# 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:** 328
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6548 "2025-06-03T17:53:08Z")
I think **Murderbot** is a fun series, too. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6549 "2025-06-03T18:34:55Z")
Couldn’t get through the first ep, I’m afraid. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6550 "2025-06-03T18:39:15Z")
My husband wants to bail on it and I’m not sure. I read the first _Murderbot_ book and it was fun in a campy way but didn’t offer much in terms of compelling character development, and I didn’t read on in the book series. I feel similar about the TV series. Like it’s reaching for substance but not quite getting there. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6551 "2025-06-03T18:43:16Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I read the first _Murderbot_ book and it was fun in a campy way but didn’t offer much in terms of compelling character development, and I didn’t read on in the book series. I feel similar about the TV series. Like it’s reaching for substance but not quite getting there. The first book was pretty short, and like a lot of first works, it had to do a lot of heavy lifting to introduce the setting, the character, and why the character is so different. Later books expanded on that to tell better stories. The TV show seems to have the same problems. I suspect it will get better as time goes on. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6552 "2025-06-04T00:32:12Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > > [@Horatius](#): > > > > I think a big part of it is their motivations are very different. In BB, Walter’s downfall ultimately comes down to wanting money, and later, power. Ho hum, every bad guy ever. > > This quote right here is why I never could get into Breaking Bad. Would I like Saul without having watched Breaking? YES!!! I did. As I said upthread, BCS is my entry point to the BB universe. Had it not been the certain knowledge that Saul would return, I don’t think I’d have made it through BB season 1 on its own merits. Saul keeps me going. Better watch _Better Call Saul_! ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6553 "2025-06-04T00:36:43Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > think **Murderbot** is a fun series, too. I was going to start _Murderbot_—probably still will—but went with _Your Friends & Neighbors_ instead. It’s… ok. Honestly, if it weren’t for Jon Hamm reprising his role as Don Draper (not literally), I don’t think I’d be sticking with it. But he adds just enough to the mix (mostly bland writing—the other performances are fine too, but not enough to make up) to see me through the season. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6554 "2025-06-04T01:01:52Z")
We’ve been watching **Your Friends and Neighbors.** It started out well but we’re cooling on it. Episode 6, in which Coop and his ex-wife take their daughter to a college orientation, was yawn-inducing up until the last minute or so, when something violent happened unexpectedly that changed the whole vibe of the episode. I have one personal gripe about this series. I’m pretty liberal about such things, but this series just has too much fu----g! Two or three times in just about every episode, people are fu----g! Like rabbits. And it’s pretty graphic. Please, stop fu----g and get on with the story already. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6555 "2025-06-04T01:26:29Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > My husband and I are watching _ **Paradise** _ on Hulu with James Marsden and Sterling K Brown. We’re halfway through and really like it. We had a bit of a dry spell for a while where we couldn’t find anything that we were both interested in. We had our regular shows that we watch, but we needed something to fill in. I’m glad we came across this. I watched the first two episodes then decided to wait until they were all out. I’m definitely going back to finish it. SKB is incapable of being bad in anything. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6556 "2025-06-04T05:24:05Z")
**Department Q** on Netflix Highly recommend. Well drawn characters (even minor ones) elevate a mystery that unfolds a little too quickly. I really hope this is picked up for another season. ---
**Author:** ![Oswald\_Bastable](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oswald_bastable/32/214_2.png) [@Oswald\_Bastable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oswald_Bastable)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6557 "2025-06-04T07:40:38Z")
We’re about 3 episodes into this and enjoying it, though you can see Netflix scrabbling for their own Slow Horses (based on books, quirky, deadbeat characters). Interesting you should say it plays out too quickly as it was such a major complaint about streaming shows in pre-Covid times that they had too much filler! OB ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6558 "2025-06-04T11:55:42Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I started watching _Poker Face_ and am hooked on it. I’m loving this as well. From the Faux Columbo opening credits to the variety of twists and turns they put in, it’s a very well done show. One nitpick, if you know someone is a violent murderer, don’t be in a room with them alone when you say you’re going to the cops. