# 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:** 210
**Author:** ![Boudicca90](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boudicca90/32/16818_2.png) [@Boudicca90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boudicca90)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4188 "2024-05-23T14:28:40Z")
It absolutely gets better. The miniseries is good, and necessary to watch since it sets up the premise of the series, but it doesn’t start getting really good until the actual show starts. The Expanse is really great, but I still think the BSG reboot is still one of the best sci-fi shows ever made. The prequel series Caprica wasn’t nearly as interesting and I eventually lost interest in it. ---
**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 23, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4189 "2024-05-23T14:39:06Z")
> [@Boudicca90](#): > > The Expanse is really great, but I still think the BSG reboot is still one of the best sci-fi shows ever made. The prequel series Caprica wasn’t nearly as interesting and I eventually lost interest in it. I’ll go further and say Battlestar Galactica is the greatest show of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Boudicca90](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boudicca90/32/16818_2.png) [@Boudicca90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boudicca90)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4190 "2024-05-23T14:41:58Z")
I can’t quite go that far, with shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad out there. BSG unfortunately declines somewhat towards the end. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4191 "2024-05-24T21:11:40Z")
I agree that they did not quite stick the ending. I was hooked from the mini-series on and I quite liked that they kept continuity with the problems they had from one episode to the other. Things were not magically solved, and resources not automatically replenished. I was able to binge watch it which was great especially at the end of some of the seasons. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4192 "2024-05-24T21:20:21Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’ll go further and say Battlestar Galactica is the greatest show of all time. I dunno- the series with Richard hatch and Lorne Green was fun and watchable, but hardly “great”. 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Boudicca90](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boudicca90/32/16818_2.png) [@Boudicca90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boudicca90)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4193 "2024-05-25T00:13:06Z")
> [@icon](#): > > I agree that they did not quite stick the ending. I was hooked from the mini-series on and I quite liked that they kept continuity with the problems they had from one episode to the other. Things were not magically solved, and resources not automatically replenished. I was able to binge watch it which was great especially at the end of some of the seasons. I really loved that aspect. It did a great job in showing the deterioration of the ship and fleet over time. They were facing constant threats and were always on the run, so they had nowhere to go to fix their ships and replenish their crew and resources and it showed the consequences of that well. It’s like if Star Trek: Voyager took the _Year Of Hell_ two-part episode and made the entire show like that. Which I always thought would be much more interesting than what we got. ---
**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 25, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4194 "2024-05-25T00:49:03Z")
Today, I binge-watched the first eight (of nine) episodes of the third season of _[Hacks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_(TV_series))_ on Max. Really good show and I look forward to the final episode being released in a week. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4195 "2024-05-25T14:16:24Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’ll go further and say Battlestar Galactica is the greatest show of all time. I felt that way until _The Expanse._ Baltar is the cringy part of BSG but everything else is gold. And I agree it really doesn’t get good until the series starts. ---
**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 25, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4196 "2024-05-25T15:32:07Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I felt that way until _The Expanse._ I’d say Expanse S1-2 or possibly 3 are near that level, but not the show overall. Good show, though. Maybe I’m a sap, but I never fully recovered from: Death of Miller ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4197 "2024-05-25T16:47:20Z")
Started watching _The Irrational_, starring Jesse L. Martin (Detective Green from _L&O_). Only on the second episode, but it’s okay so far. Kind of like _House_ but for crime, or a combination of _Lie to Me_, _Elementary_, and _Numb3rs_. If you ever liked any of those shows, you’ll probably like this. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2024, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4198 "2024-05-26T23:46:13Z")
Well, on the strength of y’all’s various recommendations, I’ve decided to give the regular season episodes of _Battlestar Galactica_ a chance, and I agree the first one is definitely better than the miniseries and I do plan to stick with it, but… The “fracking” is getting frackin’ annoying. I get that early 21st century America, mired down as it was in two land wars in Asia, wasn’t ready to hear F-bombs dropping on basic cable, but the way to handle that is to just not have the characters dropping F-bombs, not to replace the F-bombs with a made up baby language word that is supposed to convey the same thing. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4199 "2024-05-27T03:10:40Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Most of the way through _Twisted Metal_ (Peacock). Starring Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz (Rosa on Brooklyn Nine-Nine). It’s kind of stupid, but it’s fun. I finished watching **Twisted Metal** and I really enjoyed it. I liked it more than the kinda similar show **Blood Drive** (which I also enjoyed, but it was more hit-or-miss). Wikipedia claims that Season 2 is scheduled to film in Toronto later this year, so I’m glad there will be more episodes coming out (Blood Drive didn’t make it to season 2). ---
**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:** [May 27, 2024, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4200 "2024-05-27T07:42:44Z")
Just wait till they say ‘feldercarb’. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4201 "2024-05-27T12:49:00Z")
**Ripley.** Recommended. Extremely well-done series in all respects. Performances, cinematography, and effective story-telling. There’s even some dark humor involving two of the the more ghastly episodes. The ending, which I will not reveal here, might leave the series open for a second season, but just as effectively closes it. I see no reason to go further. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4202 "2024-05-27T15:01:53Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > The “fracking” is getting frackin’ annoying. I love Steve Gerber comics, but nothing annoyed me more as a kid, than every character using the exclamation, “Spit!”. ---
**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:** [May 27, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4203 "2024-05-27T15:24:47Z")
I watched the **STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A** documentary series on MAX. I came for the music, but was intrigued by how an interracial company came to develop and prosper in a racist place like Memphis in the early 1960s and how fragile and rather ephemeral that dynamic was. The music clips and concert footage in this doc are fantastic. The makers don’t seem to have been constrained by any license or copyright limitations and we get to hear more extended clips than these sort of docs usually contain. The extended clips of Sam & Dave, and Otis Redding during the 1967 European tour are so exciting to watch I flipped back to watch them again. The same for the Monterey Pop footage of Redding. Finally, the interviewees. Who knew (Stax founder) Jim Stewart was still alive up until about a year ago? Steve Cropper, Booker T, Carla Thomas, David Porter, and a lot of the other talent are heard from throughout as well as the “suit” Al Bell who comes off as both savior and villain. I haven’t enjoyed a music doc this much since _Get Back_. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4204 "2024-05-27T16:31:35Z")
The use of frack is a send up to the original series from 1979 where they needed to use it to get around the FCC rules at the time. Yes, it can be a bit annoying but at the same time, it is easy enough to substitute in you mind. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4205 "2024-05-27T18:09:16Z")
It’s not my mind that is having difficulty parsing. I know what it’s supposed to mean. But the visceral, gut reaction is to cringe every time. Because it’s so stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4206 "2024-05-28T03:14:56Z")
I just finished watching _The Tattooist of Auschwitz_ on Peacock. Pretty powerful, I thought, and very well done. Anybody else seen this? ---
**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 28, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4207 "2024-05-28T13:58:11Z")
No, but I saw a poster advertising it. I admit, my thoughts was, “Man, who is there left to tell their Holocaust story? Now we even got the guy doing the tattoos?” Is it a true story about a real life tattooist from the Holocaust? I’m not making light of it at all, but it felt like, “Hey, who hasn’t had a Holocaust movie yet? How 'bout the guy doing the number tattoos? Sure!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=209) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=211)