# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/81 "2021-07-20T02:04:10Z")
I liked Mr Inbetween, but was that the ending??? Forever?? ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/82 "2021-07-20T02:11:16Z")
Yep. Scott Ryan has said he has been playing the role since 2005 and thinks that’s enough… I hope he comes back with something new. ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/83 "2021-07-20T03:19:24Z")
Sad. he was truly growing on me. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/84 "2021-07-20T09:21:52Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > I just recently signed up for Disney+ and am struggling through the 1st season of the Mandalorian. I am actually shocked at how much hype this show got when it came out. The plots and writing are horrible and some of the characters look like leftovers from _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ . Sure, Baby Yoda is cute, but that’s about the best thing I can say. I keep hoping it gets better. I didn’t think it was _that_ bad, and IMO it’s better than the prequel trilogy. Or the last one. The main character grows and develops a lot more in the second season, but if you don’t like the plots in the first season I’m not sure the second one is going to change your mind any. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/85 "2021-07-20T15:52:17Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > I keep hoping it gets better. It doesn’t. Very simple, almost insultingly simple, episodic TV. What a letdown. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/86 "2021-07-20T16:12:25Z")
I’m having a blast watching _Schmigadoon!_ on Apple TV (the subscription came free with a new iPhone). Cecily Strong gets to sing and dance (a bit) and reprise her Drunk Girl character from SNL. She and Keegan-Michael Key get stuck in an annoying _Brigadoon_ town; its send-up of musicals is fantastic. I’m looking forward to see them use all of the cast (Kristin Chenoweth - I’m looking at you!) ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/87 "2021-07-20T16:25:14Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Am currently watching _Sweet Tooth_ - I think up to episode 5 - it’s enjoyable and beautiful but suffers from me having negative sympathy for the doctor and his wife in their subplot. I’m actively rooting for them to die. And soon. I don’t mind them, but find the deer kid way to cutesome in an Anne Geddis sort of way. Still continuing to see where they will take this weird concoction for the time being. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/88 "2021-07-20T21:59:38Z")
I was never a big tv or movie watcher, but I always could find something to watch when I wanted to. I’ve probably watched or tried to watch more than half the shows in this thread. But lately it’s like nothing can hold my interest anymore. I loved the first season of _The Mandalorian_, but was hard pressed to finish the second year. _WandaVision_ should have been right up my alley but I thought it was mostly boring. _Lucifer_, one of my favorite shows of all time, took me almost six weeks to watch sixteen episodes. I tried to watch _Jupiter’s Legacy_ but couldn’t bring myself to even watch a second episode. Now I just mostly watch quirky detective tv shows when my wife wants to watch something together. We worked our way thru everything on Acorn in the last two years, so we recently switched to BritBox and we are about halfway thru season 8 (we had watched 1-7 before) of _Death In Paradise_. Enjoying it but lot’s of cast changes. We also got a lot of recommendations from Dopers in another thread, so we should be set for a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/89 "2021-07-20T22:40:08Z")
We just binged season two of _Never Have I Ever_ after having binged season one a few weeks ago. It’s on Netflix, and about an Indian-American girl in high school who recently and very suddenly lost her father. She’s very smart- honor roll smart- but pretty clueless socially. Oh, and it’s narrated by John McEnroe(!). ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/90 "2021-07-22T11:56:04Z")
I’m trying to watch **Sons of Anarchy** on Hulu. I’m five or six episodes into the first season and I don’t think I’m going to make it through. It’s just not very interesting. Not the story, not the cast, not the acting. It’s just trite bullshit. Also, they can’t shoot for shit. There’s a scene where two biker gangs face off against one another in the middle of the street. Hundreds of rounds fired and everybody just rides and walks away. Who even directs a scene like that? ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/91 "2021-07-22T12:10:09Z")
It gets much more cartoonish after that. Four fat dudes take on all the gangs on west coast US and outwit them, so I’d get out while you can. The third season is particularly stupid. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/92 "2021-07-22T12:14:03Z")
“Cartoonish” is an excellent way to describe the writing and the show in general. Yeah, I’m out. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/93 "2021-07-22T13:15:37Z")
The other one which reminds me of this is Peaky Blinders, a total over the top historical thriller from the UK. However, it shows a much maligned and forgotten area and people of the UK (Birmingham), so they love it about here. But it’s stupid. Sooooo stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/94 "2021-07-22T13:18:43Z")
Based on another thread in which I mentioned the old Sci-Fi series, “Farscape”, I have started watching it again in order of seasons and episodes. I start work at 6:30 and usually arrive by 6:15, and there is very little to do for the first hour or so, so I have been watching one episode every morning via Amazon Prime. I am up to Season I, espisode 5, which I will hopefully view Monday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/95 "2021-07-22T13:24:04Z")
Watched _Nailed It!_. I find I could watch a half dozen episodes at random from any season and be sated on the show for life. The first couple times you see it, the disastrous results of amateurs attempting professional level baking is laugh out loud funny, but gets increasingly less droll quite rapidly after that. Most of the contestants are downright annoying. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/96 "2021-07-22T13:26:29Z")
Oddly, I loved Peaky Blinders. Never expected to like it because it was so over the top. But could not get enough of it; especially the Tom Hardy character. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/97 "2021-07-22T15:08:22Z")
I’m watching **The Flight Attendant** on HBO. I had heard good things, and I agree, it is good. Surprisingly funny for the dark subject matter. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/98 "2021-07-22T15:43:46Z")
**Life in Pieces** - similar to Modern Family, except funny. **Mr Inbetween** - an Australian show about a hitman juggling his life and daughter while still in the business. Light at times, but also some real dark drama. Fantastic cast and writing. **Silicon Valley** - I had avoided it for years because tech venture capitalists make my skin crawl, but the show is funny and focuses on the characters. I have even grown to like the CEO antagonists. I would get back into **Taboo** , **Goliath** and **Better Call Saul** in a heartbeat if they ever make more. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/99 "2021-07-22T22:47:20Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Oddly, I loved Peaky Blinders. Me too. I didn’t think I would like it at all, not a big fan of Cillian Murphy, but it entertains me. > [@Sitnam](#): > > I would get back into **Taboo** , **Goliath** and **Better Call Saul** in a heartbeat if they ever make more. I would watch all three of these if there were more episodes. The last season of _Saul_ still hasn’t come up on Netflix, so I will be able to see that for sure. It’s been so long since _Taboo_ and _Goliath_ aired I thought they were cancelled. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2021, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/100 "2021-07-23T01:33:33Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > We just binged season two of _Never Have I Ever_ after having binged season one a few weeks ago. I recently watched season two, but had forgotten most of season one, so I’m rewatching that now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=6)