According to Urban Dictionary, "hate-watching is when the pleasure you get out of watching something comes from your hatred of it". In other words, you watch because you love to hate it.
The show draws you in, probably with a strong first season, attractive actors, romantic storyline, maybe some clever one-liners. But before you know, you find yourself wondering why you started the show in the first place. You compare each new episode with a better one from the past. You look forward to the next commercial so you can check social media, text you friend back or really anything to take your mind of the amount of time you are wasting watching this horrible excuse for a show. Yet with all of that in mind, you secretly search for people who watch the same show to compare notes and share theories: they say the first step to friendship is hating the same things.
Here are a few of the best worst shows you'll love to hate-watch.
1. "Pretty Little Liars"
I could go on and on and ON about this show (and I probably will in a future post). We all tuned in back in 2010 after the intriguing promo for the
2. "Scandal"
3. "American Horror Story"
If you ask me, I lost all faith in this show when they killed (spoiler alert) Ma Petite in the Circus season. I mean come on, how adorable is she.
But when I saw Lady GaGa was going to star in this season, I wanted to give it another chance. Big. Mistake. Where was the plot? Were the vampires dead or alive? Every episode raised more questions than answers. Why did the lead character's wife have a hairstyle from the 1700's? It felt like the writers were trying to make things up as they went along. Yet, every Wednesday night I found myself watching.
All three of these shows will get you started on the hate-watching bandwagon. And they are all conveniently on Netflix.