# 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:** 445
**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:** [April 26, 2026, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8888 "2026-04-26T15:55:58Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > (for example, Constable Cox, who dies in S1, comes back in some unrelated role later; this happens all the time on Midsomer Murders) My favorite example of this in Midsomer is when the Rainbirds from the very first episode came back later as the sister and cousin of the original two. Nice call back. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8889 "2026-04-27T12:30:52Z")
We finished Dark Winds S4 last night. This season was barely watchable for me. The plot was trite and seemed all over the place. The closing scene hinted at another season, but I’m not sure I’d want to watch any more of this. We looked at “Rooster” for a change of pace, and were amused enough to binge three eps. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8890 "2026-04-27T12:54:30Z")
We started watching ‘Unchosen’ on Netflix. It’s about a very strict, sheltered religious community in Great Britain. A little girl in the community runs away and falls into a pond. A mysterious stranger (an ‘unchosen’-- they think that they are chosen by God to go to Heaven when the Rapture arrives, and everybody else is an ‘unchosen’, destined for hell) dives into the pond and rescues her. The grateful mom starts to help out the stranger, who is on the run from the law, and begins having very unchosen thoughts and fantasies about him. Two episodes, in, it seems watchable enough. Will probably continue. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8891 "2026-04-27T12:58:01Z")
The latest round of simulcast anime on Crunchyroll doesn’t contain anything particularly worth mentioning, although it’s all keeping me diverted. That said, the one possible exception is **My Ribdiculous Reincarnation** about a total chaos agent who keeps getting reincarnated as a series of weird things (one of the hero’s ribs, the lefthand door to the demon king’s throne room, the second hand on a town clock, the voice in the hero’s head who tells him when he’s “levelled up”). It just leans into the wackiness _hard_, plus each story is told in a different art style, and it’s made me laugh a fair bit. Favorite bit: when he’s being the “Level Up” guy and gets annoyed at the hero so he starts just constantly shouting death metal lyrics at him from inside his head. Also, I rewatched all of **Solo Levelling** over the weekend, which remains excellent. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8892 "2026-04-27T14:54:19Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > We finished Dark Winds S4 last night. This season was barely watchable for me. I thought it was better than season three. But I think the whole series would be better without the fantasy elements. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8893 "2026-04-27T16:05:30Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > > I’m currently watching _True Blood_. For a show that’s named after a product, it’s kinda odd how few of the characters actually use it. > > This was one of the few series which we never made to the end. It was such a drop in quality that we couldn’t even hate watch more than one season (I think we did that with Season 5), and just couldn’t bear a second episode of Season 6. It was interesting just then to find out they kept going for ANOTHER season after that. > > It’s sad in its drop in quality, the characters were REALLY good at first. I see the actors appear in other places and have little flashbacks to a good character, and one of those series where the lead was the least interesting character (like Orange is the new black). Lafayette, Pam, Tara, Eric, Jessica, even Jason, were all good fun. I dunno. I’m still trying to wrap my head around seeing the little girl from _The Piano_ (which she won an Oscar for, no less) all grown up and showing her boobies on the TeeVee. (Not to say that they aren’t really nice boobies, but still) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8894 "2026-04-27T16:18:47Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > However, as I write this I remember watching the entire first season of **Buffy** waiting for the SDMB promise of it to, ‘get gud’. and it never did for me. So YMMV. Word. The Movie was a perfect gem. It didn’t need any follow-up. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8895 "2026-04-27T16:34:17Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Anyone else notice the inside joke? Al is the first time traveler. Uh, Scott Bakula hint,hint knew a guy called Al too. I propose that in future, we should refer to all diminutives of Alexander, Allen, Allan, Alan, Albert, Algernon, etc. as AL (all caps), so people don’t mistake it for a reference to artificial intelligence. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8896 "2026-04-27T16:43:16Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I dunno. I’m still trying to wrap my head around seeing the little girl from _The Piano_ (which she won an Oscar for, no less) all grown up and showing her boobies on the TeeVee. While I never connected that role (and haven’t watched that movie since 1993), seeing her in the excellent cult movie [Fly away home](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116329/) was incredibly strange, because seen that three times in the last couple of years (showing people it). She was 14 in that, but seemed younger. Probably was because 14 when the film released, so probably about 12 when filmed. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8897 "2026-05-01T02:25:36Z")
I’m currently watching the final episode of _Scarpetta._ My wife liked it so I had to slog through it. I can’t articulate how much I hate every aspect of this show. It’s truly awful. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8898 "2026-05-01T03:05:16Z")
> [@solost](#): > > We watched the first episode of a new Netflix horror miniseries called _Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen_. Finally got around to finishing this. Took awhile since we found it to be kind of a slog. Spoiler alert for the ending: Something very bad happened. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8899 "2026-05-01T03:08:30Z")
Newest NCIS had a very improbable idea as the McGuffin- Kasie had developed a program that looked at a fingerprint (not in the database) and it profiled that person- like with "male, Caucasian, etc). Not very precise, would fit a million or so Americans- but it only fit one guy they were looking at . But the kicker was that the Bad Guys who had stolen the program had reverse it, plugged in Kasies stats- and it came out with her fingerprint. Impossible. The profile was not exact enough. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8900 "2026-05-01T05:46:41Z")
Finished watching _Silo_ season 2. It held my interest and I’m enjoying the mystery. Season 3 should be coming in July. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8901 "2026-05-01T05:47:24Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Newest NCIS had a very improbable idea as the McGuffin- Kasie had developed a program that looked at a fingerprint (not in the database) and it profiled that person- like with "male, Caucasian, etc). Not very precise, would fit a million or so Americans- but it only fit one guy they were looking at . But the kicker was that the Bad Guys who had stolen the program had reverse it, plugged in Kasies stats- and it came out with her fingerprint. Impossible. The profile was not exact enough. That description made my brain hurt. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8902 "2026-05-01T06:57:32Z")
**Vikings** and all the additional spin offs. **Valhalla** and Last **Kingdom**. Getting a bit over saturated - like the historical basis, dislike the hard to follow names. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8903 "2026-05-01T09:28:17Z")
_Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen -_ we watched this over 2 or 3 evenings and I did rather enjoy it, although (spoilered) it certainly went in a direction I wasn’t expecting, but I think the subversion of expectations was a good thing. The end was completely mad though! ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8904 "2026-05-01T12:12:36Z")
I watched “Should I Marry A Murderer” last night. 3 one hour(ish) episodes that I watched back to back with no problem. It’s a documentary about woman engaged to a man who reveals that several years earlier he was drunk driving, killed a cyclist and was never caught. There’s no crazy twists or turns, this is a Howcatchem not a Whodunit. And it’s not really about the crime, but the witness. We watch as her world, and her mental state, collapse around her as we follow what happened between the time she learns about this until the time she’s on the witness stand. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UTOgDYEZ-Mg/maxresdefault.jpg "Should I Marry A Murderer? | Official Trailer | Netflix") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTOgDYEZ-Mg) ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8905 "2026-05-01T12:28:14Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I watched “Should I Marry A Murderer” last night. 3 one hour(ish) episodes that I watched back to back with no problem. Was the answer after 3 hours revealed to be “no”? 🤨 ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8906 "2026-05-01T12:28:39Z")
That title sounds like it could be a Lifetime movie. ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/8907 "2026-05-01T12:49:41Z")
I have some trepidation about season 2 of Ludwig. I really enjoyed the first season, but I’m afraid this might turn out to be a show where the resolution wasn’t planned out in advance and it ends up falling flat (or being drawn out too long/never resolved). Hope that doesn’t happen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=444) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=446)