# 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:** 199
**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 10, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3968 "2024-04-10T15:32:53Z")
We’re still pretty engaged with it. It requires one’s full attention, for sure. I read the book twice, which makes it a bit easier. ---
**Author:** ![NegativeZer0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/negativezer0/32/14307_2.png) [@NegativeZer0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NegativeZer0)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3969 "2024-04-10T15:34:57Z")
I just started watching Law & Order: SVU for the first time and I am super intrigued by it. As an attorney, I’m finding myself swirling back to my law school criminal law and criminal procedure classes and have had a lot of fun trying to deduce how accurate the show portrays the way they are interrogating witnesses, or the trails of evidence they are following, or the way the defense attorneys are arguing for their clients. I’m very early into season one and am excited for the journey ahead. ---
**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 10, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3970 "2024-04-10T16:05:11Z")
> [@NegativeZer0](#): > > I’m very early into season one and am excited for the journey ahead. Only 24 and a half more seasons to go! ETA: This is why I refuse to watch the anime version of _One Piece_. There are over ONE THOUSAND EPISODES so far. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3971 "2024-04-10T16:17:20Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I presumed it was because they’d be deported back to Ukraine if caught? I’m not aware of any such law. And even if some particular country was bouncing refugees back over their border, I’d expect that to be their national immigration police. Interpol isn’t concerned with that. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3972 "2024-04-10T16:25:34Z")
**Pieces of Her** (Netflix) I’d not heard of this but if Toni Collette is in something I usually give it a try. It’s a mystery / family drama Toni as a mother who has a somewhat strained relationship with her adult daughter that only gets more difficult as mom’s secret past comes to light. I’m four eps in and so far it’s not living up to the very interesting first one. I’ll watch a couple more but it seems to be veering into action / shoot 'em up territory, which isn’t my thing. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3973 "2024-04-10T17:45:38Z")
If you’re looking for a quick bit of fun, you could do worse that _Vortex_ on Netflix. It’s a French limited series set in Brest (only six episodes.) It’s billed as Sci-fi, but it’s more of a love story slash whodunit. If you’re fussy about time travel paradoxes and logic in general, this isn’t for you. If you’re able to suspend disbelief, it’s a fun little story. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3974 "2024-04-10T20:08:39Z")
> [@NegativeZer0](#): > > As an attorney, I’m finding myself swirling back to my law school criminal law and criminal procedure classes and have had a lot of fun trying to deduce how accurate the show portrays the way they are interrogating witnesses, or the trails of evidence they are following, or the way the defense attorneys are arguing for their clients. I’m very early into season one and am excited for the journey ahead. Be forewarned now: Elliot Stabler is going to drive you absolutely insane. I say that as someone who has watched the show off and on over the years and has generally enjoyed it. ---
**Author:** ![NegativeZer0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/negativezer0/32/14307_2.png) [@NegativeZer0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NegativeZer0)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3975 "2024-04-10T20:11:30Z")
Wait really?? I like Stabler so far… ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3976 "2024-04-10T20:15:04Z")
You mentioned that you were early in season one; to track the time as you move through each season, keep a running score of all the times Stabler does something that would have immediately gotten him fired from the NYPD if a real person tried it. There aspects to the character that I always liked, but the writers also frequently let him transform into a Dirty Harry knock-off a whole bunch too. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3977 "2024-04-10T20:15:48Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > The pop-ups are _during_ other shows, not commercials. She appears on the bottom of the screen covering part of the show. It’s been especially annoying during Survivor and The Amazing Race and has made me _not_ want to watch. Yeah, it covers a bit and really distracts. Made me hate hate _hate_ the show without even seeing it. > [@Baker](#): > > I’ve been watching Shogun and at first really liked it. But the writers are introducing too many changes and altered plots. The book is so intricate and things interwoven that to make too big of a change in one place will not work, for me at least. I’ll probably finish watching but I hope the story gets more on track. Yeah, I concur. > [@NegativeZer0](#): > > As an attorney, I’m finding myself swirling back to my law school criminal law and criminal procedure classes and have had a lot of fun trying to deduce how accurate the show portrays the way they are interrogating witnesses, or the trails of evidence they are following, or the way the defense attorneys are arguing for their clients. The first epi of the L&O redo was skewered by Legal Eagle. He could do pretty much every episode. L&O Criminal Intent had two main sets of Detectives, one led by Jeff Goldblum which is excellent, and the other by Goren, played by Vincent D’Onofrio- which got really bad. Gorens methodology was picking out a suspect with almost no evidence, then tricking them into a confession- which is so damn stupid I cant watch those. No actual detective work, just Goren figuring out what triggers to use then getting a confession- all of which could be solved by a simple “I want to speak to my lawyer”. How is he be such a great detective if his one and only trick can be beat by a simple and common phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3978 "2024-04-10T20:26:20Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Now Discovery thinks it has to join in on the snake oil bandwagon with the _Mystery at Blind Frog Ranch._ > > Nothing there either, I will bet. Paraphrasing a line from a promo: “I’ve only seen this phenomenon in a supermassive black hole!” Yeah, right, sure. