# 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:** 265
**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:** [December 13, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5288 "2024-12-13T12:31:32Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > If it hasn’t already been mentioned, a new season of “Shetland” has started. My wife and I discovered S9E1 on Britbox last night. Just as riveting as always. We didn’t continue it when Henshall left, but you continuing it must mean that S8 was good…maybe we’ll look again. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2024, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5289 "2024-12-13T12:58:32Z")
I’d say give it a shot, at least for an episode or two. I do miss Jimmy Perez, but I think the stories are just as well written. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5290 "2024-12-13T16:08:53Z")
**Benidorm** (Prime, 9 se.) A British comedy series about the Spanish seaside town of Benidorm and it’s trashy British tourists. I am three episodes in and I like it. Recommended for fans of British or even Commonwealth sitcoms. It’s nice background as you quickly get to know the characters and the scenes are just plays on the same themes. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5291 "2024-12-13T17:38:19Z")
I remember enjoying a couple of seasons of Benidorm, but I lost interest in it after a while. It just seemed kind of generic; I can’t remember the plot of any of the episodes I watched. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5292 "2024-12-13T17:45:56Z")
Bingeing The Sopranos again. Good Lord, I had forgotten how good it was. One of the best shows ever produced, IMO. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5293 "2024-12-13T17:50:17Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > As I was watching, I couldn’t help but compare that characters of Cromwell and Thomas More with how they are portrayed in _A Man for All Seasons._ in that play and film, Cromwell is the villain and More the hero. I was doing the same thing, too! I saw _A Man for All Seasons_ at an impressionable age, so it was a real mental wrench to switch my sympathies. Also, Anton Lesser is a very different Thomas More than Paul Scofield! ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5294 "2024-12-13T17:57:36Z")
Just finished watching [**Black Doves**](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27995113/) with Keira Knightley I enjoyed it even though I didn’t understand the logic of the plot and that it wasn’t clear at the end, which means they left room for a second season if they so choose. Be warned that there are a couple of fairly explicit gay sex scenes if that sort of thing bothers you. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2024, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5295 "2024-12-13T19:42:13Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > We didn’t continue it when Henshall left, but you continuing it must mean that S8 was good…maybe we’ll look again. I was excited when Tosh became lead Detective. It’s rare for a show to promote a side character to a lead in that way. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5296 "2024-12-13T20:10:40Z")
That feels like a spoiler? I thought Jimmy was swapped out for some DI coming back to her hometown. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2024, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5297 "2024-12-13T20:16:21Z")
Watched _No Good Deed_ starring Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow, Luke Wilson, and several less-famous people. Called a comedy, but actually more of that type of modern “comedy” that is mostly a straight drama with a tiny trace of humor tossed in. It is okay. Not terrible, but nothing noteworthy or memorable either. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5298 "2024-12-14T00:18:08Z")
I think Ashley Jensen was a brilliant addition to the show though I admit prejudice because I think she was the best part of _Extras_. I did like Jimmy Perez and I feel Duncan’s story was never satisfactorily wrapped up but I still enjoy the new seasons. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5299 "2024-12-14T00:51:05Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > That feels like a spoiler? I thought Jimmy was swapped out for some DI coming back to her hometown. Not really a spoiler, it’s just a slight reworking of the cast to continue the show. They did add a character to take Jimmy’s place, but she is not lead Detective. In her first season (8) she didn’t even want to be there. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5300 "2024-12-14T01:32:32Z")
> [@Gordon\_G](#): > > I think Succession is one of the best TVseries ever. I absolutely agree. I was watching it with a friend and I’m just laughing my ass off and she has this look of horror on her face. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5301 "2024-12-14T05:10:48Z")
Watching it now. Acting is great. Some fun characters. Definitely requires turning off brain to enjoy though. It is almost at farce satire level without meaning to be, or at least I don’t think that they mean to be? Maybe they do? But enjoying it! ---
**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:** [December 14, 2024, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5302 "2024-12-14T05:28:40Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Watched _No Good Deed_ starring Ray Romano, Lisa Kudrow, Luke Wilson, and several less-famous people. Called a comedy, but actually more of that type of modern “comedy” that is mostly a straight drama with a tiny trace of humor tossed in. It is okay. I watched the first episode and it definitely had the same vibe as _Dead to Me_ (by the same creator) which I gave up on after a while. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5303 "2024-12-14T16:02:25Z")
Re: _No Good Deed_. It seems to be labeled as “dark comedy”. Which a warning flag for me. Lots of dark, no comedy is typical. But given the cast I think I will at least try an episode. ---
**Author:** ![Cee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cee/32/18345_2.png) [@Cee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cee)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5304 "2024-12-14T18:18:17Z")
I’d say to go for it. If the timelines bother you than I’d say to look at the one that interests you the most and skip the rest. For the first two seasons, there are only two timelines so it’s not that bad. I’m planning on doing another rewatch and only going for the teen timeline. This show is honestly good but I feel like the timelines get in the way of eachother sometimes. If it had better pacing, I’d like it more. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2024, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5305 "2024-12-14T20:04:32Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > That feels like a spoiler? I thought Jimmy was swapped out for some DI coming back to her hometown. Yup. And she brought baggage, which I don’t particularly like, (but my wife doesn’t seem to mind), but we still very much like Tosh, Sandy, and Billy, so we’re still watching. Edited to add: Yeah, Tosh is supposed to be the lead. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5306 "2024-12-14T20:30:33Z")
Well, I’m officially bored with **Silo** in this latest ongoing season. ---
**Author:** ![Cee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cee/32/18345_2.png) [@Cee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cee)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5307 "2024-12-15T05:07:02Z")
Think I’m just gonna drop it. Skipping the adult timeline just makes the show more boring imo. Gonna try and find other shows thst have that horror plane crash fix. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=264) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=266)