# 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:** 316
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6308 "2025-05-08T15:27:00Z")
I just finished Star Trek Lower Decks. Best trek in a long time. They brought back hope. I thought the finale was better than All Good Things… Everyone had a hand in saving the universe, even the Klingon dirt farmers. Diversity - YEA! On to Strange New Worlds. Engage the core! ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6309 "2025-05-08T15:29:23Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Engage the core! Eject the core! ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6310 "2025-05-08T15:29:52Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Eject the core! Shaxs, is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6311 "2025-05-08T17:36:25Z")
excellent series. I binged watched it in January and am now sad that it wasn’t picked up for a sixth season. Strange New Worlds is also a good series. However, I only made it a few episodes into season 2 of Discovery before throwing in the towel. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6312 "2025-05-08T19:47:29Z")
I more or less forced myself to watch Discovery Season 2 because I had heard that part of it was the set up for Strange New Worlds. After the first episode of Season 3, however, I gave up on it completely. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6313 "2025-05-08T19:53:02Z")
The wife and I just finished Love on the Spectrum. It’s a sweet show and interesting to watch though it does feel a bit exploitative at times but it seems show creator Cian O’Clery made a lot of effort to show the participants were shown fairly. > **[Who Is Cian From Love on the Spectrum? Meet the Netflix ProducerInTouch Weekly](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/cian-love-spectrum-meet-netflix-160521419.html)** > > Who is Cian O’Clery from Love on the Spectrum? In Touch has everything you need to know about the hit Netflix series' cocreator, producer and mastermind. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6314 "2025-05-08T19:59:24Z")
We just finished the 2021 version of All Creatures Great and Small. Consistently excellent. One of those series that could go on forever and never get old. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6315 "2025-05-09T00:15:49Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Not so sure about Russell Brand - his “look of mental illness” increasingly appears to be an accurate portrayal of his personality. Noel and him were apparently friends. I really will be crushed if it turns out Noel Fielding is an abuser like Brand. I hope not. Never liked Brand, but I love Noel in many things, especially on Buzzcocks. Hope he’s a decent guy…please? ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6316 "2025-05-09T03:52:39Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > But please, anyone, fight my ignorance. There are 20 episodes out now spread over 2 seasons, does this show change significantly in focus? Season 2 is notably funnier than season 1, which actually helped, IMO. And, IIRC (haven’t watched it in 2 years), they are doing a decent job of showing the slow descent of the galaxy. But I haven’t read the books, so the show is pretty much all new to me and I don’t see it as a comparison. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6317 "2025-05-09T09:59:15Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Never liked Brand, but I love Noel in many things, especially on Buzzcocks. > > Hope he’s a decent guy…please? Fielding’s main scandal appears to be an earlier “dating age gap” one, including (allegedly!) dating Pixie Geldof when she was 16 and he was 33. But he’s been in a relationship with Lliana Bird for over a decade, who is only 8 years his junior. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6318 "2025-05-09T15:39:13Z")
We’ve been watching an Argentinian sci-fi series called **The Eternaut** on Netflix. The setting is a post-apocalyptic Buenos Aires after an unrelenting and deadly snowfall arrives and kills people by touch. A few flakes on your skin and you’re a stiff. At first, it’s all about the survival of a small group of people, but about 15 minutes into episode 4 it takes a _ **really** _ weird turn that I never saw coming. The production values are top-notch and the actors convincing. If you don’t like subtitles it’s pretty well dubbed. I didn’t expect to get drawn into this series but now I can’t wait to see what happens next. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6319 "2025-05-09T15:41:58Z")
**MrsFtG** has restarted watching it. It’s so dark she finds she has to have subtitles on to partially figure out who is talking (as well as what is being said). I saw a YouTube video recently that basically said that darkness and muddled dialogue is the current “style” and the creators just don’t care if the viewers get lost. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6320 "2025-05-09T16:38:00Z")
It’s weird: when sub-titles were required a few decades years ago it was for the deaf and hard-of-hearing and much of the broadcast industry was opposed: now 40% to 50% of viewers use it. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6321 "2025-05-09T17:57:13Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I saw a YouTube video recently that basically said that darkness and muddled dialogue is the current “style” and the creators just don’t care if the viewers get lost. A while back I started watching (the movie) Dunkirk. I don’t think I made it more than a quarter of the way through and had to turn it off. The dialog was so drowned out, I was having a hard time following the movie. I know it won all kinds of awards and has been praised for it’s audio, but I know I’m not alone here. After giving up on it, I checked online and found plenty of other people also having a hard time understanding anything and even some theaters having to tell people that it their equipment is working properly, this is how Christopher Nolan wants the movie to sound. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6322 "2025-05-10T01:44:07Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > We just saw “The Nightman Cometh”, an episode of Always Sunny in Philadelphia that was one of the funniest half-hour sitcom episodes I’ve ever seen. There is at least another two which are as funny. > [@Mahaloth](#): > > The show is pretty funny(four seasons seen!), but definitely has some stinker episodes that aren’t that funny. It’s on my constant comfort rewatch, and most of the episodes I found meh, I’ve come to enjoy over time. There’s always a few episodes which some people don’t like, and it’s often different ones for different people, but the Irish episodes are often disliked (and excused because of the pandemic). But yes, the nightman cometh is one of my favourites, and the show phrases have seeped into my vocabulary now. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6323 "2025-05-10T14:46:58Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > There is at least another two which are as funny. Which? ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6324 "2025-05-10T19:05:39Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Is it more like the novels later? Simple answer, no. It just diverges more. It’s really odd that there are some great things to enjoy about the show (Empire storyline and the cinematography, for instance) and some things that are just braindead (any storyline involving Gaal or Hari). The key to sucking any enjoyment you can get out of the show is to abandon any expectation it will be like the books. There will be nods to the books and the broad outline of the plot, but it’s really a completely different story. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2025, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6325 "2025-05-10T21:57:38Z")
I’ve tried to watch **Government Cheese** on Apple, but I find my attention wandering. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6326 "2025-05-11T14:29:34Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Which? I’d say Charlie Work (S10E04), Mac And Dennis Move to the Suburbs (S11E05) and The Gang Turns Black (S12E01) (last two feature old (black) man). Other notables I find, one you’ve already seen, was Sweet Dee’s Dating a Retarded Person (S03E09), The Gang Gets Analysed (S08E05), Dee Day (S14E03) (always great to see Dee at her cruelest), McPoyle vs. Ponderosa: The Trial of the Century (S11E07) and The gang go to a water park (S12E02) and Charlie Kelly: King of rats (S06E10). ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6327 "2025-05-11T15:56:36Z")
Okay, mine: Mac Bangs Dennis’ Mom (S2E4) Charlie Work (S10E4) The Gang Goes to a Water Park (S12E2) The Gang Gets Extreme: Home Makeover Edition (S4E12) The Gang Hits the Road (S5E2) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=315) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=317)