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3979 "2024-04-11T14:04:01Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I’m four eps in and so far it’s not living up to the very interesting first one. I’ll watch a couple more but it seems to be veering into action / shoot 'em up territory, which isn’t my thing. Yea I gave up on this one a couple of years ago at about the same place you’re at. ---
**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 11, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3980 "2024-04-11T14:15:16Z")
I was looking at available series on Amazon Prime and came across one I’d never heard of, **Code Black**. It’s a stereotype big hospital medical drama, but I’m enjoying it. I binged the first season and will continue watching the next two seasons. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3981 "2024-04-11T16:21:59Z")
We tried _Renegade Nell_ on Disney+ last night. Overall verdict: meh. I wanted to try it because I enjoyed the lead actress in _Derry Girls_, but I am not the intended audience for this. It’s a spin on the classic teenage fantasy “young person with special powers goes up against the bad guys” thing. There was nothing particularly terrible about it and there were a couple of fun fight sequences, but it’s too simplistic and Disney-ified for my taste. If you’ve got teen kids, I bet they would like it. I will not be returning. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3982 "2024-04-11T22:58:37Z")
**Monroe** is a British medical drama appearing on **Amazon Prime.** It was broadcast about 10 years ago on ITV, with 12 episodes airing before cancellation due to declining ratings. Monroe, well-played by James Nesbitt, is a neurosurgeon with a lightly caustic House-like personality and belief in his own infallibility but who is much better-humored, pleasant and witty. The supporting cast is also quite good. This is one of the few series that left us craving more episodes. We really enjoyed it. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3983 "2024-04-12T04:22:11Z")
We watched the first two episodes of **Fallout** on Amazon Prime. It’s a lot of fun and has a bit of a Judge Dredd humor to it. I know very little about the video game it’s based on but the premise of a post apocalypse that began in the 1950’s provides for some really cool design choices. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3984 "2024-04-12T04:50:45Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Okay, what Tim is doing is unethical and illegal, and sure he gave a promise- but he also swore an oath, or actually two oaths. And Tim’s and Lucy’s relationship is creepy. She is super needy, and he is a father figure. Not to mention it is unethical- yeah, I know he is supposedly in Metro, but I have seen them patrolling together. Well, that is over, thank Prime. But Tim’s little escapade may have seemed to end as a win, but any good defense attorney can easily get all the evidence Tim got or even toughed thrown out. The whole “and this time, it’s personal” is bad on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3985 "2024-04-12T08:05:41Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I’ve been watching the Zorro series on Prime. Beautiful scenery and a decently talented and attractive cast. Worth checking out. thanks for letting us know … i haven’t watched anything zorro since disney quit airing theirs and I heard the 2nd banderas movie killed what could of been a franchise … ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3986 "2024-04-12T12:25:02Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > We watched the first two episodes of **Fallout** on Amazon Prime. It’s a lot of fun and has a bit of a Judge Dredd humor to it. I know very little about the video game it’s based on but the premise of a post apocalypse that began in the 1950’s provides for some really cool design choices. The best decision they made is that the show is just in the setting of the games, but it a new story. Note: I think I saw 2077 on a school chalkboard in the episode which indicates the bombs went off in some kind of alternate 2077(there was a mushroom cloud next to the year). I’ve played all the games and honestly, I don’t know what actual year the bombs went off. I know robots already existed, which you do sort of see in the show’s opening as well. It was some kind of weird alternate 1950’s-future. ---
**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 13, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/3987 "2024-04-13T20:52:54Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > We watched the first two episodes of **Fallout** on Amazon Prime. I watched E1 of this, but probably won’t continue. I will never be able to see Walton Goggins and anyone but Boyd Crowder, no matter what they dress him up in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=198) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=200)