# 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:** 153
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3044 "2023-10-06T15:47:32Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > **Star Trek:Picard** s1. I wasn’t that impressed with the first season, but really enjoyed the 2nd season. I think you’ll like the 2nd season more. (I haven’t watched the 3rd season yet). Have you seen “ **Star Trek: Strange New Worlds** ” yet ? If you’re a Trek fan, you’re sure to enjoy this (much better than “ **Star Trek: Discovery** ”). ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3045 "2023-10-06T16:46:29Z")
No, afraid not, SNW is on a subscription service I haven’t got so I’m missing out on that. I have seen Below Decks which has been amusing (mostly), because it has been on Prime, but apparently the latest episodes will only be in the same place as SNW (Paramount), so that’s that gone too. This is the trouble with all the subscription services, you need to fork out about £50 a month to keep up with them all! ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3046 "2023-10-06T16:54:54Z")
> [@cormac262](#): > > I wasn’t that impressed with the first season, but really enjoyed the 2nd season. I think you’ll like the 2nd season more. (I haven’t watched the 3rd season yet). That just goes to show how different people are and their tastes. I thought **Picard** Season 2 was some of the worst Trek I’ve ever seen. But season 3 is some of the best. (I liked Season 1.) And yes, go watch **Strange New Worlds**! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3047 "2023-10-06T17:06:19Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > We’re in the middle of season two and it’s lost a bit of luster. I thought the season ender was a dud and some of the plot lines seem to go now where. I gave up on Glitch after season one. The idea was kind of intriguing, but it wasn’t clear to me where it could go that would make any sense (to me). ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3048 "2023-10-06T17:20:25Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > This is the trouble with all the subscription services, you need to fork out about £50 a month to keep up with them all! I think the way to go is to subscribe to a service for a month, just to binge shows, and then drop it before they charge for the second month. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3049 "2023-10-06T17:36:44Z")
I little while ago, I decided to watch all of Star Trek in broadcast order. I did TOS and TAS, and I’m currently in the middle of season 4 of TNG. I get to start DS9 after season 6, episode 11. I’d seen some of each of the 20th century series, but not all of any of them, so it’s been a fun project. It’ll take me a while to get to the latest iterations, but they’re not going anywhere. The only exception is Lower Decks, because my wife wanted to see it. We’re on season 3 and enjoying it a lot. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3050 "2023-10-06T18:29:56Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > A blast from the (reasonably recent) past. I enjoyed _The Closer_ when it originally aired, but because of some circumstances I don’t remember, I was only able to see a couple of episodes of _Major Crimes_. I have started watching that, very quickly fell back into familiarity with the characters, and binged the 10 episodes of the first season in one day. I love both those shows and will never forgive HBO for letting them go. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3051 "2023-10-06T19:02:12Z")
We’re about half way through season 4 on Accorn of _Candice Renoir._ She’s a police commander (probably closer to a US police captain, although her subordinate’s title is captain) with four kids. We’re enjoying it a lot. The actors are all engaging, and there are changes over the seasons which seems true to life. When she first started with the team they called her Barbie, but it’s gotten darker and deeper. There are family stories, too, but they don’t overwhelm either the crime plots or Candice’s issues as a _flic._ Plus, there’s the gorgeous South of France locale. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3052 "2023-10-06T20:34:44Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > [@iamatractorboy](#): > > > > This is the trouble with all the subscription services, you need to fork out about £50 a month to keep up with them all! > > I think the way to go is to subscribe to a service for a month, just to binge shows, and then drop it before they charge for the second month. I am tempted to do that. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3053 "2023-10-06T20:35:52Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I think the way to go is to subscribe to a service for a month, just to binge shows, and then drop it before they charge for the second month. I have done that a couple of times. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3054 "2023-10-06T20:41:58Z")
