What TV series have you watched, for good or bad that had the most complex or confusing plotlines?

5 months ago by Skavau to c/television

I thought Constellation (Apple TV) had a fairly convoluted plot. It got cancelled, unfortunately - and I did broadly understand it, but I felt it was more of a knot than Dark.

retype 22 points 5 months ago

Twin peaks?

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MirrorGiraffe 7 points 5 months ago

Every season makes you scrap any theories you had. Still peak tv.

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reallykindasorta 20 points 5 months ago

I had to rewatch Dark just to follow the plot

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Alexstarfire 4 points 5 months ago

I found a flowchart online. It only somewhat helped.

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Drusas 17 points 5 months ago

Definitely Dark. Also, it is one of the best shows ever (but not the dubbed version--one of the worst English dubbings I have heard in decades).

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mr_stank 4 points 5 months ago

Exactly what I came to say on both the show otself and watching it in the original German with subtitles.

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Drusas 3 points 5 months ago

I put off watching it for over a year because I just didn't feel like reading the subtitles. I shouldn't have put it off.

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usernamefactory 13 points 5 months ago

Google “Once Upon A Time family tree” to get a hint at how needlessly overcomplicated that show became.

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dragontology 2 points 5 months ago

I gave up after Peter Pan, but while those were the first really bad episodes, it was racing downhill before then. First season was fire, one or two after that was pretty good.

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GraniteM 1 point 5 months ago

At some point my wife was watching and she said "Oh my God, you won't believe who [X] is!" And I said "[Y]'s father?" and she said "How did you know??!" and I said "Because everyone is someone else's father on this show!"

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sobchak 10 points 5 months ago

I seem to recall 12 Monkeys being kind of confusing.

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reallykindasorta 4 points 5 months ago

Great pick, 12 Monkeys (show) was so convoluted! They had an astroparticle physics grad student at UC Irvine, Sophia Gad-Nasr, as their science advisor so it’s convoluted but well informed

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reddig33 9 points 5 months ago

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watson387 9 points 5 months ago

From? It's still ongoing and I've been watching it from the beginning, but it makes little sense and actually seems to get MORE confusing each season. I love it, though. I can't lie.

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jacksilver 6 points 5 months ago

I've heard it compared to Lost, so I'd be worried there isn't an actual throughline and the confusion is literally just bad writing.

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lichtmetzger 5 points 5 months ago

I fear this will be one of those shows that will solve very little in the end. But I'm still here for the mystery!

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0x0 3 points 5 months ago

This is one of the few shows I've rage-quit.

I felt like the writers didn't respect their viewers. They've concocted this bullshit pretzel of a universe full of mysterious phenomena, but there's no possible coherent explanation that will tie it all together.

It feels like they're just writing one episode at a time until they get cancelled, but they have no real plan.

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dragontology 3 points 5 months ago

That contradicts what they’ve actually said about the show, but as a fan I don’t exactly disagree. I feel like they’re painting themselves into a really tight corner. They say they have a plan and all that, I believe less and less each episode. Still watching though. It’s this season and one more. I’m down for that.

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W3dd1e 8 points 5 months ago

Raised by Wolves -

Raised by Wolves centers on two androids Father and Mother, tasked with raising human children on Kepler-22b after the Earth is destroyed by a great war. As religious differences threaten to tear apart the burgeoning colony of humans, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and difficult task.

That Wikipedia premise doesn’t even touch on the weirdness of this show. It is without a doubt the most metal 🤘 show I’ve ever seen.

Tap for spoiler

At one point, an android gives birth to a giant flying snake, a woman becomes a tree, a sea monster/mermaid kidnaps a baby by eating it with its chest

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reddig33 2 points 5 months ago

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W3dd1e 2 points 5 months ago

Same but imagine trying to explain that plot to Hollywood executives 😂 I’m sure someone did and that makes me very happy.

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Crackhappy 1 point 5 months ago

That show is fucking brutal and confusing. Nathan Explosion approves.

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nocturne 6 points 5 months ago

Manifest was rather confusing, especially when it went all biblical.

The 100 was too, after a bit everyone's allegiance was flip-flopping multiple times per episode. You never knew who was standing with who.

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rozodru 6 points 5 months ago

Fringe.

It starts off fairly "normal" and easy to understand/follow but then you get into later seasons with the same characters from different dimensions and it goes from like investigation different fringe events to being like "oh we ARE the fringe event" and then you have the same character from a different dimension forming relationships with characters from different dimensions and you get confused and forget which is the evil dimension(s) cause those characters are now good?

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bjoern_tantau 4 points 5 months ago

What I liked about Fringe is that every season is its own little contained story. They all have their own tone and genre. For better or worse.

And best of all it actually ended. Too many shows either get cancelled or go on so long until they're awful.

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aeronmelon 5 points 5 months ago

You mean besides Lost?

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kandoh 4 points 5 months ago