# 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:** 377
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7528 "2025-10-05T22:00:21Z")
I don’t disagree, but I will say that the actor\* playing Hitchcock did a great job. Anthony Hopkins was better, but this wasn’t bad. I can’t imagine it’s easy to pin down the very specific way he speaks. _I had to look it up, Tom Hollander_\*, but I don’t think I know him from anything other than this. \*\*Psycho 2 was written by Tom Holland. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7529 "2025-10-05T23:23:37Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > _I had to look it up, Tom Hollander_\*, but I don’t think I know him from anything other than this I think most of us know him as the smarmy and confident Cutler Beckett in the second and third _Pirates Of The Caribbean_ movies. ---
**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:** [October 5, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7530 "2025-10-05T23:29:31Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Cutler Beckett “It’s Lord now…actually.” ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7531 "2025-10-05T23:30:41Z")
I’m three episodes in to Monster/Ed Gein. As a native Wisconsinite who had a longtime work colleague whose aunt was murdered by Gein, I had to look in. (I also once lived in Milwaukee a few blocks from Jeffrey Dahmer’s chocolate factory, but he was an outsider from Ohio, so I felt no similar obligation for his series). I’m put off that they have Gein committing crimes that he really didn’t do: especially torturing Ethel the babysitter. In Wisconsin, Ed Gein elicited shock and horror, but he was never a hated figure the same way that Kenneth “the hillside strangler” Bianchi or Richard “the night stalker” Ramirez were in LA; because they sadistically killed their victims. Ed Gein didn’t even remember killing the two women he murdered, much less relished the act. The others he dug up after they were dead. Wisconsinites are a goofy bunch, and among them you find a lot of isolated farmers with too much time on their hands and too many notions in their skulls. They usually take up odd hobbies like constructing pornographic windmills, but Ed Gein took it to the extreme and made a tom-tom out of a coffee can stretched with human skin. My misplaced sense of justice has me saying it’s unfair to poor old Ed to have him torturing the babysitter These embellishments are added to the series to boost the “have it both ways” theme of the producers in putting on a gore-fest while rubbing out the audience’s nose in it. Shame on us for enjoying this sick shit. A not invalid point to be made there, but when they take eight episodes to make it one wonders about their sincerity. This same point was made much better in the Austrian movie _Funny Games_. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7532 "2025-10-06T04:34:37Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > We are putting BCS to the side right now so we can watch _Breaking Bad_. Gotta get a pizza for Walt’s house! For [$4 million](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3828-Piermont-Dr-NE-Albuquerque-NM-87111/6776276_zpid/), you can throw as many pizzas on the roof as you want. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7533 "2025-10-06T04:57:30Z")
I enjoyed the first season of **High Potential** , fun mix of crime solving and character interactions. Finally got around to starting season two. A couple of episodes in I’m all done. The super villain Game Maker has made the show completely uninteresting for me. I’m guessing he’ll be a running theme from here on out. I’m not sure why shows think a nearly omniscient and omnipotent bad guy is a good idea. Oh well, the first season was fun. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2025, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7534 "2025-10-06T09:20:47Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > _I had to look it up, Tom Hollander_\*, but I don’t think I know him from anything other than this. > > \*\*Psycho 2 was written by Tom Holland. The existence of Tom Holland and Tom Hollander implies the existence of Tom Hollandest. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7535 "2025-10-06T12:50:47Z")
Finished the first season of **Peacemaker**. When I started watching it, I didn’t realize I needed to go back and watch the **Suicide Squad** movie first for background. (Yes, there was a recap at the beginning, but I just found it confusing, not helpful.) I know I’ve made this observation before, but John Cena reminds me - literally! - of Jim Varney on steroids. They both have that weird rubbery face. Looking forward to diving into S2. ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7536 "2025-10-06T14:10:45Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > The existence of Tom Holland and Tom Hollander implies the existence of Tom Hollandest. You are my hero ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7537 "2025-10-06T14:12:37Z")
Well, there are 2 Tom Hollands, the Spiderman actor and the writer, it’s just a matter of having them compete in a series of carefully designed contests to find out who’s the Hollander of them. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7538 "2025-10-06T15:24:35Z")
> [@MonkeysBrother](#): > > **High Potential** \<_snip_\> The super villain Game Maker has made the show completely uninteresting for me. If it matters to you, the Game Maker was captured at the end of the second episode. The third was an unrelated case that got wrapped up within the hour. Obviously I don’t know if GM will be back or whether there will be more recurring villains, but at least for now they’re back to the old case-of-the-week format. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7539 "2025-10-06T15:45:20Z")
I do agree with @MonkeysBrother that the super-genius villain is tiresome. I used to watch CSI regularly and that show seemed to have one each season. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7540 "2025-10-06T16:39:03Z")
Thanks, Wheelz. I’ll go back and give **High Potential** another chance. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7541 "2025-10-06T16:53:06Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > > [@Gyrate](#): > > > > The existence of Tom Holland and Tom Hollander implies the existence of Tom Hollandest. > > You are my hero There’s no reason why Tom Hollandest and Tom Hollander can’t be the same person, right? Tom Hollendest is still more than Tom Hollander than Tom Holland. Besides, I’ve never seen them in a room together, have you? ---
**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:** [October 6, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7542 "2025-10-06T17:23:14Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > In Wisconsin, Ed Gein elicited shock and horror, but he was never a hated figure the same way that Kenneth “the hillside strangler” Bianchi or Richard “the night stalker” Ramirez were in LA; because they sadistically killed their victims. Ed Gein didn’t even remember killing the two women he murdered, much less relished the act. The others he dug up after they were dead. Wisconsinites are a goofy bunch, and among them you find a lot of isolated farmers with too much time on their hands and too many notions in their skulls. They usually take up odd hobbies like constructing pornographic windmills, but Ed Gein took it to the extreme and made a tom-tom out of a coffee can stretched with human skin. My misplaced sense of justice has me saying it’s unfair to poor old Ed to have him torturing the babysitter Poor old Ed? _Psychopathic_ poor old Ed? I’ll just scratch Wisconsin off my list of places to visit. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7543 "2025-10-06T17:39:58Z")
You mean you wouldn’t be attracted to a [Wisconsin Death Trip?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Death_Trip) to belabor my point above, the point of the series is to show that the “Monster” in the title isn’t Dahmer or the Menensezes of Gein, but us; the sensationalized yet unfeeling masses who gobble up the gore like the ghouls we are. Uh… bullshit. Like those “Eat the Rich” movies and shows of the recent past, that filled the screen with luxury lifestyle porn while sanctimoniously showing how miserable the rich are. It’s not fooling anyone. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7544 "2025-10-06T18:56:35Z")
Actually, all my kids and grandkids live there and I visit often. I was just being snarky. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7545 "2025-10-06T20:47:12Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I didn’t realize I needed to go back and watch the **Suicide Squad** movie **THE** Suicide Squad movie (emphasis is very important here). If you watch the one without the THE (not the band) then that is awful. Just to make sure people don’t make that mistake. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2025, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7546 "2025-10-06T21:10:04Z")
Sad to see that _The Great North_ has been cancelled. ---
**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:** [October 6, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7547 "2025-10-06T23:26:53Z")
I watched the right one, I just couldn’t remember if it was the one with The or not. Oops. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=376) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=378)