# 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:** 110
**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:** [February 16, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2184 "2023-02-16T12:28:03Z")
Still working my way through _Alfred Hitchcock Presents_. Love those classic old shows. Season 3 now takes us into 1957. It’s often amazing how many actors that subsequently became big stars appear on those old shows. The first episode of Season 3 features none other than a young Captain Kirk! > **["Alfred Hitchcock Presents" The Glass Eye (TV Episode 1957) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0508296/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm)** > > "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" The Glass Eye (TV Episode 1957) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ---
**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 16, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2185 "2023-02-16T13:32:06Z")
He also starred in “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”, a Twilight Zone ep aired in 1963. Three years later he was starring in Star Trek. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2186 "2023-02-16T15:37:37Z")
**The Law According to Lidia Poët** on Netflix. Based on the life of Italy’s first female lawyer but I’m sure several liberties are taken. The story in the first episode is Encyclopedia Brown level mystery solving but, boy, did they spend a ton of money on production! 19th Century Turin is gorgeous and so is the cast. The performances are quite good and _very_ Italian. I’ve only watched the first episode but I’ll continue watching. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2187 "2023-02-16T19:07:59Z")
Just started _Love on the Spectrum_ in which autistic people learn to date with the assistance of a specialist. What a bright, fun show. No crazy drama, just people learning to connect with other people. Very charming characters. All the awkwardness of a typical first date, times a billion. But it’s not a downer because they learn to work through their issues. It’s a learning experience. Personally, I stan for Kelvin, the anime fan, artist, and writer that is taught to greet his date upon first meeting her. I’m not sure how his date’s going to go! He seems a bit confused by the instructions. What’s interesting to me is the specialist uses different approaches with different people based on their needs. Kelvin needed drawings and role play. Good luck, Kelvin! (I’m a sucker for romantic stuff.) ---
**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:** [February 16, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2188 "2023-02-16T19:38:32Z")
Finished **Lockwood & Co** on Netflix about ghostbusters in an alternate time line where the ghosts showed up around the 1960s and changed the world. People touched by ghosts are comatose and warehoused in hospitals. Nighttime curfews are strictly enforced and there’s a whole government bureaucracy just to deal with ghosts. Only some children and young adults have the ability to sense, hunt, and neutralize the ghosts so they are sold into service by their parents. The premise and lead characters put it squarely into the TPR (Teenage Paranormal Romance) genre but it’s more T and P than R. Two 60 year-olds were surprizingly entertained by the 8 episodes and we’ll watch season 2 if there is one. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2189 "2023-02-16T20:14:53Z")
_Better Call Saul_ is so good. I think I like it better than _Breaking Bad_, although I couldn’t tell you whether that would be true if I hadn’t seen BB first. I suspect that BCS can hold its own just fine, but I’m biased because a lot of my enjoyment was due to it delivering rich origin stories for characters that I wanted to know more about. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2190 "2023-02-19T00:19:52Z")
This 60-year old found it frustrating - almost all the tension was manufactured rather than organic. On the one hand, the premise is that the teens are exceptionally talented ghost hunters with years of experience. What you get is a bunch of bunglers who show up without their equipment, lose/drop the equipment, or damage the equipment. And how the heck do you have multiple conversations with a skull in a jar, drag it all over London, and not _once_ ask what his name is? ---
**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:** [February 19, 2023, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2191 "2023-02-19T00:29:22Z")
> [@epbrown](#): > > And how the heck do you have multiple conversations with a skull in a jar, drag it all over London, and not _once_ ask what his name is? If it had a name, they might have to acknowledge that it was a person and not an investigative tool. But you’re right about them unnecessarily getting themselves into trouble. ---
**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 19, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2192 "2023-02-19T04:02:40Z")
Tonight I started _Hello, Tomorrow_ ([which I created a thread for](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hello-tomorrow/980026)) and _Animal Control_, which is a new comedy starring Joel McHale. Fairly conventional first episode, but I have hope that McHale will Winger it. ---
**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 19, 2023, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2193 "2023-02-19T04:12:10Z")
I noticed that the opening scene from Animal Control seemed to be based on the “Squirrel Cop” story from This American Life (transcript of the original story [here](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/115/transcript)) ---
**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:** [February 19, 2023, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2194 "2023-02-19T05:16:42Z")
Currently making my way through Season 3 of the venerable _Alfred Hitchcock Presents_, and I’m amazed at the number of famous names in the cast, perhaps more in this season than in the earlier ones. Some were relatively unknown at the time and went on to become big names, but many were already well established. Some of those names (just from Season 3): Jessica Tandy William Shatner (got very minor billing despite being central to the story because he was virtually unknown at the time) E.G. Marshall Jack Klugman James Gregory Vincent Price Nehemiah Persoff Carol Lynley Peter Lorre George Peppard Joseph Cotten Martin Balsam Fay Wray (yes, THAT Fay Wray, and in 1957 she was only 50; she died in 2004 at the age of 96) Hume Cronyn Another name of note is Pat Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock’s beloved daughter and only child. She appeared in quite a few episodes and also in several of his movies. The first time she appeared (I think sometime in Season 1) after Hitchcock gave his famous wrapup at the end of the show and walked off, just as the credits started to roll, he stuck his head back in front of the camera and said something like “I thought the young lady in tonight’s play was pretty good, didn’t you?” 🙂 She was never as successful an actress as she might have hoped, but she lived a good life and left this world in 2021 at the age of 93. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2195 "2023-02-19T22:53:54Z")
