# 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:** 395
**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:** [December 9, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7888 "2025-12-09T15:25:59Z")
**The Last Frontier** could have ended with a satisfactorily twist with episode 7 but the damned series is ten episodes long because…that’s how long a season apparently needs to be. Episode 8 is all boring and unnecessary back story. 9 & 10 can’t possibly be as bad as I expect, so I can only be pleasantly surprised. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7889 "2025-12-09T17:39:46Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Have started **Sean Combs: The Reckoning** , basically a biography of the life events leading up to his conviction. Produced by Curtis “Fifty Cent” Jackson. I’m only one episode in but it’s clear that Fiddy _really_ does not like Diddy. And neither will the audience of this show. I’ve decided to avoid watching that series entirely pretty much totally due to 50 Cent’s involvement. His enmity towards Diddy has me thinking that the series is going to be overly salacious and not a studious look at what Combs did or did not actually do. Aside from that, I have long considered 50 Cent to be an absolute creep. The guy has done a whole lot of stuff that makes me wary of consuming anything he puts out. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7890 "2025-12-09T20:31:23Z")
> [@SwissMan](#): > > I’ve decided to avoid watching that series entirely pretty much totally due to 50 Cent’s involvement. His enmity towards Diddy has me thinking that the series is going to be overly salacious and not a studious look at what Combs did or did not actually do. I was listening to a podcast (CBC’s “Commotion”, a pop culture panel discussion) and their host had the same misgivings. He ended up eating his words: it wasn’t a simple smear job, it was a carefully crafted and researched smear job. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7891 "2025-12-10T02:19:59Z")
_The Pitt_ continues (episodes 4, 5, 6) to be great except one ridiculously contrived moment. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7892 "2025-12-10T03:06:48Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > > [@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. It just finished up. Review - it was worth hanging in. Really. Found its footing. Got quite good and finished satisfactorily. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7893 "2025-12-10T03:30:02Z")
Earlier this fall, a series called “DMV” piqued my interest, enough that I started a thread about it. About 4 episodes in, I gave up on it because there was one particular character who was completely unlikable, enough that I didn’t want to watch the show, period. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7894 "2025-12-10T03:38:12Z")
> [@vislor](#): > > I think I talk about these shows and how surprised I was to thoroughly enjoy The Pitt because usually I watch SciFi/fantasy/supernatural type shows. It is way out of my normal viewing to watch and like a show about doctors or lawyers. Not completely unprecedented but strange for me. I was blown away by The Pitt. > [@DrDeth](#): > > _The Pitt_ continues (episodes 4, 5, 6) to be great except one ridiculously contrived moment. I was blown away by the Pitt, and I said to my husband, “This is the kind of show that can change lives.” And I was correct. Surveys have indicated people who watch the show have changed their views on some very important issues, such as end of life care and organ donation. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7895 "2025-12-10T04:07:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > _The Pitt_ continues (episodes 4, 5, 6) to be great except one ridiculously contrived moment. I’m curious what that moment was. It’s been months since I’ve seen it and nothing is standing out to me. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7896 "2025-12-10T07:15:40Z")
I’m watching Dexter Resurrection and really liking it, much more so than the other sequel/prequels. I do miss the opening sequence from the original series, though. I guess they didn’t even try to compete with that. ---
**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:** [December 10, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7897 "2025-12-10T15:37:27Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I was listening to a podcast (CBC’s “Commotion”, a pop culture panel discussion) and their host had the same misgivings. He ended up eating his words: it wasn’t a simple smear job, it was a carefully crafted and researched smear job. Yeah, the cases it builds are circumstantial but they bring a _lot_ of evidence to back up the conjectures. It definitely counts as more studious than salacious. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7898 "2025-12-10T18:08:40Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I’m curious what that moment was. It’s been months since I’ve seen it and nothing is standing out to me. The crazed real mother arriving seconds before the young girl took her pill. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7899 "2025-12-14T00:27:29Z")
Several years ago, I watched Life on Mars and really enjoyed it. I also liked the US version and thought they wrapped up its one season very well. After that I have every so often, when I thought about it checked to see if the follow up series Ashes to Ashes was available. I checked today and it is on Amazon Prime. Just finished the first episode and am liking it. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7900 "2025-12-14T02:25:54Z")
