The next time I contemplate starting a bad show on Netflix, I am going to check out the stats. Not the ratings… but how much time I will waste watching it. This website is addictive, depressing and amazing.

Here are five of the top contenders for most time I’ve waisted on a bad show:

Pretty Little Liars: After 5 days and 11 hours (6 seasons!) I still don’t know who A is!!!

Hart of Dixie: 2 days, 5 hours and 12 minutes lead to the worst series finale ever (not counting Roseanne). Not even Wade’s abs could save that ending.

Heartland: Doing my part to support Canadian drama but seriously, how much can one family go through? I saw a lot of drama and horses over 5 days and 20 hours.

Psych: 3 days, 14 hours and 43 minutes but I knew at 22 minutes in, that it was going to be bad. Really bad. I kept watching.

and probably the worst of them all – Army Wives: 4 days and 21 hours of total crap. A lot of bad things happened to the Heartland family but they have nothing on what went down at the army base!

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As for great shows, it’s hard to make a list of my all-time favourites (because there has been so many good ones) but these come to mind as time not waisted:

• Friday Night Lights
• Six Feet Under
• My So-Called Life
• Dawson’s Creek
• Parenthood
• Gilmore Girls
• The O.C.
• Veronica Mars
• Sex and The City / Entourage (same thing, amiright?)
• 90210 (the original, obviously) and Gossip Girl!
• Degrassi (the original, obviously)
• Scandal (and its original, Felicity)
• Mad Men
• Roseanne (minus the last episode)
• Golden Girls
• Dexter (but only the first few seasons)
• Breaking Bad (a bit of a roller coaster but the ending was the best)
• Downton Abbey (it was late to join the party but I love it)
• Amazing Race (don’t judge, it’s the only reality show I watch)
• Project Runway (see above, I lied, I watch this too)
• Bloodline and Nashville (I will support anything with Coach Taylor and Tami Taylor)
• Criminal Minds / Law and Order SVU (aka the shows that will never end)
• Sons of Anarchy
• The Mindy Project
• Homeland… The Walking Dead… House of Cards… The Good Wife (loosing my interest but I will stick with them)
• Girls
• The Following / The Killing / The Fall (I watched these back to back, all good but I think of them as one show)
• Prison Break / Orange is the New Black 
• Weeds
• Cougar Town
• About a Boy
• Three’s Company
• Fresh Price of Bel Air

How about you? Any bad shows your regret staying the course with? Or am I the only one who’ll suffer ’till the end? Any recommendations for shows I should watch?

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