# 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:** 207
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4128 "2024-05-15T19:03:01Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Did you see the _Curb Your Enthusiasm_ finale? I thought that was brilliant. No. Did it reference Seinfeld? ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4129 "2024-05-15T19:04:43Z")
Yes, it did. You can probably see it on YouTube. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4130 "2024-05-15T20:35:26Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Then you may be interested in the Patrick Warburton led show Rules of Engagement, which ran for seven seasons. Watched a couple of eps. Seems like they kind of ripped off the Seinfeld setup. Warburton is funny, as always, but I don’t think I can stick with it. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4131 "2024-05-15T22:25:59Z")
I did find that amusing. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4132 "2024-05-16T01:32:08Z")
The British sitcom _The Windsors_ was mentioned in the thread about King Charles so I thought I’d check it out. I’ve just seen the first two episodes so far from the first six-episode season, and it’s just completely crazy over-the-top stuff. Not sure if I’ll continue or not – depends on how future episodes develop. It’s so over the top that it wouldn’t even have to be about the royal family to work, it could be a satirical spoof of any wacky family. There were some great lines although I’m having a hard time identifying many of the characters other than Charles and Camilla. A few that I recall, somewhat paraphrased from memory: - One character (I think it’s supposed to be Harry), looking at a note: “Wow, that’s amazing! What does it say? I can’t read.” - Same character later on: “Here’s a cheque for 100,000 pounds. Or any amount, really, the amount is blank. I can’t write.” - Sarah Ferguson’s daughters Beatrice and Eugenie attend a costume ball. The next day they find that their facial makeup won’t come off. “You still look like a cat.” “And you still look like a puppy!” - Some relation of Charles comes to him and says that he gets these funny feelings whenever he’s near Pippa. “Is it only Pippa?” Charles asks, “and does it feel like butterflies down in your tummy?” “Yes!” “Congratulations, my boy, you have reached manhood. You have irritable bowel syndrome.” 😆 ---
**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:** [May 16, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4133 "2024-05-16T01:36:23Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > No. Did it reference Seinfeld? The final season concerns Larry David being arrested for violating the Georgia law against providing water to people waiting in line to vote. The last episode is his trial, and the prosecution brings in character witnesses whom Larry had wronged throughout the run of the series. Yes, the _exact same premise_ as the Seinfeld finale (but with a twist ending) - yet nobody mentions the similarities. Jerry himself appears in the episode. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4134 "2024-05-16T02:08:52Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Pre-“me too” Jeffrey Tambor was hysterically funny throughout all six seasons. “What about the time I chipped my tooth on the bathroom urinal? Huh? What the FUCK is so comical about that?!” ---
**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:** [May 16, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4135 "2024-05-16T04:43:52Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > “What about the time I chipped my tooth on the bathroom urinal? Huh? What the FUCK is so comical about that?!” “I think we need, like, a bassoon in the chorus. Do any of you guys have a bassoon in your car?” ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4136 "2024-05-16T06:11:09Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > “I think we need, like, a bassoon in the chorus. Do any of you guys have a bassoon in your car?” “Hank, you don’t open with a showstopper.” lol, that’s one of my favorite bits. But I’ll do everyone a favor and try not to hijack the thread with Larry Sanders quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4137 "2024-05-16T06:34:58Z")
_A Man in Full_, limited series adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s novel. Well cast, in particular Jeff Daniels as Atlanta real estate developer Charlie Croker, who simmers with scarcely concealed rage as his world (in the form a badly conceived megacomplex called The Concourse) leaves his company a billion in debt, with the bank that financed it snapping at his heels. Everything he does only seems to compound his woes, yet he is not an unsympathetic creature and his sincere effort to help the son of his receptionist out of a jam shows he has a moral center. It’s all dialogue, and his confrontations with the bankers is a textbook case of whose dick can swing the hardest. But six episodes was not enough to tell this story, and it all leads to an ending that is rushed and unsatisfying in the extreme, and not at all like the book - which to be honest had something of the same problem. Shame, because I really hoped they would fix that. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4138 "2024-05-16T11:32:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Watched a couple of eps. Seems like they kind of ripped off the Seinfeld setup. Warburton is funny, as always, but I don’t think I can stick with it. Like many things (Parks and Rec, Sunny in), there’s a weaker earlier few seasons but it really gets absolutely classic when they add Timmy, Spades assistant as a sort of british (really south african) beat down employee. It’s in my rotation of comedy to watch with Seinfeld, Parks and Rec and Community and it does stand up against those. “And sometime in the future, maybe 30 years time from now, you’ll say to me I gave you a night to yourself…” “More likely in 30 years, I’ll say to you ‘You look a lot like my first husband’…” ---
