# 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:** 64
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1261 "2022-05-14T13:48:55Z")
Just finished **Candy** on Hulu. We’ve seen a lot of nostalgic stories about what kids were up to circa 1980, but the parents are usually cardboard cutouts and this show kind of flips that. There is a lot of not-so-subtle subtext in it that just confirms everything I’ve ever thought about my parents’ generation. ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1262 "2022-05-14T21:45:55Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > I had never watched Dirk Gently before and am enjoying it. We _loved_ it and were extremely upset that it was cancelled. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1263 "2022-05-14T23:28:48Z")
Finally finished Game of Thrones, and loved it. Now bf wants to watch Entourage. Is it good? ---
**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:** [May 14, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1264 "2022-05-14T23:47:20Z")
“Good” might not be the first descriptor that comes to mind, but it is… entertaining, for the most part. Go in with low expectations and don’t expect a lot of substance, and you may find it fun. I enjoyed most of the run, but the last couple seasons were on fumes. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1265 "2022-05-15T00:07:55Z")
I really enjoyed watching _Entourage_, to the extent that I actually saw the movie in the theater. I thought of the show as the male equivalent of _Sex and the City_, in that it was a fantasy existence for the characters. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1266 "2022-05-15T00:47:59Z")
I watched a few minutes of season 2 of The Wilds. In season one, a group of teenage females try to survive on a deserted island after their plane crashes. In season two they discover that a group of teenage males had the same thing happen to them etc. I just wasn’t in the mood to keep up with two sets of story lines, characters, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1267 "2022-05-15T13:36:25Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Now bf wants to watch Entourage. Is it good? It’s a bunch of likeable schmoes riding the coat tails of their best friend’s hollywood career, which also has it’s own ups and downs. So people living the high life without really earning it. I enjoyed it, but it’s bubblegum for the mind. ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1268 "2022-05-15T14:01:17Z")
I highly recommend the Korean, _Sixth Sense_! _Sixth Sense_ has the cast members\* visit three businesses and one is fake. At the end of the show, they have to correctly guess the fake to win a prize. For the current Season 3, someone in the cast or guest is a spy who is told which business is fake and they have to try an convince the others it’s real. The general rules are that the site is completely fake, from the location (setup by the production staff) to the people working there. For example, if it’s a restaurant, the chef isn’t real areal chef and the food/recipe is created by the production staff. And a “married couple” or partners meet each other just days before the shoot. They’re also rarely ever actors, since the main member of the group, Yoo Jae Suk is The Nation’s MC and has met and knows about almost everyone in the industry. What’s amazing is that the production staff goes to great lengths to create the fake location. Everything from the sometimes huge sign outside to the interior is created by the production staff. They even add dust to the top of the A/C to make it look like it was there a long time. And pump in smells, like old barbeque smoke for a barbeque restaurant. In in Season 3, Episode 9, they went against the everything from scratch rule and used an abandoned restaurant with everything in it for their fake restaurant The trying to guess the fake is fun, but like all variety shows, it’s the interactions between the cast and sometimes guests that make it really fun. You have to watch from Season 1 to get all the in-jokes, but even a random episode is funny. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2022, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1269 "2022-05-15T20:12:40Z")
Has anyone mentioned _Billy the Kid_ yet? Episode one was a drag (in more ways than one) but it has grown on me. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1270 "2022-05-15T20:38:00Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Has anyone mentioned _Billy the Kid_ yet? I can’t quite do it. I try not to get that caught up in historical reality with historical fiction. But occasionally I can’t let it go. Mel Gibson as William Wallace having an affair with an Isabella who was actually all of three years old at the time and fathering Edward III in Braveheart bothers me. And romanticizing young Henry McCarty/William H. Bonney who was a punk thief from the word go and murderer (you can argue justifications, but it is very likely at least two of those murders were straight-up executions of prisoners), also bothers me. I feel like this a very real self-indictment of my ability to just relax and watch a fictional show 😁. But there you go - the adds are turning me off. