# 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:** 150
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2984 "2023-09-20T19:04:21Z")
We watched quite a few of those and liked it too. I don’t know if we saw them all or if the remote holder (a.k.a. my husband) just forgot about it. Mr. Remote Holder keeps putting on the new Night Court. The more I see it, the more I dislike it. This reincarnated Dan Fielding just makes me sad. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2985 "2023-09-20T19:23:30Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Mr. Remote Holder keeps putting on the new Night Court. The more I see it, the more I dislike it. This reincarnated Dan Fielding just makes me sad. I watched a few of those. I wanted to like it. I tried to like it. I just couldn’t get there. When I saw the episode where they had the kids in the courtroom (I think they were called the Justice Buddies?), I was out. Every single element of that story was just too careless and slapdash. Sure, be cartoonish to some extent, but as a well-known movie character has been known to say, “There are rules.” ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2986 "2023-09-20T19:40:54Z")
Watched the first ep of **The Night Agent** on NFLX. Pretty typical story line: low level agent has to protect an innocent young woman while trying to figure out who the bad guys are. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2987 "2023-09-20T19:56:06Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > I watched a few of those. I wanted to like it. I tried to like it. I just couldn’t get there. Same here. Mind you, I started binging the old Night Court, and loved it… until quite a bit later in the series, where it became totally formulaic. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2988 "2023-09-20T20:57:17Z")
Finished: **Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon**. I still can’t believe this is a thing. **Staged** - Man, Series 3 went full-on meta-meta-meta but still managed to land some brilliantly funny bits, particularly in the last episode. Not as good as the earlier episodes but the Tennant and Sheen double act remains strong. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2989 "2023-09-21T22:36:30Z")
New season of Archer **SUCKS!** Crappy new character, nothing funny, just random shouting at each other. Shoulda quit this crap 3 seasons ago. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2023, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2990 "2023-09-21T22:43:11Z")
Finished Series 11 of **Taskmaster.** I think Mike Wozniak might be my favorite ever contestant. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2991 "2023-09-21T22:52:56Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > New season of Archer **SUCKS!** Crappy new character, nothing funny, just random shouting at each other. Shoulda quit this crap 3 seasons ago. If Adam Reed isn’t writing the episode the humor almost ends up like an Adam Reed Roast. They use his characters and style but there is no charm to the clever quips so the result is mean and vindictive and the soul of the show dries up. These characters WANT to be around each other even though they drive each other nuts, so it’s like a family. When others write it’s like listening to your divorcing parents fight and no one wants to listen to that. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2992 "2023-09-21T23:07:45Z")
Excellent analysis. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2023, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2993 "2023-09-21T23:27:13Z")
The newest season of _American Horror Story_ has started. I can’t tell for sure if it is going to be a good season or a bad season yet based one episode, but all signs so far are pointing to “terrible”. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2994 "2023-09-22T03:28:25Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > > [@epbrown](#): > > > > IIRC, the excuse for **Heroes** was the last writer’s strike > > That was the excuse, but they re-launched it some years later (“Heroes Reborn”) and it still sucked. It reeked of too many cooks being involved. Yeah this is pretty much what I was referring to. When the network spots you 2 extra non-strike seasons plus a reboot and you still can’t get your shit together (and you can’t even be bothered to save Peter’s girlfriend from the alternate universe they abandoned her in in season 2), it’s time to admit that season 1 was just lightning in a bottle and move on. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2995 "2023-09-22T04:17:46Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > Yeah this is pretty much what I was referring to. One problem was you cant write you way out of a guy who can time travel and change the present by doing so. They had to give him issues, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2996 "2023-09-22T13:58:57Z")
Its weird because they lampshade this in the new season. Seems like in the time it took to make a joke about it, they could’ve cut togeather a quick “previously on…” segment to stick in front of the new season. Granted, its not really a plot driven show. But you’d think if they were going to bother with so many call backs to old characters and episodes, and the long gap between seasons, they’d slap together something to make it easier to recall who’s who. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2997 "2023-09-22T15:16:41Z")
A little late the game, but I almost totally caught up on **The Rookie**. It is a guilty pleasure. Meaning that it objectively sucks, but I like it. i am a fan of Nathan Fillion, but the show has not met a cliché it doesn’t love. The beautiful young professionals who ‘care so, so much’, the ‘brilliant’ serial killer, the super human drug dealer villain, the meet cute ‘we irritate each other so we are very attracted to each other’. And it has a ‘this time it’s personal’ every other episode. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2998 "2023-09-22T16:32:19Z")
Just finished the first (so far only) season of **Captain Fall**. My review is mixed. The over-the-top outrageousness can be amusing but doesn’t always hit the mark. I like the aspect of Liza slowly growing some sympathy for Jonathan and hope that gets explored further. What I’d really like to see is a little development from the title character. His utter cluelessness is already very stale. I hope the writers have plans for him to take a more active role in his own show. The modern-day streaming model of a 10-episode season means it was over before it really had a chance to get started. So my judgment will be reserved for future seasons. I want to see where they take it, but more of the same could get old fast. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/2999 "2023-09-22T17:00:23Z")
**Marriage** (PBS) Sean Bean and Nicola (“Last Tango in Halifax”) Walker are married. He’s unemployed; her boss is a jerk. They have a daughter in a bad relationship. Stuff happens…occasionally. Not a series for those who like dialog. Or music. Or action. The director spent 30 seconds on a shot of a car in a driveway, with no dialog. If the point is that marriage is mostly dreary and dull – point well taken. ---
**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3000 "2023-09-22T17:24:36Z")
EXTANT, starring Halle Berry and produced by Steven Speilberg in 2014 answered the question “Can Halle Berry make a TV series lamer than Catwoman?” with a resounding YES!!! ---
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3001 "2023-09-22T17:53:35Z")
I’m one episode into _Dear Child_, a German crime mystery on Netflix. I’m a sucker for scenes of foreign life, like _Broadchurch_. Not sure where it’s going, but looks good. ---
**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:** [September 22, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3002 "2023-09-22T18:12:09Z")
Halle Berry is the female Nick Cage. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3003 "2023-09-22T20:15:57Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > but the show has not met a cliché it doesn’t love. The beautiful young professionals who ‘care so, so much’, the ‘brilliant’ serial killer, the super human drug dealer villain, the meet cute ‘we irritate each other so we are very attracted to each other’. And it has a ‘this time it’s personal’ every other episode. Oh gawd yes, all true. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=149) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=151)