# 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:** 257
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5128 "2024-11-25T14:43:50Z")
‘The Terror’ Is pretty good about the Franklin expedition to find the NW passage in the late 1840’s. A lot of it is conjecture, but it’s a ‘docu/drama’ of what may have happened. Nobody knows for sure I don’t think. Terror, is the name of one of the ships. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5129 "2024-11-25T15:34:49Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > ’m two episodes into **A Man On The Inside** and am loving it. The effortless charm of the cast, the assured hand of creator Michael Schur of _The Good Place_ fame. Definitely worth a watch. In addition to The Good Place, Schur is also responsible for Parks & Recreation and Brooklyn 9-9…both of which I loved. Speaking of which, the facility director on Man/Inside was Rosa on Brooklyn 9-9; almost unrecognizable, partly because she uses her normal speaking voice in this role instead of the deep growl she used in Brooklyn 99. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5130 "2024-11-25T16:00:12Z")
**Interior Chinatown** (Netflix) Only one episode in and it’s alright so far. I appreciate Taika Waititi’s use of magical realism within the cultures he covers. Take **Reservation Dogs** , it isn’t that Native Americans believe ancestors talk to them directly, it’s a useful narration device to show their distinct ancestry. Here Kung-Fu tropes are used to dive into the American/Chinese character of a distinct group of New Yorkers living in a particular neighborhood in Manhattan. It’s alright and working so far. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5131 "2024-11-25T16:37:00Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > a particular neighborhood in Manhattan. The city is Port Harbor. I’d venture to guess that it’s primarily based on LA’s Chinatown but I do think that it’s meant to stand in for all of them, across the country. ---
**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 25, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5132 "2024-11-25T16:47:33Z")
We’ve started **Masters of the Sky** on Apple+. It’s okay, although I’m not sure how you make an entire series out of fly-out-bomb-the-shit-out-of-them-someone-gets-shot-down-we-haz-a-sad. Well, we’re only through E2, so we’ll see. ---
**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 25, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5133 "2024-11-25T16:50:47Z")
going through the 90’s run of frasier. goodness, that was a good show. the physical comedy is fantastic. i did notice that sometimes they would leave in smiles and laughs when other shows would have done a different take. ---
**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 25, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5134 "2024-11-25T17:29:33Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > going through the 90’s run of frasier. goodness, that was a good show. It really was. Kelsey Grammer was a heavy drinker at that period of his life and would show up on set still drunk. Yet he managed to hit his lines and perform as though he was sober. The show had some top writers who managed to keep things fresh for all those years. ---
**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 25, 2024, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5135 "2024-11-25T18:31:07Z")
funny thing, i keep noticing how “furry” the men are in 90’s frasier. ---
**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 25, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5136 "2024-11-25T19:49:38Z")
Are you referring to the current bizarre trend of making oneself look like Ken doll? ---
**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 25, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5137 "2024-11-25T19:56:44Z")
yes, there is much more “manscaping” going on now. i guess you get so accustomed to it you only notice the other way. on the new frasier, frederick is not furry. perhaps his mother’s side is less hairy. it is amazing to me how functional alcoholics can be. there are many people you never see sober, and you really never know. ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5138 "2024-11-25T19:57:57Z")
Do they tone down the laugh track in later episodes? I was turned off by how loud and intrusive it was and didn’t finish the first episode. I wonder if I would not have noticed it as much if Georgie’s character didn’t bruise the fourth wall by referencing it while watching TV? ---
**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 25, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5139 "2024-11-25T20:00:57Z")
no, still very laugh-y. it is live audience, i’m not sure how much of it is recorded from them. frasier is live audience as well, i am starting to notice the “audience pause”. ---
**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 25, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5140 "2024-11-25T20:04:31Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > yes, there is much more “manscaping” going on now. I can’t imagine putting myself through all of that. Kids these days! ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5141 "2024-11-25T20:15:15Z")
Thanks. I will give it a pass then. ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5142 "2024-11-25T20:45:15Z")
I’m liking _A Man On The Inside_, but there are two things that make me like this show less than I should—which I presume means I’m overthinking it! The first is that Danson’s character is presumably supposed to be a good person—but boy is he happy to lie to the people around him, even his boss and his daughter, and then lie again to cover up the first lie. It leads to farce, which I don’t love, and makes me wonder why I should like this guy. The other thing is that it is _very_ much like _Only Murders in the Building_, from the general vibe, to the music, to even the way it’s shot. (Danson’s character and his boss might as well be played by Steve Martin and Selena Gomez.) I don’t think that Schuur was cynically copying OMITB, but I do suspect that someone at Netflix said “Hey, that Only Murders thing—people like that! Let’s get one of those.” ---
**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 26, 2024, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5143 "2024-11-26T16:24:11Z")
> [@Hoops](#): > > The first is that Danson’s character is presumably supposed to be a good person—but boy is he happy to lie to the people around him, even his boss and his daughter, and then lie again to cover up the first lie. It leads to farce, which I don’t love, and makes me wonder why I should like this guy. That actually becomes an issue later in the series, for what it’s worth. I thought the whole series was worth watching. It wasn’t laugh out loud funny, but it was a gentle, poignant look at aging issues in our society. As I get older myself, as well as seeing my mom go through this stuff, I appreciate it more. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5144 "2024-11-26T16:53:40Z")
I don’t know what it is about CBS but damn they _love_ their laugh track. It really makes some shows hard to watch. ---
**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 27, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5145 "2024-11-27T03:28:38Z")
Watched **Landman** first episode. The hard man in the oil business part was interesting, the Billy Bob Thornton wastrel schtick was pretty much expected so it’s the sort of thing you’ll like if you like that sort of thing. Billy Bob even said “wish in one hand, shit in the other; see which fills up first” same as in Bad Santa. As far as the human interest subplots, I went through all the many Taylor Sheridan projects, and found one Regina Carrado as the only woman he’s ever let into the writer’s room. And it really shows. I liked the Sicario movies (especially the fact that each exists as if the other doesn’t), and Hell or High Water. As for many his tv shows, the observation about Yellowstone: “Sopranos for your MAGA dad,” seems a bit harsh, but what with those dumbed-down Sam Shepard and Corman McCarthy themes, and the C&W musical interludes, it really does seem cast at guys who come home from work and get drunk in front of the tv while feeling sorry for themselves. ---
**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:** [November 27, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5146 "2024-11-27T12:21:38Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > it really does seem cast at guys who come home from work and get drunk in front of the tv while feeling sorry for themselves. Really these guys need their own channel, maybe instead of Hallmark it’s the Chick Fil’A channel. ---
**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:** [November 28, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5147 "2024-11-28T19:44:59Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > I was one of the fans who preferred Bitty Schram to her replacement. > > Oh, me too. Yeah, ditto. I hated Natalie (?). Chirpy and annoying. I also much preferred Sharona’s son to Natalie’s daughter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=256) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=258)