# 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:** 222
**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:** [July 16, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4428 "2024-07-16T22:58:44Z")
I don’t read those much, either. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4429 "2024-07-16T23:08:45Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > I was never a HUGE fan back in the day. On rewatching, it is a relatively pleasant diversion - nothing more. Watched 2 more eps of Northern Exposure last night, and I’m about ready to give up on it. Shelly was addicted to TV - she is just too naive/stupid for words. And Joel is just getting more and more whiny. Not sure I want to just keep watching weirdness like Chris having a black mindreading twin, and Adam Arkin living in the woods as a barefoot gourmet chef. What to try next? ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4430 "2024-07-17T00:12:25Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Yet another reason I’m eventually going to break down and subscribe to Apple TV+ eventually. I was able to watch the first four seasons somewhere, but apparently this is the only way I’ll be able to watch the fifth season. Make a list of all the stuff you want to watch on the platform. Subscribe for a month or two, and binge. Drop the subscription. If something else comes up in a year or two, repeat (e.g. we just resubbed to Paramount Plus tp catch the new season of Star Trek Discovery). ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4431 "2024-07-17T00:42:56Z")
I do have a list, and this is what I’m probably going to do. The trick is to find a month or two when I’ll have time to binge-watch the shows I’m interested in. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4432 "2024-07-17T01:51:53Z")
> [@Hurrilon](#): > > My wife and I are currently binge watching Murdoch Mysteries. That show is so far over the top that it is hilarious. We’re on Season 6, binge-watching at high speed. What a fantastically-entertaining show, and yes, over the top (in the most delightful way). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4433 "2024-07-17T02:10:02Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I sure hope the real FBI isnt that bumbling incompetent. Ah, I am now several episodes in, and it is just that the writers like to make the FBI look like doofuses with a LOT of foot chases. They recently went after a terrorist on a bus- there are only two doors on the bus, but both FBI agents went in the front, so of course he went out the back. 🙄 Oh, and a FBI single mom was going into surgery so she named one of the stars as her emergency caregiver- and of course she died- and now the FBI has the girls- which is not how that works- for a day- maybe. Thats it. Oh, and the Local FBI Boss ordered the arrest of a Russian agent who had diplomatic immunity- against the strict orders of the State dept. Okay, well that would be the end of her career. Mind you she only had consular immunity, so yes, in certain circumstances an arrest can happen- but not if the State dept say NO. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4434 "2024-07-17T12:02:59Z")
Thinking it wasn’t for me, I have eschewed _Yellowjackets_ until now. But midway through Season 1, I’ve been pleasantly surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4435 "2024-07-17T12:06:54Z")
Yeah, I started on _Outer Range_ and have given up on it - mostly because I got the same thing I often got from _Lost_; it continually puts two characters face to face where one of them just really needs to tell one specific piece of information to the other, but they don’t, because _not saying the thing drives the plot_. It’s obviously OK to write like that, but not all of the damn time. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4436 "2024-07-17T12:36:44Z")
I’m watching John Adams on Max, enjoying it for the most part. Now I’m at the first Washington inauguration. It’s been interesting and having read McCullough’s book seems fairly true to form. One thing I can’t get past is the appearance of the lead actor. We’re all used to seeing portraits of Adams with a bald crown surrounded by frizzy white hair looking a bit like Ludwig von Drake. In the miniseries, he is shaven bald and wears wigs in public until returning to America where he abandons the wig and grows his hair out. Did men in general really do that and did Adams in particular? ---
**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:** [July 17, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4437 "2024-07-17T14:18:53Z")
We just finished Your Honor, which we liked a lot. Then we were on the hunt for a new series - or I should say I was on the hunt. My husband has made it my job. The problem is, he is hard to please when it comes to viewing. There have been many that we’ve started that I thought were good and he didn’t. I end up watching those on my own. I came across Hudson & Rex on Prime. It takes place on St. John’s Island in Newfoundland. Hudson is a detective and Rex is his German Shepherd partner. It’s been on since 2019 and was just renewed for 2025. It’s an easy watch. So far, the crimes are solved in one episode. I think my husband likes it because of the German Shepherd. He grew up with them and we have one now. It’s nothing that will keep you on the edge of your seat and it’s pretty tame when it comes to violence, etc. I just noticed that S1 leaves Prime in 14 days. We’d better get a move on! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4438 "2024-07-17T15:13:49Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > In the miniseries, he is shaven bald and wears wigs in public until returning to America where he abandons the wig and grows his hair out. Did men in general really do that and did Adams in particular? I don’t know about Adams, but until the early 19th century, that is indeed what fashionable men did: shaved their heads to wear a powdered wig on top. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4439 "2024-07-17T16:05:25Z")
Thanks I didn’t know they generally shaved before wigging. That puts me more at ease with the show. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4440 "2024-07-17T18:09:57Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > I don’t know about Adams, but until the early 19th century, that is indeed what fashionable men did: shaved their heads to wear a powdered wig on top. Shaved? I read they did a close “buzz cut”. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4441 "2024-07-17T18:16:27Z")
I think You Honor will be seen as an example of how shows were made as best as possible under Covid restrictions. The empty streets and vacant lots , minimal extras in the courtroom, scenes with two characters max, etc. will be seen as how production teams made a virtue of necessity ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4442 "2024-07-17T20:59:11Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Shaved? I read they did a close “buzz cut”. Some websites say “shaved” but a close cut would have much the same effect. Supposedly to make the wigs fit better. Interestingly, when I was googling this, a big part of how the fashion started was rich people trying to hide baldness / sores caused by syphilis. Then, of course, it kept on because fashion. Dunno if this is one of those “someone said it, and it got repeated so often everyone believes it”, or an actual fact. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4443 "2024-07-17T21:00:43Z")
I thought ancient Egyptians also shaved their heads to wear wigs, but it was to avoid head lice and other creepy crawlies. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4444 "2024-07-18T00:47:35Z")
Also it’s hot in Egypt. I wouldn’t want to be wearing a wig on top of my own hair. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4445 "2024-07-18T14:14:28Z")
Tried to find Murphy’s Mysteries, but wasn’t available on Amazon. May see if we are willing to try it on FreeVee with ads… ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4446 "2024-07-18T14:17:41Z")
Do you mean Murdoch Mysteries, or something else? ---
**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:** [July 18, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4447 "2024-07-18T14:20:56Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Some websites say “shaved” but a close cut would have much the same effect. Before electric clippers, wouldn’t shaving with a razor be easier than a “buzz cut”? What would a buzz cut entail, the use of scissors? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=221) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=223)