# 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:** 384
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7668 "2025-10-29T13:10:07Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Watched the first episode of _It: Welcome to Derry_. A mix of the familiar and _ **Holy fucking crap!** _. They certainly took advantage of being on HBO, didn’t they? Not for the squeamish. We liked the casting a lot, and it was fun to follow a story where - unlike the movies - we didn’t have the book to tell us what was going to happen next. I’m not sure my wife will watch any more episodes, though. There’s also a side plot that I vaguely know where it’s headed, but I’m not sure it’s necessary. ---
**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:** [October 29, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7669 "2025-10-29T14:12:20Z")
My wife and I are ignorant of the _It_ franchise except for the film that came out about ten years ago and all we remember is that there was a killer clown in the sewer. We watched the first episode of the HBO series and I thought my wife would bail after the creepy family in the car sequence, but she hung in there. I can’t imagine it possibly getting _more_ frightening, so we’ll keep watching. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7670 "2025-10-29T14:16:55Z")
Currently in the middle of _Gilmore Girls_ retrospective\* and keeping au courant with _Dark Winds_. \*Paused to binge _The Prisoner_, 1960s spy-fi British oddity ---
**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 29, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7671 "2025-10-29T15:48:31Z")
Yeah, that. ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7672 "2025-10-29T16:03:49Z")
Now 5 episodes out from the checkers on _Spenser For Hire_– has had more for me than _True Detective_ ever will. ---
**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 29, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7673 "2025-10-29T18:50:55Z")
> [@solost](#): > > But then, ‘Daryl and Carol’ would’ve sounded like a cheesy Rom Com. But maybe Merle, Daryl and Carol could make an updated, post apocalyptic Newhart spinoff. ---
**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 30, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7674 "2025-10-30T01:42:14Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Melissa McBride, the ‘Carol’ character, is also on the show, right? She was almost as popular a character as Daryl was on TWD-- I’m surprised she didn’t get title billing as well. Here is the story. Carol was indeed supposed to be co-lead with Daryl, but McBride ended up pulling out relatively close to production. I’d bet they offered her way less than Reedus and she balked at it. In the end, they obviously worked it out as she showed up at the end of season 1 and was pretty much co-lead in season 2. Both she and Reedus had a contract on Walking Dead, at least the final few seasons, where they got paid even if their character was killed. I knew at that moment, they would never die. Network would never pay out and not get work from them. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7675 "2025-10-30T06:11:32Z")
New series, Down Cemetery Road, on Apple TV with a couple episodes just out which I like: > **[Down Cemetery Road review – Emma Thompson is magnificent in this thriller...](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/29/down-cemetery-road-review-emma-thompson-thriller-apple-tv)** > > The Oscar winner’s turn as a no-nonsense private investigator is a role model for women everywhere. She really shines alongside Ruth Wilson in this pacy, twisty thriller based on Mick Herron’s debut novel > **[Down Cemetery Road — Official Trailer | Apple TV](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0unUwpCfRg0%2F)** > > An explosion, a conspiracy, and an unlikely duo on a mission to expose the truth. From the team behind the Emmy-winning series Slow Horses comes a brand new ... ---
**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 30, 2025, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7676 "2025-10-30T06:26:00Z")
Interesting. I have long thought Emma Thompson should spearhead a _Murder She Wrote_ remake (but that has been taken by [Jamie Lee Curtis](https://variety.com/2025/film/news/jamie-lee-curtis-excited-murder-she-wrote-reboot-1236470001/)) so this might just be my cup of tea. ---
**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 30, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7677 "2025-10-30T11:39:23Z")
I watched the two episodes of Down Cemetery Road that were released on Apple TV and am looking forward to seeing the rest. If you don’t know, it’s based on an early novel by Mick Herron, who also wrote the novels on which the series Slow Horses (also on Apple TV) were based. ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7678 "2025-10-30T12:23:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Here is the story. Thanks, interesting! > [@Mahaloth](#): > > Both she and Reedus had a contract on Walking Dead, at least the final few seasons, where they got paid even if their character was killed. I knew at that moment, they would never die. Network would never pay out and not get work from them. Talk about plot armor… ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7679 "2025-10-30T15:59:01Z")
Oooo, based on a Mick Herron book? I’ll have to watch it. I loved all the Slow Horses books – even more than the series. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7680 "2025-11-02T13:52:34Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > New series, Down Cemetery Road I’m … liking it. Enough to keep watching for now. It isn’t quite gelling together but hoping that it gets its footing. _Slow Horses_ it is not. The plot being very eye rolling and not standing up to _any_ thinking about _any_ bits of it is one thing but I can live with that - the characters all so far being pretty much one note and that one note being over the top in all cases is more what disappoints? But it is just getting going, and both great talent and the _Slow Horses_ team … so I will hang in. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7681 "2025-11-02T14:02:59Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > The plot being very eye rolling and not standing up to _any_ thinking about _any_ bits of it is one thing but I can live with that - the characters all so far being pretty much one note and that one note being over the top in all cases That sounds just like _Slow Horses_…and not in a bad way. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7682 "2025-11-02T14:12:46Z")
_Dark Winds._ So very much _Dark Winds._ Yá’át’ééh! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7683 "2025-11-02T15:42:31Z")
I’m enjoying The Lowdown – I’m a fan of just about any Ethan Hawke project, and this one is no exception. It has a certain Coen Brothers vibe to it, which is a plus. Also, I believe it is the only series ever to feature one of my favorite fish species(the [paddlefish](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjod7DfTuGH9v2xp6_AkM4AVaf3jd7_tEr7yH3GOojd98q4WwqwzfLoGq2YhVx1-4UDysidu4i0lSmT167yRjW9qbHXSVG1OBD0Shic3xLAuE4NKApKGOFbkx_0PHoR8cmYbmQxWrhPgVAS/s1600/10-1-19+Townsend+to++Chattanooga1.jpg)) as a (very) minor plot point in episode 3. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7684 "2025-11-02T17:34:27Z")
Has anyone checked out the new season of **The Witcher**? I’ll probably add it to my queue. I bummed about Henry Cavill not starring, but will still give it a chance. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7685 "2025-11-02T18:24:14Z")
Enjoying season two of the animated show **Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake** , on HBO Max. As with all iterations of Adventure Time for at least the last decade or so, it is extremely lore-heavy, and even an enthusiast might want to keep Wikipedia handy to to remind them of the whats, whys and whos (“Oh, I see, Queenie is supposed to be the Normal-Fionna-World gender-reversed version of the King of Ooo!”). It’s still fun though, and beautifully animated. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7686 "2025-11-02T18:29:47Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > _Dark Winds._ So very much _Dark Winds._ Yá’át’ééh! The fourth season won’t premiere until February 15, 2026 > **['Dark Winds' Season 4 Sets Premiere as AMC Unveils First Teaser](https://www.tvinsider.com/1178074/dark-winds-season-4-premiere-date-trailer-cast-plot-production-details-amc/)** > > Everything you need to know about Leaphorn's next case. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7687 "2025-11-02T18:32:44Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Has anyone checked out the new season of **The Witcher**? I’ll probably add it to my queue. I watched the first two(?) seasons, but during the first episode of the next season I just didn’t care and stopped watching then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=383) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=385)