# 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:** 283
**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:** [February 4, 2025, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5648 "2025-02-04T19:46:35Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I think we may be just about done with this one even though it looks like there are several more seasons to go. This is one of the most popular shows in the UK, so it’s not going away anytime soon. The current series is now two Detectives beyond Mooney leaving. If you do want to move on, you should try looking out for two spin-offs, **Beyond Paradise** , about DI Humphrey Goodman coming back to Britain and trying to live his normal life again. And the Australian based **Return To Paradise** , with all new characters. Mooney cameos in that one. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5649 "2025-02-04T20:32:33Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > We’re about mid-way through S9 of **Death in Paradise** , D.I. Jack Mooney has left to go back home and from what I’ve read on Wikipedia most of the rest of the cast is gone by the end of the season. I think we may be just about done with this one even though it looks like there are several more seasons to go. It is still fun and the same formula. DI Parker starts out slow in S9, but then gets into the swing of things. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5650 "2025-02-05T02:18:06Z")
I just watch 3 half episodes of the New Hollywood Squares. In the first two, they had Drew Barrymore in the center square (and in the third also, she looked like she was having fun) but only two others I knew. In epi 3 they added in Jay Leno and Chaka Khan so more 'celebrity power". No loughs for me, but I grinned several times, which to be honest- is more than broadcast shows usually get from me. But until Jay got on, they were doing those great Gilbert Gottfried bluffs- so generally if you agreed, you’d be right. That takes some of the fun out of it. I had never heard of the new host but he had a lot of energy and did some banter fairly well. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5651 "2025-02-05T02:37:58Z")
Finished season one of _North of North_. Canadian show set in a small Inuit community. Hoped for something like _Reservation Dogs_, but it is a fairly generic sitcom with little examination of the native culture. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5652 "2025-02-05T05:57:07Z")
Another series, YouTube specific this time, is Lateral with Tom Scott. Tom and 3 other podcasters solve lateral thinking problems and have fun with it. There’s also a podcast on [lateralcast.com](http://lateralcast.com) but that’s audio only, and I enjoy watching their expressions. I’m all caught up 🙁 Tom Scott has a lot of other videos that I will check out if they sound interesting. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5653 "2025-02-05T14:38:32Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@Shoeless](#): > > > > We’re about mid-way through S9 of **Death in Paradise** , D.I. Jack Mooney has left to go back home and from what I’ve read on Wikipedia most of the rest of the cast is gone by the end of the season. I think we may be just about done with this one even though it looks like there are several more seasons to go. > > It is still fun and the same formula. DI Parker starts out slow in S9, but then gets into the swing of things. To be honest, I don’t really like the character of Ruby (she just seems too unprofessional) so I’ll stick around long enough to check out her replacement. Also it looks like Florence comes back for two more seasons, which is a plus. @GuanoLad, I remember reading somewhere (possibly upthread?) that **Beyond Paradise** wasn’t all that great. I see it pop up in my suggestions on Prime/Britbox but usually ignore it. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5654 "2025-02-05T15:16:01Z")
I’m in the process of revisiting Califonia’s Gold on the [CA’s Gold Fan youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@cagoldfan). It’s a given that people make fun of Huell Howser’s unbridled enthusiasm, but the state never had a better ambassador. Watching even a couple of episodes provides a nice escape from the current news cycle. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5655 "2025-02-05T16:36:19Z")
Watched the first ep of **Mo** , a comedy on Netflix. The premise is Mo is Palestinian by heritage (not birth), but though he’s been in the US for 25 years, he still has no citizenship in either country. He passes as Hispanic to avoid anti-Muslim sentiment, but has to avoid ICE. 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5656 "2025-02-05T17:00:29Z")
And 92% on the PopcornMeter! ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5657 "2025-02-05T18:58:12Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > So this will be my first watch. I watched about the first half of Episode 1 before I had to go to bed, but I can definitely see the early prototypes for The Wire in this show. So I finished Homicide:Life on the Streets last night. It was kind of a weird time capsule of the 90s. It’s interesting to see how many attitudes have changed since then, but also how many haven’t. We discussed smoking earlier, and while the amount of smoking did seem to decrease in later seasons, they did still have things like people smoking in bars. They also seemed to care a lot more about police shootings, and suspects committing suicide before being arrested. These days, we kind of expect mass shooters to kill themselves, and are a bit surprised when one actually gets arrested. And it was fun playing “Spot The Wire Actors” throughout the series. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5658 "2025-02-05T19:45:28Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > @GuanoLad, I remember reading somewhere (possibly upthread?) that **Beyond Paradise** wasn’t all that great. I see it pop up in my suggestions on Prime/Britbox but usually ignore it. I love it. It’s just my cup of tea. What I like about it, and maybe this is not what people expect, is that the crimes aren’t murders all the time. In fact so far they have only had one to investigate. But I really enjoy the characters and the pace. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5659 "2025-02-05T21:08:54Z")
