# 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:** 404
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8068 "2026-01-16T15:45:20Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > other cozy mysteries People don’t watch cozy mysteries for the mystery. They watch it for the cozy. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2026, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8069 "2026-01-16T18:34:34Z")
you forgot, “confess!”. are y’all telling me that elizabeth doesn’t become queen in the entire series? last night’s episode mentioned her wedding cake. i knew the episode should be around summer of 1948, as it was a summertime episode, and not nov/dec 1947. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2026, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8070 "2026-01-16T19:09:17Z")
I’ve had suits LA & Clarice recorded for quite sometime. Deleted both series after about 1/3-1/2 of each of the 1st episodes. Terrible shows, IMHO. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8071 "2026-01-17T00:28:36Z")
Ah, episode 8, series 2, mentions the queen and Korean conflict. We must be in 1952/3. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2026, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8072 "2026-01-17T01:12:59Z")
**Tehran** on Apple. In different languages with subtitles. An Israeli spy is stuck in Iran, dodging local authorities, etc. Pretty well done. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2026, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8073 "2026-01-17T19:20:01Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > People don’t watch cozy mysteries for the mystery. They watch it for the cozy. Yes. We’re hooked on _Brokenwood Mysteries._ Set in a small town in New Zealand. It follows all the cozy conventions, but the plot twists are usually clever. Lots of humor and great characters. I don’t want to go to heaven when I die; I want to go to Brokenwood. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8074 "2026-01-17T20:54:33Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Yes. We’re hooked on _Brokenwood Mysteries._ Set in a small town in New Zealand. It follows all the cozy conventions, but the plot twists are usually clever. Lots of humor and great characters. I don’t want to go to heaven when I die; I want to go to Brokenwood. There was at least one car chase, and one gunfight. So- mostly cozy. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8075 "2026-01-18T19:42:31Z")
Episode 5 series 4 coronation jewels, must be may 1953. Seriously, why are people still treating fr.brown as a crackpot? ---
**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:** [January 18, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8076 "2026-01-18T19:52:00Z")
I watched 2 episodes of Brokenwood Mysteries, but I found they were way too long for the content. An hour and a half for what could have been 45 minutes or an hour with padding. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8077 "2026-01-18T20:50:53Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I finished watching **Twisted Metal** and I really enjoyed it. I liked it more than the kinda similar show **Blood Drive** (which I also enjoyed, but it was more hit-or-miss). Wikipedia claims that Season 2 is scheduled to film in Toronto later this year, so I’m glad there will be more episodes coming out (Blood Drive didn’t make it to season 2). I’m halfway through season 2 of **Twisted Metal** and it’s pretty good. There’s not as much world-building as the first season, but there’s plenty of action and goofiness. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8078 "2026-01-18T20:58:48Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I watched 2 episodes of Brokenwood Mysteries, but I found they were way too long for the content. An hour and a half for what could have been 45 minutes or an hour with padding. It is more about the characters, not the mysteries- Mrs Marlow, Frodo, Jared, Trudy, and of course the detectives and the town itself. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2026, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8079 "2026-01-18T21:42:01Z")
Somewhere in the middle of **Pluribus**. It’s interesting and definitely unique. But the development of the story is slow. It feels a bit meandering. And I don’t really like the main character at all. She’s abrasive and not very competent, often doing stupid impulsive things that have no chance of working. Usually they give you some evidence that a character is going to change for the better, but about six episodes in, I haven’t seen that evidence much at all. I’m not saying there’s nothing to it. Parts of it are surreal and funny. We just ended on a cliffhanger episode that implied a horrifying discovery, and I’m curious if the story is going to pick up now. I don’t think I would still be watching this if my husband weren’t into it so much. ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8080 "2026-01-18T22:06:20Z")
We watched the first three episodes of **The Night Manager, Season 2.** They were an hour each. I didn’t mind devoting that amount of time to what I mistakenly thought was going to be a three-episode series. Then I discovered there will be three more episodes doled out over several weeks. No thanks. It isn’t grabbing me enough for that kind of commitment. ---
**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:** [January 18, 2026, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8081 "2026-01-18T23:18:11Z")
I just watched Seven Dials on Netflix. It seems to be getting mixed reviews, but I liked it. Blazed through all three (50 minute) episodes in a row. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31974288/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31974288/) ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2026, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8082 "2026-01-19T03:13:38Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > 1. One of the regular cast members, in the course of some ordinary activity, makes an innocent comment that gives Father Brown an epiphany to the key clue in solving the mystery. You forgot the step where Father Brown steals evidence from the scene of the murder before the police inspector can find it, or uses his lock picking skills to go breaking and entering into a suspect’s home to steal yet more evidence. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2026, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8083 "2026-01-20T09:46:10Z")
Now caught up with the S2 of _The Night Manager_. The storytelling remains gripping, although I keep thinking that Tom Hiddleston sticks out like a sore thumb when he’s just wandering around in the streets of Colombia. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8084 "2026-01-20T14:18:17Z")
Speaking of Tom Hiddleston, my wife and I finished “Wallander”, the murder mystery series with Kenneth Branagh as Swedish detective Kurt Wallander. (A pre-Marvel Hiddleston appears in the first couple of seasons.) We really enjoyed it, although the end was kind of depressing. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8085 "2026-01-20T16:47:10Z")
I tried the first ep of Beast in Me. Made it exactly two seconds before being confronted with the Claire Cry Face. That had to be my personal record for bailing on a show. But if Jonathan Banks is in it, maybe I should give it another try. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2026, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8086 "2026-01-20T17:46:57Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > Claire Cry Face. What is that? ---
**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:** [January 20, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8087 "2026-01-20T17:50:27Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > What is that? Danes’ quivering chin has been a meme ever since the series “Homeland”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=403) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=405)