**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:** [May 16, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4139 "2024-05-16T11:40:44Z")
The third season of **[COBRA](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBRA_(British_TV_series))** recently released. > The title of the series refers to [Cabinet Office Briefing Room A](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_Office_Briefing_Rooms), the location in Whitehall where British Prime Ministers often hold important emergency meetings. I really enjoyed all three seasons, binging each season the minute they become available. Each season follows a different crisis beginning to end. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4140 "2024-05-17T00:03:01Z")
Began **Treadstone** on Hulu. A spin-off from the Bourne movies. Black Briar agents are being awakened under a program called Cicada. Typical action effort and location shooting reminiscent of the Bourne films. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4141 "2024-05-17T11:19:39Z")
The second season of **Outer Range** , Amazon Prime’s time travel thing with Josh Brolin is out. Second season is a continuation of the weirdness of the first season. Worth a watch. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4142 "2024-05-17T12:48:05Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > The third season of **[COBRA](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBRA_(British_TV_series))** recently released. Where did you see this? I saw the first two series on PBS Masterpiece but don’t see the third one on their upcoming schedule. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4143 "2024-05-17T13:01:48Z")
I subscribe to PBS through Amazon Prime. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4144 "2024-05-17T13:14:43Z")
I’ve been watching Shogun, and I’m surprised it’s so unpopular here. I think it’s great. The friend I’m watching it with has read the book, and every so often i stop the show and ask him what’s going on. Maybe that makes more difference than i realized. It’s an interesting and complex story, it’s visually stunning (costumes and special effects obviously got generous budgets) and most of the actors are terrific. The weakest link is probably the main character. I like him, but he’s a little wooden and just not as believable as many of the Japanese. Fwiw, i routinely watch shows with the subtitles on, so I’m used to reading subtitles. I like that it’s mostly in Japanese, as that gives a visceral kick to the main character often not understanding what’s going on around him. I’ve watched the first 6 episodes, and I’m looking forward to the rest. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4145 "2024-05-17T13:34:35Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > > [@Smid](#): > > > > Then you may be interested in the Patrick Warburton led show Rules of Engagement, which ran for seven seasons. > > Watched a couple of eps. Seems like they kind of ripped off the Seinfeld setup. Warburton is funny, as always, but I don’t think I can stick with it. The Mrs. and I watched it in its initial run back in the day. Yeah, it’s kinda like the Seinfeld setup, but with the principals slightly less sociopathic and mostly capable of actually forming and maintaining long-term relationships. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4146 "2024-05-17T14:52:50Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Fwiw, i routinely watch shows with the subtitles on, so I’m used to reading subtitles. I like that it’s mostly in Japanese, as that gives a visceral kick to the main character often not understanding what’s going on around him. I watch a pretty good amount of movies with sbutitles and I just found Shogun to be too slow. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4147 "2024-05-17T15:02:57Z")
**Bodkin** (Netflix, 2023) Only one episode in so way too early to confirm or deny any recommendation, but it’s watchable so far. A young snarky Irish transplant journalist is sent to her hometown to help a bight eyed bushy tailed America Podcaster and his ward to research a mysterious disappearance in the town many years ago during SOW-en (Halloween). Maybe foul play, maybe super natural. The setup is lame, but it’s really just a gimmick for situational plays off ignorant but well meaning American Tourist VS Peculiar Irish Sardonic Culture. And for that, for 30 min, it’s alright. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=206) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=208)