# 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:** 268
**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:** [December 18, 2024, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5348 "2024-12-18T19:48:30Z")
Rizzoli & Isles I started watching on Pluto, on demand. The female lead, Jane is so short-tempered and impatient. I’m giving the show a chance because I like Sasha Alexander as the Medical Examiner and Jane’s best friend. Maybe Jane will grow on me. I was surprised to see ago Donnie Wahlberg in a couple episodes. Apparently he left to star in _Blue Bloods_. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5349 "2024-12-18T23:06:54Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > Speaking of Keeso, I started the English version of the Montreal cop show _19-2_, in which he stars, along with a handful of actors who would show up in his other shows later on. I streamed the English version of _19-2_ from my library. I really liked it. It was a blast to see Letterkenny’s mumbling McMurray in a dramatic role and to understand what he’s saying. Some of the episodes were really haunting. ---
**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 18, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5350 "2024-12-18T23:19:10Z")
_19-2_ is one of the best police procedural shows I’ve ever seen. _Rookie Blue_ was really good too. Canada had some good things going in that genre for 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 19, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5351 "2024-12-19T00:03:56Z")
We watched _A Man on the Inside_ recently. I haven’t brought it up because it is … hard to explain I how feel about it. Just saying that it’s a comedy or a drama is just not right. (I won’t do “dramedy”.) It’s just a touching show. We enjoyed it quite a bit. Some very good secondary cast members. Esp. Stephen McKinley Henderson who plays Cal. While I object to shows like _The Bear_ being under the heading of comedy, (see the Xmas episodes), this one I’m more or less okay with. (And the term “dark comedy” rarely applies to comedic works.) This isn’t really dark, but it tugs on you at times. ---
**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:** [December 19, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5352 "2024-12-19T02:53:57Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > _Rookie Blue_ was really good too. I’ll look for it. ---
**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 20, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5353 "2024-12-20T04:22:50Z")
Watching _Laid_, a comedy about a woman who discovers that all of ger past sex partners are dying in chronological order. > **[Laid (American TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laid_(American_TV_series))** > > Laid is an American romantic comedy television series developed by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna. It is based on the Australian television series of the same name. The series premiered on Peacock on December 19, 2024. > On January 11, 2024, Peacock gave production a straight-to-series order for Laid. It is based on the Australian television series series of the same name. The series is developed by Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna who are also expected to executive produce... ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5354 "2024-12-20T17:39:05Z")
I’m way late but I watched through most of **The Bear**. It was much more compelling when they were struggling. Halfway through the 3rd season they’ve become exactly what Richie was ridiculing about Carm’s fine-dining culinary career in the first season: carefully placing individual strands of whatever onto a plate with tweezers. It’s an offensive level of pretension, and I don’t really give a fuck anymore. ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5355 "2024-12-21T02:19:44Z")
That, the fact that they resolved zero of the season’s plotlines over the course of the season, and that they classified themselves as a comedy so they could win awards, really pissed me off about the show. I cringed through season 1, thought Season 2 showed a lot of growth, and season 3 sucked. ---
**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 21, 2024, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5356 "2024-12-21T02:25:37Z")
I half-heartedly watched the first two seasons of _The Bear_ but abandoned it entirely during the first episode of season three. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5357 "2024-12-21T04:04:01Z")
We just finished it. My wife and I both thought it was pretty great. I’m hoping that someone will get the message and green light another season. ---
**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:** [December 21, 2024, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5358 "2024-12-21T08:10:32Z")
Just finished off s3 of **The Lincoln Lawyer**. Fair to say it has won me back after a disappointing second series. And it ends on a big cliffhanger so I will definitely be back for s4, although IMDB doesn’t have it listed yet so maybe it won’t happen. Seemed to spend a lot less time on Haller’s family life which helped, and the chemistry between the main characters was a lot better. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5359 "2024-12-21T11:43:12Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > and season 3 sucked. Season 3 of the Bear can be summed up very simply: “Nothing happens and the bullied becomes the bully” ---
**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 21, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5360 "2024-12-21T14:22:12Z")
Finished the last of **Yellowstone** last night. All-in-all, not a bad series, though the last season was quite maudlin. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5361 "2024-12-21T20:36:44Z")
After linking the **Keira Knightley** reference in the seasonal Die Hard thread, I slid over to Netflix and wound up bingeing **Black Doves** over a few 3 days. Not bad, not great, I give it a B. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5362 "2024-12-22T16:22:01Z")
I watched “Charles 1 downfall of a king” and “Charles 1 to kill a king”. Fascinating! The groundwork for the U.S. constitution was very clear. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Gordon\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_G)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5363 "2024-12-22T16:56:49Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > _The Wire_ Max > > I finished season 1. Throughly enjoyed it. > … > Next up is Season 2 with a new story arc. You’re lucky to be watching it for the first time! _The Wire_ is the 3rd-best series of all-time, behind only _Breaking Bad_ and _Succession_. – These three series are VERY different from each other. I think Season 2 is even better than Season 1. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5364 "2024-12-22T17:04:03Z")
> [@Gordon\_G](#): > > _The Wire_ is the 3rd-best series of all-time, behind only _Breaking Bad_ and _Succession_. IMO, _Breaking Bad_ is #1, _The Wire_ is #2, and _Succession_ is not even in the Top 10. It was okay, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as most people did. ---
**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 22, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5365 "2024-12-22T17:08:03Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > IMO, _Breaking Bad_ is #1, _The Wire_ is #2, and _Succession_ is not even in the Top 10. It was okay, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as most people did. Same here. Others like Deadwood and Rome were far superior to Succession. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5366 "2024-12-22T18:20:44Z")
I really enjoyed _Succession_ but the final season made me forget why I liked it in the first place. It did not stick the landing, imo. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5367 "2024-12-22T21:14:59Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > and that they classified themselves as a comedy so they could win awards, really pissed me off about the show. Yes, that pissed me off also. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=267) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=269)