# 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:** 380
**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 13, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7588 "2025-10-13T16:22:06Z")
It was a little fuzzy to me, as well. Poetic license, I’m guessing. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7589 "2025-10-13T17:24:29Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > This is really spoiler territory. I didn’t think so, but obviously you, and perhaps others, feel differently. I’ll be sure to spoil my comments next time. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7590 "2025-10-13T18:13:40Z")
Why doesn’t **9-1-1** just get Henry Winkler to jump a motorcycle over a shark tank? It would be a more believable plot line than the season opener this year. Last year was bad enough, ripping off the Poseidon Adventure, but this year might even be worse. First, a billionaire gets swallowed by a whale. Yeah, right. Then, the whale spits him out, and the brave firemen rescue and revive him. Then, in gratitude, the billionaire gives Hen a pair of free passes to a space tourist shot. Supposedly two low earth orbits. But the teaser for next week is that two firefighters wind up on the ISS and a meteor storm hits. Of course. And in the teaser, as the meteors come raining down, Chimney orders the men into a fire truck. Yeah, for rocks travelling thousands of miles per hour that’s totally gonna be strong enough. Might as well have them open parasols a la Wile E. Coyote. ---
**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 13, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7591 "2025-10-13T19:48:19Z")
Your general point stands, but I looked up [the trailer](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBHjETWCew&pp=ygUWOTExIHNlYXNvbiA5IGVwaXNvZGUgMg%3D%3D) and it looks like that may be satellite debris. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7592 "2025-10-13T20:54:19Z")
You may be right, though for either case I don’t think being inside a vehicle offers much protection. ---
**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 13, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7593 "2025-10-13T23:29:39Z")
Yes, 9-1-1 is ridiculous in the variety of disasters they respond to, hardly any of which are ordinary house fires. (And the show avoids ever actually showing fire victims though I expect they will be quite gruesome.) They ended 9-1-1: Lone Star, the spinoff set in Austin but added one set in Nashville. I tried to watch that but it’s apparently going to feature country music prominently and I can’t stand that stuff. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7594 "2025-10-14T12:39:03Z")
Thought I’d give Season 28 of _Silent Witness_ a last chance and so my wife and I watched the first episode last night. It was much, much worse than I remembered. Let’s get the most obvious out of the way first: David Caves has a small head. There, I’ve said it. It’s not his fault, but it would help if he could act and was sort of a likable character. And SOMEBODY needs to speak to Emilia Fox about her hair. The plot is simultaneously stupid, trite, and incomprehensibly presented. Whoever shot and/or edited the episode needs to forget everything they think they learned on YT. (The camera work is almost nauseating.) We get a useless, irritating, stereotypical new character, which is probably because they can’t afford anyone else. The viewer feels like we’re watching a bottle episode, since there are apparently only two people now working for the Institute and they just float around in some sets built ten years ago. Finally, I have to say that even Sean Pertwee, who I like immensely, cannot save this series. Back in the dumpster for this series. ---
**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 14, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7595 "2025-10-14T23:36:30Z")
Well, we slogged through the previous 27 seasons, so we’ll likely slog through this one. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7596 "2025-10-14T23:47:12Z")
I just watched the first epi of DMV- CBS.. Too cringeworthy. i will give it a second chance. Maybe ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7597 "2025-10-15T00:21:56Z")
Halfway through DMV I started debating with myself about violating my standard policy about giving any new show a two-episode viewing before removing it from my watch list. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7598 "2025-10-15T00:26:13Z")
Well, I bailed on _The Ranch_ in the middle of the first scene of the first episode. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7599 "2025-10-15T08:16:29Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Yes, 9-1-1 is ridiculous in the variety of disasters they respond to, hardly any of which are ordinary house fires. (And the show avoids ever actually showing fire victims though I expect they will be quite gruesome.) They ended 9-1-1: Lone Star, the spinoff set in Austin but added one set in Nashville. I tried to watch that but it’s apparently going to feature country music prominently and I can’t stand that stuff. Good grief - I just assumed that 911 had ended after last season - what with killing Bobby off, Hen and her wife adopting their child, Maddy/Chimney’s second child, etc. - looked like they were doing a mostly-happy-ending for everyone, like they did with 911 Lone Star. ---
**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 15, 2025, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7600 "2025-10-15T10:43:33Z")
Is that the one with Ashton Kutcher and Sam Elliot? I may have made it a few minutes further than you did, but God that was bad. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7601 "2025-10-15T11:31:28Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Is that the one with Ashton Kutcher and Sam Elliot? Yes, that’s the one. I just remember reacting to the writing as being clumsy and heavy handed, but I can’t remember anything specific about why. Just those two guys and Danny Masterson in a room blabbing at each other. I mean, I was willing to give a show with Sam Elliot a chance, and I did, to the extent that I was able to. ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7602 "2025-10-15T12:03:44Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I read all the original books by Robert Parker. I stopped after his death. I just started reading ‘em, because of the credit at the top of each episode that credited the characters of these books as the basis of the show. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7603 "2025-10-15T12:17:03Z")
My personal record for going from “let’s give this show a look” to “holy shit, this show sucks” is two minutes of watching **Call Me Kat**. Worst acting I’ve ever seen, like watching understudy night for a middle school play. I’ve enjoyed **Murdoch Mysteries** on Acorn so far (up to season 3 now), even though it violates some of my television preferences. I’m not generally a fan of period shows, but I give this one a pass. I don’t like mystery programs where the detective has a romantic subplot going on, but I like the William and Juia stuff- even when it seems like Ross and Rachel. Some of the inclusion of famous characters (Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Houdini, Tesla, and Arthur Conan Doyle so far) is a bit contrived but I don’t mind. I just enjoy Murdoch’s scientific mind and calm demeanor, Crabtree’s comic relief, the long-suffering inspector, and Julia’s ability to discuss things with a smile while being elbows deep in a corpse. The mysteries themselves have nice little twists and it’s rewarding when you spot the killer early on. ---
**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 15, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7604 "2025-10-15T14:30:10Z")
I’ve watched Murdoch Mysteries through the eighteenth season. What’s eye-rolling is how William Murdoch invents all sorts of anachronistic technology in the process of solving crimes; sonar, security cameras, metal detectors, GPS, etc. Pretty much everything invented in the following hundred years was first invented by this Toronto detective. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7605 "2025-10-15T15:40:06Z")
Lately Brokenwood (NZ?) and Miss Fisher (AUS I think) have been our go-to shows of the type, now that we’ve watched all three seasons of Chelsea. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7606 "2025-10-15T15:47:29Z")
Brokenwood is awesome, love the dynamic between Mike and Gina particularly as well as the ever-helpful Frodo. The mysteries in that show are clever and I rarely figure them out until well after Mike does. Miss Fisher is okay but not my favorite. Mr and Mrs Murder, another AUS show, is a lot of fun. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7607 "2025-10-15T15:50:10Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Mr and Mrs Murder I’ll have to look for that. Do you recall offhand on what services it is available? On Brokenwood Mysteries, I can’t look at Gina and _not_ be reminded of one of the hosts on _America’s Test Kitchen/Cooks Country_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=379) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=381)