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1271 "2022-05-15T21:26:29Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > And romanticizing young Henry McCarty/William H. Bonney who was a punk thief from the word go and murderer (you can argue justifications, but it is very likely at least two of those murders were straight-up exec Just an aside: Billy the Kid is buried in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and there’s a [neat little museum](https://www.billythekidmuseumfortsumner.com/index.html) there. His gravestone was stolen in 1981 and recovered days later in California, so now [his grave is enclosed within iron fencing](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Billy-The-Kid-Individual-Tombstone.jpg). One of our first visits to the mainland, if not the very first one, back in our school days, we stopped there, and I have a good picture of the wife standing next to his grave. Impressive to her folks back in Bangkok, who all knew Billy the Kid from old Westerns. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1272 "2022-05-16T00:03:58Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > nd romanticizing young Henry McCarty/William H. Bonney who was a punk thief from the word go and murderer (you can argue justifications, but it is very likely at least two of those murders were straight-up executions of prisoners), also bothers me. Then you may prefer _Dirty Little Billy_. > **[Dirty Little Billy (1972) ⭐ 6.2 | Biography, Drama, Western](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068487/)** > > 1h 33m | R ---
**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:** [May 16, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1273 "2022-05-16T10:43:36Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > I had never watched Dirk Gently before and am enjoying it. Just a few episodes into S1. > > My only worry is the comment earlier in this thread that it was canceled with threads left untied. Sadly, yes, this one was really hitting its stride in S2 on the longer arcs and thus the cancellation was deeply frustrating. Still worth watching to the end of what’s there, though. > [@Chefguy](#): > > I saw where there is a new Netflix series called “Lincoln Lawyer”, based on the book series by Michael Connelly. I was very hopeful, but the first episode put me to sleep. It has every cliché one can imagine and the title character actor seems to have a mouth full of mush and very little, well, character. It gets better; we’ve been binging our way through it and it’s still pretty good despite the clichés. ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1274 "2022-05-17T16:30:02Z")
Gyrate, tell me when it gets better? I quit after 2 episodes but i see all the raves… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1275 "2022-05-18T08:30:10Z")
I actually just watched the real-life documentary about this. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1276 "2022-05-18T08:58:34Z")
> [@dummygladhands71](#): > > Gyrate, tell me when it gets better? I quit after 2 episodes but i see all the raves… I should doublecheck that we’re talking about the series with Elijah Wood and not the earlier series with Stephen Mangan (which was fine but a lot less interesting). I don’t remember when it “gets good” but it starts out with a lot of inexplicable shit and slowly reveals what the hell is going on. Despite the absolute chaos it starts out with all is…well, I don’t know if “explained” is the right word but certainly all internally consistent and key to the overall plot arcs. Unlike, say, _Lost_, the weird shit is there for a reason. Each season has its own story arc but toward the end of S2 they start to explain the larger mechanics of this universe. Which is why the cancellation is annoying. In other news I’ve finished S2 of _Russian Doll_. The finale was not quite as twisty as the one for S!, but I’m still thinking about 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:** [May 18, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1277 "2022-05-18T13:48:03Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I actually just watched the real-life documentary about this. The doc makers are part of the story in this series. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1278 "2022-05-18T16:05:45Z")
We watched _Pieces of Her_, which we liked. We’ve started _Lincoln Lawyer_, which we are enjoying. There is one piece of casting that is bewildering to me and very distracting, but I’m enjoying it anyway. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1279 "2022-05-18T23:47:10Z")
Tried _The Gilded Age_, Julienne Fellows’ followup to _Downton Abbey_. Frankly, he should have stayed in England. It’s kinda silly recreating DA in America, but that’s not what bothers me. It’s just all the _little_ things he is getting wrong about the period. He could have very well been just as inaccurate in DA, but I don’t know enough about that period in British history to care. But, now he’s moved his attentions to this side of the shore, I’m starting to notice this. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1280 "2022-05-19T12:50:03Z")
So just finished _Dirk Gently_. Good. I have to admit though that the juxtaposition of goofy with bloody violent doesn’t mesh as well here as in say _Peacemaker_. Enjoyed it but honestly not too upset that they let it drop after S2. A reasonable stopping point but I doubt they had great vision for where to go from here, and some of the directions hinted at would be too eye rolly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=63) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=65)