# 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:** 246
**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:** [October 13, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4908 "2024-10-13T22:02:28Z")
There’s a low-tier cable channel called “Heroes & Icons” that shows two episodes of Batman every Sunday at 9am. It’s become part of my weekly routine. Great nostalgia! You’ll notice a very steep drop in the budget in Season 3. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4909 "2024-10-13T23:12:04Z")
It is amazing at how many episodes some old TV seasons had. _Batman_ was on for only 3 seasons but had 120 episodes, 60 of them in season 2 alone. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4910 "2024-10-13T23:50:27Z")
Two episodes a week. It adds up. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4911 "2024-10-14T00:33:14Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > _Netflix dropped the new season of **The Great British Baking Show**. It’s the first time I’ve seen an American on the show and it doesn’t look like he made it past the first 20 minutes._ Was he the old guy who left early because of illness and then just disappeared with no explanation? He wasn’t on long enough for me to realize he was American. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4912 "2024-10-14T01:36:40Z")
_High Potential_ seems to me like a remake of _Psych_ but without the humor and flood of off-handed pop culture references. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4913 "2024-10-14T23:10:16Z")
I loved _Psych_, and I agree with this assessment. Also, Shawn never did things like take crime-scene evidence home so he could examine it at his leisure. This was the point during last week’s show that made me decide to stop watching it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4914 "2024-10-15T02:30:27Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Oh, and why do they have her dressing like a hooker??? Micro mini, high plastic boots, and fake fur jacket. Classic cliche hooker wardrobe. Nobody but hookers dress like that. Well, she’d be dressed in a uniform while cleaning, and be part of a team(which she wasnt). That was one of about a dozen errors i found- also case files are locked up securely, and the LAPD is open 24/7. She was just too annoying for me- holding up the line and stealing carts. Also if she was obsessive, there is no way she could clean like that. > [@LurkMeister](#): > > Also, Shawn never did things like take crime-scene evidence home so he could examine it at his leisure. This was the point during last week’s show that made me decide to stop watching it. That would make the evidence no longer admissible. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2024, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4915 "2024-10-15T18:03:34Z")
All your quibbles are why we’re watching it like _Psych_ or one of those type shows. Serious police procedurals have their place, but they’re not entertainment for me – unless they’re really _really_ well done. Haven’t seen too many of them in the last number of years. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4916 "2024-10-15T19:56:17Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > All your quibbles are why we’re watching it like _Psych_ or one of those type shows Psych was sold as a comedy. And it was. This is supposedly a police or mystery drama. ---
**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:** [October 15, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4917 "2024-10-15T20:02:40Z")
Eh, it’s not. It’s really not. They can call it what they like. I watch it more as a comedy with a serious crime issue subplot. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4918 "2024-10-16T03:26:18Z")
> [@icon](#): > > ETA: It looks like the medical blog is no longer available via the link I provided but it is possible to view it using the wayback machine: [https://web.archive.org/web/20161116221457/http://politedissent.com/house\_pd.html](https://web.archive.org/web/20161116221457/http://politedissent.com/house_pd.html) [Archive.org](http://Archive.org) is partially back up, including this blog archive. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4919 "2024-10-16T05:34:20Z")
NCIS Origins- the first episode left me cold. ---
