# 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:** 109
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2164 "2023-02-12T19:19:33Z")
A big ‘thank you’ to all the people who’ve mentioned _The Detectorists._ It popped up on our Acorn last week (at least that’s when I noticed it), and we’re pacing ourselves. We’re near the end of season two and _loving_ it. _Adoring_ it. I also appreciate that it was planned to have only three seasons, and they stuck to that. So many good shows don’t know that. It’s also cool that Diana Rigg plays the mother of her actual daughter. Did anyone else think Richard Thompson was singing the theme song the first time you heard it? ---
**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:** [February 12, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2165 "2023-02-12T19:22:42Z")
I think we enjoyed it just as much the second time around, as we picked up on more of the nuance. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2166 "2023-02-12T19:25:23Z")
Yeah, you can miss a lot if you’re not paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2167 "2023-02-12T22:39:31Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’m struggling to finish season 1 of the Terminal List. > > It starts great and the character investigates and deals with the people directly responsible. > > Now he wants to wipe out people involved in the conspiracy. It’s like our hero is just a vigilante. He’s rejected using the press to bust this story open and get police involved > > It’s only 3 more episodes. I am curious how it works out. But. It frustrates me when I question our protagonist’s judgment and motives. There’s a big difference in killing Mexican hit men and high ranking members of the US military. What gets me is that the folks following him KNOW he has um… issues, but they keep deferring to his judgment, which is highly suspect. And you’re going to really hate the ending. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2168 "2023-02-13T02:03:10Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > I finally watched the first season of _Reservation Dogs_. It’s just as great as people here have been saying. Great take on reservation life. I think it has every regular working Indian actor in it. It even has both Joe Leaphorns, acting totally against their usual type. The young actors are all great and the writing is perfect. If this wasn’t up for an Emmy, something is wrong. > > I’m going to plunge into season two tonight. You won’t be disappointed. I’d say season 2 even improves on season 1 and when we get to know all the character better, even the aunties. Even Big. Thisisthe best show on TV in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2169 "2023-02-13T03:47:15Z")
Loving Goliath ---
**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:** [February 13, 2023, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2170 "2023-02-13T21:12:03Z")
I’ve been watching **Yellowjackets** , which has had a few interesting things going on, but the last ep of season one kinda went off the rails for me. The latest episode of **1923** dragged along without much advancement in plot, but will probably pick up again. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2171 "2023-02-13T21:24:52Z")
I923 didn’t offer much this week. The bond between Spencer and Alex was tested and strengthened. I wonder if there will be a time jump? They are many months away from Montana. I did shut off my questions and finished Terminal List. Its basically a carnival ride of violence. The ending is a major disappointment. But that’s what the writer intended. Rewatching Poirot ABC Murders on Prime. Excellent version of a older and weary man. There’s a new Chief Inspector that considers Poirot a fraud. The killer is taunting Poirot with letters. Its one of the truest and gritty versions of Poirot I’ve seen. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2172 "2023-02-13T22:23:45Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Rewatching Poirot ABC Murders on Prime. Is that the Malkovich version or the Suchet version? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2023, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2173 "2023-02-13T22:33:41Z")
It’s Malkovich. Free on Prime. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2174 "2023-02-14T01:27:59Z")
I’m a little leery of Malkovich’s tendency to chew the scenery. Is he more subdued in this? ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2175 "2023-02-14T01:49:46Z")
He plays Poirot very introspective. Poirot doesn’t have the superior attitude seen in other books. I was surprised that Malkovich played it that way. > **[The ABC Murders review – John Malkovich’s suffering Poirot is magnificent](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/dec/26/abc-murders-review-john-malkovich-poirot-magnificent)** > > Scorned by the police and nursing a secret pain, the latent violence in Malkovich’s performance is as potent as ever ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2176 "2023-02-14T08:27:25Z")
I have to admit, when I watched that originally broadcast on the BBC, I thought it was poor. Malkovich totally miscast, unnecessary backstory added and all in all just a bit dull. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2177 "2023-02-14T16:11:50Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > > [@TRC4941](#): > > > > What does this have to do with The Watcher? > > Too much beer on my part? Yep, I’m going with the beer excuse. Sorry about that! 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2178 "2023-02-14T22:07:14Z")
I tried to watch Bosch awhile back, but just didn’t love it. I decided to give it another try and I’m enjoying it quite a bit this time. I see Prime has picked up Saving Grace. I loved that series and highly recommend it to anyone looking for something to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2179 "2023-02-15T13:48:26Z")
I was re-watching Party Down on Hulu, sort of in preparation for the third season, premiering later this month. And then I started to watch Deadbeat, a Hulu sitcom from about eight or nine years ago about a guy who can see and talk to ghosts, and how he helps them ascend. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2180 "2023-02-15T14:08:08Z")
Watching _The Watchful Eye_. Pretty “meh” about it. Not good enough to look forward to, not bad enough to dump. I first gave it a try because I noticed Amy Acker’s name attached to it. I haven’t watched anything she was in post-_Angel_ and she was literally unrecognizable to me, as in I stared at the character and wondered if it might be her but couldn’t recognize the face or voice and only Google told me it was. (Contrast that to Sarah Michelle Gellar, who was very much like Sarah Michelle Gellar when she unexpected to me showed up in the first episode of the awful new teen paranormal drama, _Wolf Pack_.) ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2181 "2023-02-15T17:31:38Z")
Very late to this. A few that happened recently. Ghosts - A quirky sit com with Rose McIver, and we love iZombie. SEAL Team - This is the one I came to talk about. I wanted something to watch with action, like Boreanaz, and thought this would work. I figured, like most shows, it will start out with the action, then go to drama with the characters. However. Spoilers. In an episode after they are deployed to Afghanistan, they invade someone’s house based on intel. While the intel proves true, the whole episode was me thinking what if that happened in the US? They terrorize a family, threaten them, and seem to be looking for reasons to hurt them to get the information. I get that being over there is probably tense and they want to show it but this jolted me out of the enjoyment I had. Then, in a later episode, a decision made by one of the characters kills a child and no one bats an eye at the civilian casualty. Agan, I could only think of that happening here and it certainly didn’t make me feel good about the US involvement over there. I finished the season for a few plot threads but then stopped. To be clear, I support our troops and anyone in the field. I do not support the idiots who sent them there. National Treasure - I tried one episode of this and couldn’t get past the main character’s age. Even five years older would have made it better for me. Thanks for the discussion! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2182 "2023-02-15T18:12:10Z")
A new ABC sitcom – **Not Dead Yet.** Meh. Pretty standard office place sitcom with a gimmick - our heroine writes newspaper obituaries, and whenever she’s assigned one the ghost of the departed appears to her and follows her around for a while. It sounds like “Ghosts” (either BBC or CBS) but not really. These ghosts aren’t particularly interesting from a supernatural standpoint; they’re just a plot device to get our heroine to work on something in her personal life. The stars and co-stars were previously seen in Jane the Virgin, New Girl, and Superstore. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2023, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2183 "2023-02-16T08:27:24Z")
**Not Dead Yet** is a concept that needs a Michael Schur or a Bill Lawrence or even a Dan Harmon to add that extra poignant layer and give every scene genuine meaning, and with jokes that are well written and don’t require a mugging facial expression in lieu of a punchline. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=108) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=110)