# 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:** 249
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4968 "2024-10-31T05:28:02Z")
I just watched _The Irrational_ where there is a death during a womens hockey game, and the DA has as his suspect the woman who hit her- who comes of a very wealthy family, and the DA has the prof as a consultant. Quickly a lawyer and a fixer show up, the fixer being his ex-girlfriend ex-MI6. The Prof goes to investigate, and asks the exact same questions the detectives would have been asking and more or less does the same stuff. His special skills arent really in play, altho he talks about “an experiment” which we briefly see moments of. BUT he talks to the suspect without her lawyer present. Twice, maybe more. _No, no, NO._ He is working for The People, and she has a lawyer and he knows it. _That is very unethical._ And she didnt commit the murder, but she agrees to plead to assault- a violent felony. Now, that was hockey, if every hockey player who meant to hurt another player was convicted of a felony, there wouldnt be many players in prison and few on teams. But in any case- her lawyer will get that plea overruled- by pointing out that the Prof talked to the suspect without the benefit of attorney. “The Judge “professor-were you consulting with the DA? (yes) did you know she had a lawyer (yes), did you speak to her when her lawyer was not present?” (yes)- case dismissed.” People confess to crimes all the time because the feel guilty, and the Prof knows that or should. The Prof would be lucky if he didnt end up with charges. Also the little trap they set for the perp? Wouldnt stand up in court. “They offered me $2.5 million, free, I accepted it, who wouldnt?” Last season the show was better. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2024, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4969 "2024-10-31T13:42:43Z")
_The Wire_ I have watch 4 episodes of Season 1. It’s uh, different. I’m a little depressed by the apathy of the police. A dead body is called in and none of the detectives wants to take the case. They need a task force to take down a big time Drug dealer. But the bureaucracy within the police dept resists pursuing it. Looking deeper, I recognize many of the characters that work in offices. The old guy that’s marking time to retirement. The useless guy that can’t do the work, the guy that takes 2 hour lunch breaks etc. I’ll keep watching. Season 1 features cops. Season 2 is a different profession. I never saw the show when it originally aired because it was on HBO. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4970 "2024-10-31T14:03:55Z")
We tried watching the Mayor of Kingstown and gave up after a few episodes. It was kind of confusing. What is Mike McLusky’s (Jeremy Renner) actual job? Who pays him? The city? There were way too many characters introduced right away. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4971 "2024-10-31T19:00:00Z")
For me, it was too dark. And set in Michigan, where there is no death penalty but they somehow go to witness an execution. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4972 "2024-10-31T20:13:32Z")
Now that **Ludwig** has officially ended on the BBC, I now can HIGHLY recommend you seek it out if you like cosy mysteries. Find it using any means possible! Though I suppose legal ones would give it a ratings boost. Also, series 2 is already commissioned. > ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4973 "2024-10-31T21:08:24Z")
**Kaos** (2024, Netflix) My wife and I made it two episodes but I think we are done. After two hours we still don’t care about any of the characters or what’s happening. I appreciate that Jeff Goldblum toned down his regular schtick and it’s clear production money was thrown at this project, I feel they just didn’t have a fresh angle. When deciding not continue this we drew parallels with **The Fall of the House of Usher** , another modern take on an ancient IP, which was so much better from beginning to end in every way. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4974 "2024-10-31T22:34:22Z")
I had really liked the first season of _The Irrational_, but hated the first episode of the second, and was not impressed by the second episode either. I’m about at the point where I may 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 31, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4975 "2024-10-31T23:09:19Z")
Same here. 2nd season epi 1- bad. epi 3 worse. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4976 "2024-11-01T01:04:25Z")
Just started watching _Fisk_ on Netflix. I saw “quirky” in the description and that’s my sweet spot. I like the humor. I watched a couple of seasons of Suits and really enjoyed it for a while but it wore on me after a couple of seasons. It morphed from the humorous misadventures of a poser lawyer to high-stakes back-stabbery and corporate drama. It was still well done, just not what I signed up for. My wife and are watching _High Potential_ and _Elsbeth_, which are really kind of the same show (along with _Monk_). They are all about quirky smart people who solve crimes for the police but are not police. One crime committed and solved per episode. All have a long-running backstory going on. We’re also watching _Tracker_, but it’s getting pretty formulaic and I’m not sure how many of these I can keep going with. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4977 "2024-11-01T02:22:26Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > I watched a couple of seasons of Suits and really enjoyed it for a while but it wore on me after a couple of seasons. Two things I noticed about _Suits_ that turned me off it. One is that all the twists and turns relied on law jargon gobbledygook that was incomprehensible to me. And the other was that every single scene was maximum 90 seconds long. Once I noticed that I only kept it around because I liked half the characters. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4978 "2024-11-01T03:13:33Z")
