# 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:** 297
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5928 "2025-03-13T14:07:07Z")
There is an antagonist called “The Swede” on the show _Hell on Wheels_. If you haven’t seen the show I do recommend it. It’s kind of a _Deadwood_ lite but Anson Mount, Common, and Colm Meany are really great in it, as are many of the other actors. ---
**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 13, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5929 "2025-03-13T14:08:50Z")
Watched **Zero Day** on Netflix. Started slow, got better, not too sure it stayed better in the final episode, but it was an enjoyable 6 hours. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5930 "2025-03-13T14:14:36Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > There is an antagonist called “The Swede” “But I’m not even Swedish, I’m Norwegian…” A good character, but by the end of the series, he’s gone all over the map! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5931 "2025-03-13T17:11:07Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > > [@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! Season 3 Episode 1 did not disappoint! I like the new spin of having Manuelito in a different geographical and workplace setting down at the border, hopefully temporarily. Other things I like include having random occasional dialogue in Spanish and/or Navajo without subtitling, emphasizing the experience of the characters who aren’t understanding what’s being said. I know these plotlines aren’t being particularly faithful to the books except in broad aspects of setting and characterization, but I’m happy letting the screenwriters run with it, at least so far. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5932 "2025-03-13T17:55:47Z")
Anybody else watching Japanese TV shows on Netflix? I started that exploration as part of my quest to understand what the hell is up with Studio Ghibli films. I cannot claim that I yet understand that, or many other aspects of Japanese cinematic art, but I’m having fun in the meantime. So far, (multipart, not long-running) series I’ve enjoyed include: \*\* The live-action workplace drama and/or comedy shows with some kind of quirky or specialized setting. - Atelier: feisty young textile study graduate joins high-end lingerie design company. Warning VERY GIRLY, except no love-story stuff, which is refreshing. I like this workplace-drama genre that’s getting its drama from the business and mission of the workplace itself, rather than treating it as an office-furniture backdrop to the personal relationships of co-workers. - La Grande Maison Tokyo: feisty middle-aged aspiring chef joins forces with former superstar chef to develop international-status haute cuisine French restaurant in Tokyo. All main characters Japanese, but lots of French dialogue relating to matters culinary. Apparently there’s a 2024 full-length feature-film “sequel”, La Grande Maison Paris, which I am still waiting to be able to see in some subtitled form. - The Hot Spot: not-very-feisty middle-aged-ish resort hotel clerk finds out about the unusual abilities and background of one of her colleagues, and the situation sloooowwwwly spirals in the general direction of out-of-control, although remaining firmly anchored in mundane-realism details that may strike some viewers as plain tedious, though I confess the series has really grown on me. New weekly episodes still arriving. - Giri/Haji: I don’t know if this counts so much as a “workplace drama”, given that the protagonist is an LEO coping with a surge in yakuza gang warfare, so more of a police procedural/thriller? Not much comedy so far (um, I’ve seen like 1.5 episodes). \*\* The anime adventures, generally based on manga: - Forest of Piano (Piano no Mori): A young student discovers his abilities and aspirations in classical piano, along the way sharing experiences and development with a number of contemporaries who are his rivals and friends. - Blue Period: A young student discovers his abilities and aspirations in studio art, along the way sharing experiences and development with a number of contemporaries who are his rivals and friends. - The Way of the Househusband (Gokushufudo): A former yakuza gangster kingpin is now married to a high-powered though somewhat ditzy businesswoman, who has no time (and not many skills) for traditional homemaking activities. The husband, whose impressive violent-crime qualifications aren’t much use to him as a law-abiding citizen seeking legal employment, turns instead to the challenges of mastering domestic duties, a mission that he takes VERY SERIOUSLY, meanwhile instructing a young ex-yakuza apprentice in their mysteries. (Warning: not very “animated” in a continuous sense, more like quickly flipping through successive frames of a manga story.) - Thermae Romae: A young bathhouse architect in Imperial Rome develops his professional abilities through occasional accidental time travel to modern Japan. Any other dorama/anime watchers with opinions on these shows? (See also: Blue Giant, anime feature film about aspiring Tokyo jazz trio, similar to the above in some ways but not a series.) ---
**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 13, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5933 "2025-03-13T18:17:29Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I know these plotlines aren’t being particularly faithful to the books except in broad aspects of setting and characterization, but I’m happy letting the screenwriters run with it, at least so far. Yeah, and it’s nice that they are including Navajo ritual and tradition. I had to laugh at Joe’s wife nagging him about having “a ceremony” to ward off any bad juju in the last season. He always has a stoic look while mentally rolling his eyes. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5934 "2025-03-13T22:04:45Z")
I just binged The Madame Blanc Mysteries. I really enjoyed it. Highly recommend. I signed up for Acorn just so I could watch it. I can’t wait for next season. ---
