# 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:** 472
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9428 "2026-08-02T18:15:22Z")
**The Last Ship** was indeed one of those shows which just careens from crisis to never-ending crisis, similar to **Manifest, The 100** and **Banshee,** all of which I watched way too much of (couldn’t finish Manifest, though). Sometimes that’s just exhausting. Last Ship did have Eric Dane, Adam Baldwin and Rhona Mitra (for a while), all of whom have done some good work elsewhere. ---
**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:** [August 2, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9429 "2026-08-02T20:17:01Z")
I agree. A lot of crescendo music and ominous drums with every scene. I was impressed with Bren Foster’s martial arts chops. The dude is a beast. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2026, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9430 "2026-08-03T01:49:14Z")
Finished the second and last season of _World on Fire._ I would have continued to watch it and would be interested in how the cliffhangers resolved. But it wasn’t good enough for me to miss it that much. Some of the issues with the second season couldn’t be helped. The first season came out just as the pandemic was hitting. It took multiple years to get the second season on. It apparently played havoc with the schedule of several actors. Their solution was to kill off two characters offscreen and have two disappear without a trace. That certainly hurt the storytelling. > [@iamatractorboy](#): > > _The Offer_ > > A ten-part one off (not so mini) series chronicling the making of _The Godfather,_ told through the eyes of the producer Al Ruddy. > > I’d heard this was good and it didn’t disappoint. Is it slow-paced? Yes. Could they have told the story in half a dozen rather than ten episodes? Probably. Was it ever boring? Absolutely not. > > I am now very much wanting to read more about this, just to see how true to life this amazing tale really was. Some of it seems too over the top to be but who knows! I recently read Al Pacino’s autobiography and although it obviously covers far more than just _The Godfather,_ it does mention dealings with certain shady characters, so it wouldn’t surprise me if most of this really did happen. > > 8.5/10 I thought it was excellent. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9431 "2026-08-03T02:54:36Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > _The Offer_ > > A ten-part one off (not so mini) series chronicling the making of _The Godfather,_ told through the eyes of the producer Al Ruddy. Something I don’t think was mentioned in any postscript at the end is that Ruddy’s wife Françoise went on to become the majordomo of the cult that took over an Oregon town (the “crazy scary lady” in the documentary, _Wild, Wild Country.)_ ---
**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:** [August 3, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9432 "2026-08-03T02:56:38Z")
I’m watching the fifth season of For All Mankind on Apple TV. I re-subscribed to Apple TV yesterday because the fourth season of Ted Lasso premieres on Wednesday. I was going to just go month-to-month but one offer was to pre-pay $79.99 for one full calendar year, so I went with that. So I’ll be able to watch all of Ted Lasso and Slow Horses whenever that comes back. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2026, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9433 "2026-08-03T05:13:40Z")
Blimey… even more to read up on! ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9434 "2026-08-03T12:52:25Z")
I’ve been watching this too- I’m not a fan of the serial killer, I don’t find her that interesting, but Emmy Rossum’s character and the other female lead are good enough to keep watching. Solid cast also. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2026, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9435 "2026-08-04T11:03:51Z")
I saw a reference online to a show I hadn’t heard of, so gave it a try. **The Miniature Wife** on Peacock stars Elizabeth Banks and Matthew McFadyen as a couple of unpleasant narcissists who have a “Honey I Shrunk The Kids” accident when Banks is accidentally miniaturised. I gave it 1.5 episodes before I gave up. They were just so unlikeable it wasn’t worth wasting my time on it. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2026, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9436 "2026-08-04T14:40:07Z")
**The Bombing of Pan Am 103** (Netflix) A six-episode limited series about the Lockerbie crash with excellent acting. It’s one of those rare procedurals that actually put as much effort into the human story as it does the legal one. No melodrama; just a very factual account of how the events affected the investigators, locals, witnesses, and victims’ families. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9437 "2026-08-04T14:41:38Z")
The 3rd and final season of ‘Colin from Accounts’ has started. 3rd episode dropped this week and for a comedy, it’s making me cry far too often. There’s something about finding your soulmate and then screwing it all up that I can really relate to. The 3 series seem to be following the same arc as ‘Starstruck’ did. Another series that had me blubbing each episode. Series 1: will they wont they? Series 2: living together and then screwing it up. Series 3: Meeting up again a few years later when they’ve both, in theory, moved on. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9438 "2026-08-04T14:46:58Z")
I’m glad it’s back for a third season; it really is much more than a comedy. Last season’s episode about being in a strange place without a phone was probably one of the most distressing things I have ever seen on TV. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2026, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9439 "2026-08-04T18:44:17Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > A six-episode limited series about the Lockerbie crash with excellent acting. It’s one of those rare procedurals that actually put as much effort into the human story as it does the legal one. No melodrama; just a very factual account of how the events affected the investigators, locals, witnesses, and victims’ families. We have 1 episode to go and it was excellent for the first four, but the fifth had a “Oh, shit, we only have two more episodes!” quality to it - a lot of the stories were minimized to focus in on Dick of the FBI and there was a LOT of exposition between characters who don’t need to explain things to each other but need to explain it to the audience and push the story forward. We will finish it tonight and it’s still highly recommended - we decided to watch this over both _Andor_ and _House of the Dragon_ on Sunday, so it’s got something going for it. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9440 "2026-08-05T00:54:09Z")
