The 10 Worst Shows Of 2019

Now that we've honored the best TV series of 2019, it's time to focus on the worst. Which 10 comedies and dramas made our list of the year's most frustrating, disappointing or downright bad shows? Scroll through the gallery below to find out.

6. ALMOST FAMILY

We knew that this nonsense Fox drama — about a crooked fertility specialist who used his own sperm to father more than 100 children without his clients' knowledge — was going to be icky. But even we weren't prepared for the show to spend its first handful of episodes focusing on the fact that a brother and sister unknowingly had sex. And for a show about reproduction, would it have killed Almost Family to birth some likable characters? Every single actor on this show deserves better.

2. CAROL'S SECOND ACT

Patricia Heaton has been unable to work her sitcom magic on this CBS comedy, which has failed to improve even slightly on its dismal pilot episode. The cast has not even a modicum of chemistry, and everyone feels like they're trying way too hard to get a laugh. This wouldn't be an issue for a broad multi-cam if any — and we mean any! — of the jokes landed. It's all an unfortunate mess that should have never been picked up to series in the first place — and no amount of triage can save it now.

4. DANCING WITH THE STARS

We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Dancing With the Stars is at its least enjoyable when cringe-inducing dancers continue to advance. Needless to say, Sean Spicer's baffling success sucked all the fun out of a typically entertaining series, and the new-fangled judges' save didn't do much to protect frontrunners. Add in multiple contestant injuries, the omission of several beloved themes (i.e. Most Memorable Years Night) and some seriously inconsistent scoring from the judges, and this Dancing cycle just couldn't find its footing.

7. FEAR THE WALKING DEAD

We loved the idea of Season 5: Morgan and his fellow survivors righting past wrongs by helping others. But the Walking Dead spinoff repeated its new motto so often, it could have been playing on a loop. And only a zombie wouldn't have rolled their eyes at the writing for characters like Alicia (who took up painting inspirational messages on trees), Wes (who killed a man over a book) and Virginia (who so badly wanted Morgan dead that she... didn't bother to finish him off). As a walker would say, argh!

1. FOX NEWS' UNHOLY TRINITY

It never fails to boggle the mind that Hannity, Tucker Carlson Tonight and The Ingraham Angle are broadcast by a network that has "news" in its name. The opinion shows' hosts are so cultishly loyal to President Trump that Melania is likelier than they are to offer an unbiased commentary. And as much as we'd like to, we can't just laugh them off as sycophants pandering to 45's unquestioning base. They promote racism (while Laura Ingraham rode to the defense of a white supremacist banned from social media, Carlson went so far as to call white supremacy a hoax). They throw gasoline on the fires of conspiracy theories, no matter how ludicrous (both Carlson and Sean Hannity lent credence to "Spygate," Trump's debunked notion that the FBI tried to undermine his 2016 presidential campaign). They widen the chasm that separates Americans by stoking unfounded fears (in particular, that there's a movement to replace an aging white population with immigrants). And what do they contribute to the political discourse? As far as we can see, nothing except for misinformation and tacit permission to hate.

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9. L.A.'S FINEST

A Bad Boys spinoff starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba sounded like a great idea... but it ended up more like a fiery car crash, creatively speaking. Ear-splittingly loud and mind-numbingly dumb, this lazy cop drama threw plenty of explosions and chase scenes at us, hoping that we wouldn't notice how bad the plotting and dialogue were. (But we did anyway.) Be thankful if you're not a Spectrum cable subscriber; that way, at least you had a built-in excuse not to watch.

3. THE HILLS: NEW BEGINNINGS

If the worst crime a reality show can commit is boring its audience, then MTV's follow-up to its iconic '00s reality series deserves life behind bars. No parole. Did we need to spend an entire season watching Audrina Patridge and Justin Bobby rehash 10-year-old drama that was never really interesting in the first place? Mischa Barton could have been an exciting addition, but again, did we need to spend all that time watching her practice a bad Southern accent for a role she didn't even book? Some things should just be left unwritten.

5. THE I-LAND

Netflix's blatant parroting of Lost marked TV vet Natalie Martinez's very best role to date. And... the praise ends exactly there. Though partly penned and directed by Neil LaBute (of In the Company of Men fame), nothing about this amnesic castaways mystery was engaging or especially original. Worse, it asked you to suffer through terrible dialogue a la "There's no such thing like rape in a place like this. There's just sex, and no sex." With near-zero fanfare, The I-Land seemed to materialize out of nowhere. And that's where it should have stayed.

8. THE INBETWEEN

The cast was solid — Paul Blackthorne can make any line reading interesting, and Justin Cornwell proved he was a find in CBS' Training Day — but this mish-mash of Medium and Ghost Whisperer never gelled into one cohesive show. Rather, entire episodes could be neatly cleaved into "the supernatural half" and "the cop show half," with the two sides only intermittently merging. Throw in the fact that the "inbetween" souls that psychic Cassie counseled all seemed to have the same gripe, and no matter how hard we tried, this never became an enjoyable watch.

10. TYLER PERRY'S THE OVAL

Here's the thing: Unlike the other shows on this list, BET's White House-set drama doesn't seem to care that it's bad. In fact, it's when the show is at its worst that it looks to be having the most fun. And with so much repetitive dialogue, questionable acting choices and confusing character motivations, there are ample opportunities for such fun to be had. (And with a spinoff about a religious sex cult ordered at BET+ after just three airings, the fun has only just begun.)