# 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:** 27
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/521 "2021-10-30T15:52:53Z")
Watched episode one of **Colin in Black and White** (Netflix). Colin Kaepernick and Ava duVernay team up to tell CK’s story, as a combination of documentary (presented and narrated by CK) and dramatization. I fully support CK’s struggle against the NFL. But this show … no. When in the first 10 minutes they equated the NFL combine with a slave auction, I decided I probably won’t be sticking around. The remainder of the episode (minus a 5 minute digression into the birth of hip-hop) was the story of 14 year old CK’s struggle to wear his hair in cornrows. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2021, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/522 "2021-10-31T22:55:13Z")
> [@Stanislaus](#): > > **Guilt** from the BBC is excellent - a darkly funny noir full of extortion, double-dealing, mistrust, betrayal, ambition and hubris among a seedy cast of chancers. > > Season 2 has just dropped. Season 1 (4 episodes) came out two years ago so is probably available in the US. Very sharp dialogue, tight plotting and at least one character lovable enough to make you care (and plenty unlovable but fun to spend time with). Finished this now. It is: exceptionally good. Everything you want from a noir. Good folk doing bad things, bad folk doing good things, mean streets, redemption, disquisitions on human nature and morality, weakness, strength, revenge, irony, bathos and excellent hard boiled dialogue. Get it watched. ---
**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:** [October 31, 2021, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/523 "2021-10-31T22:57:15Z")
Season one was a hoot. Can’t wait for S2 to be available here. Oops, wait. I’m thinking of the PBS series. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/524 "2021-10-31T23:05:43Z")
If you mean this one, it’s the right one > **[Guilt on MASTERPIECE on PBS](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/guilt/)** > > Acclaimed actor Mark Bonnar (Unforgotten, Catastrophe) is back as shifty lawyer Max McCall in Guilt Season 2, premiering August 28, 2022. #GuiltPBS ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/525 "2021-10-31T23:42:40Z")
Recently finished Wynona Earp and Lucifer— I’m OK with both finales. I watched the first episode 1 of Shadow and Bone quite a while ago and watched episode two this weekend. Like it enough to continue. Brian ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/526 "2021-11-01T00:10:31Z")
I got really sucked into [_Money Heist_](https://www.netflix.com/title/80192098) on Netflix. It’s a clever Spanish heist show, good action flick combined with some of the soapiness that Spanish TV is known for. I binged through the entire 1st season, but I’m about ready to bail because the relentless cliffhangers and escalating soapiness is getting a bit much. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/527 "2021-11-01T08:27:19Z")
I’ve been kind of lazily watching [Hard](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12144960/), which is a Brazilian show on HBOMax about a woman who unexpectedly becomes a widow. As she’s trying to close out her husband’s business affairs, she discovers that, contrary to what she has believed all along, her husband wasn’t running a software company, but he produced pornographic films. She finds this out from her mother-in-law, who is aware of the business her son was involved in, and works in an administrative capacity for the company. ---
**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, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/528 "2021-11-01T17:09:57Z")
We finished **Sharp Objects** , which was truly odd. The ending was more horror story than mystery, but was well done overall. We’re still plodding through **Dopesick**. I say “plodding” because, while it’s very well done, one has to wait for Hulu to deign to drop another episode. We need to find another series to binge on. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/529 "2021-11-01T18:16:43Z")
I felt the same about Money Heist; it was getting too convoluted. I would almost recommend it just for the entertaining main character (‘The Professor’, was it?) though. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/530 "2021-11-01T21:15:24Z")
Yes. Professor is very clever. Tokyo is very hot. That’s what has sustained me through all the cliffhangers and soap-opera twists. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/531 "2021-11-01T21:49:42Z")
> [@Tusculan](#): > > Would I like **Cowboy Bebop** , which is currently on Netflix? if it’s anything like the anime individual episodes are way better than the overall ordinary rum-of-the-mill anime plot … ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/532 "2021-11-02T13:59:39Z")
Does two episodes constitute a “series”? If so, watching **The Pale Horse** , by Agatha Christie, on AP. Does not appear to have very many stars but I enjoyed the first episode but was too tired to watch the second last night. I’ve not read the book so don’t spoil it for me. Aside: as an automotive enthusiast, the car he’s driving is spectacular. ---
**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 3, 2021, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/533 "2021-11-03T21:57:53Z")
Finally finished **Squid Game**. All my co-workers were complaining they found the ending “disappointing”. I, on the other hand, found it entirely in line with the rest of the show, and pretty much anything _else_ would have been disappointing. ---
**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 3, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/534 "2021-11-03T22:21:50Z")
We’re watching **Shtisel** (Netflix), which is about a Hasidic Jewish family. My wife likes it, but I just can’t relate to it at all. ---
**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 4, 2021, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/535 "2021-11-04T01:56:48Z")
Just wanted to recommend **Mr. Inbetween** (Hulu) if you haven’t seen it. Three seasons and a rather offbeat dark comedy about an enforcer. The guy is a thug, but you have to root for him. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/536 "2021-11-04T02:20:59Z")
Mr Inbetween is a fantastic show. Never a dull moment and I thought the series finale was perfect. ---
**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 4, 2021, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/537 "2021-11-04T08:42:14Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > We’re watching **Shtisel** (Netflix), which is about a Hasidic Jewish family. My wife likes it, but I just can’t relate to it at all. We’ve watched that. It’s well-made but it’s one of those “everyone is miserable all the time” shows. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/538 "2021-11-04T13:05:09Z")
Re: Chefguy and Mr. Inbetween. Just started watching the other night. Huh. It’s just so different watching a show made in your own country for a change. I know every character there. I know two Rays, Five Freddys, etc. It’s real Australia, seedy parts, but real. ---
**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 4, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/539 "2021-11-04T14:14:33Z")
I also liked **Rake** , but it got fairly silly by the end. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/540 "2021-11-04T17:24:21Z")
I’ve been watching **American Gods**. Finished the first season, am like 2 episodes into the second. It’s okay. I can see how it’s probably more compelling in book form. Almost nothing happens in any given episode. It’s all just endless buildup to… something. I’ll probably finish it, there’s only like 25 episodes, but it may take me a while. Of the new stuff I’ve watched recently, **Hitmen** (Peacock) was very good. Sitcom where Sue Perkins and her former _Great British Baking Show_ co-host Mel Giedroyc have mundane conversations about every day life, only they are contract killers for some unnamed criminal organization and have these conversations while in the midst of some heinous criminal activity. It’s essentially a one-joke show, but it works. There’s only a handful of episodes, you can watch the whole thing in a few hours. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=28)