If you’re disciplined in doing so (i.e., cancelling promptly) and signing up for only one service at a time, you can keep your expense down to less than twenty bucks a month. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3055 "2023-10-06T20:42:12Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I little while ago, I decided to watch all of Star Trek in broadcast order. I did TOS and TAS, and I’m currently in the middle of season 4 of TNG. I get to start DS9 after season 6, episode 11. I love that you’re doing this. It must really put everything in a different light. I was thinking out loud the other day and I asked, what other TV show, or really what other work of creative art, resulted it decades of continuity with different characters but the same universe? The only thing I could think of was _Doctor Who._ Even going back in time historically… The Odyssey? I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3056 "2023-10-06T21:57:36Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > > [@Sitnam](#): > > > > We’re in the middle of season two and it’s lost a bit of luster. I thought the season ender was a dud and some of the plot lines seem to go now where. > > I gave up on Glitch after season one. The idea was kind of intriguing, but it wasn’t clear to me where it could go that would make any sense (to me). By the end of season one we were expecting It to be revealed that everyone resurrected was murdered including the Policeman’s wife. In this case by slow poisoning from the Replacement Wife who wanted her husband thereby resolving the ‘who should I make a life with?’ conundrum he was dealing with. It may still be a thing, but I doubt it as the show is going in other directions. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2023, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3057 "2023-10-06T23:14:41Z")
Rewatching **The Sopranos** with Inna. Her initial reaction is that Tony is too sympathetic of a character to be a mob boss. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3058 "2023-10-07T01:57:42Z")
Has she already watched the fifth episode, “College”? ---
**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:** [October 7, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3059 "2023-10-07T12:45:39Z")
We’re in Season 2. I responded that part of the problem may be that when you make the bad guy the central character, the audience… via their exposure to other stories… assumes that the protagonist is always a “hero”. And, in addition, the bad guy is commonly the most interesting/compelling character (Satan in Faust/Paradise Lost, Darth Vader, etc). Also, as she was raised in the Soviet Union, she was in a society where to make yourself powerful, you had to be as ruthless as a mob boss. It was a country ruled via intimidation, and, to her, Tony isn’t intimidating enough _because_ he is consumed by guilt and governed by his emotions. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3060 "2023-10-07T13:32:11Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I knew it was a bad sign when we got the “breasts jiggling audibly” trope within about 30 seconds of the opening of the first episode Breasts can jiggle _ **audibly** _, and not only does it happen in anime, but so often that it’s a trope? Thanks for giving me another reason not to watch any anime 😏 > [@kayaker](#): > > I just binged the first season of **Black Spot** on Netflix…Recommend highly. Saw that and almost started watching awhile back but didn’t. Will put it on the watch list now. Thanks. > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > We also watched the **Lower Decks** episode “Twovix” which makes fun of a certain controversial episode of a certain Trek series, and I really couldn’t have asked for anything better. The mechanical salamanders. 😂 This is the show I miss most after canceling Paramount+. Very funny show. They did an amazing job walking a fine line between sharp parody and affectionate respect for the series. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3061 "2023-10-08T06:56:28Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I was thinking out loud the other day and I asked, what other TV show, or really what other work of creative art, resulted it decades of continuity with different characters but the same universe? The only thing I could think of was _Doctor Who._ Even going back in time historically… The Odyssey? I don’t know. Oooooh, intriguing. I think you could make a case for the “cast of characters” of the Bible persisting over centuries of “sequels” in the form of, say, medieval miracle plays. Same “supporting cast” of the Virgin Mary and others, brand-new protagonist in the form of yet another medieval saint! I dunno about the Homeric epics, for example, whose continued development in later literature often seems to take the form of “retellings” from the perspective of one or another of the existing characters, rather than continuing the story with new characters. Well, except for the Aeneid, I guess; that’s more like the “continuity with different characters” that you’re talking about. I guess what we’re discussing here is the literary history of the “spinoff”, with the caveat that the new work still has to be meaningfully within the old work’s universe, rather than just borrowing a secondary character to follow in a completely different environment. So superhero comics would seem not to count, as their narratives tend to be more reboot than spinoff? ---
**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:** [October 8, 2023, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3062 "2023-10-08T12:07:00Z")
Finished **Black Spot**. Loved it, wish it had more seasons. Then binged the heck out of **Lupin** , another winner. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3063 "2023-10-08T22:16:25Z")
I need to get more viewing recommendations from you, we clearly have a lot of overlap in the series we enjoy. Any other faves? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=152) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=154)