# 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:** 354
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7068 "2025-07-31T18:54:17Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I made the mistake of lifting my pause on Hulu to watch “The Bear”. These have been the longest half hours of my life I watched just one epi, admittedly- maybe even the first? Anyway what pissed me off is that the showrunners lied their damn asses off and listed it as a comedy, which enabled it to win a scad of Emmy awards for “Outstand Comedy Series”. 🙄 Now, the epi i saw was okay, pretty good, but NOT a comedy. I asked a fan of the show about that and she said there were a few moments, but it was a pretty serious drama- and she liked it. That was like entering a dog in a cat show. ---
**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 31, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7069 "2025-07-31T18:58:04Z")
In my experience, each streaming services might have one really good new show that is worth watching. So sometimes I’ll subscribe for a month, watch that show, and then cancel the account. ---
**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 31, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7070 "2025-07-31T19:15:09Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I already see a lot of growth in Monroe’s character. Monroe is the best character on the show. Partially because of how they wrote the character and partially how the actor plays him. ---
**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 31, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7071 "2025-07-31T19:35:42Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Finished: > > **Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon**. I still can’t believe this is a thing. Not so fast! Season 2 is now airing. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7072 "2025-07-31T22:50:02Z")
And I’m watching it. Thank heavens Boxxo (yes, really) has expanded his vocabulary. The guy with the shoe fetish is a disturbing development though. ---
**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 31, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7073 "2025-07-31T23:11:10Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > In my experience, each streaming services might have one really good new show that is worth watching. So sometimes I’ll subscribe for a month, watch that show, and then cancel the account. I do that also. It’s more about punishing the streaming service than it is about saving money. Be more entertaining, dammit! ---
**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:** [July 31, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7074 "2025-07-31T23:12:30Z")
We watched the first three episodes of _White Lotus_ knowing absolutely nothing about it and…I dunno. It’s entertaining, but I’m not fond of rich people or shows about awful people. I thought with all the existentialism and surrealism references it might explore those themes more, but so far it seems like a bog standard dysfunctional rich person drama. If anyone wants to pitch to me why this show is deserving of all the Emmy noms, I’m open to hear it. Otherwise I think this is the end of the line. We watched the first episode of _Peacemaker_ which I can only describe as incredibly tacky and very funny. ---
**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 31, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7075 "2025-07-31T23:23:22Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > We watched the first three episodes of _White Lotus_ I hate that show…and I’ve watched every damn episode. Don’t ask me to justify it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7076 "2025-07-31T23:49:43Z")
Ditto. But I can say that season 3 is the least bad of the 3. ---
**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 31, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7077 "2025-07-31T23:51:29Z")
Thanks mostly to Sam Rockwell. That monologue was the dramatic equivalent of an Aristocrats joke. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7078 "2025-08-01T04:03:26Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > We watched the first episode of _Peacemaker_ which I can only describe as incredibly tacky and very funny. Loved _Peacemaker._ I find myself randomly watching the intro song on YouTube. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7079 "2025-08-01T12:47:05Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Loved _Peacemaker._ I find myself randomly watching the intro song on YouTube. The real challenge would be if they did a new song and dance for season 2. We’ll find out soon enough. James Gunn literally set out to make an opening no one would ever skip. Hey, he succeeded. My wife and I always watched it. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7080 "2025-08-01T13:13:47Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > The real challenge would be if they did a new song and dance for season 2. We’ll find out soon enough. “Soon enough” being [announcing the title](https://gizmodo.com/peacemaker-season-2-song-sdcc-2000635182) five days ago. There have been mentions of working on the song/dance for a while before that. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7081 "2025-08-01T13:16:51Z")
Thanks! I’m glad we’ll get to see it soon. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7082 "2025-08-01T13:53:19Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > Watched half of **The Hunting Wives** , a Netflix series set in East Texas. It’s perfectly fine for some trashy summer viewing. Also pretty racy; Malin Akerman is one of the two female leads and man, that woman is not shy about showing her body. Trashy fun it is. Watching it with my wife, who first wanted to, then after ep.1 with one of the Akerman scenes you mention, said “I guess _you’re_ hooked on the show now” 🙄 It is also a pretty obvious, ham-handed satire on gun culture and MAGA culture in general. One plot point has one of the titular ‘hunting wives’ convince her sheriff husband, who is investigating the murder of a young woman, to play it as an example of how bad the ‘open border’ is and suggest in a press conference she was killed by an undocumented ‘bad hombre’. Not because they actually believed it at all, strictly as a cynical attempt to play to the public and increase the Sheriff’s popularity. Although, I have to say the show’s depiction of Texas as Ground Zero for American gun culture I don’t think is _ **that** _ exaggerated at all. It reminds me of the stories a guy I used to work with had when he came back from a trip to Texas with a friend. He’s pretty liberal, like the main female character, Sophie, on the show who moves there from Boston with her husband-- she initially experiences culture shock, but is gradually enticed into the lifestyle by the ‘hunting wives’ who take her under their wings (mostly). Anyway, my coworker said his friend’s uncle was a rich Texan who had a room, or at least a walk-in closet, full of all manner and style of guns, and they went boar hunting, just like Sophie with the hunting wives. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7083 "2025-08-01T14:48:37Z")
**Leanne** (Netflix). Yet another sit-com built around a stand-up comic’s act (Leanne Morgan). No new ground being broken here … it’s a 3-camera, laugh-track, Chuck Lorre show. The only thing unusual about it is that it’s on Netflix instead of CBS. So without commercials each episode is 20 minutes, and Netflix has dropped all 16 episodes at once. You could binge it in a day. On the plus side: it’s pretty funny. The supporting cast includes Ryan Stiles (late of Whose Line Is It Anyway) and Kristen Johnson (who I haven’t seen since Third Rock from the Sun). ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7084 "2025-08-01T15:58:28Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The supporting cast includes Ryan Stiles (late of Whose Line Is It Anyway) and Kristen Johnson (who I haven’t seen since Third Rock from the Sun). Both were on previous Chuck Lorre shows. Stiles on _Three and a Half Men_ and Johnson on _Mom._ ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7085 "2025-08-01T16:09:46Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I hate that show…and I’ve watched every damn episode. I find that attitude incomprehensible. If a show doesn’t interest me in the first 15 minutes or so, good bye: there are thousands of shows around. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7086 "2025-08-01T16:15:23Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > If a show doesn’t interest me in the first 15 minutes or so, good bye I didn’t say it didn’t interest me; I said I hate it. It’s one of the most interesting shows on TV. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7087 "2025-08-01T17:40:00Z")
Kristin Johnson has lupus (in remission now apparently), so she wasn’t able to work much for a while. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=353) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=355)