# 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:** 155
**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 13, 2023, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3084 "2023-10-13T12:30:17Z")
Replacement remotes are available; either an exact replacement for the OEM one or generic ones that will do, even if only for the basic functions. I’ve bought them for ten or twenty dollars. ---
**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 13, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3085 "2023-10-13T12:38:43Z")
Yes, I know. But neither of us watch tv enough for the situation to be worth addressing. My gf keeps the cable bill paid because it is bundled with internet, I think. ---
**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 13, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3086 "2023-10-13T13:04:10Z")
In that case, this thread may not be for you. ---
**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 13, 2023, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3087 "2023-10-13T13:27:32Z")
Actually, all the series I watch are on Netflix, Amazon Prime, FreeVee, etc all available on my iPad and I binge watch frequently. ---
**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 13, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3088 "2023-10-13T15:44:48Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Have started the new season of **Billions**. It’s picked up somewhat from the dire last two seasons but the writers are still way too fond of exchanges along the line of “This is like [sporting event only hardcore fans will remember].” “Yes, and also [esoteric rock n roll reference]”. > > We get it - you like sports and rock music. Get out of your own ass. In one recent episode, Kate Sackler (general counsel in Michael Prince’s firm) described her scheme for forcing someone (Michael Rulov, the professor who developed the self-healing concrete) to accept a deal he didn’t want to accept, “as patented as Carla Fracci’s Giselle.” But her reference to a prima ballerina only confused Prince, Wags and the other alpha males in the room so she switched to a sports metaphor, “As Jordan’s turnaround fadeaway.” At that point, we see signs of recognition on their faces. That was kind of funny. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2023, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3089 "2023-10-13T20:45:56Z")
I recently watched a UK series from a couple of years ago called **Crime** , from the book of the same terrible title by Irvine Welsh, who also wrote _Trainspotting_. And, like _Trainspotting_, it a) is set in Scotland, b) has thoroughly unlikeable characters, c) is very brutal, and d) has a lot of drug use. On top of that it’s also riddled with clichés, full of angry acting, is three episodes too long, and has a repulsive ending. Somehow, despite this, the reviews for it gave it a pass, and it was renewed for a second series, which came out a few weeks ago. I do not want to watch it, and yet I am starved for content right now, and will probably succumb, against my better judgement. ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3090 "2023-10-16T06:00:08Z")
Many tvs have operations buttons along the sides of the back. Saved me more than once when the remote vanished. ---
**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 16, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3091 "2023-10-16T11:41:10Z")
Yep, I’m able to turn the tv off and on, and the satellite box as well, but once they’re on I can’t navigate at all. It’s been like this a year now and neither of us are bothered enough to address the issue. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3092 "2023-10-16T14:13:41Z")
We watched the first few episodes of _Ray Donovan_ - I know, really late to the party. I don’t know if we’ll go back. It’s good, but almost just too much. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3093 "2023-10-16T14:15:22Z")
We started that way back when, but it seemed to lose direction early on and we walked away. Don’t know if it got back on track, as we didn’t try it again. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3094 "2023-10-16T14:55:13Z")
The first few seasons of Ray Donovan are quite good. But it started to get repetitive: Ray has to do some evil deed in order to bail a family member out of a jam (the family member varies from episode to episode, but he’s got a lot of family). ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3095 "2023-10-16T15:36:59Z")
GF and are doing out episodes of Lupin, finished Happy Valley, and found the villain there playing a priest/sleuth, in Grantchester, which we missed. Liking that a lot. Started the older “The Glades,” a florida based crime series, pretty simple, so can do other things at the same time. Mainstream stuff is so dismal sometimes…its hard after watching something really well done. We have such a huge list of unfinished, forgotten viewing, its silly. “what should we watch?..I dunno…is there anything good?” thanx to everyone for all the suggestions here, I check in on this thread when it gets 50 replies or so!!! Really wanting to start and catchup on the Detectorists again, I enjoyed the first season. Sometimes, Weather shows are about my speed though…(Weather Nation particularly slow!! sort of an offbrand) ---
**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:** [October 16, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3096 "2023-10-16T15:39:52Z")
> [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](#): > > Really wanting to start and catchup on the Detectorists again, I enjoyed the first season. Possibly my favorite all-time series. Gently funny and heartfelt. ---
**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 16, 2023, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3097 "2023-10-16T16:25:31Z")
Streamed a couple of **[John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29120536/)** over the weekend. First off, go fuck your self. Secondly, how can you tarnish your name with this horseshit retread nonsense. And AND have the balls to call it ‘true stories’??? A ouiji board?? Seriously?? How many lame movies have we had about that? The very premise that spirits from another dimension can enter ours through something I can by at Walmart… ---
**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 16, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3098 "2023-10-16T17:07:24Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The first few seasons of Ray Donovan are quite good. But it started to get repetitive: Ray has to do some evil deed in order to bail a family member out of a jam Also, Ray cheats on his wife for the zillionth time. I’m not a big fan of TV shows where characters seem to make bad choices just to produce more plotlines for the season; they wear out their welcome sooner rather than later. Watching Jon Voight chewing the scenery was kind of fun, though. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3099 "2023-10-16T17:19:59Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Watching Jon Voight chewing the scenery was kind of fun, though. One of the main reasons we quit watching. ---
**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 16, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3100 "2023-10-16T18:27:09Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The first few seasons of Ray Donovan are quite good. But it started to get repetitive: Ray has to do some evil deed in order to bail a family member out of a jam (the family member varies from episode to episode, but he’s got a lot of family). When Ray Donovan started, the show seemed to be about how he had to fix messes on behalf of the studio and I thought that was sort of interesting. But as you said, the show shifted emphasis to the messes created by his father and brothers and that was less interesting. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3101 "2023-10-16T20:05:30Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > When Ray Donovan started, the show seemed to be about how he had to fix messes on behalf of the studio and I thought that was sort of interesting. But as you said, the show shifted emphasis to the messes created by his father and brothers and that was less interesting. Exactly. It was fun and watchable when it was about him fixing the studios “oopsis”, but got boring when it became about his family. ---
**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 16, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3102 "2023-10-16T21:55:14Z")
Finished Season 3 of **Picard,** which is basically a Next Gen victory lap, but well-earned, finely acted, tremendously moving, with some great villains. I even didn’t hate Troi/Deanna who was the bane of my existence in Next Gen. My advice to everyone is just watch Season 3 as a standalone. Season 1 is fine, Season 2 is awful, and Season 3 is exactly what Sir Patrick Stewart deserved to close out a lifetime as this character. (The only thing you really need to know is that a dying Picard was given a synthetic body in Season 1. If you don’t know this, a major plot point might confuse the hell out of you. Barring that, I don’t think a single thing from Season 1 or 2 relates to Season 3 in any meaningful way.) ---
**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:** [October 19, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3103 "2023-10-19T03:46:41Z")
Hoping to find something similar to _Reservation Dogs_, I started watching _[Acting Good](https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/tv/ctv-comedy/acting-good/)_. I quickly came to realize that it isn’t very good in comparison to the rez dogs, and soon after that concluded that isn’t very good judged alone on its own merits either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=154) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=156)