# 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:** 296
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5908 "2025-03-10T16:07:49Z")
> [@solost](#): > > > [@Chefguy](#): > > > > Major alert! **Dark Winds** Season 3 premiers tonight on AMC. > > Curse the ever-increasing balkanization of streaming services. We watched seasons 1 and 2 on Netflix, but they take about a year to get the latest seasons of a show. So I went to see where on streaming channels it appears, and apparently now there’s an AMC+ service for $6.99/mo. No thanks. Looks like I have to wait until 2026 to watch it. I admire but don’t think I can emulate your self-discipline here. I wanna know what happens next with Leaphorn and Chee and Manuelito, dammit, and if that means I have to shell out a couple months’ fees to AMC, oh well. Thanks for the heads-up, Chefguy! ---
**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 10, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5909 "2025-03-10T16:24:24Z")
I’m subscribing, as there are other things on there worth watching, and even at the no ad price, it’s far cheaper than Max and some others. ---
**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 10, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5910 "2025-03-10T16:34:23Z")
Yeah, maybe, though [I just took a look at AMC+'s website,](https://www.amcplus.com/?utm_medium=search&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=amc+-brand&utm_keyword=&utm_content=&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwm7q-BhDRARIsACD6-fVwjuOgHPD_8kYkOsgO-ZyYGok4gx9Sou13LC4CGHvlUYvM3TcYT2EaAoE3EALw_wcB) and I’m not seeing a whole lot that’s new other than Dark Winds I’d like to see, and their older shows mostly have all the episodes on other Streaming channels we have, like Netflix. What are you watching on AMC+ that you like? I tell ya, we cut the cable maybe 5 years ago because paying for a few key streaming channels cost a fraction of what cable cost. Now cable’s almost starting to look like the cheaper alternative again, if one wants access to a reasonably wide variety of shows. ---
**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 10, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5911 "2025-03-10T17:14:38Z")
I don’t know yet, as I just subscribed today. I did, however spot a lot of stuff that I have no interest in, like all the zombie crap. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5912 "2025-03-10T18:47:26Z")
Fortunately for me AMC is part of my cable service, but I agree that there’s currently almost nothing on AMC worth watching. ---
**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 10, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5913 "2025-03-10T20:30:47Z")
It is for us, too. But if you want it to be ad-free, you have to opt for AMC+, which is extra. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2025, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5914 "2025-03-10T20:49:15Z")
After so many people raved about it, I finally got around to watching **Severance** season 1. And yes, though it was a familiar genre of mystery box, it was executed really well. I’ll take a nominal break and then start on season 2 when all episodes have dropped. It means I miss out on the daily discussions, but I tend to get spoiled when traversing that route, so it’s probably better this way. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5915 "2025-03-10T23:20:26Z")
Well, I cheat. I record all the shows I want to watch on my DVR and fast-forward through the commercials when I watch them later. ---
**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 10, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5916 "2025-03-10T23:52:07Z")
Ah, right. We had one in Portland, but don’t feel like paying Comcast for one here. ---
**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 11, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5917 "2025-03-11T17:06:27Z")
We’ve started watching _[Colin From Accounts](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18228732/)_. Thanks to the title character/dog two people meet and stuff happens. 3 episodes in. The first wasn’t all that good. Gave it another try. The next two we’ve watched so far are better but not wow in any way. One measure I use for such shows is predictability. If I know from the first 5 minutes how the episode is going to end, that’s not good. (I tried watching _Modern Family_ in two periods. Each ended because of this. Plus that mega-trite talk-to-the-camera stupidity.) So several nicely done lesser surprising things. But some of the big things were visible a mile away. E.g., so episode 3, time for X to happen. Yep. Anybody else seen this? Does it get any 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:** [March 11, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5918 "2025-03-11T17:21:44Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Anybody else seen this? Does it get any better? We enjoyed both seasons well enough to watch a third if they make it. Most of the story and humor derives from the leads’ difference in age. Something the real life actors/writers have personal experience with. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5919 "2025-03-11T17:30:47Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > **“House of David”** is a wanna-be biblical epic streaming on Amazon+… > We’ve watched three episodes and are probably going to stop there. We know how it ends, anyway. Thanks for taking one for the team, I am in your same boat and have been on the fence about watching this for some time. I was worried more about Hollywood’s historically low budgets for anything Bible themed rather than aversion to religious themed television. Where these characters explored in any contemporary way or was it simply _The Bible: Excerpts of David_ on screen? ---
