Wasted 14 hours on 'The Empress' and regret every minute

I binged the whole first season of that period drama 'The Empress' thinking it would pick up, but it was just slow scenes and boring politics for 14 hours straight. Lost a whole weekend I'll never get back, and the payoff was basically nothing. Anyone else fall for shows with pretty trailers that turn out to be total snoozefests?

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ward.fiona3d ago

Last year I gave up after three episodes of a similar show and switched to a documentary instead. I figure if a show can't hook me by episode two, it's not worth my time anymore. Saves me a lot of nights staring at the ceiling wondering why I pushed through.

jamie_clark3d ago

Hey @ward.fiona, did you ever try giving a show just one more episode after you normally would cut it? I did that with one series and it finally clicked on episode four for me.