> [@epbrown](#): > > This 60-year old found it frustrating - almost all the tension was manufactured rather than organic. I think it was better than I would have imagined a fairly-low-budget adaptation of a YA paranormal detective show would be… but not a LOT better. I really liked that many of the characters who you would expect to be one-dimensional caricatures weren’t… and the world felt lived in. Lots of little moments about people’s attitudes and so forth. The whole “only teens can see the undead” thing is a great excuse for “wait, why are teenagers always saving the world, where are all the adults?”, but it still really ran into that a few times. Still, overall fun, will definitely watch season 2. ---
**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 19, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2196 "2023-02-19T23:00:55Z")
Tried to watch **Saving Grace** , based on a recommendation above. Then a guy sprouted wings and that was the end of that. ---
**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 20, 2023, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2197 "2023-02-20T03:29:00Z")
LOL I thought the 1st season of Saving Grace was extremely good. Holly Hunter portrayed such a self-destructive and tormented soul. I found her scenes riveting. Some odd plot twists in season 2 ended my viewing. But I want to rewatch season 1. The Angel was certainly different. He was more mystic therapist than religious. ---
**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 20, 2023, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2198 "2023-02-20T14:54:51Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Just started _Love on the Spectrum_ in which autistic people learn to date with the assistance of a specialist. What a bright, fun show. No crazy drama, just people learning to connect with other people. Very charming characters. All the awkwardness of a typical first date, times a billion. But it’s not a downer because they learn to work through their issues. It’s a learning experience. > > Personally, I stan for Kelvin, the anime fan, artist, and writer that is taught to greet his date upon first meeting her. I’m not sure how his date’s going to go! He seems a bit confused by the instructions. What’s interesting to me is the specialist uses different approaches with different people based on their needs. Kelvin needed drawings and role play. Good luck, Kelvin! > > (I’m a sucker for romantic stuff.) I love this series and have watched both the British and US versions. I hoping and waiting for new seasons. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2199 "2023-02-20T16:07:58Z")
**Hello, Tomorrow** (Apple TV+) Set in a “retro-futuristic” version of our 1950’s-ish reality, where Billy Crudup is selling real estate on the moon. I’ve only seen the first episode, but I’ll watch at least a few more. This may be an example of “no one comes out of a theater whistling the set design” but I want to give a shout out to the designers. If you can picture that 1950’s Disneyland/Tomorrowland mid-century modern look – they nailed it. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2200 "2023-02-20T23:47:47Z")
We finished season 2 of _Reservation Dogs_. Totally up for another season. Pretty much everything in this show clicks. I do think Bear is totally underused as a character. He even has a spirit guide that (almost) no one else can see but nothing major comes of it. Mostly, he seems to be there for background. Cheese and Willy Jack totally steal the show. I will admit that I have seen enough naked Uncle Brownie to last me a lifetime. Started watching _[The Chelsea Detective](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14321914/)_ on Acorn. Not sure about sticking with this one. It’s another light mystery about a quirky detective. In this case, he’s dyslexic so instead of reading things he takes pictures with his phone of everything and everyone connected to a crime. He then prints them all out and hangs them up all over his wall at home. His printer ink bill must be humungous. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > 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. That sounded good, so I looked it up and think I watched it when it first ran. Unless I’m confusing it with _[Reaper](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0955322/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_49_act)_, which he was in that is a supernatural show too. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2201 "2023-02-23T04:20:53Z")
The motels and car fins reminds me of James Lileks reviews of retro design. Here’s some postcards of his favorite motels [http://www.lileks.com/motels/index.html](http://www.lileks.com/motels/index.html) He even has a review of _Hello Tomorrow_ in the link below. Here’s what he says about the show > [@](#): > > Have you ever started a TV show and decided, in the first frame, that this was made entirely for you? [http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/23/0223/42.html](http://lileks.com/bleats/archive/23/0223/42.html) ---
**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:** [February 23, 2023, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2202 "2023-02-23T04:55:00Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Hello Tomorrow Two episodes into _Hello Tomorrow_ and my wife is out. Says it brings back bad memories of her days working in sales. I’ll probably continue, but the only thing keeping me going right now is the magnificent set design. The story itself isn’t very unique. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2203 "2023-02-23T05:21:04Z")
anyone watch this one? sounds intresting but weird > **[Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Triptych’ On Netflix, Where A Woman Finds Out Why She...](https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/stream-it-or-skip-it-triptych-on-netflix-where-a-woman-finds-out-why-she-has-identical-sisters-she-never-knew/ar-AA17OvBp?ocid=MSNHP_U646&pc=U646&cvid=12ee86560c2b41478aac803f509f678d)** > > Maite Perroni plays identical triplets who never knew their other two sisters existed in this new Mexican thriller. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=111)