# 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:** 55
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1081 "2022-03-15T20:13:23Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Just watched S1E1 of **Orphan Black**. One episode in and already lots of unanswered questions. It may be a keeper. One of the best shows to come out of Canada in decades. Even if you’re not into SF, the performance element of it is staggering. Maslany absolutely deserved her Emmy in the final season for her stellar work. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1082 "2022-03-15T20:19:39Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Michael Mando did a great job (he’s Nacho in Better Call Saul) And he was Vic the Dick in _Orphan Black._ ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1083 "2022-03-15T20:20:19Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > ETA: I thought you meant on Netflix, where I watch it, but they still only have 4 seasons there. ☹ I may have to pay for a month of AMC to watch season five. I am not sure if they still have it but about a month ago, I got a deal where I got a year of AMC+ for $20. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1084 "2022-03-15T20:36:11Z")
> [@LVBoPeep](#): > > I am not sure if they still have it but about a month ago, I got a deal where I got a year of AMC+ for $20. Thanks, I’ll check that out. That would let me watch season 6 as it unfolds. I would actually be able to participate in the _Saul_ threads here! ---
**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:** [March 15, 2022, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1085 "2022-03-15T20:47:18Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Love the way the main character talks, calling people “pet” and sometimes getting pissed off and yelling at her staff. Brenda Blethyn is one of my favorite actors in the universe. ---
**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:** [March 15, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1086 "2022-03-15T21:10:05Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > Emergency! is great. I’m old enough to have watched it live. I loved it. I also had a crush on Randy Mantooth! Reminds me of how I got hooked years ago on the old _Twelve O’Clock High_ TV series. Paul Burke is Alia Shawcut’s uncle! ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1087 "2022-03-15T22:57:24Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I heard they’re making season 3. Yay! First episode of Season 3 shows in US April 24th. WIll be roughly three years after the broadcast of the second season (downside of a long pause, then a pandemic etc). ---
**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:** [March 15, 2022, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1088 "2022-03-15T23:51:45Z")
> [@veryfrank](#): > > My rankings from best to worst: **Hawkeye, Wandavision, Falcon & Winter Soldier, Loki**. I don’t get the low regard for **Loki** a lot of people have - it wasn’t perfect by any means (particularly the last episode with its endless exposition) but I thought it was one of the more clever takes on the whole multiverse concept. It’s probably my favorite of the bunch, whereas I found **Hawkeye** clumsy and disappointing overall despite my great appreciation for Hailee Steinfeld. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1089 "2022-03-16T00:17:51Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > You might try **Dark Matter** (Netflix) It’s been awhile but I remember liking it and that’s where my wife and I found refuge after finishing The Expanse. We watched that and enjoyed it. It also died early, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1090 "2022-03-16T13:51:05Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I don’t get the low regard for **Loki** a lot of people have - it wasn’t perfect by any means (particularly the last episode with its endless exposition) but I thought it was one of the more clever takes on the whole multiverse concept. It’s probably my favorite of the bunch, Even when I was reading comics, my tastes tended to lean more towards down-to-earth titles like Daredevil, Alias (the Jessica Jones series), Black Widow, Captain America and the like. I’ve never followed Thor or anything set in outer space, it’s just never been my cup of tea. I’m fine with Loki taking off as the most frequent and enjoyable antihero in the MCU, Hiddleston makes it pretty fun. But I was just totally lost in the Loki series, I could barely get a handle on the whole variant concept. And as for depictions of a comic multiverse, AFAIC, the Arrowverse pretty much knocked it out of the park a couple of years ago, and even though the recent Spider-Man movie delivered on the fanservice really well, I feel like Marvel’s trying to play catch-up. Both comic companies are trying to tackle the whole “multiverse” notion in various ways, simultaneously, which I guess will hit peak nerdgasm when Warners cuts a deal with Sony, and Batman (whoever’s playing him that month) and the Scarlet Witch team up onscreen to battle an unholy alliance of Lex Luthor and the Kingpin. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2022, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1091 "2022-03-16T14:08:53Z")
I watched the first episode of S2 of **Picard** and I’m done with it, and perhaps the whole _Star Trek_ franchise. I am so sick of time travel and alternate realities. It’s been done to death! ---
**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:** [March 18, 2022, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1092 "2022-03-18T05:08:54Z")
The first two episodes of **Minx** have dropped on HBO Max. It’s a period comedy about a feminist/porn magazine in the early 1970s. It’s kind of got a _Glow_ vibe but not as serious. Jake Johnson is really good as a rather enlightened porn publisher. Just a heads up (heh): They pack a lot of full frontal male nudity into the first 15 minutes so that you barely even notice it by the end of the first episode. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1093 "2022-03-18T16:16:50Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > They pack a lot of full frontal male nudity into the first 15 minutes so that you barely even notice it by the end of the first episode There’s so much FFMN that The NY Times wrote an article about it yesterday. 🙂 ---
**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:** [March 18, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1094 "2022-03-18T16:33:52Z")
My interest in this just pegged at zero. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1095 "2022-03-18T19:43:04Z")
Odd. I’m curious about it now. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1096 "2022-03-18T20:03:16Z")
I recently told my DVR to not record any more episodes of HGTV’s “Home Inspector Joe”, sort of a mashup of “House Hunters” and “Holmes Inspection”. I have four issues with the series: the episode title tends to give away which house gets chosen, too much is recapped after every commercial break, Joe Mazza is no Mike Holmes, and the last episode I saw introduced Joe’s physical trainer brother. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1097 "2022-03-18T20:17:43Z")
“Upload” is about a time in the future when you go to a sort of digital heaven (if you have the money, you can choose a luxurious one with lots of data). I thought season 1 was very good. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0ZfZj2bn_xg/maxresdefault.jpg "Upload - Official Trailer I Prime Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZfZj2bn_xg) I just watched season 2 (dropped 3/11). Not as good…but I still liked it. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4OtfjPCJpU0/maxresdefault.jpg "Upload Season 2 - Official Trailer | Prime Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OtfjPCJpU0) ---
**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:** [March 18, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1098 "2022-03-18T20:27:18Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > the episode title tends to give away which house gets chosen A LOT of HGTV shows do this. And it’s obnoxious. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1099 "2022-03-19T01:29:04Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > My interest in this just pegged at zero. Interesting choice of words. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2022, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1100 "2022-03-20T03:39:18Z")
I watched “Five Came Back”, Netflix, only 3 episodes, a documentary about 5 directors, Ford, Huston, Capra and I forget the other 2, top Hollywood directors who went to WWII to film the war, not as a movie per se, I don’t know how to describe what they did, you should watch it. Capra was so good. I’ve always been especially fascinated in combat photography, and although this is not that, it was still terrific and I recommend it highly. And I’m not a documentary person at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=56)