# 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:** 275
**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:** [January 14, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5488 "2025-01-14T16:09:15Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > My then-GF (who was bi and had an eidetic memory) once said to me, “I’ve seen Anna Paquin’s breasts so often, I can sketch them from memory at this point.” which still cracks me up to this day. Maybe she just watches the BBC. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9NCGd81Ed9w/maxresdefault.jpg "Anna Paquin's Breasts Were On BBC News | CONAN on TBS") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NCGd81Ed9w) ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5489 "2025-01-15T18:44:15Z")
I’ve just started watching _[Harlots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlots_(TV_series))_. It is about harlots. It has been on for 3 seasons/24 episodes, but I didn’t notice it until today. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5490 "2025-01-15T18:59:07Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > A more interesting line may have been that they were in a good spot here in the past so considering screw the protocols and just live life. The funny thing is, the show makes it clear that they would have been better off doing just that. By the end, it’s clear that they’ve made everything exponentially worse, and have to actually reboot the entire universe to fix it. One of the current-time characters who knows about the Travellers actually calls them out on that, specifically. I did like that they completely failed in their task, though. Not many shows are willing to just let their heros fail like that. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5491 "2025-01-15T19:03:52Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I’ve been watching the new British show **Patience** starring Laura Fraser. It’s the familiar formula of an unorthodox savant solving crimes alongside a Police Detective, but this time they are digging into autism and neurodivergence as authentically as they can. > > So far I like it, but it doesn’t quite have the pizzazz it needs to really stand out, so it may not get another series. How are you watching this, I can’t even find it on Rotten Tomatoes. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5492 "2025-01-15T19:57:18Z")
Some parts of the Internet are the Wild West. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5493 "2025-01-15T20:41:25Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > How are you watching this, I can’t even find it on Rotten Tomatoes. If you live in the U.S. it looks like you would need to move to the UK to get Patience on Channel 4 if you want to watch the show legally. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5494 "2025-01-15T21:59:12Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Some parts of the Internet are the Wild West. He could just wait for a bit to rent it. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5495 "2025-01-15T22:32:26Z")
Many viewers consider it simply a rip-off of the French series: Astrid et Raphaelle > **[Channel 4 viewers 'switch off' minutes into Patience as they compare it with...](https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/channel-4-patience-switch-off-imitation-astrid)** > > The new Channel 4 drama left viewers divided ---
**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:** [January 15, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5496 "2025-01-15T22:40:42Z")
Also known as an adaptation. See also Professor T. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5497 "2025-01-16T13:50:41Z")
I enjoyed **Black Doves** , though I didn’t _love_ it. It was very clear to me from the start that it wasn’t meant to be in any way realistic, and that it inhabits the same fictional universe as the works of Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie. If you want realism, look elsewhere. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5498 "2025-01-17T12:28:25Z")
I finished watching the Korean comedy/thriller/murder mystery **Behind Your Touch** (16 episodes, Netflix). A supercop from Seoul gets transferred to the boonies after he screws up a big case. There he meets a veterinarian with an amazing superpower: when she touches a creature’s bum, she can replay its memories in her mind. They team up to solve a range of crimes, from the trivial to the horrifying. I really, really liked this show. The tone was pretty unusual, as it ranged from a very silly comedy (like **Hot Fuzz** ) to a serious crime thriller (like **The Dead Zone** ): the ratio was about 90/10 at the beginning to 10/90 at the end, I would say. The main mystery kept me guessing all the way to the final reveal. I would definitely recommend it for fans of goofy comedy or fans of murder mysteries (and not just for fans of Korean TV shows). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5499 "2025-01-17T21:02:45Z")
I am re-watching the A&E series of Hornblower on DVD. Damn, that was a great series. Too bad they canceled it. Ioan Gruffudd would really like to do more of the role, up until Admiral, he says. Any Billionaires out there? ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5500 "2025-01-19T11:10:02Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > About fourteen years ago I was dating a woman who’d been a big fan. True Blood was a really good show for about the first two seasons, the problem is that the third went bad, and it got a lot worse after that. I think it’s the only show we actually just stopped watching, Season 6 was a moment when I asked “Shall we watch more of this” and we both went “No”. > [@veryfrank](#): > > Finished season 2 of _Star Trek - Enterprise_, which I really enjoyed, and I don’t quite get the hate for the show, despite some obvious franchise retconning. Context and times. September 11th happened between Season 2 and 3 (or maybe when they were being written), so in effect Season 3 is fully and angrily inspired by 911. I was never a “but they changed that Star Trek thing” person, but the series was markedly different in 3 (like a number of other shows like 24, “torture is justified” is a definte theme of the time). Season 4 was another reset and I think the best season. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5501 "2025-01-19T17:01:00Z")
