# 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:** 358
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7148 "2025-08-11T13:48:25Z")
I started to watch Hope Street, thinking it was a cop drama but it’s really a soap opera. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7149 "2025-08-11T14:37:30Z")
Yeah, and not a good one, either. I actively hate at least three of the actors. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7150 "2025-08-11T14:55:42Z")
We’ve been watching **Reservation Dogs** on Hulu. It’s a really funny and beautiful show. We watch an episode a week and I find myself thinking about each episode for days after. There’s only three seasons, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7151 "2025-08-11T14:58:10Z")
I recently spent a lost weekend watching [The Lizzie Bennet Diaries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lizzie_Bennet_Diaries), a 100 episode (each episode is about 5 minutes) YouTube series modernizing Pride & Prejudice, structured around the vlog of Lizzie Bennet, a grad student (and eventually a graduate trying to find a place in the job market) in Communications. If you are an Austen fan, they do a good job of keeping the storylines and characters fairly intact and true to the original while bringing everything forward into the modern world and modern media. The storytelling is entirely through vlogs, mostly Lizzie’s, which was undoubtedly for budget reasons, but it works. It does necessitate that a lot of the action happens off screen and we only get to see the character’s reactions and retelling, so it depends a lot on the ability of the actors to connect to the audience mostly through storytelling. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7152 "2025-08-11T14:58:55Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Stupid plot, stupid resolution and annoying characters. I’m not sure I can keep on with this. Yeah, sounds like a real dilemma 🤣 ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7153 "2025-08-11T15:09:45Z")
Matt Smith in **The Crown** is showing superb acting. There was a poll taken recently asking which were the best seasons and Season 1 got 62% of the votes and Season 2 a very respectable second place at 24% Might bail after this season but the Diana actor was superb too. 🤔 ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7154 "2025-08-11T15:25:57Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > We’ve been watching **Reservation Dogs** on Hulu. It’s a really funny and beautiful show. We watch an episode a week and I find myself thinking about each episode for days after. There’s only three seasons, unfortunately. Yes, that’s a good show. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7155 "2025-08-11T15:43:39Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > Yeah, sounds like a real dilemma Not for me, it isn’t. But the wife is okay with it so far, so I have to get past that roadblock. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7156 "2025-08-11T16:25:48Z")
For fans of the English version of **Professor T** , starring Ben Miller, All six episodes of season 4 have finally appeared on Prime. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7157 "2025-08-11T16:39:05Z")
i still get chills from the scene when her grandmother came to buckingham after her son died. that curtsy. just chilling. [US-KEY-09015 CON Masterbrand TV 2025 (TNBC 522)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6Ia-tWpeo) ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7158 "2025-08-11T17:04:16Z")
Brilliantly produced and filmed - outstanding for me was Churchills words. What an incredible wordsmith he was. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7159 "2025-08-11T17:44:26Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Please avoid including spoilers unless you blur or hide them. (and no, I don’t know where the links to those options disappeared to). As I posted in another thread this morning: > It now resides (on my phone anyway) in the drop down menu accessed by the + in a black circle at the right end of the toolbar in the editor. Blur spoiler is the last item in the menu. They keep moving this stuff around and adding/removing icons from the editor toolbar, so it can be difficult to keep track of where this stuff is. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7160 "2025-08-11T17:54:18Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > For fans of the English version of **Professor T** , starring Ben Miller, I had never heard of this. Ben Miller is one of those cross-genre type actors who I’ve liked in everything I’ve seen him in. I’ll see if I can get this. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7161 "2025-08-11T18:23:32Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > A disjointed thriller of sorts about the worlds dumbest (English) vicar I mentioned this up thread when we were first talking about this one, but he was sooooooo aggressively dumb it took me out of the show and I ended up not being able to finish. I like David Tennant as an actor - he’s great in most stuff I’ve seen. But he just couldn’t save that character. The weirdly tenuous connection to imprisoned genius Tucci was difficult enough, piling that on top of it was just too much for me at the end. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7162 "2025-08-11T20:42:34Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > We’ve been watching **Reservation Dogs** on Hulu. I’ve been hearing that name for years now and up until a few months ago, I just assumed it was some sort of reality restaurant show with a name meant to sound like Reservoir Dogs. It wasn’t until not that long ago that I leaned it’s Reservation as in Indian Reservation, not restaurant reservation. But I assume the ‘dogs’ part is still reference to the movie. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7163 "2025-08-11T20:43:45Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > It now resides (on my phone anyway) in the drop down menu accessed by the + in a black circle at the right end of the toolbar in the editor. Blur spoiler is the last item in the menu. Yeah, I no longer have that + in my cell phone toolbar. All I have now is: A(or M)   **B**   _I_  Tt  **"** I’ll have to hunt for the thread where it’s discussed. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7164 "2025-08-11T20:52:02Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > But I assume the ‘dogs’ part is still reference to the movie. The teenage characters on the show do refer to themselves as “Rez Dogs”, but I have no idea if that’s common slang for kids who live on an Indian Reservation, or just an expression made up for the show. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7165 "2025-08-11T22:04:42Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Yeah, I no longer have that + in my cell phone toolbar. All I have now is: > > A(or M) **B** _I_ Tt **"** It’s to the right of those. You can scroll the toolbar sideways with your finger. ---
**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:** [August 11, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7166 "2025-08-11T22:17:52Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > You can scroll the toolbar sideways with your finger. Holy cow! Thanks! Clearly, I never would have found it! I wonder why the heck they didn’t put the + where it’s visible? Thanks for your help! ---
**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 11, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7167 "2025-08-11T22:20:09Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > The teenage characters on the show do refer to themselves as “Rez Dogs”, but I have no idea if that’s common slang for kids who live on an Indian Reservation, or just an expression made up for the show. > **[Rez dog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rez_dog)** > > Rez dog (short for reservation dog) is usually a term for outdoor, stray, and feral dogs living on Native reservations in the United States and Indian reserves in Canada. The term has taken on many connotations, and has to some extent become an emblem of and metaphor for reservations/reserves, life on them, and indigenous North Americans in general. For example, a "rez dog" may refer to a resident of indigenous lands. > The distinction between a rez dog and dogs in general is often seen as emblema... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=357) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=359)