# 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:** 343
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6848 "2025-07-07T13:53:28Z")
I happened across _Blue Ridge_ on Prime. Hubby and I are both enjoying it. We started watching E1 when I noticed on IMDb that there was a movie that the series is based on. So we watched that first. It’s been picked up for another season. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6849 "2025-07-07T13:56:46Z")
Yeah, thanks. I can never keep it straight. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6850 "2025-07-07T14:22:16Z")
I finished watching _I’m a Virgo_. I really liked it, but the ending (a communist lecture!) was extremely abrupt. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6851 "2025-07-07T15:06:47Z")
Watched Epi 1 of **Countdown** on Prime last night. Pretty good action thus far, albeit a lot of shooting and blood. Also an interesting plot line developing. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6852 "2025-07-07T15:45:57Z")
Talk about grabbing you by the throat… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0LcKrmSNElE/maxresdefault.jpg "Attack on London: Hunting The 7/7 Bombers | Official Trailer | Netflix") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LcKrmSNElE) > **[Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers review – finally, Netflix makes a...](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/01/attack-on-london-hunting-the-77-bombers-review-finally-netflix-makes-a-great-serious-documentary)** > > Twenty years on, this heart-racing four-part series reconstructs the terror attacks and the vast investigation that followed, without losing sight of the survivors. The detail about the bathtub is astonishing ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6853 "2025-07-07T16:42:59Z")
Binged it over the weekend on the strength of the recommendation here. Yeah. Very good. ---
**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:** [July 7, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6854 "2025-07-07T17:19:47Z")
> [@MacDoc](#): > > Talk about grabbing you by the throat… We watched the Grenfell doc and the 7/7 doc on Netflix recently; they were both very good. ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6855 "2025-07-07T19:57:06Z")
I also watched that this weekend and it was very well done. I was surprised at how much I had either forgotten or wasn’t covered in the new sources I followed at the time, and I don’t think I really knew anything about the attempted attacks a few weeks later. I learned a lot and found the series very engrossing, so definitely recommend. And the story of the poor young man that was killed essentially because he was brown and the police communication was shit - just awful. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6856 "2025-07-07T20:36:48Z")
Yeah that was very distressing and clearly lasting trauma for the officers involved. 😢 I guess I was most shocked by the opening interview where one of the victims who survived described seeing the bomber reach into the knapsack… 😱 …one of those moments where if it was fictional account would not be believable. I’m also reading **The Only Plane in the Sky** about 9-11 and it is equally engrossing as it tracks a timeline over the initial day…I’m only part way in but crazy engaging in a very intimate way. Highly recommended. [https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759742836/the-only-plane-in-the-sky-offers-a-powerful-graphic-narrative-of-9-11](https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759742836/the-only-plane-in-the-sky-offers-a-powerful-graphic-narrative-of-9-11) ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6857 "2025-07-07T22:53:05Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/v4pi6hGbo8Y/maxresdefault.jpg "Diagnosis: From The New York Times Column | Official Trailer | Netflix") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4pi6hGbo8Y) Engaging - bit of an indictment on US medical system but that’s incidental. A person finally finding out what is actually wrong with them …in the first case after 9 years…is heart warming. Variety of stories. 🍿 ---
**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:** [July 7, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6858 "2025-07-07T23:36:08Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > _Only Murders in the White House_ “It’s a mystery. There hasn’t been a single murder anywhere but the White House in six months…” ---
**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:** [July 7, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6859 "2025-07-07T23:39:54Z")
The Diagnosis column in the New York Times Magazine is always an interesting read, and incidentally, the column inspired the Fox television series House, M.D. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6860 "2025-07-08T17:24:51Z")
**Gotham** The origin series for Batman, Jim Gordon and a host of bad guys. I started this a few months ago on Prime but had to rush through the final dozen or so episodes as it is leaving the platform. All in all, a decent series and worth watching for sure, but it definitely had a lot of ups and downs. The good? Penguin, The Riddler and The Joker were all really well done, both in their characterisation and acting. In the early episodes the Penguin was particularly good but I think by the end The Riddler had the edge. The general look and feel of the show was great, it was well shot and the production design was terrific. What wasn’t so good? I lost count of the endless ‘deus ex machinas’, where at the last second a friendly face came to save the day out of nowhere, be it in a gun fight, a knife fight or a chase. It got quite laughable at times. Some of the characters were really quite forgettable (ok, I’ve remembered them well enough for this summary but still). I’m not sure for some of them who may have been from the comics or who was original to the show. Tabitha, totally bland. Barbara, not convincing at all as a villain. Bruce? I think the actor did his best but was almost as bland as Tabitha. Some of the supporting police characters were cardboard cutouts. I’m debating whether to watch _Pennyworth_, which goes back even further. Anyone recommend it? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6861 "2025-07-08T20:52:02Z")
I thought _Pennyworth_ was well worth watching. As I recall, it did use an alternate history version of England, with different political parties. Also, while there was a Queen, it was definitely not Elizabeth II. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2025, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6862 "2025-07-08T22:02:09Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Gotham It’s a good show, but I feel you can stop when ‘The Blood’ story line shows up as you will have seen all the good stuff. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6863 "2025-07-08T22:21:16Z")
I felt the villain quality of _Gotham_ peaked with Balloonman in episode 3. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6864 "2025-07-08T23:21:25Z")
I really enjoyed _Gotham_, though it did sort of limp to the finish line as I recall. Nobody’s mentioned Camren Bicondova as young Selina Kyle. She was fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6865 "2025-07-09T08:46:59Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9nKRJGXgK0Q/maxresdefault.jpg "BALLARD - Official Trailer | Prime Video | July 9") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nKRJGXgK0Q) Bosch spin off with good reviews. Don’t miss the first minutes…🍿 ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6866 "2025-07-09T08:49:16Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I thought _Pennyworth_ was well worth watching. As I recall, it did use an alternate history version of England, with different political parties. Also, while there was a Queen, it was definitely not Elizabeth II. Dare I ask… is it ‘Hollywood England/UK’, gor blimey guvnor, everyone either a cockney or a lord, or does it actually do it properly? I’m not sure if it is the same production company as _Gotham_? If it is then I assume they have done things right, as Alfred in _Gotham_ was reasonably authentic especially with some of the language (probably helped having a good English actor in the role). ---
**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:** [July 9, 2025, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6867 "2025-07-09T08:51:10Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I felt the villain quality of _Gotham_ peaked with Balloonman in episode 3. He definitely gave the show a lift [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=342) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=344)