# 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:** 294
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5868 "2025-03-04T16:55:49Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > _The most recent season of **Resident Alien** ended with a jolt._ We just got to it, and you’re right. It’s inexplicable. We’re done with this series. Season 3 was so bad, we only stuck with it to the end because we had enjoyed the first two seasons and thought we’d already invested so much time in it. Several episodes (especially those involving Harry’s romance with the bird lady) were just awful. There was far too much personal angst involving just about every character, and frankly, we didn’t care. And Harry, a likeable if goofy character, became a real schmuck. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5869 "2025-03-04T17:02:34Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > We just got to it, and you’re right. It’s inexplicable. Someone mentioned above that this happened right when the writer’s strike happened, so the ending was choppy as a result. But yeah, I think this thing has jumped the toothy aquarian. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5870 "2025-03-04T17:18:48Z")
Last ep just dropped. Will watch later. Acting is great. But much suspension of disbelief is required. I have to admit that my thought on one baddie is not panning out. But it is so much of basic plot beats of other shows Silo, Fallout that it feels lazy. Still fun! ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5871 "2025-03-04T17:26:56Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Last ep just dropped. Will watch later. Acting is great. But much suspension of disbelief is required. Oh, I already factored in “much suspension of disbelief” as soon as I saw the end of the ep1 reveal that everybody’s living in a massive ‘Truman Show’ style town simulation inside of a mountain in Colorado, complete with artificial sun (Maintenance alert: dawn will be delayed by 2 hours). ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5872 "2025-03-04T17:30:55Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > In the story, it’s only been a few hours That’s the issue I was bringing up. Show time is _not_ the same as viewer time. IRL a week and often more has passed. I’m still several episodes behind. I want to see _new_ stuff in a _new_ episode. The _format_ of the show is becoming a problem. If L&O type show can work a crime scene, find and arrest the perp and then convict them in a hour, that’s satisfying if unrealistic. Move the _show_ along so something else can now occur. This comment has absolutely nothing to do with the time it takes in an such matter. Dragging it out in the show just isn’t working. This is about the way the show is set up. Keep that in mind. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5873 "2025-03-04T17:32:26Z")
Yeah. More than that! 😁 Especially end of ep 7. But _still_ a very fun ep! ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5874 "2025-03-04T17:37:14Z")
Yeah, looking forward to finding out more about the catastrophe that forced the remaining US population underground. Could it be a 'Wayward Pines" type thing, I rhetorically wonder-- mutated murdery baddies outside the safe confines of the underground town? Or something even weirder? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5875 "2025-03-04T17:38:59Z")
Lips are sealed. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5876 "2025-03-04T19:44:01Z")
After seeing a _That '70 Show_ reel on Facebook it put me in the mood to rewatch some of that for the first time in years. I’m a little suprised that some of the episodes I remember best are from early in the first season—it was good from the start instead of having to griw into itself like so many shows. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5877 "2025-03-04T20:55:36Z")
Probably going to finish _The Good Place_ tonight, and unlike most here, I found it quite the slog. The cast was great. The characters all had fantastically funny moments. It was interesting seeing philosophical theories being played out in real time. It was (is) overwhelmingly cutesy, gratingly punny, and sometimes dumb… the International Hole of Pancakes. Dumb. The Judge saying she wanted to erase humanity NOW so she could go back to watching Season 3 of _Justified_ - dumb. There are dozens of these moments, all throughout the series, and it kept on reminding me that I was watching a long-form sitcom. Maybe tonight’s series ending episodes will change my mind, but this one has been a rare miss for Inna and myself. No wonder I didn’t get this one done until try #3. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5878 "2025-03-04T21:18:47Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > She’s a legitimate snack. Stealing this. Thanks. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2025, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5879 "2025-03-04T23:58:25Z")
Another (mostly) satisfied viewer of _Bad Monkey_ checking in. Indeed, this was a perfect fit for Vince Vaughn’s classic joking around character. Most of the other characters are just there for him to bounce quips off of. Of note: Scott Glenn plays the overly present narrator/boat captain/etc. Almost an impression of the Key West version of Sam Elliot. The not-so-bad monkey does stuff early on but then is barely seen at all. It’s the title character. Or is it?? Hmmm. Lots of Tom Petty songs. His own versions are of course good. But there’s many covers, some of which just suck big time. Remember; Just let go. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5880 "2025-03-05T15:25:18Z")
Three episodes of **Paradise** on Hulu and I’m done. A very intriguing first episode followed by boringly formulaic political drama that makes nothing of it’s unique setting. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5881 "2025-03-05T16:21:02Z")
I’ve been debating getting a subscription to Hulu\* partly on my desire to watch **Paradise** (as well as a few other shows) but I may put that off now. I seriously need to review my streaming/cable access budget. \*I had been piggybacking off a friend’s subscription, but the Disney+/Hulu merger somehow cut me off from that. Another friend has me on her Disney+ account, but the Hulu access on that seems to be limited to only a few shows and movies. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5882 "2025-03-05T18:40:38Z")
One approach is to alternate subscriptions: Netflix one month, then drop Netflix and add HBO for the next month, then drop HBO and add Disney/Hulu after another month–and so on. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5883 "2025-03-05T19:18:42Z")
I finished it and it was fun. The particular setting mattered but not in ways that aren’t standard for the set up. The characters Xavier and Presley were great. The grief speech by Sinatra was wonderful. Other characters also lots of fun. Plot not so novel. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5884 "2025-03-05T19:51:03Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I’ve been watching old NCIS episodes, mostly to fall asleep to. I hate the character of Gibbs. If he slapped me upside my head even once I’d file a complaint and he does it constantly. The misogyny and sexism is so gross. > > I don’t know if I’d have been as bothered by it if I’d watched it when it was new, but I don’t like it at all now. I watched the pilot, and that was enough. Hate Gibbs. Hate him so much I’ve started hating other Harmon characters, going back to Adam-12. Whenever I catch the last few minutes of an NCIS before L&O reruns or whatever, my opinion has not changed. Stupid. Paradise: I never heard of it before today. I read the wikipedia episode summaries. Thanks to this thread, I’ll never be tempted to watch it. Intriguing idea, terrible follow through, just like so much of TV in the last 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5885 "2025-03-05T21:11:40Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Intriguing idea, terrible follow through Funny enough I experienced the opposite. The idea is beat down now. Come up with something original, really. Third show this year with the same basic premise. Follow through in term of interesting characters that are fun to watch is what they did well! But not _great_. ---
**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:** [March 5, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5886 "2025-03-05T21:41:59Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > One approach is to alternate subscriptions: Netflix one month, then drop Netflix and add HBO for the next month, then drop HBO and add Disney/Hulu after another month–and so on. Pretty much what I do. HBO and Hulu haven’t had anything worth watching in quite awhile, so I cut them off. At least Hulu lets you suspend your account so you don’t have to go through the re-subscribing drill. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5887 "2025-03-06T00:20:25Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > One approach is to alternate subscriptions: Netflix one month, then drop Netflix and add HBO for the next month, then drop HBO and add Disney/Hulu after another month–and so on. > [@Chefguy](#): > > Pretty much what I do. HBO and Hulu haven’t had anything worth watching in quite awhile, so I cut them off. At least Hulu lets you suspend your account so you don’t have to go through the re-subscribing drill. What I need to do is go through my list of what channels have shows/movies that I want to watch, then decide which ones are worth keeping because of their content, and which ones I can drop and re-up for occasionally. I get MAX for free as part of my internet service. I think there’s some that I can bundle with other services, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=293) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=295)