Hate-watching

The New Yorker described the short-lived Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as a show people loved to hate-watch, as "it was bad in a truly spectacular way—you could learn something from it, about self-righteous TV speechifying and failed satire and the dangers of letting a brilliant showrunner like [Aaron] Sorkin run loose to settle all his grudges in fictional form".[7]

Entertainment Weekly and other publications noted the difference between hate-watching and watching as a guilty pleasure.[8] "You wouldn't tune in every week to hate-watch a really "bad" reality show — that's a guilty pleasure. Generally speaking, hate-watching requires a TV series with high ambitions and features a certain amount of aesthetic perfection".[9]

In a Los Angeles Times article describing the complexity of effects of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's appearance on Saturday Night Live as host, writer Mary McNamara references the hate-watching phenomenon as a reason that ratings alone are not an indication of support.[10]

On a February 2020 article, Spanish television reviewer Borja Terán described the concept of hate-watching as "audience enjoying watching shows to be able to criticize them", citing it as part of the reason behind the success of Telecinco and its reality show-based lineup (specifically mentioning Supervivientes, the nineteenth season of which had premiered the night prior to the post): "the viewer feels superior to the guinea pigs taking part in the televised competition. They feel better with themselves and evade from personal problems by spending energy torpedoing a mere entertainment they follow through a screen."[11]

• 13 Reasons Why[12]
• Chrisley Knows Best[13]
• Emily in Paris[12]
• Family Guy[14]
• Game of Thrones[15]
• Girls[16]
• House Hunters[17]
• Keeping Up with the Kardashians[13]
• Love Island[18]
• Pretty Little Liars[13]
• Riverdale[12]
• Say Yes to the Dress[13]
• Singapore Social[19]
• Smash[20][21]
• Supervivientes[11]
• The Millionaire Matchmaker[13]
• The Newsroom[22][23][24]
• The Simpsons[25]
• True Blood[26]
• Vinyl[13]

• Anti-fan
• List of television shows considered the worst
• Quality television
• Binge-watching
• Golden Age of Television (2000s–present), where the term originated
• Cinephilia
• Doomscrolling

• Hate Watching Is Still Watching: How Shock Value Changes TV
• Hope-watching vs. hate-watching in TV's new golden age
• Data Proves TV Viewers Love to Hate-Watch Shows — Variety