# 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:** 239
**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 24, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4768 "2024-09-24T18:37:00Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > > > [@Sitnam](#): > > > > > > _Gravity Falls_ and he asked me if there was anything similar. > > > > Have you watched _Amphibia_ and _Owl House_? > > No, will check them out. Thanks. All three are made by the same people, and arguably in the same universe. [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/v2fc6l/so\_amphibia\_gravity\_falls\_and\_owl\_house\_same/](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOwlHouse/comments/v2fc6l/so_amphibia_gravity_falls_and_owl_house_same/) ---
**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:** [September 26, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4769 "2024-09-26T18:02:49Z")
I like to have something on in the background while working from home. Usually it’s CNN on mute but a few months ago, I watched _How It’s Made_ on MAX and starting the other day, it’s been the old 1960s _Mission Impossible_ series on Paramount+ starting with the pilot episode. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4770 "2024-09-26T18:44:52Z")
My every-six-months check-in to this thread. My _Supernatural_ rewatch (one episode a night) is now up to season 13. I remember that I never particularly liked Jack, and now I’m heading into three seasons with him fourth on the call sheet. Sigh. Decided to give the _Chucky_ series a try, partly because it’s shot locally, partly because I think Jennifer Tilly can be a lot of fun. It’s remarkably well-shot. For a spinoff of a horror series that was just kind of generic for its first half then got bizarre for the back nine, it’s a really slick show. Which is kind of the problem, all the young actors, talented though they are, come across as really well scrubbed and more wholesome than really serves the story. Rogers had a promotion for two free months of Crave so I signed up, and dropped back in time to check out _Gossip Girl_ for the first time. Possibly because Blake Lively has become such a big pop culture figure of late. Two episodes in, and I’m generally liking it, though I predict I’ll wind up hating most of the characters. I know it’s not their fault they’re stupidly rich, but teenage millionaires living consequence-free lives can get under my skin. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4771 "2024-09-26T19:14:00Z")
Not a series as such, but a two part documentary on Netflix: **Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter**. Found this to be compulsive, if horrifying, viewing. Following the story of a woman who decides to find out what happened to the daughter she gave up for adoption in the 1970s, after she is contacted by police around 2010 to say her daughter went missing in 1989. Very well edited and my partner and I were equal parts revolted and angered by the story. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4772 "2024-09-27T00:32:25Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > Decided to give the _Chucky_ series a try, partly because it’s shot locally, partly because I think Jennifer Tilly can be a lot of fun. It’s remarkably well-shot. For a spinoff of a horror series that was just kind of generic for its first half then got bizarre for the back nine, it’s a really slick show. Which is kind of the problem, all the young actors, talented though they are, come across as really well scrubbed and more wholesome than really serves the story. Chucky is an absolute hoot and honestly, it’s one of my favorite shows. Every episode is fun. I also think that Chucky, the show, might actually have a few of the most violent scenes ever shown in a television program. I believe…it’s not coming back for a season 4? ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4773 "2024-09-27T03:12:38Z")
New series _Nobody Wants This_ starring Kristen Bell. Thought it might be good because Kristen Bell but it was so awful I gave up halfway through the first episode. ---
**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 27, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4774 "2024-09-27T14:34:39Z")
So you’re saying they nailed the title? ---
**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 27, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4775 "2024-09-27T14:56:40Z")
I just binged **Joe Pickett** on Netflix. Two seasons and I pray there will never be a third. Joe Pickett is a game warden with a family living and working in Wyoming. Everyone hates Joe and tries to kill him. Somehow he survives. The end. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4776 "2024-09-27T15:27:11Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I just binged **Joe Pickett** on Netflix. Two seasons and I pray there will never be a third. Thanks for the non-recommendation. I have read, and for the most part enjoyed, all of the 20+ books in the C.J. Box series. Although the plots are becoming more and more outlandish. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4777 "2024-09-27T15:36:47Z")
The plots were outlandish and Joe’s psych situation became more and more outlandish. The lead (Michael Dorman) was also kinda weird. I enjoyed the scenery, but Dorman ruined it for me. I could see it being an interesting book series, though. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4778 "2024-09-27T15:43:13Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I could see it being an interesting book series, though. They are fairly easy reads, and the books are in (fictional) chronological order. Joe is introduced as a young man with small children. The kids grow up throughout the series. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4779 "2024-09-27T15:50:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Joe Pickett is a game warden with a family living and working in Wyoming. Everyone hates Joe and tries to kill him. Somehow he survives. The end. Is this two seasons, each of which involves a person/group trying to kill him, or is there a long series of different people/groups wanting to kill him? If the latter, it seems like he might deserve it. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4780 "2024-09-27T15:52:21Z")
Two seasons. Each season had a primary evil person. It felt like each season was based on one book and then padded out to fill 10 episodes. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4781 "2024-09-27T15:53:25Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Two seasons and I pray there will never be a third. I agree. I only watched it because I enjoyed some of the novels. But the lead actor in this is terrible, and they took serious liberties with the character. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4782 "2024-09-27T15:57:22Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I only watched it because I enjoyed some of the novels. The novels by CJ Box are now on my list to read, once I finish the Navajo novels by Tony Hillerman. ---
**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 27, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4783 "2024-09-27T16:00:55Z")
I’ll recommend the Longmire novels if you haven’t read them, although the most recent ones aren’t worth the time. Too bad the series hired the wrong actors for some of the parts, although if you’d never read the novels it probably wouldn’t matter. ---
**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:** [September 27, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4784 "2024-09-27T16:41:29Z")
Really? MIchael Dorman? That’s disappointing. I thought he was brilliant in _Patriot_. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4785 "2024-09-27T19:42:14Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I just binged **Joe Pickett** on Netflix. Two seasons and I pray there will never be a third. It was a Spectrum series to start. Day one, episode 1, they started with “and this time, it’s personal”, so I gave up. > [@Chefguy](#): > > I’ll recommend the Longmire novels if you haven’t read them, although the most recent ones aren’t worth the time. The novels are better than the series, altho the series was interesting until they apparently fired their technical consultant. The overreaching many many episode lawsuit? Longmire has Qualified Immunity- he cant be sued. Next- the long drawn out criminal case? The Chief of Police wants cases _closed_. Letting a detective spend months and months and lots of funds chasing after someone who might have killed a scum drug dealer? Aint gonna happen. ---
**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 27, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4786 "2024-09-27T19:59:02Z")
My biggest quarrels were using shrimpy Lou Diamond Phillips in the role of 6’5 Henry Standing Bear, and the totally miscast (or perhaps just poorly directed) Katee Sackhoff as Moretti. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4787 "2024-09-27T20:27:50Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > My biggest quarrels were using shrimpy Lou Diamond Phillips in the role of 6’5 Henry Standing Bear At least Phillips is part Native American, but yeah. Not quite as bad as Tom cruise playing Reacher, however. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=238) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=240)