# 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:** 410
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8188 "2026-02-06T15:23:15Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > _Doc Martin_ was able to do it for 79 episodes. > > I watched that show, and no, that wasnt the plot in most of them. Quite a few, certainly. There haven’t been quite a few episodes of the American one yet. It’s following the path of the original which was successful for a long time. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8189 "2026-02-06T15:30:12Z")
finished latest shetland last night. such gorgeous islands. waiting for series 13 of fr. brown. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8190 "2026-02-06T15:45:32Z")
We get the “origin story” in episode 5 of **The Beauty**. It’s wonderfully over the top. It’s funny, we watched the season finale of _Fallout_ (with Kyle MacLachlan) just before seeing Isabella Rossellini in _The Beauty_. They are both just as weird (in a good way) as they were 40 years ago in _Blue Velvet_ ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8191 "2026-02-06T16:42:14Z")
I see that _Search Party_ is coming to Netflix. I say give it a try and try extremely hard to avoid seeing spoilers about the last season. > **[All 5 Seasons of Hit HBO Max TV Show Arrive on Netflix Today](https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/2092792-all-5-seasons-hbo-max-tv-show-arrive-on-netflix-today)** > > Netflix has officially added another acclaimed show to its TV collection in the form of the HBO Max's dark comedy series from Alia Shawkat. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8192 "2026-02-06T17:59:00Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > One of the things I love about Big Fat Quiz, 8 Out Of Ten Cats Does Countdown, Would I Lie To You, Taskmaster (between the tasks) and presumably Mock The Week and QI and others, is what happens when you stick 6 comedians in front of a camera and let them riff off each other. Especially when one of those comedians is Jimmy Carr. Mock the week, along with HIGNFY and Never Mind the Buzzcocks were the originals of this format, the rest of those all followed on. Mock the week being basically comedians (and the breakout star being Frankie Boyle who left after a while, and Hugh Dennis (\*) being the second best thing), HIGNFY being comedians paired with a politican/journalist (and humanised the likes of Boris Johnson and Farage to their shame) and Buzzcocks being with musicians. Frankie Boyle featured in a few series of Taskmaster, but his brutal humour didn’t tend to fit, and I can’t recall him being particularly funny in the few episodes I watched because he was in it. (\*) Hugh Dennis is a loooong famous UK comedian, as part of the Punt and Dennis comedy pairing, featuring on the Jasper Carrot show in the 80s, and half of the Mary Whitehouse Experience in the 90s (hugely successful in the UK) with Newman and Baddiel. The pair still presented The Now Show on radio until recently, a topical weekly comedy programme. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8193 "2026-02-06T18:07:06Z")
I started watching **The Righteous Gemstones** solely because John Goodman was in it, and instantly fell in love with it. Walter Goggins was an added bonus. I like the way that they drop in bits of backstory for the family as they become relevant. And the ending, after four seasons, was nicely done. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8194 "2026-02-06T19:08:45Z")
Netflix has dropped an entire new season of **The Lincoln Lawyer**. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8195 "2026-02-06T19:39:17Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Frankie Boyle featured in a few series of Taskmaster, but his brutal humour didn’t tend to fit, and I can’t recall him being particularly funny in the few episodes I watched because he was in it. Horses for courses. He and Ivo were by far my favorite part of that series. “Everyone hates golf. I’ve never really played golf because I’m not trapped in a loveless marriage.” If I had a good strategy for fishing some rubbage out of some sewage, what sort of person would I be?" ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8196 "2026-02-06T19:45:57Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > (\*) Hugh Dennis is a loooong famous UK comedian, as part of the Punt and Dennis comedy pairing, featuring on the Jasper Carrot show in the 80s, and half of the Mary Whitehouse Experience in the 90s (hugely successful in the UK) with Newman and Baddiel. The pair still presented The Now Show on radio until recently, a topical weekly comedy programme. Hugh is returning to Mock the Week after the first two episodes, which he is missing for other commitments. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8197 "2026-02-06T19:46:46Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Frankie Boyle featured in a few series of Taskmaster, but his brutal humour didn’t tend to fit, and I can’t recall him being particularly funny in the few episodes I watched because he was in it. He was pretty fun on Taskmaster. It was nice to see the less cynical humor coming from him. He was a good sport. On Mock the Week, they’ve more or less said no to Frankie coming back. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8198 "2026-02-06T20:23:25Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > On Mock the Week, they’ve more or less said no to Frankie coming back. Wasn’t there some controversy about some things he said? He joked about it on Taskmaster. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8199 "2026-02-06T20:56:24Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Wasn’t there some controversy about some things he said? He joked about it on Taskmaster More than once, I’m sure. My favorite quote from him is from when Margaret Thatcher died. It cost £3 million for her funeral. He said: “For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8200 "2026-02-06T22:46:29Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I see that _Search Party_ is coming to Netflix. I say give it a try and try extremely hard to avoid seeing spoilers about the last season. John Early was on Seth Meyer’s show last night so I checked about _Search Party_ availability. Yes! I enjoyed the series very much; there are a couple scenes that were very memorable. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8201 "2026-02-07T03:01:24Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Wasn’t there some controversy about some things he said? He joked about it on Taskmaster. That pretty much was his schtick (stolen from Jerry Sadowitz, another offensive Scottish comedian). It’s not **some** offensive stuff, it was that most of his stuff was offensive. And funny. I loved that sort of thing, I’m not sure Americans can deal with Scottish humour at full tilt (though Bing Hitler made it big out there, I think he was very subdued. Known as Craig Ferguson…) Just googled some of the darker ones An ISIS caliphate is essentially the Vatican but with less sex. Apparently the Saudi Arabian Paralympic team is mainly thieves. Bye Afghanistan. Seems like we just couldn’t murder enough of you to bring peace, couldn’t drop enough explosives to bring stability. Sorry. I’m from Glasgow. If I had to explain Glasgow to you, I’d say that if I had to pick a city in the world where I could depend on a member of the public to punch a man who was on fire. To punch a flaming man to the ground! We should get a photo of that blown up and use it as the welcome sign at Scottish airports. And underneath we should have the words “Scotland welcomes careful drivers.” I mean the naivety of Al Qaida trying to bring religious war to Glasgow. We’re four hundred years ahead of you guys. You’ve not even got a football team. There’s a fallacy, isn’t there, that that baggage handler prevented hundreds of people from being horribly burnt. These were Scottish people flying to Spain! Just a selection from a search, but the video of his [heckler put down is class.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX1jMmfG2Xk) ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8202 "2026-02-07T06:40:28Z")
From memory, Frankie toned it down quite a lot on MTW. Or maybe the more offensive stuff just didn’t survive the edit. He was very funny on it though. I find the more outrageous stand up stuff a bit much, like being offensive for offence’s sake. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8203 "2026-02-07T13:47:25Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > Netflix has dropped an entire new season of **The Lincoln Lawyer**. I don’t think I can take another season of Lorna and that guy who plays the investigator. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8204 "2026-02-07T14:18:21Z")
Watching Men’s Downhill - wow, they have some great new camera stuff that follows the skiers. Looks like the third person point of view you’d have in a video game. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8205 "2026-02-07T14:56:45Z")
I started watching _Ponies_ on Peacock. It’s a spy light drama about a couple of American women in Moscow whose husbands are CIA agents who die mysteriously in the USSR. Since they are not important (Persons of No Interest – PONIs), they stay to find out what happened and work for the CIA chief (Adrian Lester) to bring down KGB people. Nicely done and some clever plotting. I was impressed on how they sequed into a flashback in episode 3. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8206 "2026-02-07T18:08:37Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Watching Men’s Downhill - wow, they have some great new camera stuff that follows the skiers. Looks like the third person point of view you’d have in a video game. Not sure we’re on the right thread here but totally agree. Those drone shots where it follows them down the mountain just show how insane these skiers are. It really brings home the incredible speeds they achieve. I’ve just finished a ski trip and it made me feel a bit inadequate!! ---
**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:** [February 7, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8207 "2026-02-07T18:26:07Z")
FYI there is a dedicated Olympics thread in the game room.. Brian [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=409) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=411)