# 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:** 280
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5588 "2025-01-28T13:10:03Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Yeah, the [actual event was pretty much just as bad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre) but involved a five day siege Oh that’s right, someone upthread had mentioned the show is semi-historical. I hadn’t known that when I started watching. As you say, the actual event was a 5 day siege, and a day or two of that was probably seeing them coming from miles away! OK, a little bit of an exaggeration, but the way they got ambushed in the show, totally caught by surprise, with hundreds of arrows suddenly raining down and being surrounded by raiders on horseback. again in broad daylight when they were expecting some sort of attack, was just silly. There’s compressing the timeline, but they could have done something like “ok, here they come, prepare for a battle” but the writers went for cheap, unrealistic shock and awe instead. Other than that, great show so far. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5589 "2025-01-28T15:03:47Z")
I just finished S3 of Somebody Somewhere (Max). I just love this show. It’s like watching real friends (not actors) get through life. It seems very unscripted. Their interactions with each other are so natural. Their laughter is infectious. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5590 "2025-01-28T15:09:44Z")
_Murder She Wrote_ Angela Lansbury I didn’t watch in the 1980’s. The show’s audience was older. The aspercreme generation. 😉 Well, I’m now in that audience and started watching Murder She Wrote on Peacock. The writers had to produce 22 hour-long episodes a season. I expect some weak episodes. There are some gems in there too. Tough Guys Don’t Die is a parody of the private eye genre. Jerry Orbach (known for _Law & Order_ in the 90’s) hams it up with dialog that could be written by Mickey Spillane. Landsbury is hilarious in that setting with her prim Cabot Cove character. It’s my favorite from season 1. I really enjoy seeing all the great character actors from the 1960’s and 70’s. They are faces I remember seeing in childhood. It’s fun looking them up on imdb and remembering the shows they starred in. I watch Murder She Wrote at bedtime when I’m relaxing. It is still an old geezer show. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5591 "2025-01-28T15:11:26Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > I just finished S3 of Somebody Somewhere (Max). I just love this show. It’s like watching real friends (not actors) get through life. It seems very unscripted. Their interactions with each other are so natural. Their laughter is infectious. I agree. Very low-key and real. And her singing was appropriately amateurish. ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5592 "2025-01-28T15:24:54Z")
Agreed. I started out thinking they were a bunch of weirdos and by the end of the second episode I wished I could hang out with these people in real life. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5593 "2025-01-28T15:36:38Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I started out thinking they were a bunch of weirdos I had the exact same thought when I first started watching. No one has celebrity looks, they all have quirks and issues. They’re like real people. I love Sam and Joel’s dynamic. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5594 "2025-01-28T18:27:01Z")
Also watching **American Primeval** because of this thread and it is indeed grim but pretty good. Cycling through **Silo** and **Foundation** as well. Need to catch up a little on **The Agency**. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5595 "2025-01-28T21:02:37Z")
**Scavengers Reign** (1 se. Netflix) Animated Sci-Fi + Body Horror. Follows the remaining crew members of the Demeter, a space ship that crash landed on a rich and colorful alien world. The show is a slow burn, there is not a lot of dialogue or introduction. Most of the appeal for me is working out what happened from the clues and the stunning visuals and strange ecology of this world. 5 episodes in and I love it so far. Calls for a calm introspective mood so watch it only when you’re chill and the house is calm. ---
**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 29, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5596 "2025-01-29T00:22:37Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > The teen and I are working our way through **Secret Level** right now. It’s an animated anthology series based on different games (D&D, Warhammer, and Pac-Man, among others). It’s got some really good animation and voice work. The standout for me so far is “New World: The Once and Future King” where Arnold Schwarzenegger plays an egotistical king who washes up on a mystical island where he can’t die. It’s on Prime. I enjoyed all of them. Quite well done. > [@LurkMeister](#): > > Extremely late to the party, but over the last few days I’ve started watching **Supernatural** , which I had never seen (except for an occasional episode while channel surfing). So far I’ve seen all but the final episode of the first season, and I’m hooked. The interaction between Dean and Sam and their father are interesting and realistic (allowing for the supernatural aspects of their activities). I know that as the series progresses they get more involved with various demonic and angelic enities, and I’m interested in seeing how that works. My wife and I loved the show but surprisingly trailed off in the last season and never finished it. We keep talking about a rewatch. > [@Frodo](#): > > But only the first 150 or so are any good. > > It’s better to stop watching once you realize you’ve lost count of the times Dean has been dead I think after season five, which had been planned, as far as I know, the next couple of seasons do feel like the writers are floundering to put a story together. Then they will have a brilliant season or two then it goes back to meh. There are usually great moments in every season, though. > [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > Need to catch up a little on **The Agency**. I can’t decide about this show. It doesn’t help that I finished Night Agent and went into The Agency with Night Agent expectations. The first episode didn’t impress me but I didn’t want to judge it on that. The second episode then went firing on all burners but in a confusing way. It probably deserves its own thread to discuss it. Thanks for the discussion! ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5597 "2025-01-29T12:21:14Z")
I really enjoyed Superstore too. But I stopped watching in 2020ish when they brought COVID into the storyline. I was burned out enough living though the pandemic that I didn’t want to see it in my escapist shows too. Maybe it’s time to pick up with it again. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5598 "2025-01-29T15:37:59Z")
