# 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:** 225
**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 26, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4488 "2024-07-26T16:27:47Z")
I recently finished streaming all of Stargate SG1, including the followup movies, and Stargate Atlantis. I started on Stargate Universe but gave up after 3 or 4 episodes - it just wasn’t at all engaging. I re-upped Paramount Plus so we could watch the final season of Star Trek Discovery - I’m rewatching it starting with season 1 as a general refresher. ---
**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 26, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4489 "2024-07-26T18:08:16Z")
Couldn’t get into The Decameron on Netflix. Short answer: (John Lovitz) Oew Rrribaldrry!”/(John Lovitz) Long answer: Pre-modern explicitness i.e. Decameron/Canterbury, Gargantua, Simplicius Simplicissimus, Gulliver, Tom Jones, etc. have violence and bodily functions right out there in the service of realism, against a climate of repressing those realities. The current run of Bridgerton-meets-Monty Python splurtfests really aren’t countering anything worth countering. Plus, like a lot of stuff that loses me early on, it’s clear that they were more interested in their own enjoyment making it than in ours watching it. ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4490 "2024-07-27T11:23:57Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > I’m now re-watching **Cowboy Bebop** the live action version. I’m bummed again that they canceled it. I’m not an anime fan, I don’t like BESM art style, but I liked the live action show. I was also sad they didn’t get a second season. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4491 "2024-07-28T14:13:43Z")
I just got to the verdict, Episode 8, and was stunned to find out that: They changed who done it. With regards to the book…the characters are the same, the crime is the same, but they changed the murderer. Can they do that??? Shoot, why not just do like Clue and film 4 versions with a different murderer in each. ---
**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 28, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4492 "2024-07-28T14:31:37Z")
Finally in the last season of our Sopranos re-watch. It’s clear that they were running out of ideas by then, and I really hate dream sequences. ---
**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 28, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4493 "2024-07-28T14:40:15Z")
Dream sequences are the worst, in both books and visual media. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4494 "2024-07-28T15:02:43Z")
Nm. Wrong thread ---
**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:** [July 28, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4495 "2024-07-28T16:12:11Z")
They did that with the film version of _Blood Work_, and having read the book, I was happily surprised that I _didn’t_ know what was going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4496 "2024-07-28T16:29:04Z")
I can’t remember the original movie specifically (I’m sure I saw it) but I did remember that it was a punchline to a SNL skit about whodunit, so I thought that they would have to change that because that would be so obvious. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2024, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4497 "2024-07-28T16:45:14Z")
> [@LVBoPeep](#): > > I can’t remember the original movie specifically (I’m sure I saw it) but I did remember that it was a punchline to a SNL skit about whodunit […] Kids in the Hall, maybe? That’s where I learned it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1L8wftRFLX0/hqdefault.jpg "The Kids in the Hall - Simon and Hecubus") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L8wftRFLX0) ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4498 "2024-07-28T16:48:14Z")
Oh yeah, that was it! It had been so long, I had forgotten all but the punchline. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4499 "2024-07-28T17:41:41Z")
I started watching the original _Twlight Zone_ episodes last night. I plan to watch the first three seasons. I’ve heard it went to an hour in Season 4 and wasn’t as good. It was a difficult show for Rod Sterling to write. The stories were unusual and had gotcha endings. I expect that some episodes were very good and some won’t work. I’ve seen a few episodes decades ago in reruns. I’ve never tried watching full seasons. Hoping that I can stay interested. It’s on Paramount+. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4500 "2024-07-29T14:07:28Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I expect that some episodes were very good and some won’t work. Some don’t work because the gotcha has been copied and parodied endlessly over the last 60 years. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4501 "2024-07-29T14:44:27Z")
I think Bill Shatner’s airplane wing episode has been copied and parodied by the Simpsons. The one I remember most vividly is The Bewitchin’ Pool. Kids visiting Aunt T at the bottom of the swimming pool. That still creeps me out. Pretty extreme for early 1960’s tv. IIRC TBS aired the Twlight Zone regularly in the late 70’s and 80’s. I watched occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4502 "2024-07-29T16:30:27Z")
Yeah, I thought the hour long episodes in season 4 weren’t up to the quality of the other seasons. I’ve said it elsewhere in this thread that it’s like when _Alfred Hitchcock Presents_ 30-minute episodes went to 60 minutes in _The Alfred Hitchcock Hour_ and started to suck. The final seasons are much better (I just watched all of the episodes recently too). Now I’m watching Jordan Peele’s version of _The Twilight Zone_. Too many cerebral plots; I wish the stories were simpler, like _The Living Doll_ and _It’s a Good Life_. Peele’s remake of _Nightmare at 20,000 Feet_ (now 30,000 feet) isn’t nearly as compelling, and the ending is unfortunate. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4503 "2024-07-29T16:42:20Z")
Of the recent similar series, I rather enjoyed [Dimension 404](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension_404) (originally on Hulu). Only six episodes (which was probably enough) but definitely not predictable storylines. The one with Patton Oswalt is particularly good IMO. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4504 "2024-08-01T03:54:29Z")
I just watched Season 1 of _Snowpiercer_ and I’m partway through Season 2. I had heard years ago that they made a TV series out of the movie (which I enjoyed), but I didn’t realise that they were up to Season 4 now. I gave it a try and I’m finding it quite watchable so far (at least as good as _Counterpart_, say). The science is kind of silly (shades of _The Day After Tomorrow_) but it’s meant to be a thriller, not a documentary. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4505 "2024-08-01T04:37:57Z")
Four episodes into **Time Bandits** (Apple TV). It’s rather shallow, but fun. Lisa Kudrow is basically playing Phoebe, but then, so is the rest of the cast. Actually, I just now realized a cast full of Phoebes is kinda Taika Waititi‘s thing. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2024, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4506 "2024-08-01T06:09:45Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > I just finished the first season of _Better Things_. I’m enjoying it, yet I can’t point to one specific stand-out element. Maybe it’s just slice-of-life that any parent raising kids can relate to. Late to the game on this, I’m almost done with season 2. Really funny and well-written. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4507 "2024-08-01T15:17:23Z")
_Resident Alien_ Interesting idea. I’ve only just started watching season 1. I’m not sure how a character that committed a serious crime can ever be fully redeemed. I keep getting Mork and Mindy vibes. Although this series is much much darker. I’ll keep watching 👀. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=224) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=226)