TV Shows With The Most Scathing Reviews Imaginable

The Secret Life of Desmond Pfeiffer

This show is completely problematic. You’d think maybe something like slavery shouldn’t be the butt of every joke, yet here we (were). Desmond plays the role of sophisticated Englishman deported to America and works as Abraham Lincoln’s butler. There are just too many foot-in-mouth instances for this to be tolerable, and it was canceled.

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The More You Know

  • The original pilot for Game of Thrones was judged to be so bad by the studio that the series was nearly cancelled.
  • The Nielsen ratings monitor commercial viewership
  • TNT spends roughly $9 million per episode on the crime drama The Alienist.
  • Phil Harris of Deadliest Catch was the first person to die on a reality TV show; he suffered a stroke on his crab-fishing boat while filming.
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