

Small-town Rajasthan is no Los Angeles, and Abhay Deol is no Jack Nicholson. Looking for something challenging to watch? These are the 20 Worst TV Shows Ever Made (According To Rotten Tomatoes).If great theatre can be timeless - the Bard is freshly recycled on stage or screen somewhere in the world every single week - the same must hold true for great cinema.įollowing the thought that a fantastic screenplay is open to as much reinterpretation as a play, debutant director Navdeep Singh takes the tribute route by basing his first film on Roman Polanski's 1974 classic, Chinatown. Sitcoms, dramas, superhero shows, period pieces, adult animation, original ideas, reboots… It’s all here. In this list, we explore some of the television shows that have the very worst scores on the Tomatometer, and it’s safe to say that pretty much all genres are covered.


And, to be fair, certain series are just purely terrible ideas that leave us wondering how they even got approved, funded, and made in the first place. On the other hand, some TV shows take so long to set up their stories that the audience becomes quickly uninterested.

Some writers, for example, take years to craft a pilot episode but aren’t able to follow through with an entire season that lives up to the project’s potential. Ideas that look good on paper don’t always translate into an equally good television series. It’s always subjective to judge a movie or TV show as “great” or “terrible,” but Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer – an aggregator of reviews from critics and fans alike – is a great tool to get a general sense of how the majority of people feel about a particular project.