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6559 "2025-06-04T12:04:44Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > One nitpick, if you know someone is a violent murderer, don’t be in a room with them alone when you say you’re going to the cops. That’s a Columbo thing, too. All the time he would be alone, unarmed with murderers telling them that they were caught. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6560 "2025-06-04T12:10:10Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > I have one personal gripe about this series. I’m pretty liberal about such things, but this series just has too much fu----g! Two or three times in just about every episode, people are fu----g! Like rabbits. And it’s pretty graphic. Please, stop fu----g and get on with the story already. That’s funny. I mentioned to my wife last night that there seemed to be an excessive amount of faux humping going on in this thing. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2025, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6561 "2025-06-04T12:11:01Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > One nitpick, if you know someone is a violent murderer, don’t be in a room with them alone when you say you’re going to the cops. That’s one nitpick I have with the show. When she makes her accusation, she often does it in a situation where, if the person were to react violently, she’d be in trouble. However, I can handwave that away as it’s a nice little summary that brings together what we knew, what she knows, what the suspect lied about, how she knew it was a lie etc and ends the show there. It’s not a terribly realistic show in the first place, so this isn’t that big of a deal. Besides, if you want to see her in danger, she’s usually running from someone at some point anyways. But, yeah, in general, don’t accuse someone of murder when they’re still holding the gun and you’re the only two people around. On Psych, when Shawn would wrap things up, the suspect would often run away, to which Shawn would sometimes comment/joke that you’re basically admitting guilt when you do that. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > That’s a Columbo thing, too. All the time he would be alone, unarmed with murderers telling them that they were caught. And it’s basically the same thing there. It’s more of a wrap up/summary for the audience than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6562 "2025-06-04T14:46:11Z")
You are stronger than me. I was only able to get 1.5 episodes into the Jodie Whittaker series and watched the first 2 specials of Ncuti Gatwa’s run. The writing and plots have not been good for quite some time. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6563 "2025-06-04T15:22:13Z")
So I shouldn’t be disappointed that I haven’t been able to watch Doctor Who since it moved to Disney+ (which I don’t subscribe to)? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6564 "2025-06-04T15:31:58Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > > [@RealityChuck](#): > > > > I started watching _Poker Face_ and am hooked on it. > > I’m loving this as well. From the Faux Columbo opening credits to the variety of twists and turns they put in, it’s a very well done show. > > One nitpick, if you know someone is a violent murderer, don’t be in a room with them alone when you say you’re going to the cops. Usually, she’s already alerted the cops and they arrive before the killer can act. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6565 "2025-06-04T15:41:46Z")
Columbo was threatened on more than one occasion at the end of episodes (Bill Shatner with a shotgun in his car I think it was, where Columbo had plain clothes cops standing by at a discreet distance, and the one with the dobermans that Columbo had sneakily had retrained to lick him to figurative death at a particular command word, instead of maul to actual death). ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6566 "2025-06-04T16:40:15Z")
We just finished the latest (third) season of _The Chelsea Detective_ on Accorn. They only do three episodes per season, so you get through them quickly. I like the characters, and the stories are pretty good usually, alhtough the second episode with the American ambassador was a real dud. They actually film in Chelsea, so it’s also great site-seeing via TV. There’s a deaf actress who plays their coroner (?) evidence specialist (?) … not sure what her title is. Her role was expanded this season which I was happy to see, because I like the vibe she brings to the show. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6567 "2025-06-04T17:09:37Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Columbo was threatened on more than one occasion at the end of episodes Columbo was a cop who was known to all and sundry to be investigating a murder. Charlie is a drifter sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong. The last one I saw (from season 1) had Charlie being physically attacked by multiple murderous assailants, and hit a variety of times in ways that could have resulted in a quick death. Yes, the cops showed up shortly after her improvised signaling, but it required improvised signaling, and if the cops were there, why weren’t they, you know… _there_? But, it’s just a nitpick, I’m loving the show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=327) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=329)