# Series you've recently watched, are now watching or have given up on **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [July 9, 2021, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108 "2021-07-09T17:50:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 103
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2044 "2023-01-10T02:59:06Z")
n/m – wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2045 "2023-01-11T05:27:17Z")
We watched the Madoff series on Netflix. I’m left with two questions. How did they get Lorne Michaels to play Bernie Madoff? And what was going on on the _18th_ floor? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2046 "2023-01-11T05:36:44Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Now in season 4 of **Yellowstone** , a series which could be subtitled “Murdering Thugs of Montana”. Yep. And a snippet of one epi is going around FB and such, with the crazed daughter smashing some poor woman’s cellphone- assault and destruction of property- then threatening her. And people are cheering the daughter! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2047 "2023-01-11T14:01:04Z")
The scenes with Beth are almost always cringeworthy. While some are quite funny, a lot of them are intentionally way over the top. If she’s the model for a “strong woman”, I’ll pass. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2048 "2023-01-11T14:37:37Z")
The biggest problem with how Beth is portrayed, is, given her biggest conflict on the show, the hysterectomy given her by the sterilization clinic, the audience is left being glad she isn’t a mother, which makes one rather unsympathetic to the characters maternal pain. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2049 "2023-01-11T16:57:38Z")
True enough, but they didn’t make that clear until Season 3. Prior to that she just came across as psychotic. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2050 "2023-01-11T20:45:35Z")
Watching Deutschland '89, sequel to the Deutschland '83 and '86 series. Anybody else seen these? Martin, reluctant east german spy, infiltrates west german army and later run guns in africa, with lots of other characters and side-plots. We’ve reached the fall of the Wall. Enjoying it, but the spy stuff is even more unbelievable than before. Two HVA (east german intelligence) heads dream up a plot to infiltrate west german banking world, and five minutes later Walter, Martins father, has been assigned to the mission and given a suitable cover identity, including a wife and a university position, in the west. But the point is social commentary and black humor, and that works out. My favorite is Fritz, who after the wall falls heads straight to a west Berlin bank and black mail a clerk to give him a business loan. Seen 3 episodes out of 8. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2051 "2023-01-11T21:20:23Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > We really enjoyed Babylon Berlin, but we found it much better with subtitles, like most foreign language shows. Same and same. Does anybody know when tf the most recent season is scheduled to be out on Netflix for realsies? I am rewatching earlier seasons in preparation, but getting very impatient!!! Same for the ninth and final season of Endeavour on PBS, but that one I know will be a while in coming because they just wrapped filming last August. And revisiting Chefguy’s posts on both those shows makes me think that if I want suggestions for a series I’ll like watching, I should just ask Chefguy what he hated. 😜 ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2052 "2023-01-11T22:06:14Z")
Just saw first episode of season 7 of Once Upon a Time. It was a bit confusing, but I am getting drawn in. It wasn’t my choice, but I am happy to see how it goes. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2053 "2023-01-11T22:06:35Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > And revisiting Chefguy’s posts on both those shows makes me think that if I want suggestions for a series I’ll like watching, I should just ask Chefguy what he hated. 😜 Different strokes and all that. I actually like Yellowstone, but it does strain one’s credulity. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2023, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2054 "2023-01-11T22:10:23Z")
I called **Yellowstone** the “slow boiling frog of preposterous” and I stand by that statement. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2055 "2023-01-12T01:08:57Z")
Les bon mots. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2056 "2023-01-12T10:56:00Z")
I just finished watching **Anne With An E** , a show I had intended to watch when it aired but never got around to it. It is, as most of you will know, a new adaptation of the Canadian story of _Anne Of Green Gables_ and ran for three seasons a few years ago, starring Amybeth McNulty, who was incredibly well cast. Sometimes it’s easier to cast a child actor who is already so like the character, barely any acting is required (helping to paper some cracks if their ability isn’t up to scratch) and I am betting the same tactic was applied here. I really enjoyed it. The issues were maybe a little too contemporarily approached, with her views remarkably progressive, but as the titles theme song said, she was ahead by a century. It concluded with Anne leaving for College, and though it could have continued with more stories to tie up a couple of tiny loose ends, it felt like the right spot, and was very satisfying. This was very much not the kind of show I would have watched when I was younger, not least for it being aimed at young girls, but these days as I age, I enjoy the sweet bucolic shows that lull me with their charms. Also the music score was fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2057 "2023-01-12T14:40:57Z")
I really liked this series too. At first though, I did not like the actress playing Anne or maybe how she played Anne but she eventually grew on me. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2058 "2023-01-12T16:50:14Z")
After watching the Golden Globes I thought I’d check out **Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.** The first episode is one of those where you wish someone would switch on a goddam light. It is literally so dark that it’s unseeable. But after the lights go on, I figured … nah, I really don’t need this. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2059 "2023-01-12T16:55:51Z")
After finishing Slow Horses, which was okay, we are back watching season 3 of **Barry**. This is just about as black as comedy gets, but it’s a great show. Really as much a takedown of Hollywood as anything. Season 4 has wrapped, so there is at least another one coming. We also,watched the first episode of **Wednesday**. It was very enjoyable, Thing turns out to be a hoot. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2060 "2023-01-12T17:05:10Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > After watching the Golden Globes I thought I’d check out **Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.** Despite its many GG nominations, I’m just not interested. But I just wanted to point out that the actual title, read out loud in full every stinking time the nominees were read (and a couple times for the winners), is: **Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story** Clunkiest title ever! ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2061 "2023-01-12T17:18:38Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I just finished watching **Anne With An E** , a show I had intended to watch when it aired but never got around to it. It is, as most of you will know, a new adaptation of the Canadian story of _Anne Of Green Gables_ and ran for three seasons a few years ago, starring Amybeth McNulty, who was incredibly well cast Hadn’t even heard of this one. I am of course familiar with the 1980’s adaptation with Megan Fallows. Got curious at how they compare and [found this](https://screenrant.com/anne-of-green-gables-1985-vs-current-anne/). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2062 "2023-01-12T19:59:49Z")
I started to watch that, but it’s just too macabre. I know who he was and what he did, and I don’t need to be reminded. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2063 "2023-01-13T06:53:28Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I am of course familiar with the 1980’s adaptation with Megan Fallows. I was half-expecting Megan Follows to cameo, or direct an episode, but she did not. However she did direct a movie and cast Amybeth in it. > **[Maternal](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4632976/mediaviewer/rm2477960193)** > > Megan Follows and Amybeth McNulty in Maternal [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=102) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=104)