That’s what kept me on it as long as a I was. I liked (some of) the characters. OTOH I gave up on House of Cards (remember House of Cards?) because I didn’t care about or even like _any_ of the characters. I despised most of them. It just constantly left me with negative emotions. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2024, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4979 "2024-11-01T04:02:29Z")
At least it can be said that in the era of Prestige Streaming, House of Cards (Richard III) and Succession (King Lear), Shakespeare still had pull in the writers’ room. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4980 "2024-11-01T06:32:09Z")
_Kaos_ was just decent enough for us to stick with it all the way through. I think it gets more interesting towards the end when it becomes a bit clearer what is going on, but I know what you mean, it was merely ‘ok’. I agree that _House of Usher_ was a lot better. That troupe of writers/directors/actors that seems to do a lot of horror-type stuff are involved (they also did _Haunting of Hill House_ and _Midnight Mass_ which I also enjoyed, as well as _Haunting of Bly Manor_ which I’ve not seen). HHH and MM were both good too. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2024, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4981 "2024-11-01T06:48:43Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > Just started watching _Fisk_ on Netflix. I saw “quirky” in the description and that’s my sweet spot. I like the humor. I really enjoyed Fisk. The more I watched, the more I liked it. It made me want to find more Australian shows. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2024, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4982 "2024-11-01T11:25:41Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > _Kaos_ was just decent enough for us to stick with it all the way through. I think it gets more interesting towards the end when it becomes a bit clearer what is going on, but I know what you mean, it was merely ‘ok’. I agree that _House of Usher_ was a lot better. I liked the middle episodes of _Kaos_ better than the middle episodes of _House of Usher_; _Kaos_ had a plot that made me wonder what would happen next, but in _House of Usher_ you basically knew which character would die at the beginning of an episode (there wasn’t really any mystery, just spookiness). ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4983 "2024-11-01T12:13:13Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’ll keep watching. Season 1 features cops. Season 2 is a different profession. All the seasons feature the cops, mostly the same crew. They just focus on investigating different parts of the city each season - the traditional drug dealer culture of “The Game”, then working class guys in the ports. Then schools, and politics, and then traditional media trying to keep up with the times. It really does build an image of the whole city over the course of 5 seasons, and shows that the same problems crop up in every major institution, that they’re all in decline, and usually for the same reasons. Apathy, corruption, cost-cutting, and inertia. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4984 "2024-11-01T14:00:20Z")
fisk is brilliant. i’m still getting through elementary. really needs more clyde. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4985 "2024-11-01T15:11:45Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > > [@iamatractorboy](#): > > > > _Kaos_ was just decent enough for us to stick with it all the way through. I think it gets more interesting towards the end when it becomes a bit clearer what is going on, but I know what you mean, it was merely ‘ok’. I agree that _House of Usher_ was a lot better. > > I liked the middle episodes of _Kaos_ better than the middle episodes of _House of Usher_; _Kaos_ had a plot that made me wonder what would happen next, but in _House of Usher_ you basically knew which character would die at the beginning of an episode (there wasn’t really any mystery, just spookiness). Sure, but for me seeing how these well known stories were not only linked, but how they would be converted to be thematic for our modern society was well worth the price of admission (The Masque of the Red Death episode!) I feel the same about **Sherlock** , I know the stories by heart and the writers still often surprise me. But you two are giving me pause, I may take up the Kaos mantle again though by myself this time. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4986 "2024-11-01T15:42:18Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I really enjoyed Fisk. The more I watched, the more I liked it. It made me want to find more Australian shows. You might like **Mr. Inbetween**. ---
**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:** [November 1, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/4987 "2024-11-01T16:39:21Z")
I dunno. I was told not to mess with it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=248) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=250)