**The Diplomat** on Netflix. Just finished season one. I was apprehensive with how episode one ended (I was worried the end of episode cliffhanger it was going to consume the entire season and it was going to be “that kind of show”), but ultimately I was pleased to see it resolved in a reasonable fashion and with how the season progressed beyond it. The series (or at least season one) centers around the fallout from an attack on a British warship in the middle east (CGI was not great, but thankfully it’s all fairly grounded in realistic urban, office, and estate environments after that first scene). It’s a whodunit on an international scale. Not only is the overarching plot genuinely intriguing, but so also are the smaller moments, the individual scenes and the performances. There’s even some light romcon in the complex relationship of the new ambassador to the UK (a fish out of water as a career foreign service officer who was originally bound for Afghanistan before being hastily reassigned) and her husband (also a career foreign service officer, and arguably the more prominent one) as they vacillate between near-imminent divorce on the one hand and rapprochement on the other. I plan to transition directly into season 2, and I see season 3 was recently nominated for a slew of Emmys. Highly recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Raza](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raza/32/213_2.png) [@Raza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raza)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2026, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9441 "2026-08-05T03:03:09Z")
The new season of **Chelsea Detective** is now available on Acorn. We just watched S4E1 and it’s more of the same, in a good way. I empathize with his personal challenge trying to get over his ex, so I don’t mind the few minutes they spend on that aspect, but I’m glad they don’t build a show around it. The murder mysteries where our hero is broken or manic-depressive or idiot savant or a mathematical genius or whatever ultimately turn me off. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2026, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9442 "2026-08-05T13:01:24Z")
> [@moes\_lotion](#): > > It has a very broadly similar theme of artificially created mutant superheroes/villans and stars Park Eun-bin who has become one of my favourite actresses lately. I’ve been watching **Spooky In Love** (with the same actress) on Netflix: a crusading prosecutor who’s afraid of ghosts meets a haunted hotel heiress and they solve murders. It has its moments, but I wish there was more mystery-solving and fewer generic K-drama cliches. ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9443 "2026-08-07T18:02:25Z")
I finished the second season of **Silo** last night. The pacing is uneven throughout the seasons, some of the acting is atrocious (seriously, who thought casting a rapper was a good idea?), and there are several giant plot holes, but I’m enjoying it enough to continue watching. I’ll wait a bit before starting season 3 as it’s currently being released weekly. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9444 "2026-08-07T21:15:37Z")
I had a few of the same comments and got shouted down a bit. Common should stick to music, IMO. I’ve never heard his music, but I have to believe it’s better than his acting. ---
**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:** [August 7, 2026, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9445 "2026-08-07T21:44:15Z")
Inna has tapped out of _Andor_. I might finish it, but it is unlikely. To be honest, unless you were a rebel, life in the Empire looked pretty good - lots of space, no homeless, everyone is well fed, and even if you’re a broke-assed rebel, travel from planet to planet was readily and cheaply accessible. After a season and a half Inna was like “What, you’re rebelling because the prison system is unfair? Guess what: all prison systems are unfair!” Now we both understand that in SW, Empire=Evil, yeah, we get it, but still, Andor could have made the Empire=Evil argument more anti-Empire. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9446 "2026-08-07T23:15:39Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Inna has tapped out of _Andor_. I might finish it, but it is unlikely. To be honest, unless you were a rebel, life in the Empire looked pretty good - lots of space, no homeless, everyone is well fed, and even if you’re a broke-assed rebel, travel from planet to planet was readily and cheaply accessible. Why, again, was Andor arrested and sentenced to indefinite forced labor? For his rebel activity? On a completely unrelated topic, I’d like to recommend a two-person indie film to you: > **[Closet Land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closet_Land)** > > Closet Land is a 1991 independent film written and directed by Radha Bharadwaj. The film stars Madeleine Stowe as a young author of children's books and Alan Rickman as a sadistic secret policeman who is interrogating her. The film was released to mixed reviews. Set in an unspecified country, a woman is taken from her home in the middle of the night, accused of embedding dissident messages into her book Closet Land. The book is a story about a child who, as a result of bad behavior, has been l... One of them is Alan Rickman! ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2026, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/9447 "2026-08-08T05:30:36Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So I’ll be able to watch all of Ted Lasso and Slow Horses whenever that comes back. Pretty soon, September 16. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=471) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=473)