dogs are for life and not toys and suff then next thing u see is them shouting for it to dance and brian taking pictures of it, it just isnt funny and make u end up looking at one and other think wat the f..k? Its a can be a funny show but u have to take the good with a lot of the bad but atlest it most makes up for it.”

“Basically, I see XXX as the creation of a couple of graduates who sat in a pub and thought of a way to dupe the British audiences into believing that being clever, ironic and weird makes good comedy. You don’t fool me, guys.”

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