Ok, well I did like Humphrey and was sorry to see him go, so maybe I’ll check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5660 "2025-02-05T21:14:52Z")
I am rewatching Star Trek-Deep Space Nine. One cable channel has the first five ST channels on six nights a week and not long ago DS9 was starting again. I am relearning some things about the characters I’d forgotten or never learned. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5661 "2025-02-06T04:31:08Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > So I finished Homicide:Life on the Streets last night. One of the other things besides the smoking that stood out for me was how so few of the Baltimore born and bred main characters spoke with actual Baltimore accents. They would throw a bone with the occasional “hon” reference, but accent-wise it might as well have been just another New York cop show. (Granted, Frank was supposed to have been born and raised in New York.) And it seemed like they frequently cast local Baltimore actors for the bit parts, so on that score they at least made the effort. (Or it was a great way to not have to pay for LAX-to-BWI airline tickets.) All that said, still one of the best cop shows ever. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5662 "2025-02-06T05:36:16Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > We’ve been watching **“All of Us Are Dead”** on Netflix - or - Teenage zombies from South Korea. We’re halfway through the 12 episodes and it’s beginning to feel awfully padded. (They spent a goodly amount of one episode discussing how people trapped in one room at a high school and a detention facility were going to relieve themselves.) I don’t know if we’re going to make it through to the end if the story does kick up. I finished this series and I enjoyed it. I rather liked the claustrophobic element of being trapped in various areas of the school without knowing what is going on (as opposed to one long extended chase scene or action scene). They’re supposed to be filming a second season this year; I’m always a little leery about whether teen actors will look drastically different when there’s a big gap between sequels. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5663 "2025-02-06T13:21:58Z")
> [@zbuzz](#): > > And it seemed like they frequently cast local Baltimore actors for the bit parts, so on that score they at least made the effort. (Or it was a great way to not have to pay for LAX-to-BWI airline tickets.) Apparently a lot of that was through the influence of Robert Chew, who played Prop Joe in The Wire, and was also on Homicide once. He was pretty prominent in the local acting scene, and helped other actors get hired. > **[Robert F. Chew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Chew)** > > Robert Francell Chew (December 28, 1960 – January 17, 2013) was an American acting coach and actor. He was best known for portraying drug kingpin Proposition Joe on the HBO drama series The Wire. > Chew was born on December 28, 1960, in Baltimore. He graduated from Patterson Park High School and then studied music at Morgan State University. > Chew starred in the HBO drama series The Wire as drug kingpin Proposition Joe on all five seasons of the show. The role had drawn acclaim for Chew both for h... ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5664 "2025-02-07T00:17:23Z")
I like it. It balances his personal life and dealing with fitting into a small town crew. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5665 "2025-02-07T01:55:48Z")
I realize I’m well over a decade behind, but I just finished Season 1 of _Downton Abbey_ on Prime. I’m enjoying it thus far, and, if it’s historically accurate, it certainly is making me think about the British aristocracy and servant classes of only a century ago. It’s really annoying, however, when Prime inserts its commercials in the middle of a scene. I guess I’m not yet buying enough stuff from Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5666 "2025-02-07T02:33:57Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I realize I’m well over a decade behind, but I just finished Season 1 of _Downton Abbey_ on Prime. I’m enjoying it thus far, and, if it’s historically accurate, it certainly is making me think about the British aristocracy and servant classes of only a century ago. Quite accurate but not perfect- > **[How realistic is Downton Abbey?](https://britishheritage.com/art-culture/how-realistic-downton-abbey)** > > The period mellow drama has fans around the world but today we ask just how realistic is Downton Abbey? ### How truthful is Downton Abbey? _In most respects, very._ _he one element that does not ring true is the easy interaction and conversation between the upstairs world of the family and their peers and the downstairs world of the hired help. That just didn’t happen (or at least not on such a scale). Most of the family wouldn’t have even known a housemaid’s name. These great country homes had back stairways for a reason. There’s not going to have been much interaction between these social sets, let alone much of an emotional connection. Of course, it always takes some element of the improbable to make a story a story instead of a dull narrative._ ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5667 "2025-02-07T20:36:27Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I realize I’m well over a decade behind, but I just finished Season 1 of _Downton Abbey_ on Prime. I’m enjoying it thus far, and, if it’s historically accurate, it certainly is making me think about the British aristocracy and servant classes of only a century ago. I loved DA and read all sorts of complaints by English people that it wasn’t really like that, and Mary would have had a hard time finding a lover post WW1, and more. Didn’t let it bother me, it _felt_ right and why should I let a few grumps ruin my fun? Then Julian Fellows does a show (“The Gilded Age”) set in 1870s America re: some guy who ran a trust, and it was so historically inaccurate that I had to turn it off in 10 minutes. Anyway, DA is fun. Especially if you fast-forward through the incredibly dreary Mr. Bates storyline. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=282) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=284)