# 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:** 29
**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 8, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/561 "2021-11-08T14:26:38Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > For fans of _The Detectorists_ , the next of Mackenzie Crooks’s series, _ **Worzel Gummidge** _ , is continuing with three more episodes. For those unfamiliar, this is a remake of a 70s series, though both are really adaptations of a book, about a scarecrow who befriends two children. It’s ostensibly aimed at kids, but it’s just as sweet-natured as _Detectorists_ , and makes me smile. > > Also, today’s new episode has Toby Jones as a guest star. _Lots_ of Toby Jones. It was a cracking episode, to be sure. A good turn from Paul Kaye as “Guy Forks” as well. And did you catch the comment about Worzel not being a “pirate”? That had to be a deliberate nod to one of Crook’s other well-known roles. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/562 "2021-11-08T18:08:43Z")
I just finished the first season of Stranger Things and fail to see why its getting so much attention. The main characters thinking, speaking and behaving like adults is just too much. The wife is now watching season 2 but I just go surf the web. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/563 "2021-11-08T18:18:36Z")
**Travel Man: 48 Hours in…** (Prime) is a delightful travel show staring Richard Ayoade from IT Crowd. It’s just him and a celebrity guest on a weekend trip filled with the typical wry wit the British have perfected over the centuries. While my children are awake there is very little I can be bothered to watch in a standard evening without profanity, nudity, or extreme violence, so this hits the sweet spot of something I _can_ watch and yet something _worth_ watching. The episodes are short and there isn’t a plot so my wife and I can get up and tend the children while the show keeps going on. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/564 "2021-11-08T20:30:06Z")
You might also like his Gadget Man (which he took over from Stephen Fry) ---
**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:** [November 8, 2021, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/565 "2021-11-08T20:30:53Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > **Travel Man: 48 Hours in…** (Prime) is a delightful travel show staring Richard Ayoade from IT Crowd I really enjoyed Travel Man, especially since the inside joke is that Richard really does not like to travel. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/566 "2021-11-08T21:38:23Z")
Yeah, I’m never really sure how much of his performance on that show is him or his ‘character’, maybe they’ll almost the same anyway. ---
**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:** [November 8, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/567 "2021-11-08T22:08:48Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And did you catch the comment about Worzel not being a “pirate”? That had to be a deliberate nod to one of Crook’s other well-known roles. But did you see this? [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDh3mnBWYBQ0A_A?format=jpg&name=orig) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FDh3mnBWYBQ0A_A?format=jpg&name=orig) ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/568 "2021-11-08T22:43:45Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > I just finished the first season of Stranger Things and fail to see why its getting so much attention. The main characters thinking, speaking and behaving like adults is just too much. The wife is now watching season 2 but I just go surf the web. Yeah, I opted out of Season 2 of Stranger Things. Sure, the first season was ok, but I’d had enough of it by then. For different reasons I bailed on 13 Reasons why (watch any more of this, it was a one season show? And it was only 7 reasons why MAX), and Handmaids tale (no, I don’t want to kill myself or watch any more horrible shit happen to women). Stranger Things was just sort of “yeah, that’s over, no need for more”. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/569 "2021-11-09T01:33:01Z")
Just finished three seasons of BBC’s _Ghosts_ on HBO Max. It was a lot of fun and I hope there is another season to get all of the characters’ backstories. Only after doing a search to see if there would be a season four, did I learn that there is an American version on CBS. I’m dithering about signing back up for Paramount (or whatever CBS All Access is called now) , to watch it. I’ll probably just wait for a new season of _Star Trek Discovery_ to do that. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/570 "2021-11-09T01:42:15Z")
So far the American version of Ghosts isn’t too bad, though I think they’re still adapting stories from the original. It will be interesting to see how it is when they start with original stories. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/571 "2021-11-09T09:47:03Z")
Star Trek Prodigy. 10 minutes, couldn’t stand it any longer than that. But, hey, it’s for kids, you know. ---
**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 9, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/572 "2021-11-09T14:07:38Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I just watched the first episode from **Scenes From A Marriage**. Don’t know what to think of it yet. Finished it. I loved it more than I hated it. I’m glad it was only 5 episodes else I might start to feel co-dependent. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/573 "2021-11-09T14:37:00Z")
I recently watched a Korean produced series called, [“My Name”. It’s just one season and may very well be over, but I really enjoyed it.](https://www.netflix.com/title/81011211) ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/574 "2021-11-09T14:46:25Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > I really enjoyed Travel Man, especially since the inside joke is that Richard really does not like to travel. Me too, my favourite was his Iceland trip and his exchange with the elf guy Him “I hoped you learned something” Richard (sotto voce while nodding) “I did not” It spawned a household meme that is still in circulation. ---
**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 9, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/575 "2021-11-09T15:26:16Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > It spawned a household meme that is still in circulation. Ours is: “_We are here. But should we have come._” \*Granted, recently disused. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/576 "2021-11-09T18:59:51Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Just finished three seasons of BBC’s _Ghosts_ on HBO Max. It was a lot of fun and I hope there is another season to get all of the characters’ backstories. Only after doing a search to see if there would be a season four, did I learn that there is an American version on CBS. I’m dithering about signing back up for Paramount (or whatever CBS All Access is called now) , to watch it. I watched the first half of the US version, and while it’s nearly a verbatim re-shot of the BBC version I decided I liked the Brits better. Interesting changes in the cast … replacing the Neanderthal and medieval peasant with a Native American and a Viking, and making the military man Revolutionary-era instead of WWII. It seemed like the US version felt the audience needed more exposition. For instance: the opening scene, with the death of the previous owner, whose spirit asks the ghosts “who are you?” BBC version: “I’m your great-great-grandmother…” US version: “I’m the ghost of your great-great-grandmother…” ---
**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:** [November 9, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/577 "2021-11-09T19:03:48Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Interesting changes in the cast … replacing the Neanderthal and medieval peasant with a Native American and a Viking, and making the military man Revolutionary-era instead of WWII. And I think the flower child/hippie is replacing the Romantic-era poet. Some of these changes are necessary, given the differences in who populated the two areas over the centuries. And yes, I think I like the original version better but if you like the American version, you’re going to get more episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/578 "2021-11-09T19:51:29Z")
I actually prefer the US version, but only because Rose McIver is so unbelievably likeable. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/579 "2021-11-09T21:43:18Z")
My husband likes the US version better too. I like the British one. I guess we average out. ---
**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 9, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/580 "2021-11-09T21:45:16Z")
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