# 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:** 348
**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:** [July 19, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6948 "2025-07-19T08:55:03Z")
Mark Gatiss has created a show he stars in called **Bookish** , and I’m only ten minutes in and already hooked. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nZMCJmdxczQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Bookish | Official Trailer | Max AU") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZMCJmdxczQ) ---
**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:** [July 19, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6949 "2025-07-19T21:04:42Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > For some reason I have a hankering to watch _The Windsors_ again, a hilarious parody of the royal family I loved that show, and I did a rewatch of it a year or so ago. It held up very well. I will probably do a re-rewatch at some point. > [@wolfpup](#): > > You’re correct. Not a word is said about the Queen. I suspect that this was not only out of respect for the monarchy as an institution, but because the Queen herself was such an exemplary monarch. Prince Philip, on the other hand, got roasted pretty good by the show. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6950 "2025-07-19T21:23:45Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Prince Philip, on the other hand, got roasted pretty good from the show. Yeah, there were multiple instance in the series where Prince Philip sends a note to an event he is unable to attend, to be read to all the attendees. It’s invariably a string of profanity-laden insults to the crowd! 😁 Philip was famous for his impolitic remarks to almost everyone. It’s clear from some of the remarks that he knew exactly how improper his remarks were, but he just didn’t care. He once praised Queen Elizabeth for her tolerance, and rightly so! ---
**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:** [July 19, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6951 "2025-07-19T21:37:58Z")
Looks really good! Mark Gatiss writes good shows. Our favorite episodes of the Suchet Poirot series are the ones the wrote the scripts for. So funny, but I thought that was Dawn French at first and I was thinking “Good for her, she’s lost a lot of weight.” But it’s Polly Walker, and she’s _gained_ weight! Middle age is rough. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6952 "2025-07-19T21:42:06Z")
We’ve just watched the first five series of _Foyle’s War_, an excellent series about a police detective in the seaside town of Hastings, England, during WWII. Each of the 28 episodes across eight seasons is about 100 minutes, presented chronologically, and uniquely, in my experience, many tie in to some actual historical event, e.g., the Dunkirk evacuation in May-June 1940, the invention of the “dambuster” bomb, the arrival of US troops in 1942, etc. The acting is excellent, and the attention to detail in the settings, costumes, and props, including period vehicles, even airplanes, is exemplary. Creator Anthony Horowitz “considered that to honour the veterans of the war it was important to get the details correct.” ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foyle's_War).) For me, the tone is one of the most impressive aspects of the show. Although a murder is central to every episode, it is not a typical “cosy mystery.” While rarely explicitly gory, it doesn’t hide the fact that horrible things happen in wartime, and that people are damaged, physically, mentally, and spiritually, by the war. It has a level of subtlety and realism rare in TV dramas. A decorated war hero is a wife beater and turns out to have faked the incident that earned him his medal. Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle has to face ethical questions like should someone whose work is essential to the war effort be prosecuted. Highly recommended. It’s available to stream on Acorn, or to buy on AppleTV or Amazon. We stream it for free on Hoopla, thanks to our local library. ---
**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 19, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6953 "2025-07-19T21:43:06Z")
It is brilliant 🎇 Nice follow up would be **Imitation Game** ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6954 "2025-07-19T21:43:24Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Finally finished the final episode of _The Residence._ I do think it could have used a bit of tightening up but in general I thought it was very enjoyable. One element I hates was: the killer had a door sealed off and paintings moved to conceal crucial evidence and no one who worked there for years saw fit to mention this, including the people who would have had to make the renovations. ---
**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 19, 2025, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6955 "2025-07-19T21:44:40Z")
I continue to marvel at my re-watch of “Better Call Saul”. Impeccable casting, directing and plotting. A joy to watch. ---
**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 19, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6956 "2025-07-19T21:46:34Z")
Thoroughly enjoyed **The Resident** …great cast If you’ve not seen **The Good Doctor** it is a great match. The original Japanese version is good too but not as much as the Freddie Highmore version. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6957 "2025-07-19T21:58:15Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > We’ve just watched the first five series of _Foyle’s War_, an excellent series about a police detective in the seaside town of Hastings, England, during WWII I really like this show as well. The final post-war season was the shortest and the weakest, but it had a slam bang ending. Ellie Haddington often plays a baddie, but she was Divine Retribution in this one. I liked Honeysuckle Weeks as Foyle’s driver, and it disturbed me when I saw her as a psycho in one of the Suchet Poirots. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6958 "2025-07-19T23:31:01Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > The final post-war season was the shortest and the weakest, but it had a slam bang ending. I agree. I thought they had a lot more material to explore during the war. Post war wasn’t as interesting to me. IIRC it was because the show was cancelled then revived. If they knew it was going to continue they wouldn’t have jumped to the end of the war so quickly. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6959 "2025-07-20T04:30:24Z")
The new season of It’s Always Sunny showed up last week. For those of you that watch Abbott Elementary, the first episode of It’s Always Sunny is the other half of the crossover. I’m willing to bet it’ll be the only time you’ll ever hear Janine (or Quinta Brunson, for that matter) call someone a, well, it’s a real bad word. If this video doesn’t work, [here’s](https://www.reddit.com/r/AbbottElementary/comments/1lw7jg5/spoiler_janine_cursing_in_the_its_always_sunny/) the reddit thread I grabbed it from. https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7525268002095238413 (spoiler if you don’t watch the video, she calls Dee a “total fucking cunt”) ---
**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 20, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6960 "2025-07-20T05:58:41Z")
Try as I might, I just cannot convince my partner to watch _BCS_. And she enjoyed _Breaking Bad_. I finally managed to get her to watch the first episode. She wasn’t impressed. I said it gets a lot better but she wasn’t having it. For my money they are on a par with each other. ---
**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 20, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6961 "2025-07-20T12:27:10Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > For my money they are on a par with each other. I agree. BCS is a bit more oblique in its development, so it requires some patience, IMO. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6962 "2025-07-20T16:18:45Z")
Yes, but it has more depth than BB, as well. That Quinta Brunson clip was great. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6963 "2025-07-20T19:56:05Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > (spoiler if you don’t watch the video, she calls Dee a “total fucking cunt”) I’ve never seen Abbot Elementary(aside from the crossover) and I could tell her language was, well, a surprise. Mind you, she encountered Sweet Dee. That changes a person. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6964 "2025-07-20T22:38:33Z")
I started watching **The Institute** but only got five minutes in before I knew it was not worth my time. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6965 "2025-07-20T22:52:07Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I’ve never seen Abbot Elementary(aside from the crossover) and I could tell her language was, well, a surprise. It is an ABC show, under FCC broadcast rules. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6966 "2025-07-20T23:28:20Z")
Watched an episode and a half of Too Much (Netflix, a show by Lena Dunham), which stars Megan Stalter, the annoying assistant on Hacks. She is just as annoying here, but since she’s the main character, I just couldn’t stomach her that long. The first episode was okay. I liked some of the other characters a lot. I might try to finish the 2nd episode in case things get better. ---
**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 21, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/6967 "2025-07-21T00:35:25Z")
Watched Episode 1 of Untamed last night. Liking it thus far. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=347) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=349)