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This thread is for posting shows that you thought would be bad but ended up liking, or the opposite: a show that seemed good but you ended up disliking. In this case, subjectivity is welcome: talk about your personal experiences with the shows. I start:

Be Cool Scooby-Doo: The promotional artwork made it look like some cheapñy animated piece of crap with low-brow humor, but I have watched the show and is actually much better than what I expected. Although I'm not much of a fan of it's art style, the animation is actually good (not spectacular or anything, but definitely good enough to not detract from the show) and while definitely one of the more denser and wackier (if not the densest and wackiest) incarnations of the show, it does actually make good use of this, by which I mean that is very funny. My only complaint is how daphne had her personality completely changed to be a cloudcuckoolander, but even that is something I have gotten used to.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure : Yes, seriously. Back in, like, early 2015, I started watching the JoJo anime. I didn't exactly care for Part 1 (even though I've come to appreciate it ever since) and I thought the rest of the series would be trash. But my thoughts were completely changed once Joseph made his appearance. I've been a fan ever since.

Daily Lives of High School Boys:

I expected the normal slice of life x school life x comedy story, like Lucky Star or School Rumble. What I didn't expect was that there is basically no romantic subplots, and pretty much every episode I laughed out loud. Mainly because they were extremely relatable, even though they are students in an all boys school in Japan. I liked every single episode of the series and really wish it could've gotten a second season.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

I almost quit after the first episode due to the terrible pacing and most of the first season ranged from average to awful. It picked up though and quickly became my favorite show of all time.

Bob's Burgers

When I caught the first episode, it was mostly due to an accident; I was flipping through channels and saw it and went "Oh, yeah, I'll give it a chance." First impressions let me down, because the episode I watched reeked of "FOX Sitcom™", i.e. let's be like Family Guy. The first episode I saw was Burger Wars. The plot threw up some personal red flags of non-enjoyment: despicable antagonist, Romeo & Juliet-esque subplot, embarrassment as a humor device, to name some. I finished it and thought "Yep. I'll give this show to the end of 2012." Granted, it wasn't as offensive as Allen Gregory, but it felt like a mediocre-at-best sitcom.

I picked it back up earlier this summer on Netflix and was pleasantly surprised by the episodes beyond season 2. The characters hit the nice balance between cartoon-y and realistic (and likable), and the art, while simplistic, is nice and detailed, with rock solid writing. Overall, pretty good show. 8/10 will watch new episodes as they come out.

(EDIT: made it easier to read, fixed typos.)

Madoka Magica
At first, "animu degenerate," I say.
Then they tell me that it's more so of a deconstruction.

How I see anime now is different since then.

Since OP says I can put disappointing shows, so why not? Aside from Cross Ange.

Nobunaga the Fool: I thought the show looks promising, but it turned out to be incredibly boring, even by a robot anime standard. So I dropped.

Oh, here's the show that defied my low expectation:

Space Patrol Luluco:The first 3 episode isn't too interesting, but everything went really, really crazy afterwards. And it is glorious.

Kill la Kill: I heard about it and dismissed it for a couple of years because I thought it was just a high school anime with fanservice and I never watched any Gainax/TRIGGER anime before hand. I ended up enjoying it loads when I finally got to watch it.

I originally had absolutely no intentions on watching the Netflix Daredevil series, mostly because the character himself didn't really interest me as a whole at first (that and the 2003 film didn't really help either). But after seeing the first episode in my math class (don't ask), I was caught off guard by the tone, humor, and the fact that it was canonically connected to the MCU. That part really surprised me, I thought it was a separate entity all on it's own.
I only really sat down and watched the whole thing after watching Jessica Jones and now I'm officially hooked on the Marvel Netflix Universe as a whole.
And dammit Charlie Cox is an fantastic Daredevil and Jon Bernthal absolutely kills it as the Punisher. Also Vincent D'Onofrio is great. And Rosario Dawson.
Everyone's great
Give me more now Netflix