I had watched the first 5 seasons of _Community_ when it came out. Love that show. But I hadn’t watched the Yahoo! carried season 6. So, time to watch that which means watching the whole thing from the start. The first season has some all time great episodes. Just amazing stuff. Then it started going downhill. So the 2nd season paintball double episode just didn’t have the same feel as in season one. But generally still far better than most anything else. While Harmon-less season 4 was dubbed the “gas leak year” to explain it’s lesser quality, season 5 wasn’t really any better. The cast losses hurt a lot. Most of the fill-in people were bad or just poor fits for this type of show. And what happened to Magnitude??? Anyway, season 6. Some missed opportunities. Esp. with Frankie. Near the end it was running on fumes. The next to last episode seemed like it was a script for a different show that got remapped poorly to the Community characters. But the series finale was quite interesting. The study group, er, Save Greendale Community, was thinking of how season 7 would go. Allison Brie especially shines due to being given the opportunity to play various versions of her future self. It was painful to watch how they stopped giving Gillian Jacobs interesting things to do and just Britta-ed her over and over. I could watch much of the first season again and again. A chunk of seasons 2 and 3 another go. But only very few episodes after that. #andamovie ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5599 "2025-01-29T16:38:00Z")
Not a series, exactly, but series-adjacent: If you missed _ **Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music** _, I highly recommend checking it out. I thought it would just be a collection of performances, but there are interviews, fun facts, lots of nostalgia. Very cool and interesting. Streaming on Peacock, and probably free On Demand if you have cable. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5600 "2025-01-29T17:16:21Z")
We watched premiere episodes of 2 new series last night: **The Pitt** (HBO…sorry, Max) Chaos in a hospital emergency room (in Pittsburgh, hence the title). Very ER-like, although this time with 50% more medical jargon. Starring ER alumnus Noah Wyle. **Paradise** (Hulu) Sterling K. Brown is security for a former president (James Marsden)…with flashbacks to the time when they were in the White House. (For some reason, they never use the phrase “Secret Service”) Takes a real 90 degree turn at the end…I will say no more. I’ll definitely watch episode 2 of both. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5601 "2025-01-29T17:45:48Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > If you missed _ **Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music** _, I highly recommend checking it out. My wife and I watched it on Monday evening. We enjoyed all 3 hours of it, and we agree with your recommendation! ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5602 "2025-01-29T19:23:29Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > If you missed _ **Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music** _, I highly recommend checking it out. I would also definitely recommend this. I loved the fact that they talked about some lesser known things, such as the chaotic performance Fear gave on the Halloween 1981 episode. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5603 "2025-01-29T20:53:49Z")
The pilot and the first few episodes are very action-oriented, but that calms down some. They actually get into some pretty good character development and explore some pretty heavy topics with respect to the military and what the job costs those men. Plus, the action actually gets better, as you get more into it and get a handle on some of their lingo and how they operate. It does suffer from plot armor and a certain degree of dramatic license with what the team members would actually be able to get away with. But for all that, it’s entertaining and they do a surprisingly good job of developing the characters (even Brock, Full Metal, & Trent) over time. Outside of SEAL Team, we’ve watched a few new shows. The first was Matlock and enjoyed it- the show-within-a-show aspect is pretty fascinating. Another show I enjoyed was Landman, although a large part of that was watching Billy Bob Thornton and his oil industry housemates deal with the chaos introduced by his wife and daughter. We have enjoyed The Lincoln Lawyer, but it’s not ‘serious’ TV. Same goes for High Potential. > [@wolfpup](#): > > re-watching **Keeping Up Appearances** Yeah, it comes on Sunday nights on PBS, and it’s a gem. I had never watched it in the past, but it’s spectacularly done. Another show that’s on and I’ve been watching (never watched it originally) is The Golden Girls. That’s another show I had discounted when it was on (why would a early 20s guy want to watch a show about old ladies?), but have come to find out that it was far, far funnier than I had ever realized. ---
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> [@ftg](#): > > And what happened to Magnitude??? He was probably making _Galavant_. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5605 "2025-01-29T21:38:25Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > We watched premiere episodes of 2 new series last night: > > **The Pitt** (HBO…sorry, Max) Chaos in a hospital emergency room (in Pittsburgh, hence the title). Very ER-like, although this time with 50% more medical jargon. Starring ER alumnus Noah Wyle. I’ve been watching that as well. And if it’s not obvious, each episode follows one hour in a single fifteen-hour shift, with the first episode covering 7-8am. As you noted, very ER-like, though with present-day medical technology. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5606 "2025-01-29T21:43:47Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > And if it’s not obvious, each episode follows one hour in a single fifteen-hour shift, with the first episode covering 7-8am. Ah! I missed that. This seems to make it likely that not all medical mysteries will be neatly wrapped up in each episode. ---
**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 29, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5607 "2025-01-29T21:44:41Z")
I’m about halfway through **Creature Commandos** on Max and really digging it. I saw this listed for about a month now and ignored it since DC animation (or anything DC these last few years) is usually not my cup of tea. Apparently, there are only 7 half-hour episodes but it has already been green lighted for a second season. Fist thing to know: This is NOT for kids. Sex and gore abound. Second thing: The writer and showrunner is James Gunn who brings to DC that Marvel sense of humor and fun that DC has sadly lacked these many years. The premise is essentially _The Dirty Dozen_ with a half dozen monsters instead of 12 criminals. Starting with the second episode we get a peek into the backstory of a member of the team. The one about “The Bride” is an interesting twist on the Frankenstein story. The one for “G.I. Robot” is very funny and includes a character from my favorite DC Silver Age book, _Metal Men_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=279) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=281)