What TV series have you watched, for good or bad that had the most complex or confusing plotlines?
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.
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Twin peaks?
Every season makes you scrap any theories you had. Still peak tv.
I had to rewatch Dark just to follow the plot
I found a flowchart online. It only somewhat helped.
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).
Exactly what I came to say on both the show otself and watching it in the original German with subtitles.
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.
Google “Once Upon A Time family tree” to get a hint at how needlessly overcomplicated that show became.
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.
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!"
I seem to recall 12 Monkeys being kind of confusing.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Raised by Wolves -
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.
::: spoiler 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 :::
Same but imagine trying to explain that plot to Hollywood executives 😂 I’m sure someone did and that makes me very happy.
That show is fucking brutal and confusing. Nathan Explosion approves.
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.
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?
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.
You mean besides Lost?
I'm not sure anyone but the creator/writer/star (all the same person) knew what The OA was about.
X-Files
Peaky Blinders from season 3 on.
That plot was just non existent.
12 Monkeys