**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:** [March 11, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5920 "2025-03-11T22:54:09Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > We enjoyed both seasons well enough to watch a third if they make it. I liked season one well enough, but the penultimate episode was so terrible it almost ruined the whole series for me. I didn’t know there was a second season; I’ll have to check it out and hope there’s not such a clunker in there. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5921 "2025-03-12T02:31:15Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Anybody else seen this? Does it get any better? I liked it from the beginning, but I think yes. I am looking forward to future episodes. I’m not normally a fan of cringe humor but this works for me. Watching **Shrinking** on Apple TV+ and it’s very enjoyable. Jason Segel is pretty funny in the role of beleaguered psychologist mourining his dead wife (what is up with that, Apple? Dead wife seems to be the premise of every show), the comedy is great with some compelling drama, Harrison Ford is not phoning it in. I just really like it. My husband likes it too, and he’s always a little leery of TV depictions of psychologists. Segel’s character becomes wildly unethical with his clients, but that often backfires, and enough characters are pissed off about it that it works. Finally… We’ve been watching **Severance** on Apple TV+. It is certainly the best science fiction TV series I have ever seen, it may be the best TV show I have ever seen, of any genre. If you are a fan of science fiction, it does science fiction so good and so hard. The basic premise, for those not in the know, is an alternate future in which people’s work consciousness (innie) can be separated from their outside work consciousness (outie.) The innies are effectively slaves whose entire consciousness consists of office work. This is all they know and have ever known. The writers take this very simple premise and spin from it a vast array of profound existential questions that have stayed with me long after finishing an episode. It’s deeply creepy, hilarious, inspiring, and good at everything. Adam Scott and John Turturo and Christopher Walken are fantastic, but the prize goes to the woman who plays Helly R, Britt Lower. Acting, writing, set design, cinematography, all superior. Even the opening credits/theme song is haunting and strange and beautiful and fits the show perfectly. To quote my husband: Whatever you’re doing instead of watching **Severance** , it’s the wrong choice. ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5922 "2025-03-12T03:50:27Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Adam Scott and John Turturo and Christopher Walken are fantastic, but the prize goes to the woman who plays Helly R, Britt Lower. In that case, allow me to repost something I wrote over in the main Severance Season 2 thread: > By the way, if you like Britt Lower, the actress who plays Helly, check out [Circus Person](https://www.circusperson.com/), a short film that she wrote, directed and stars in. It is a bit artsy, but I found it clever, funny and moving. > (Note that, while it is not in any way sleazy–quite the opposite, really–it does contain a certain amount of nudity, so consider it potentially NSFW.) Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5923 "2025-03-12T14:12:26Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Watching **Shrinking** on Apple TV+ and it’s very enjoyable. Jason Segel is pretty funny in the role of beleaguered psychologist mourining his dead wife (what is up with that, Apple? Dead wife seems to be the premise of every show), the comedy is great with some compelling drama, Harrison Ford is not phoning it in. I just really like it. We just watched the series finale last night and I’m sorry to see it come to an end. I think I’ve laughed out loud more for this series than anything else on TV right now. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5924 "2025-03-12T15:05:16Z")
They are currently filming a new season that will incorporate the recent fires into the plot, that wasn’t the series finale. ---
**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 12, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5925 "2025-03-12T17:40:36Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Harrison Ford is not phoning it in. I think it is the best acting/role of his career. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5926 "2025-03-13T00:14:20Z")
Thank you! I’m so glad there’s a Severance thread! I should have known! ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5927 "2025-03-13T01:23:13Z")
We finished Season 2 of **“The Night Agent.”** Neither of us got into it the way we did the first season. The final episode, however, was quite good. It had more dramatic tension than the previous episodes combined. I’m really tired of the Evil Iranians trope. I felt the same way about the Evil Mafia trope, the Evil Mexican Drug Lord trope, and the Evil Russian Crime Family trope. Can someone please come up with some different ethnic groups to fill the “evil” role? How about them Evil Swedes? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=295) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=297)