# 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:** 232
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4628 "2024-08-27T20:34:50Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Finished up the first season of **Time Bandits**. The conclusion was overly saccharin, but there is a setup for a Season 2 that might feature a group of bandits more recognizable to fans of the film I’ve completely forgotten everything about the film. Should I rewatch it before I watch the series? ---
**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 27, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4629 "2024-08-27T20:42:26Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I’ve completely forgotten everything about the film. Should I rewatch it before I watch the series? The series is a full remake, no need to see the movie. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4630 "2024-08-27T21:44:51Z")
We watched the final season of **“The Umbrella Academy,”** after enjoying the first couple of seasons. Maybe we simply weren’t in the right mood for it, but we neither of us could muster any enthusiasm for the plot, despite liking the characters. We just couldn’t keep track of what was going on and found it rather lackluster. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4631 "2024-08-27T23:17:07Z")
Now I’m binging the last Season of FBI- Most Wanted. First of all, Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott is a dick and a bully. He was talking to a wealthy taxpayer, not a crook, who spoke down to one of Remys team. Remy threatened him with Physical violence. Umm, no, that would be at last a suspension. FBI could get away with threatening an arrest, etc, but not “putting my foot up your ass”. Remy does this over and over, I guess he needs to be shown as a 'tough guy". Last epi, a couple perps did a hit and grab for the Mob- Now once they did the hit, the FBI knew they were after some evidence in a journal. But did they cover that poor schnook who had it? Nope, they just let him get shot down, and he was just some lawyer. And of course that Journal would have been scanned and sent also, so the loss of the paper wouldnt mean much at trial. I give them a pass on the interviews where they promise “to speak to the DA” and the dude spills his guts. Because his lawyer would want the deal _in writing with the DA or AG_. But hard to show that in a 45 minute TV show, PS- if the police make you some sort of promise- they are allowed to lie to you. A really hard solid promise could backfire one them, sure- it has before (but not “we’ll speak to the DA”). But any real deals are between your lawyer and the ADA, not some cops. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4632 "2024-08-28T00:45:52Z")
Average Joe on Netflix. The wife described it as a black (as in, race) Fargo. We’re only a few episodes in but the acting is good and the humor “Fargo” dark. So far, I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4633 "2024-08-28T16:24:44Z")
**Evil** (Netflix, 3 se) Loads of friends wouldn’t shut up about it and my wife had already seen season 1 and liked it so I joined her for season two. Almost done with it and it’s pretty good. A tired formula and the preaching and pop ethical and moral discussions are tiresome, but it’s intriguing in what it’s trying to do. Namely, to discuss mental health in a way people will keep watching. The shows premise is a trio of supernatural auditors that fight demonic possession. You have your priest in training, your hacker, and your skeptic. What had bothered me was the notion that in this world demons are real and even an Atheist wouldn’t be a skeptic any longer. It’s like Scully from the X Files, just can’t be sure even after personally witnessing the 7th Alien autopsy. But it had occurred to me with the elevator to hell episode, that here was an instance where there is repeatable proof in the existence of ‘Hell’ and no one bothers to follow up that investigation…you know, their job. So why didn’t the skeptic change their minds? Why not make the Elevator Trip a new tourist attraction? The answer is, that wasn’t hell, it was an analogy of sorts to loneliness and despair for Hackerman. These possessions and demonic acts are all modern retellings of mental traumas and such that we used to process with story telling and not doctors prescriptions. ---
**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:** [August 28, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4634 "2024-08-28T16:42:48Z")
Just wanted to come back and say that Emily in Paris just gets progressively worse as the episodes go by. If watching vapid 20-somethings is your thing, then by all means jump in. “Coq au van!” hur-d-hur, he said “cock”. And in case you didn’t get the joke, someone repeats it. 🙄 ---