> [@Cumberdale](#): > > _Just finished the first episode and am liking it._ Re: Ashes to Ashes. We loved both the original British (and later Americanized version) of “Life on Mars.” For years I’ve thought about subscribing to Brit Box just to watch “A2A” but never have. I was delighted to find it airing on Prime. We were very disappointed. We watched the first few episodes and they were just not that interesting. However, it’s lasted for I think 5 seasons on British TV. It must have something going for it. So I read a lot of comments and reviews and the consensus seems to be that the first season is rather MEH but it picks up substantially after that and is well worth seeing it through. Some people said it had the best final episode they’d ever seen, and that’s saying a lot. So we’re going to stick with it for a while. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7901 "2025-12-14T02:30:41Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Started watching **The Beast in Me** on NetFlix. Finished watching **The Beast in Me** on NetFlix. Recommended. Although I figured out the murderer early on, and the ending was, I thought, a bit contrived. Still, an enjoyable eight episodes. ---
**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:** [December 14, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7902 "2025-12-14T02:44:09Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > We were very disappointed. The problem is that Keeley Hawes did not at first seem a good enough replacement for John Simm. But as it went on, and the story arc became more embedded in the plots, rather than as a background secondary feature, it improved a lot. Also watch for Daniel Mays. ---
**Author:** ![bmasters1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5e925/32.png) [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7903 "2025-12-14T12:31:51Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I have similar issues with Medical shows- my three general rules are- > > No starring doctors addicted to drugs- that has been done too much. > > More medical stuff than personal drama. > > And no relative or friends ending up as patients- sometimes okay of done sparing after several seasons. But way _way_ overdone in many other dramas, so much that you KNOW that if a relative or friend is introduced at the start of an episode, they will be a patient soon. All three of those things are why I’ve enjoyed _Emergency!_ that was from NBC in the 70s, on DVD and Blu; reasons why in address to what you said: –None of the doctors at Rampart (Brackett, Early or Morton) were addicted to any drugs, let alone on them; –There was much more medical drama than personal stuff; –And, so far as I recall, the only story that involved a relative as a patient was when Dr. Brackett’s father (played by James Gregory) was a patient at Rampart, in the fourth-season episode “Prestidigitation” (OAD Saturday, January 25, 1975 on NBC). ---
**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:** [December 14, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7904 "2025-12-14T13:17:16Z")
I’m rewatching the “Slow Horses” series. I think it’s even better the second time around. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7905 "2025-12-14T18:41:14Z")
We watched _Man Vs. Baby_, a new four-part “series” by and starring Rowan Atkinson. It follows the 2022 series _Man Vs. Bee_, which I haven’t seen, but which gets better ratings. The story is that professional house-sitter Trevor ends up taking care of an abandoned baby that he must hide in order to complete a lucrative sitting job in a billionaire’s penthouse. “Hilarity” ensues. We’ve all loved Rowan ever since _Mr Bean_, and I was hoping this might have some of the charm and humor of that great series. It _kind of_ does, but it never really approaches the heights of Rowan’s best work. I put “series” in scare quotes above because it’s really a movie cut into four 30-minute pieces. The episodes don’t stand on their own, and the whole would have been much better (IMHO) if they had trimmed a few scenes and released it as a 90-minute movie. It is essentially a bunch of small comic sketches tied together with a lightweight plot, and is _extraordinarily_ predictable. Its not really _bad_. We kept watching and never got to the point of just giving up on it. It’s just not as good as we might have expected from the creator of _Mr. Bean, Blackadder_, and _Johnny English_. Children might like it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7906 "2025-12-18T00:53:38Z")
The Pitt continues to entertain, especially the “walk of heroes” or whatever they called it, when everyone lines up to give honor to a organ donor. That made me sniffle a little. I hope that new hot shot female doctor that took the law into her own hands gets fired over that. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7907 "2025-12-18T03:17:43Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I’m rewatching the “Slow Horses” series. I think it’s even better the second time around. I was disappointed to find, when trying to start watching this acclaimed series on a recent international flight, that the quintessentially-British satirical wallowing in workplace spite and mortification had completely sapped my will to watch by about one-third into the first episode. I have read that _Slow Horses_ is “_The Office_ meets Le Carre”, and I found _The Office_ likewise drearily malevolent to the point of unwatchability. Is there a tipping point coming up soon where \*Slow Horses" shifts more into Le Carre mode, or should I just resign myself to the fact that this series is not for me? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=394) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=396)