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By this sentence in 2023,Netflixwas swimming in a broad variety of original shows almost on a weekly base . Things are very dissimilar in 2024 because of last year ’s Hollywood strikes and subsequent production delays . Netflix has been far more reliant on learn serial publication likeDexterandLost , while archetype have been few and far between .
The good news is that most of this year ’s stingy crop of Netflix show has been pretty decent , although I feel thatBaby Reindeergets a disproportional amount of attention simply because there have n’t been a lot of other fresh serial to pour . However , not everything is destined to be good , and that ’s why we ’ve put together this leaning of the five bad Netflix picture of 2024 so far .
There ’s every hazard that most of these serial we ’ve picked could be displaced from the top five worst Netflix shows at the end of the class . But somehow , we suspect our choice for No . 1 will have the same ranking at the remainder of December 2024 .
5. Avatar: The Last Airbender
Netflix has yet to teach the lesson that just because a show was successful in animation , it does n’t intend that a live - action remake is necessary or welcome . Avatar : The Last Airbender‘s animated series was one of the very best of the 21st century . But somehow , that just does n’t fully translate to this show .
The young cast , including Gordon Cormier as Avatar Aang , Kiawentiio as Katara , Ian Ousley as Sokka , and Dallas Liu as Prince Zuko , all try their undecomposed to live up to their animize counterparts . But most of the metre , the kid seem painfully aware that they ’re just actors on a show rather than actual inhabitants of this fantasy world . Awkward scripted dialogue sounds completely abnormal in their mouths , and the stakes of the serial publication just do n’t land with the same impact that they had in animation .
Considering thatAvatar‘s animated series had 20 sequence per season , everything seems a bit rush when the first volume is grind away into eight instalment . Make no mistake , this show has a better take on the material than M. Night Shyamalan ’s 2010 adaptation , The Last Airbender . But that ’s damning it with weak praise .
Do n’t watchAvatar : The Last AirbenderonNetflix .
4. Alexander: The Making of a God
IsAlexander : The fashioning of a Goda script drama or a historical documentary film ? It ’s kind of both , but it just does n’t do either one particularly well . But do n’t charge the leading human , Buck Braithwaite , who portray Alexander in the flashback that depict his rise to power . If the show had simply decided to focus on being a traditional drama , it could have been better .
Instead , the historic experts are used to provide context for Alexander ’s liveliness while vamoose ahead haphazardly . Without the show ’s recreations satisfy in those gap in Alexander ’s life story , the entire thing experience like it was never completed in the first place .
Do n’t watchAlexander : The fashioning of a GodonNetflix .
3. A Man in Full
David E. Kelley had an amazing stamp to mould with inA Man in Full , with Jeff Daniels in the lead in addition to performers like Diane Lane , William Jackson Harper , Jon Michael Hill , Aml Ameen , Lucy Liu , and Tom Pelphrey . Kelley also had the original novel by Tom Wolfe to work on from . So Kelley has no one to fault but himself for let down these actors and actresses with scripts that give them one - note theatrical role at best .
Daniels plays a very Trump - like real estate tycoon , Charlie Croker , who is on the verge of losing everything after some fatal fiscal move . Raymond Peepgrass ( Tom Pelphrey ) is eager to pull down Charlie and take everything he has , and yet neither of them has enough spark to be interesting or compelling .
The alone actor who really does come off well on this show is Hill , who portrays Conrad Hensley , a Black military man who is tangentially connected to Charlie . Conrad ’s story finds him unjustly face eld in prison for defending himself against a violent cop . That part of the show resemble some of Kelley ’s early legal dramas . The rest of it we can do without .
Do n’t watchA Man in FullonNetflix .
2. Tires
Netflix gaveTiresa season 2 replenishment years before the show even premier . And inexplicably , the serial performed well and landed just behindBridgertonin the streaming rankings for the calendar week . Who knew that a situation comedy that feels ripped from CBS ’ 2004 TV agenda would be a hit ? The only explanation that come to mind is that series co - Almighty and co - headlining star , Shane Gillis , has a veridical pursual .
unluckily , the premiss ofTirescan’t seem to mine its material for enough respectable caper to carry an episode . Gillis plays Shane , an employee at his family - run automotive repair job who now has to wreak for his cousin , Will ( Steve Gerben ) . Shane resents that so much that he actively sabotages and undermines Will ’s endeavor to economise the struggle business . Most sitcom tend to give their leading grapheme at least some redemptive calibre . But for the most part , Shane is just a jerk and he ’s unpleasant to watch .
Do n’t watchTiresonNetflix .
1. Good Times
The words “ dumpster fervency ” get tossed around so often that they no longer have the same impact they once had . ButGood Timesis the one show on Netflix in the first half of 2024 that has truly earned the dumpster fervor description . The originalGood Timessitcom stop 45 years ago , so there were n’t too many people clamour for a comeback . And the go fanbase certainly was n’t ask for an animated series that play more like a weak clone ofFamily GuyandThe Cleveland Showthan a homage to the sitcom that very generally inspired it .
Nothing about this show work , from the drug - dealing baby , Dalvin ( Slink Johnson ) , to the dreadful character designs and prowess way or the uninspired and humorless stories . Seth MacFarlane was one of the executive producer forGood Times , and he should have been the first one to point out that rehashingFamily Guywas a bad choice for everything that came afterAmerican Dad . J.B. Smoove ( Reggie ) , Yvette Nicole Brown ( Beverly ) , and Jay Pharoah ( Junior ) are all gifted comedic performers , and even they ca n’t salve this messy effort to be relevant . There ’s been no renewal card for this series , so do n’t be too surprised ifGood Timesis done in one . This show used up all of its good will with lightning speed .
Do n’t watchGood TimesonNetflix .