**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:** [October 16, 2024, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4920 "2024-10-16T08:20:42Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > Finished “Shrinking” on AppleTV. Definitely recommended. Has a lot of laugh out loud moments including one of my favorites when Harrison Ford says “Don’t raw dog me…” A heads-up that season 2 has started. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4921 "2024-10-16T14:37:09Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Offering tradespeople a cuppa is pretty much the law isn’t it. They don’t necessarily accept, but not to offer is a big no-no. Let’s make this clear, a “cuppa” is an offer of both tea and coffee (most of the times) and due to the nature of probably only having a kettle, the coffee will be instant. There are certainly people who drink only coffee in the UK too (and other variations of decaff), but we don’t tend to have a pot of coffee on (and indeed, not many of us have coffee filter machines at home). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4922 "2024-10-16T14:55:57Z")
**Sharpe** (free on YouTube, 14 Ep., 1993-) With my young teenage son I am revisiting the old Sean Bean classic series Sharpe. A classic dime store action/adventure set in Napoleonic Spain, so you’ve got your mustache twirling evil Frenchman, sexy and mysterious Spanish love interest assassin, and a hero to save the day. Each is really a stand alone novel and the play time lasts an hour and a half for each but they’re so formulaic and light they can be watched like longer tv specials and really should be watched concurrently so I’m calling them a ‘series’. We’ve gotten to the third one, Sharpe’s Company, so far and I would say the series has held up. Much less electric guitar solos then I remembered, but maybe that comes later or was just highlighted because it made my dad and I laugh so much. It was clearly produced on a shoe string budget, but the solid memorable acting, costumes and action keep us entertained. Definitely recommended for those looking for Indiana Jones style adventure and daring heroics. Speaking of. It was yesterday that I learned both the classic cartoon **Tailspin** and the newer and hilarious **Archer: Danger Island** were both cribbed from [Tales of the Gold Monkey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nfY5bmEzUY&list=PLz1eMF-r2iynGyb2IeW1ayH-m-slPj3ZK), a show that got only one season in 1982. Created to cash in on **Raider of the Lost Ark** it may be worth checking out in the future as well. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4923 "2024-10-16T17:37:06Z")
Years ago I had watched the first few of the **Sharpe** movies, although for the life of me I can’t remember where or how. I know it was not on YouTube, because it was on my television and this was before Smart TVs even existed. It may have been on one of the movie channels. I have no idea why I didn’t watch all of them, because I remember really liking them. I’ll have to check them out again (like I already don’t have enough things I want to watch, partly because of this thread). ---
**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:** [October 17, 2024, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4924 "2024-10-17T05:13:50Z")
I’m midway through _Thou Shalt Not Steal_. Australian road trip black comedy set in 1980. Feels a bit like something by the Coen brothers (which I thought _before_ reading the same comparison in the wiki) or even a little like _[Upright](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upright_(TV_series))_. > **[Thou Shalt Not Steal (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_Shalt_Not_Steal_(TV_series))** > > Thou Shalt Not Steal is an Australian crime comedy drama television series created by Dylan River & Tanith Glynn-Maloney that premiered on October 17, 2024, on Stan. The series follows a pair of teenagers as they are chased across the desert by a sex worker and fraudulent preacher. It stars Sherry-Lee Watson, Will McDonald, Miranda Otto, Noah Taylor, Darren Gilshenan, Shari Sebbens, Natasha Wanganeen, and Warren H. Williams. > Thou Shalt Not Steal is a 1980s-set road drama that follows young Abo... ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4925 "2024-10-17T13:21:45Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Watched the first episode of _[The Franchise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Franchise_(2024_TV_series))_. A comedy about the making of a superhero franchise movie. Think something like _[Reboot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reboot_(2022_TV_series))_ or _[Mythic Quest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythic_Quest)_. It isn’t bad so far. Wife and I watched the first two episodes. It’s OK so far. Despite the fact that I have read some crazy stories about real-life shenanigans behind the scenes of certain Marvel and DC movie franchises, ‘The Franchise’ seems to almost get a little bit _ **too** _ exhaustingly silly and over the top at times, with all the industry dysfunction. It is a satire, though. Will keep watching. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4926 "2024-10-18T22:04:59Z")
So, regarding the **Sharpe** series, what is the deal with the French weird hats? They look like some kind of misplaced beekeeper’s bonnets. ---
**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:** [October 18, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4927 "2024-10-18T22:10:01Z")
About ten or fifteen years ago, BBC America aired the whole of the Sharpe series over the course of a summer, as I remember. I enjoyed it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=245) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=247)