# 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:** 120
**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:** [April 19, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2384 "2023-04-19T01:36:48Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That’s interesting because the show’s creator wasn’t happy with the pacing. The first season was well-paced. The second less so. But Ciaran Hinds and James Purefoy were the best-realized Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in any medium and they made it all worthwhile. At least IMHO. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2385 "2023-04-19T01:38:15Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > > [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > > > I don’t think I should have to do sufficient research before watching to be entertained, that’s what puts me off a lot of the recent super hero movies. > > I have never seen a superhero movie, unless Superman III with Richard Pryor counts. Sometimes I think about starting a thread to ask, if I were going to watch just one single superhero movie, what would be the best one? But then I realize, I _still_ don’t want to see any superhero movies. Surely this trend will burn itself out before I die. Kind of sad that your only exposure is a terrible movie. The first Christopher Reeve Superman movie isn’t perfect but it’s really quite good. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2386 "2023-04-19T01:48:47Z")
If it’s any consolation, I don’t remember it. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2387 "2023-04-19T11:20:19Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I don’t know if I can take any really intense/depressing shows right now. **Beef** is certainly both! ---
**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:** [April 19, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2388 "2023-04-19T16:26:47Z")
Watching _The Newsroom_ for the first time and will say 2012-era Mr. Sorkin was pretty prescient about the direction American politics was going. Only on S1E3 right now, so if it goes off the rails, eh, I’ll find out. (And don’t worry about spoilers if you respond, to me it’s the journey, not the destination.) ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2389 "2023-04-19T21:20:18Z")
If one were to watch only a single superhero movie, I think a very reasonable choice would be _The Incredibles_. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2023, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2390 "2023-04-20T08:19:38Z")
I’ve been a reasonably loyal watcher of _The Rookie_, but I think this will be the last season I’ll be watching. The writing is terrible, both stories and dialogue, and the characters are falling into a soapy bore. Oh well, it was fine while it lasted. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2391 "2023-04-20T08:25:32Z")
Much as I like Nathan Fillion onscreen, I agree. But it’s still head and shoulders above its spinoff series _The Rookie:Feds_. Such appalling writing. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2392 "2023-04-20T10:40:24Z")
A series I was watching and has recently come back: The Brokenwood Mysteries. Just a fun, reasonably light series set in a small new Zealand town. I thought they were done but new episodes recently popped up on Acorn. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2393 "2023-04-20T12:29:00Z")
Maybe the writer’s strike will help? 😉 I’ve been making a bit of headway on my Netflix queue now that I’ve caught up on Hulu with _Dirk Gently_ and _Spy x Family._ I started a show called _Imperfects_ and gave up after 3 episodes and finished the first season of _Uncle From Another World._ I’ve taken a pause on the popular _Night Agent._ I stopped on a scene were the title character has to steal a document from his boss’s office and is so clearly eyeing the document she’d have to be an idiot to not notice. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2394 "2023-04-20T13:12:03Z")
> [@epbrown](#): > > I’ve been making a bit of headway on my Netflix queue now that I’ve caught up on Hulu with _Dirk Gently_ and _Spy x Family._ I started a show called _Imperfects_ and gave up after 3 episodes and finished the first season of _Uncle From Another World._ Which Dirk Gently - the one with Elijah Wood or the one with Stephen Mangan? I thought the Elijah Wood one was brilliant and was frustrated by the cancellation of the third series. I didn’t even start on _Imperfects_ - it just looked annoying from the trailer. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2395 "2023-04-20T14:03:20Z")
We’re finally in season four of **Succession**. It’s been a slog, as these are hands-down the most unlikeable characters in television history. Greedy, grasping, mean-spirited, crude, offensive, etc. But I guess it’s supposed to be satirically based on the Murdoch family, who are all of the above. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2396 "2023-04-20T14:21:49Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > If one were to watch only a single superhero movie, I think a very reasonable choice would be _The Incredibles_. My recommendation for somebody looking for something a little different in the genre would be _Mystery Men_. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2397 "2023-04-20T17:24:07Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > A series I was watching and has recently come back: The Brokenwood Mysteries. Just a fun, reasonably light series set in a small new Zealand town. I thought they were done but new episodes recently popped up on Acorn. Miss Sam Breen a lot. The new guy just doesn’t work. I think the writers don’t know what to do with him. Really love the ME. She’s a gas. But too much Frodo. Whatever happened to Mike’s little vineyard? ---
**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:** [April 20, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2398 "2023-04-20T18:06:06Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > A series I was watching and has recently come back: The Brokenwood Mysteries. Just a fun, reasonably light series set in a small new Zealand town. I thought they were done but new episodes recently popped up on Acorn. Huzzah! I’ll have to check it out. > [@Gyrate](#): > > Which Dirk Gently - the one with Elijah Wood or the one with Stephen Mangan? I thought the Elijah Wood one was brilliant and was frustrated by the cancellation of the third series. I loved the Elijah Wood version! It was so twisty and fun. I was severely po’d that the third season was cancelled. I wanted to see what was going to happen with Ken. Did he really turn bad??? Stupid STOOPID TV people. > [@ftg](#): > > Miss Sam Breen a lot. The new guy just doesn’t work. I think the writers don’t know what to do with him. Really love the ME. She’s a gas. But too much Frodo. Whatever happened to Mike’s little vineyard? Agree. The new guy is just a little too stiff. A bit boring. I’m fine with Frodo being in every other episode. I don’t like him always there, and the different siblings side story is getting (got?) old. I can’t even tell if Mike’s in the same house where the vineyard was. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2399 "2023-04-20T18:18:13Z")
Sims has gotten something changed. A new haircut or something, and it looks very nice. I wonder if they’re going to try and pair her up with the other detective. I kinda hope not. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2400 "2023-04-20T18:20:12Z")
Aw, I kinda liked her pony tail. I hope they don’t try to pair her off with him. I don’t see any chemistry, and I’ve really appreciated that they haven’t gone heavily into the relationship side of things. Mike’s many marriages is fine. Gina lusting after him is fine in small doses. And we never even saw Sam’s gf, did we? ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2401 "2023-04-21T02:31:08Z")
I like the music in Brokenwood. And of course the M.E. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2023, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2402 "2023-04-21T10:02:47Z")
Just finished the first episode of _Mrs. Davis_, about a nun, an AI, and the Holy Grail. Not sure what to think of it yet. It is a dry comedy with a very weird tone. Weird things happening. People acting and talking not quite how people actually act and talk. It isn’t necessary close in tone to _Los Espookys_, but is the closest thing it reminds me of at the moment. Maybe a touch of _The Truman Show_, or something from Wes Anderson. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2403 "2023-04-21T10:37:41Z")
Started watching **The Diplomat** on Netflix, another rather engaging political thriller series. A skilled diplomat is appointed ambassador to Great Britain (usually a ceremonial post) during a fictional Gulf crisis involving the US, UK and Iran. Intrigue ensues. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=119) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=121)