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There are television shows that come around that I can genuinely recognize as being extremely well crafted, but I just can't be bothered to care about for entirely personal reasons, either because I'm annoyed by the very premise or because I'm just not especially interested in the genre itself. Madmen was previously the standard bearer for this concept. I'm perfectly capable of recognizing the superior narrative, acting, pacing, directions, etc., but a pair of car battery cables connected to my testicles can't make me care about an ad agency that takes places in 1950's America. No, don't tell me how relevantly and accurately the culture, history and misogyny of that era was portrayed...really...I just don't care.
Rome was another one of those "super well crafted but I can't seem to get into it for some reason" shows.
The latest example is Netflix's OJ Simpson show. It's well cast, well directed, super clever and poignant, but you can't make me forget that I lived through that extraordinarily annoying time period, and I would rather flush my eyeballs out with acetone than relive it. That said, if you're not old enough to remember the OJ Simpson bull****, you should watch it because I'm still capable of recognizing that it's an excellently crafted piece of entertainment. Really, you'll enjoy it, but don't try to talk to me about it, because I'll unfollow you on Facebook and put you on ignore on this forum if you do.
I felt that way about Breaking Bad. Never got into it, but obviously it was a very well done show. Like you, I can't get worked up over Mad Men )never heard of Rome). Those shows are simply not compelling enough for me to look forward to seeing them like I did the Sopranos or the Wire.
Orange is the New Black never really worked for me either, but I did at least suffer through a few seasons of it before tiring of the concept. Dexter I really enjoyed, but it became stupid after about season 2.