# 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:** 397
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7928 "2025-12-20T01:37:19Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > It started out hilariously parodying all the usual well-worn sitcom tropes, t If you want a parody of Fire dept TV shows, just watch Fire Country. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7929 "2025-12-20T21:53:51Z")
I just watched the newest epi of Boston Blue. Up until now, the show has been pretty good. But 1. No, two rookies on probation dont ride with one another. And Jonah should have been suspended after hitting that perp- and that would mean he is OUT. 1. The Supervisor Silver has no business at all working on her fathers murder. Everything she gathers will be tossed out. That is the problem with “…And this time it’s personal”. Every bit of evidence you gather is tainted. 2. Jonah should be under arrest now, And again, even if the perp had said to his face “Yeah, I killed your father” that evidence is worthless. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7930 "2025-12-22T14:57:32Z")
_Ripple_, NFLX. A nice, sweet soap opera about people in NYC living their lives. Recommended. _The Beast In Me_, NFLX. Unlike those who think this started slow and ended strong, we had the opposite reaction: it started with a lot of promise and finished with a lot of improbable bullshit. Kinda recommended… if you like the actors or murder mysteries, give it a shot. Will say, Matthew Rhys does a _great_ job being a bad guy. ---
**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 22, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7931 "2025-12-22T15:16:13Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > it started with a lot of promise and finished with a lot of improbable bullshit. I also thought the big climactic scene (the confession by Rhys, recorded by his wife) was totally contrived. But overall I enjoyed the series. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7932 "2025-12-22T15:26:37Z")
I started watching Boston Blue, but it just kind of fizzled out for me. My DVR is still recording it and every time I go to my DVR list, I see it sitting there. I sometimes think that maybe I’ll get back to it, but I doubt it. I just need to delete it all. I’ll feel better. ---
**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 22, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7933 "2025-12-22T15:45:17Z")
Castle Rock. I’m pretty sure I may have watched season one long ago, but forgot most all of it. I wonder if I watched S2. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7934 "2025-12-22T16:03:36Z")
i’m nearly done grantchester. the smoking is insane. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7935 "2025-12-22T16:15:40Z")
I’ve only watched the first episode of Boston Blue, but the rest of the episodes are sitting on my DVR waiting for me. One of these days I’ll start watching them, but from some of the comments I’ve seen here I may end up deleting it. ---
**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 22, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7936 "2025-12-22T20:18:48Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > i’m nearly done grantchester. the smoking is insane. That’s the least contrived part of it. But I still like the show. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7937 "2025-12-22T20:31:50Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That’s the least contrived part of it. Meh. When you have a modern show set back in the period when smoking was common- along with common workplace sexual harassment, drinking and driving, child labor, corporal punishment, burning trash in your backyard, marketing cigs and other shit directly to kids, kids riding loose in the back of trucks, segregation, open racism, male chauvinism, and so forth- but you choose JUST to show the smoking but not the other bad shit- then you arent trying to be period correct, and you are contrived. I mean the vicar is shown as way way too liberal to be acceptable for the 1950s. ---
**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 22, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7938 "2025-12-22T21:12:30Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > That’s the least contrived part of it. > > Meh. When you have a modern show set back in the period when smoking was common- along with common workplace sexual harassment, drinking and driving, child labor, corporal punishment, burning trash in your backyard, marketing cigs and other shit directly to kids, kids riding loose in the back of trucks, segregation, open racism, male chauvinism, and so forth- but you choose JUST to show the smoking but not the other bad shit- then you arent trying to be period correct, and you are contrived. I mean the vicar is shown as way way too liberal to be acceptable for the 1950s. When you start with the premise that not one but three strikingly handsome young vicars wind up in one small parish with the aptitude to solve murders and a detective that allows them to be part of the investigation, contrived is what you are going to get. In a period piece it can be jarring with they don’t show the inherent racism or sexism or homophobia of the era. In this show in particular because it appears when the plot calls for racism or homophobia or sexism and disappears when it doesn’t. It can be hamfisted when dealing with bigger issues. I think the episode with the MLK like American preacher was particularly bad but that might have been because of how awful the American accents were. I’ve seen Patterson Joseph do generic American accents and he’s quite good. He can’t do a Southern accent to save his life. But in the end I think people watch because they like the characters. Not for the social commentary or the mystery. They have managed to change the lead twice without ruining the show with their choice. On that level I enjoy the show quite a lot. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7939 "2025-12-22T22:39:45Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > When you start with the premise that not one but three strikingly handsome young vicars wind up in one small parish with the aptitude to solve murders and a detective that allows them to be part of the investigation, contrived is what you are going to get. In a period piece it can be jarring with they don’t show the inherent racism or sexism or homophobia of the era Okay, you have watched it more than I have, and thus i concede your better observations. Good points, thanks. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7940 "2025-12-22T23:16:07Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > That’s the least contrived part of it. > > Meh. When you have a modern show set back in the period when smoking was common- along with common workplace sexual harassment, drinking and driving, child labor, corporal punishment, burning trash in your backyard, marketing cigs and other shit directly to kids, kids riding loose in the back of trucks, segregation, open racism, male chauvinism, and so forth- but you choose JUST to show the smoking but not the other bad shit- then you arent trying to be period correct, and you are contrived. I mean the vicar is shown as way way too liberal to be acceptable for the 1950s. Actually, had you actually watched Grantchester, you might be surprised how much of what you listed is shown. Just off the top of my head, I remember seeing sexual harassment, drinking and driving (along with excessive drinking in general), corporal punishment (I think; it’s been a while), segregation, open racism (these particularly with regard to the storyline that sent the first vicar to America) and male chauvinism. And all of that in what is a cozy British mystery series. ---
**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 22, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7941 "2025-12-22T23:46:13Z")
It does when it wants to and then conveniently ignores those issues when it doesn’t want to. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7942 "2025-12-22T23:48:20Z")
As I said, it’s a cozy British mystery not a kitchen sink drama. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7943 "2025-12-22T23:53:30Z")
I’m on series 10. Right now Silvia and cath are unable to get a business loan, so far. The bank needs to know the money is in “safe hands”. ---
**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 23, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7944 "2025-12-23T01:21:18Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > As I said, it’s a cozy British mystery not a kitchen sink drama. Yes that’s what I like about it. And I’m a fan of just about everything Robson Green is in. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7945 "2025-12-23T01:29:55Z")
I like it (Grantchester, for anyone not following along) as well. And for a show set in the 1950s, the characters are surprisingly tolerant, such as of the gay former curate Leonard Finch. (And even more so, when Geordie Keating learns his young son is either gay or trans.) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7946 "2025-12-23T04:09:17Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Actually, had you actually watched Grantchester, I did watch a few episodes, but I didnt care for it. But yeah, that now makes it sure i wont want to watch it. > [@LurkMeister](#): > > I’ve only watched the first episode of Boston Blue, but the rest of the episodes are sitting on my DVR waiting for me. One of these days I’ll start watching them, but from some of the comments I’ve seen here I may end up deleting it. Just FYI, the only episode I had any issues was this last one. Other than a very confusing family, the show has been pretty good. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/7947 "2025-12-23T13:40:08Z")
Started watching a horror series on Peacock called ‘Teacup’. The IMDB synopsis is: > Trapped on a farm in rural Georgia, a group of neighbors must put aside their differences and unite in the face of a mysterious and deadly threat. Two episodes in, we are firmly in ‘WTF’ territory. Horses are agitated. Electric lights flicker crazily and die. Cars stop working. There’s a woman and then a child seemingly possessed by something, a black evil dog running around, a mysterious person in a gas mask, and a perimeter which, if crossed, very bad things happen to the crosser. A lot of horror elements being thrown into the mix, in short. Is it ghosts? Demons? Aliens? Alien ghost demons? This could go off the rails badly, but for now we’re hooked, I think. A cast of mostly unknowns to me, except for Yvonne Strahovsky playing a mom and Kathy Baker playing a grandma. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=396) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=398)