That's a very good point. It's the classic "This is why we can't have nice things." Because some Internet bullies with deep seated psychological issues ruin it for the half way normal people.
Not to mention the fact that reviews can
also be products of Complaining about Shows You Don't Watch and Hype Backlash (considering they have pages that essentially talk about them, as I used the titles). And even in those cases, there's (more pages) Accentuating the Negative and Snark Bait. Which is why I HATE internet reviews. Everyone watches MST3k and
thinks they have the talent to snark everything there is in a movie. If you snark everything in
every movie or overexaggerate the negative aspects, then technically, every movie ever made is
awful. And that gets reactions.
I once read a
terrible and biased review of a TMNT classic series season box set (guy had a vendetta cuz his mommy didn't buy him any Turtle figures- and that was actually in the review, no joke). It was one of the poorest written pieces of garbage I've ever read, and even calling it a review was an insult. It was more of a "I hate this show and I want to seem as hip as possible in being a complete jerkwad and salvaging because I'm in a bad mood." And this was a review for the Toonzone site. To say it got very heated reactions (on multiple sites, especially a TMNT one) is an understatement. It's hard to tell who's worse, a terrible reviewer or an angry reaction. And frankly, the YMMV section of TVTropes is
far more reliable and even handed than a review. Not to mention a boat load more fun.
Has that show been canceled already?
Oh yeah. Very very Yeah. It ran 2 of it's four episodes (2 episodes are included in One Episode Wonder) before getting unceremoniously pulled and replaced by Big Bang Theory reruns. I actually saw both episodes, and at the same time there was potential
yet showing signs of easy exhaustion of the premise. The men came off like slightly vindictive idiots, and the women came off as extremely vindictive sociopaths. The only woman in the show that wasn't a casual bimbo or a shrill, evil harpy was Tony Shaloub's character's daughter, and they barely did anything with her. Obviously setting that up for a story arc that never happened. Even though the characters ranged from unsympathetic to just pathetic, it really wasn't that terrible. not great, not terrible... seems like yet another show that would have worked better as a movie (we got
sooooo many of these this season). But over all, the concept was there, the execution could have been better. Yet, hardly the worst thing this season, and hardly in the league of awful as last year's "Partners."