**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 13, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5935 "2025-03-13T22:51:52Z")
Checking, I see it has Robin Askwith in it. But the title doesn’t start with “Confessions of …”. Drat. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5936 "2025-03-13T22:56:03Z")
I’d never heard of him before, but it also has Steve Edge and I like him a lot. Great actor. ---
**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 13, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5937 "2025-03-13T23:20:38Z")
He is playing against type. And surprisingly very likeable in it, despite playing a bit of a nob. ---
**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 14, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5938 "2025-03-14T01:02:57Z")
Rewatching _That '70s Show_. I remembered Eric as always being obsessed with _Star Wars_ as a definitive trait, but they had a _Star Wars_ episode in season one and almost never mentioned it again until season five, when Eric was suddenly obsessed (and was obviously meant to always have been). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5939 "2025-03-14T02:07:09Z")
I have been watching Deep Space Nine from the beginning again, as it has been showing on a cable channel I get. With Quark as a prominent character we hear a lot about the rules of acquisition. Has there ever been published a complete list of the rules, at least the ones we hear on the show? ---
**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 14, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5940 "2025-03-14T02:36:58Z")
> **[Star Trek: Every Known Ferengi Rule Of Acquisition (& When They're Revealed)](https://screenrant.com/star-trek-ds9-ferengi-rules-acquisition-explained/)** > > What are Star Trek's Rules of Acquisition? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5941 "2025-03-14T02:42:46Z")
Thanks a lot! ---
**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:** [March 14, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5942 "2025-03-14T11:17:07Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > The Way of the Househusband (Gokushufudo): We have watched this, having read some of the manga. It is quite funny in his extreme reactions to incredibly mundane things. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5943 "2025-03-14T11:54:07Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > Giri/Haji: I don’t know if this counts so much as a “workplace drama”, given that the protagonist is an LEO coping with a surge in yakuza gang warfare, so more of a police procedural/thriller? Not much comedy so far (um, I’ve seen like 1.5 episodes). Giri/Haji is excellent, very much a police/gangster thriller. Has moments of comedy, but more tension and violence. Excellent performances, really strong character/relationship elements and builds genuine drama on top of the somewhat twisty plot. What they do with the final shootout/confrontation is incredible, and well worth sticking around for. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5944 "2025-03-14T12:06:05Z")
Just finished Miss Austen, a BBC drama about Jane Austen’s sister Cassie, and her efforts after Jane’s death to protect her from biographers. It is now generally lamented that Cassie worked so hard to destroy Jane’s letters and other evidence of her inner life - this series shows why a loving sister would do that, while also making full use of the prerogative of fiction to present a guess at what that inner life might have been through flashbacks to the sisters’ lives together. Great performances from a mostly female cast (Keeley Hawes, Rose Leslie, Jessica Hynes, as well as Patsy Ferran and Synnove Karlsen as young Jane and Cassie), exploring some Austen-esque themes, such as the tension between love, respectability and security, the precarity of women’s social and economic status, and suffocation of social and familial obligations. The end might be a touch more romantic than realistic, but no one complains about _Persuasion_ so… ---
**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:** [March 14, 2025, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5945 "2025-03-14T12:49:42Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > > [@Kimstu](#): > > > > The Way of the Househusband (Gokushufudo): > > We have watched this, having read some of the manga. It is quite funny in his extreme reactions to incredibly mundane things. I also thought it was pretty funny. I haven’t watched any live-action Japanese dramas, but I have watched a number of Korean dramas on Netflix. One that would fall into the category of “live-action workplace drama and/or comedy shows”: - _Marry My Husband_: A woman who works in the marketing department at a packaged food company is a doormat for everyone at work (including her scumbag husband and her backstabbing best friend). She dies relatively young, but is transported back 10 years in time to relive her life (and career) differently. I liked it and I thought the concept was interesting (it ain’t Shakespeare, though). ---
**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 16, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5946 "2025-03-16T14:44:25Z")
**Curb Your Enthusiasm** , 6 episodes in, gotta ask one question: Every episode has been the same - Larry commits some minor faux pas in the first minute, it bites him in the ass in minute 15 when the person he was rude to is in a position to help David… but doesn’t. Hijinks ensue. Are they all like this? ---
**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 16, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/5947 "2025-03-16T15:46:34Z")
Pretty much. It’s just David being a petty asshole. We quit watching somewhere in there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=296) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=298)