**Mrs. Davis** (Peacock, Se 1 2023) You remember _Needful Things_? The King novel about The Devil himself opening a Curiosity Shop to destroy a Maine town simply by offering valued objects to ordinary people in exchange for a minor almost insignificant action but yet had important negative consequences. That story scared me, forget desperate people, what average people will do for stuff. But even then if you saw this crap you could always get the hell out of that town. Now, imagine a powerful Artificial Intelligence with a bottomless bank account exists and it controls a ear bud network more popular than TikTok. What would your world be like if it wanted to mess with you personally? How quickly would this real world turn into some Black Mirror-esque Neo-in-The-Matrix. I watched two episodes so far, but I am already here for this dystopian nightmare fuel…with a dash of comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5502 "2025-01-19T17:02:59Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Well, the season 2 finale of **Squid Game** was a bummer. I guess we’ll find out if it pays off in 3 or 4 years. We just finished watching Season 2. Good-God, what a waste of time. Thinking about watching **Alice in Borderland**. Heard the plot is similar to SG, but is much better. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5503 "2025-01-19T18:47:54Z")
The acting and production values are better but you have to deal with a lot more incoherent supernatural baggage. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5504 "2025-01-19T19:40:06Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > incoherent supernatural baggage That’s what turned me off. Also, I prefer the simple games in Squid Game to elaborate puzzles (although I could be in the minority on that one). I’ve previously recommended **The 8 Show** (on Netflix) as a Squid Game-like series I enjoyed. ---
**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:** [January 19, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5505 "2025-01-19T20:59:05Z")
Differences between **Alice in Borderland** and **Squid Game** : AIB: Players do not know why they were picked to play There is no way to end the games other to win Not everyone has to play every game (though if you don’t play enough – zap!) More games are player vs GM or player vs environment (at least that is my impression) Players don’t even know is this a dream, VR, or what Squid Game: They know they are playing for money They can stop the games by vote More games are player vs player\* (Almost) everyone is in every game They know (or don’t question) that this is the real world \* Again, my impression - I have not done an exhaustive count partially because I have not seen all of season 1 of SG and none of season 2. Perfectly fine to prefer one over the other (in general, I find the AIB characters more appealing) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5506 "2025-01-19T21:06:53Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > - Again, my impression - I have not done an exhaustive count partially because I have not seen all of season 1 of SG and none of season 2. > > Perfectly fine to prefer one over the other (in general, I find the AIB characters more appealing) FWIW, The characters playing the game are a lot more interesting and easier to care about in season 2 than those in the previous season. ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5507 "2025-01-19T21:16:15Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > True Blood was a really good show for about the first two seasons, the problem is that the third went bad, and it got a lot worse after that. I think it’s the only show we actually just stopped watching, Season 6 was a moment when I asked “Shall we watch more of this” and we both went “No”. My wife and I had read the books, so were interested in the show. S1&2 are reasonable to the books and then it goes on its own after that. We did finish it but it was tough. There were important little details that they changed, to big ones like Lafayette. Those changes meant something but it’s blown off in the show. > [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > We just finished watching Season 2. Good-God, what a waste of time. I take it I shouldn’t bother? I’m on s5 of my White Collar rewatch. It’s tough at times. I cringe when, once again, Neal has to lie/trick/deceive Peter. It’s going to give me an entry on the “extremely common in TV or movies but not in real life.” It’s also doing a bit more drama with ongoing plot lines which can take away from the heists, which I like. I will say it is at least simple, or straight forward, in the plans. There isn’t some grand conspiracy that’s complicated. Mrs. Davis sounds interesting because I enjoyed Needful Things, the movie, as I haven’t read SK much in the past few decades. I think 1963 is the only book of his I have read since the 90s. I did like the Hulu show of that, from what I remember, but that has been a while. Thanks for the discussion! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=274) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=276)