# 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:** 235
**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:** [September 9, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4688 "2024-09-09T16:17:05Z")
> [@Randolph](#): > > Also gave up on **House of the Dragon** after 6 and 1/2 episodes of season 2. Why did we have to wait two years to get a season of filler, followed by another two year wait? I didn’t dislike season two as much as you did, but I was very disappointed in the season finale, and had you stuck around you would have absolutely _hated_ it. People getting ready to do things, talking about doing things, going from here to there, setting out on a journey… and by the end of the episode, NOTHING. HAPPENS. I don’t mind a cliffhanger, but you gotta give us _something_ in a season finale. Like Lucerys’s death at the end of season one, which raised the stakes significantly. This finale gave us nothing of the sort and was hugely anticlimactic. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4689 "2024-09-09T16:18:02Z")
I’ve been enjoying **Waking the Dead** on Britbox. It’s a challenge to figure out the killer before the reveal, sometimes I get it and sometimes I don’t. So nice to see a show where there isn’t a romantic subplot (I’m looking at you **Silent Witness** with the Jack-Nikki saga in seasons 25 and beyond). ---
**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:** [September 9, 2024, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4690 "2024-09-09T16:18:06Z")
I liked **Dark Winds** so much that I found the author of the novels the series was based on (Tony Hillerman). I’m on book #4 and am enjoying them. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4691 "2024-09-09T16:25:11Z")
Finally finished Season 2 of **Star Trek: Prodigy** - love the characters, not entirely sure about the actual plotlines, especially the whole wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey thing. And they’ve managed a tie-in with **Picard**. Also: **Fool Me Once** , a Netflix eight-part thriller with quite a lot of twists. Michelle Keegan manages to do a decent job as lead, and a solid cast supporting (including Joanna Lumley in sneeringly nasty form). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4692 "2024-09-09T17:02:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I liked **Dark Winds** so much that I found the author of the novels the series was based on (Tony Hillerman). I’m on book #4 and am enjoying them. Yeah, I have no issues, somehow it doesn’t click for the Imax n’ Climax evening setup my wife and I enjoy. Supposed to be a radio series as well as in text format. I get the sense this is an older well known tale in Native American circles, especially for the Diné. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4693 "2024-09-09T18:08:02Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Also: **Fool Me Once** , a Netflix eight-part thriller with quite a lot of twists. Michelle Keegan manages to do a decent job as lead, and a solid cast supporting (including Joanna Lumley in sneeringly nasty form). I found this show just EXTREMELY contrived. Everyone acts in a way that no sane person would act knowing the things they knew. I honestly don’t even remember the ending it was just so implausible and dumb to me. ---
**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:** [September 9, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4694 "2024-09-09T21:15:37Z")
On Apple TV, we finished **Sunny** and were relieved to move on to something a lot less convoluted ; Season 4 of **Slow Horses** which has 4 new continuing characters on board. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4695 "2024-09-09T23:40:38Z")
There were two finished Dirk Gently books: _ **Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency** _ and _ **The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul** _ He started **The Salmon of Doubt** but found it didn’t work and was changing it to the next Hitchhiker’s book. What he had was later published with other stuff in _ **The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time** _ Brian ---
**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:** [September 9, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4696 "2024-09-09T23:49:54Z")
Yeah, I know. I read them both. They didn’t make a big impression on me. In fact, I re-read them years after I’d read them the first time, and I didn’t even remember reading them. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4697 "2024-09-10T17:51:04Z")
This is my first time venturing into this thread and haven’t read the first four thousand + posts, sorry. So I’m just starting here. > [@Sitnam](#): > > **Dark Winds** (Netflix, 2023), My wife and I put _Evil_ on hold since this HBO series dropped on Netflix. I like Zahn McClernon and was looking forward to this Murder Mystery in Navajo country, but after two episodes I’m bored. The plot is fine if contrived, but I don’t connect with any of the characters they all seem wooden archetypes and I don’t care what happens to any of them. Contrast that with _Reservation Dogs_ which I adored from minute one. It shouldn’t be this hard to like something new this early. I’ve read all of the Tony Hillerman books and really liked them, so I have to agree with you, what the writers did to them was terrible. My wife liked it though, so I may have to sit through the next season, if there is one. We are currently watching _Lewis_, a British detective series, and finding it quite good, and refreshing. The two main protagonists, (detectives), actually like each other. Their boss isn’t an asshole. the rank and file who work for/with them are almost entirely competent. There’s some witty, usually sarcastic, banter here and there. They tend to think their way through to a logical reveal of the true murderer, with occasional misdirection. And they’re altogether likable. And nobody has an obnoxious teenage daughter. (I’ve been known to drop a series immediately when a OTD shows up.) ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4698 "2024-09-10T22:34:19Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > I’ve read all of the Tony Hillerman books and really liked them, so I have to agree with you, what the writers did to them was terrible. My wife liked it though, so I may have to sit through the next season, if there is one. I’m finding that’s a catch-22 for me lately. If an adaptation follows the original precisely, I think “So what am I doing here, I know all this.” If they change things up, I usually think “Why did they mess with it?” ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Gordon\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_G)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2024, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4699 "2024-09-11T09:35:01Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > We watched **The Diplomat.** It began well, an interesting story mixing drama with light humor. Around episode 4, the main character, whose quirkiness and brash personality I initially liked, began to grate on me. However, the whole thing was interesting enough to see through to the end…and then we found that there isn’t an end. Just a cliffhanger for a promised second season. > > OK, it’s my fault for not paying close enough attention, but I’m really not interested in waiting a couple of years for season 2. I _loved_ The Diplomat. As you suggest, it is a good combination of light humor, drama, but also developing personalities and their interactions. Watch the last few minutes of Episode 3. The humor borders on slapstick, and the proud expression on Kate’s face as POTUS boards his helicopter is overly sentimental. _But these things appeal to me_ and that’s what matters! 😂 Yes, Season 1 ended in “cliff-hangers” but so what? This is a comedy-drama where global crises are just backdrop. Season 2 will be available on Halloween. Yay!! ---
**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:** [September 11, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4700 "2024-09-11T14:28:36Z")
Finished **Exploding Kittens** on Netflix. It was trivial and goofy but amused me. And Tom “Lucifer” Ellis is fun as the voice of Godcat. It is, as Nixon is purported to have said, the sort of thing you’ll like if you like that sort of thing. > [@crazyjoe](#): > > I found this show just EXTREMELY contrived. Everyone acts in a way that no sane person would act knowing the things they knew. Isn’t that _every_ thriller? ---
**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:** [September 13, 2024, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4701 "2024-09-13T18:42:53Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > > [@Chefguy](#): > > > > My reaction was: that’s it?! > > No. It’s been renewed, so you just have to wait for the next season - probably next summer 🙂. Like a lot of prestige shows they’ve adopted the British model of fewer episodes, less filler. I think The Old Man just threw people off because it was an odd number of episodes - 7 instead of 6 or 8. But there is no a priori reason 6 or 8 makes more sense than 7. How about the very end of summer two years later? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4702 "2024-09-13T18:48:22Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > How about the very end of summer two years later? Hey, at my age two years go by in the blink of an eye 😀. Yeah, it’s more than a little ridiculous, especially when your lead is in his 70’s. Maybe he just wasn’t old enough in the first season and they really wanted him to double-down on the ‘grizzled’ for season two. “Let’s give Bridges an extra year to season guys - his character needs to be really old.” ---
**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 13, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4703 "2024-09-13T19:24:55Z")
We tried watching **The Rev.** on Britbox. It’s mildly amusing, but it’s basically the same plot in every episode, so we’ve given up on it. Moved on to **The Moonstone** , also on Britbox. It’s based on a 19th century mystery novel. First episode didn’t grab me, but I was very tired. I’ll see how the second ep goes. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2024, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4704 "2024-09-13T23:48:12Z")
I liked the 1972 Moonstone adaptation, which I think is also on BritBox. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4705 "2024-09-14T01:41:50Z")
I just finished A Perfect Couple. I understand that it’s based on a book, and it certainly has a ’ summer/ vacation read vibe. It’s not original and there’s really no one to cheer for, except maybe Will, but it’s worth it for the fun performances. Nicole Kidman as the overbearing matriarch with a death stare is just perfect, as is Liev Schreiber as her long suffering husband. The oldest son, Tom, is an industrial strength douchebag and kept reminding me of JD Vance 🫤. The only thing I found unfortunate is the way the characters were styled. It takes a lot to make a gorgeous creature like Eve Hewson unappealing( her performance was good, though). ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4706 "2024-09-14T15:29:07Z")
I was a bit excited when episodes VIII and IX popped up on my DVR feed. Then I found out that because FX is part of the Disney/ABC blockage due to a contract negotiation I can’t watch it. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4707 "2024-09-14T23:13:41Z")
We watched _Flesh and Blood_ on Masterpiece Theater, and it was mostly a waste of time. What’s with shows ending with all their loose ends left hanging??? First, the mom seemed like a clueless numpty (although Francesca Annis looks awesome for 75), all her kids were screw-ups, and every single thing Stephen Rae did was suspicious. WTH? Initially, I said it was nice to see Imelda Staunton play a normal-ish character, but I had to revise that after seeing more than one minute of her screen time. I said “She’s the killer. And she was!” Avoid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=234) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=236)