**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 28, 2024, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4635 "2024-08-28T17:49:02Z")
Jyst finished the 3rd episode of _Stags_, a drama (maybe? Maybe dark comedy?) about bad consequences after a bachelor party. (Think more _Brokedown Palace_ than _The Hangover_.) > **[Stags (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stags_(TV_series))** > > Stags is a six-part British television series, written and created by Daniel Cullen. It is made for Paramount+ by Eleven Film, with David Kerr as lead director. It was released on 15 August 2024. > The series follows groom-to-be Stu and his friends on his stag do in South America. What was meant to be a week of drink, drugs, and fun turns dark when instead of boarding a plane home, the group is thrown in to a notorious and depraved prison island run by two drug-dealing siblings and it becomes c... ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4636 "2024-08-28T19:52:40Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > **Evil** (Netflix, 3 se) Loads of friends wouldn’t shut up about it and my wife had already seen season 1 and liked it so I joined her for season two. Almost done with it and it’s pretty good. My issue with the show is that Kristen Bouchard, who was reluctant anyway, let her little girls go deeply into danger- which most Mothers would rather cut off their right arm to prevent. I found that so unrealistic, I stopped watching. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4637 "2024-08-29T14:00:45Z")
Right, but you know how every episode prominently features a Fairly Tale book? And you know how Catholics like homilies? It’s a story, it’s not real, a tale has a different function. None of the things in the story necessarily mean what they appear and it’s useful to open dialogue or process our environment. For instance, there is an episode where priests in a monastery haven’t spoken in 130 years or it will release a demon that drips a clear milky liquid from a box. Can you think of anything similar the Catholic Church and perhaps some of it’s congregation doesn’t speak of? You’re going to like what you like, the show is just clearly not CSI. No one should watch this and expect it to all get wrapped up in a tight bow. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4638 "2024-08-29T14:08:28Z")
I’m slowly watching **Time Bandits** , but I can only take an episode every other week, or so. Fun, but too cutesy for me. We’re also watching **Sunny** , starring Rashida Jones. The performances are strong, but they have stretched the plot over too many episodes. ---
**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 29, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4639 "2024-08-29T20:13:44Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > The performances are strong, but they have stretched the plot over too many episodes. I’m all caught up, and I still don’t know what’s going on. Also, the frequent tone shift between quirky Japanese weirdness and stark sorrow is very perturbing. ---
**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 29, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4640 "2024-08-29T20:21:16Z")
One episode into _Monsieur Spade_ on Netflix and I’m hooked. It’s Sam Spade as a widower living in the south of France in 1963. I didn’t think you could put Dashiell Hammett snark into a modern script without it sounding like a parody, but it actually sounds natural when spoken by French characters. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4641 "2024-08-29T21:33:20Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I’m all caught up, and I still don’t know what’s going on. Also, the frequent tone shift between quirky Japanese weirdness and stark sorrow is very perturbing. The tone shifts remind me of Kevin Can Fuck Himself; I don’t mind it too much, but the pacing is off. I’m caught up too, I think there is one episode left and they run the risk of not caring how it’s resolved. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4642 "2024-08-29T22:08:43Z")
I actually had thought this was its last week and that it was a reasonable conclusion! Actually one more to go. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4643 "2024-08-29T23:51:09Z")
Og help us, we’ve started season two of Emily in Paris. How did this not get canceled? ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4644 "2024-08-30T00:23:51Z")
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder on Netflix was enjoyable enough. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4645 "2024-09-02T13:33:42Z")
I finished Season 2 of **Your Honor** on Netflix. Overall, probably not quite as good as the first season, but still entertaining. Lots and lots of loose ends, so it will be interesting to see if a Season 3 ever happens. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4646 "2024-09-02T13:44:00Z")
**Slow Horses** returns this week. It’s about a fictional department in MI5 where they send screw ups in the hopes they quit. Gary Oldman is the head of the office and he’s very funny. ---
**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:** [September 2, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4647 "2024-09-02T15:43:50Z")
Started both S4 of Only Murders on Hulu, and S1 of Blue Lights, an Irish police procedural that got decent reviews. Looks like there are two seasons. The acting is decent and the characters are not all stereotypes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=231) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=233)