"Most Overrated Television Show (Round 3)" Topic

Wow!
MASH didn't make the cut?

I voted for Walking Dead, only because I actually watched it for a few seasons, and could actually evaluate it.
Dallas was pretty funny, so I would not call it "overrated". It was what it was, without pretense. I'm

The rest I never watched, so no reason to vote.

I was more surprised that more titles from the Star Trek, Star Wars, Marvel Universe, etc didn't get suggested.

Not me, 20th. The problem from the beginning is that we're not working with a clear understanding of "overrated" but at the very least it requires either a change in assessment over time or a change in assessment within the group. And take a look at our finalists here--"mainstream" as an SF fan would describe them, except for the weirdness which was "Lost." It's stuff other people liked, or took seriously. We're desparaging a consensus we never shared.

Start a general discussion on any one of the three "franchises" you mentioned--good, bad, favorite, least favorite, to be taken seriously or not, and what's happened to them and is it good or bad--and you'll get a serious range of opinions.

Then you can suggest a poll to reflect that.

As for these, I punted. I think I saw a quarter of a Dallas episode once. Nice theme music, though.

Yes, this poll was too broad for this site. Had it been specified into categories, it would have told us more. "Pop schlock" shows will always wind up winning (losing?) a poll of this sort here because folks here are very unlikely to have any interest, much less praise, for such things.

Plus, everyone's consideration of what is "overrated" is highly subjective, as it calls forth the question as to whether or not the show is actually overrated, as well as the question "overrated by whom?"

In the case of Dallas, I think the show was always seen to be exactly what it was— a "prime time soap" (as it was dubbed at the time, and the first and most popular of a very successful array of the same, which rapidly followed— Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Knot's Landing, etc.). Nobody thought it was anything more than that. So I don't see it as "overrated," though it had absolutely no appeal to me, then or now or ever.