# 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:** 317
**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 11, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6328 "2025-05-11T17:27:31Z")
The Gang Buys a Boat was funny as well, just saw it last night. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6329 "2025-05-11T17:37:04Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > The Gang Buys a Boat was funny as well, just saw it last night. Because of the implication. ---
**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 11, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6330 "2025-05-11T17:46:06Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Because of the implication. It is at this point we can say almost for sure…Dennis is the worst of the group. I mean…he’s horrible. ---
**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, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6331 "2025-05-11T21:20:52Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > The Gang Buys a Boat was funny as well, just saw it last night. Ah yes, that was on my list but forgot to add it. “The implication” is a genuine comedy moment burned in my mind like a classic Python sketch. ---
**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, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6332 "2025-05-11T21:22:51Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > It is at this point we can say almost for sure…Dennis is the worst of the group. I mean…he’s horrible. Dennis is consistently the worst, but Dee’s cruelty burns bright when she goes dark, and can be the worst (and not just a “drunk punchy whore” or a bird). It’s all a bullying hierarchy, with Frank on top who bullies Dennis and Dee, Dennis bullies the rest, and the rest bully each other. ---
**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 11, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6333 "2025-05-11T21:43:53Z")
And let’s not forget Uncle Jack. He might be the goofy lawyer with enormous hands, but he also molested Charlie as a kid and continues to try and push his way back into Charlie’s life. ---
**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 11, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6334 "2025-05-11T23:10:09Z")
Just finished Good American Family. I really liked it. Apparently, it’s been a while since I’ve watched Psych. Throughout the entire first episode he was in, I had no idea that was Dule Hill. And that lawyer at the end, I would’ve sworn that was Cuddy from House (Lisa Edelstein), turns out it was Alan’s ex wife from Two and A Half Men. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6335 "2025-05-12T00:51:39Z")
Anybody watched / is watching The Eternaut? I loved it but I would like less biased feedback 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6336 "2025-05-13T18:05:29Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Anybody watched / is watching The Eternaut? I just finished it the other day. I wouldn’t say I loved it, but it was a reasonably well done apocalypse type show. Even with some episodes being an hour long or longer, I didn’t feel like they were dragging things out. There’s supposed to be a second season coming, and I’ll probably give it a look when it arrives. I did end up Googling the Falklands War, though, since it played a big part in the character’s backstories. Apparently this war has had a pretty big cultural impact in Argentina, like Vietnam had on the US. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6337 "2025-05-13T18:16:41Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I wouldn’t say I loved it, but it was a reasonably well done apocalypse type show. I think one of the main attractions of the show, for me, was that it happens _here_, it hits far more viscerally when the scenes of destruction are in General Paz avenue instead of say, Brooklyn. That could explain the difference in our evaluations of it . > [@Horatius](#): > > Apparently this war has had a pretty big cultural impact in Argentina, like Vietnam had on the US. It’s an apt comparison, though one of my few pet peeves about this adaptation is that they made a character good with firearms because he’s a veteran of Malvinas, that works for Vietnam, but the south Atlantic conflict lasted about 3 months, that’s not enough for a conscript soldier to become an expert marksman. (In the original 1957 comic the character was not a veteran, the war still being 25 years in the future) ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6338 "2025-05-13T18:21:18Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > I think one of the main attractions of the show, for me, was that it happens _here_, it hits far more viscerally when the scenes of destruction are in General Paz avenue instead of say, Brooklyn. I can understand that. I used to watch a show set in Ottawa, and all the exterior shots were places I knew. 😃 ---
**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:** [May 13, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6339 "2025-05-13T18:52:50Z")
We watched **The Four Seasons** over the weekend. Pretty decent romcom/drama with an excellent cast. Never saw the original movie so we didn’t know the twist at the end, which swung things a bit too far into melodrama territory for my tastes. And I absolutely hated Nick and Anne’s daughter. Still, well-written, well-acted, and worth watching. ---
**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 13, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6340 "2025-05-13T19:30:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > 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 When the movie was new, there was a quote from an old guy “I was AT Dunkirk, and it was quieter than this movie!” ---
**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 13, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6341 "2025-05-13T20:43:33Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Anybody watched / is watching The Eternaut? Couldn’t get into it, I’m afraid. There was another foreign series that was subtitled. The opening scenes ruined it for me, as it had an American woman going into the American embassy in whatever country this took place in. The Marine sergeant talking to her had a beard and moustache. No Marine would EVER have facial hair like that, no matter where they were stationed. If they got that wrong, then the rest of it was likely a mess as well. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6342 "2025-05-13T20:52:39Z")
That was the other series right? There are no scenes like that in The Eternaut. ---
**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 13, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6343 "2025-05-13T21:29:39Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > That was the other series right? Yup. And there was a third series that was supposed to be a comedy. The guy who starred in it (as himself) seemed obsessed with his anus. In the very first ep he graphically shits his pants. Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6344 "2025-05-13T22:33:40Z")
Just started **A Spy Among Friends (2023)**. The first 2 episodes are good. I’m in so far. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6345 "2025-05-14T15:29:36Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > We watched **The Four Seasons** over the weekend. Pretty decent romcom/drama with an excellent cast. Never saw the original movie so we didn’t know the twist at the end Wife and I are watching and enjoying it now. Curious as to what the ‘twist’ is, since I haven’t seen the original movie either; but FYI the movie is also playing on Netflix right now, so wife and I are planning on watching the movie after we finish the series. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6346 "2025-05-14T15:32:46Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > We watched **The Four Seasons** over the weekend. Pretty decent romcom/drama with an excellent cast. Never saw the original movie so we didn’t know the twist at the end, which swung things a bit too far into melodrama territory for my tastes. And I absolutely hated Nick and Anne’s daughter. We watched the original movie this past weekend and there was no twist at the end that I can remember. Inna thinks 1980-era Alan Alda was handsome, which I never thought about it, but I guess he is. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6347 "2025-05-14T16:10:50Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > We watched the original movie this past weekend and there was no twist at the end that I can remember. I was just now reading on IMDb, and I don’t think what happens at the end of the penultimate episode happened in the film. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=316) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=318)