# 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:** 361
**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 15, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7208 "2025-08-15T12:34:33Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Those are whale teeth. Perhaps they’re supposed to be, but whale teeth don’t look like that. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7209 "2025-08-15T12:47:49Z")
What exactly is the difference between the necklaces in the show and the actual artefact necklaces in the Bishop Museum? Or other Polynesian ones: > **[Vuasagale (sperm whale tooth necklace)](https://digitalnz.org/records/166507)** > > From Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Vuasagale (sperm whale tooth necklace) > **[Wasekaseka (sperm whale tooth necklace)](https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/206679)** > > Find out more about Wasekaseka (sperm whale tooth necklace) at Collections Online - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa > **[A Superb Fijian Chief’s Whales Tooth Necklace Polynesia 19th Century](https://www.oceanicartsaustralia.com/art-for-sale/a-superb-chiefs-sperm-whales-tooth-necklace-fiji-19th-century/)** > > A Superb Old Fijian Chief’s Whales Tooth Necklace called wasekaseka Polynesia 19th Century or Earlier  This superb 19th Century Fijian Whales Tooth [![](https://www.oceanicartsaustralia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/765.-Fiji-Whales-Tooth-Neckace28x30cm-0.jpg) ](https://www.oceanicartsaustralia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/765.-Fiji-Whales-Tooth-Neckace28x30cm-0.jpg) ---
**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 15, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7210 "2025-08-15T14:22:28Z")
Publicity photo from the Apple TV+ show Chief of War, showing the lead actor Jason Mamoa, wearing what someone thinks looks like a bear claw necklace. [![](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jason-Momoa-in-Chief-of-War.jpg?w=2000&h=1126&crop=1&resize=1440%2C810) ](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Jason-Momoa-in-Chief-of-War.jpg?w=2000&h=1126&crop=1&resize=1440%2C810) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7211 "2025-08-15T14:41:24Z")
It _also_ looks like … a whale tooth necklace. > **[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/explore/search/keyword/?q=%23wasekaseka)** Seriously, do people think the [costume designers who spent “months of R&D” just to find a machine-washable substitute for real kapa](https://www.instagram.com/explore/search/keyword/?q=%2523wasekaseka) were going to go “bear, whale, fuckit, they’re both mammals 🤷‍♀️” ---
**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 15, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7212 "2025-08-15T14:45:53Z")
I checked out after the first scene showing Mamoa playing rodeo with a shark. Absolutely ridiculous. ---
**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 15, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7213 "2025-08-15T15:59:25Z")
I concede the point. ---
**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 15, 2025, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7214 "2025-08-15T16:00:38Z")
When I try to follow that link to Instagram, I’m prompted to login using a Facebook account, but don’t have one. [Here instead is an article from the Costume Designers Guild covering what may be similar content.](https://costumedesignersguild.com/chief-of-war/) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7215 "2025-08-15T16:06:02Z")
Puka shells don’t scream tough I guess, but then there is the eyeliner….. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7216 "2025-08-15T16:06:31Z")
I think I posted the same URL twice, that’s exactly the page I wanted to link to in that second link (it’s where the “months of R&D” quote is from) Thanks. ---
**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 15, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7217 "2025-08-15T16:39:03Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I checked out after the first scene showing Mamoa playing rodeo with a shark. Absolutely ridiculous. Only Ina should play rodeo with a shark. > **[Cook Islands Ina and the Shark 3 Dollars | Mintage World](https://www.mintageworld.com/media/detail/11608-cook-islands-ina-and-the-shark-3-dollars/)** ---
**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 15, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7218 "2025-08-15T16:45:12Z")
Wednesday - season 1 Recommended. What a fun and cute show. My wife and I didn’t watch until now and Season 2 is partially online already. Fun, well acted, and pretty interesting. Not only is Jenna Ortega pretty good, the girl who plays her upbeat friend is an excellent actress. We are surprised we like it so much. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7219 "2025-08-15T17:50:38Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > _Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?_, a three part adaptation of an Agatha Christie story. Inna and I caught this one too. Yes, the actors were charming, the scenery properly British (Welsh, even!), and etc. However, even at three episodes, it felt like it took its time, the entire ‘investigation’ plot was horribly contrived (imagine doing that in America at any period), and the resolution seemed rushed and not really germaine to most of what happened before. In short: it was cute. ETA: Do spoiler tags no longer work? ---
**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 15, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7220 "2025-08-15T18:08:33Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > the girl who plays her upbeat friend is an excellent actress. Emma Myers. If you haven’t seen it you can try A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder where she play the precocious (but quite realistically flawed) teenage lead. She’s easily the best thing about the series, which otherwise is a solidly good but not awesome show IMO. I think I gave it a “B” grade, but it is very bingeable as a murder mystery. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2025, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7221 "2025-08-15T20:06:52Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Fun, well acted, and pretty interesting. Not only is Jenna Ortega pretty good, the girl who plays her upbeat friend is an excellent actress. I thought it was silly and moderately entertaining, but I confess I’m not the target audience for “teenage girl fascinates two hunky guys, which one will she choose?” stories. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7222 "2025-08-15T20:10:14Z")
I watched the finale of **Smoke** on Apple TV+ today. It was pretty decent. I do think that they went a little easy on Calderone; there needed to be some more addressing of her killing her boss, even if it was an accident. The series has a final twist where it is revealed that the Dave Gudsen we have been seeing throughout is not his actual physical appearance, but rather his idealized version of himself. While being interrogated by Calderone, Dave looks in the mirror and sees his true self: a pudgy, balding middle aged sad sack. This makes me want to ask some questions, like how screwed up Reba (the ex-wife) must be to keep hooking up with that loser? I couldn’t begin to explain how those two would have ended up married, let alone why she would still want to come into any physical contact with him (after he literally set her on fire). I know looks aren’t everything, but Dave also came across as kind of psycho pretty much from the jump. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7223 "2025-08-15T21:20:04Z")
I enjoyed _Wednesday_ s1 (not got to s2 yet) but I did guess who the real villain was, purely because of the casting ---
**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 15, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7224 "2025-08-15T22:23:50Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I thought it was silly and moderately entertaining, but I confess I’m not the target audience for “teenage girl fascinates two hunky guys, which one will she choose?” stories. Neither am I, but it was fun. ---
**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 15, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7225 "2025-08-15T22:39:25Z")
Forgot to watch the finale; maybe later this evening. Thanks for spoilering. ---
**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 16, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7226 "2025-08-16T20:28:27Z")
All in all, a good series with a lot of twists and well-acted by most everyone. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7227 "2025-08-16T21:45:02Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > I checked out after the first scene showing Mamoa playing rodeo with a shark. Absolutely ridiculous. [What was your problem with it](https://youtu.be/S5sS_wmrCec)? (Starting at 2:28) Lots of other references of lassoing sharks among Pacific Islanders, as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=360) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=362)