# 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:** 68
**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:** [June 7, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1341 "2022-06-07T14:40:54Z")
“Under The Banner of Heaven” (Hulu). A series based on the book by Jon Krakauer relating the true events of the murder of a Mormon family. Starring Andrew Garfield and Sam Worthington. Truly creepy Mormon stuff, but the story-telling just misses the mark. Not sure why, although continuity is a problem. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2022, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1342 "2022-06-07T14:55:08Z")
The only original part of the story were the lives of the fictional cops and they just didn’t do enough with that to set the drama apart from a true crime documentary. The resolution of the Garfield character’s conflict was sewn up practically by magic. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1343 "2022-06-07T15:56:43Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The resolution of the Garfield character’s conflict was sewn up practically by magic. A miracle from **Heavenly Father**! ---
**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:** [June 7, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1344 "2022-06-07T16:08:15Z")
I may have to read the book. I like Krakauer’s other work. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1345 "2022-06-07T17:02:46Z")
Despite the series referring to it as “true crime”, that really doesn’t describe Krakauer’s nonfiction book. It’s a general survey of the excesses of the early Mormons and the modern FLDS and the struggle that the LDS has had in reconciling their past with what they want to be seen as a mainstream faith. The real hero of the book is Juanita Brooks, a Mormon historian, who had the courage to dig up the truth about the Mountain Meadows Massacre. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1346 "2022-06-11T04:58:12Z")
Stumbled on and started watching _[First Kill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Kill_(TV_series))_. It is _profoundly_ cheesy but I _think_ it is something meant seriously and not as a goof? Besides the profoundly cliched story, I believe the production budget for the series was roughly 15 minutes of a _Stranger Things_ episode. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2022, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1347 "2022-06-11T16:21:03Z")
We’ve started watching _For All Mankind_. It’s a great show. I expect we’ll watch most of it today. If I can tag upcoming shows, shout out for the new season of _Evil_, which starts on Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1348 "2022-06-12T01:44:28Z")
Peaky Blinders newest and final season (until the film) started out slow and not as good IMHO as the other seasons, but OMG, that final episode! ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1349 "2022-06-12T11:20:19Z")
Halfway through the season, it’s just really starting to roll. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2022, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1350 "2022-06-12T11:52:59Z")
Watching the newest season of “Borgen” on Netflix. A Danish political drama. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1351 "2022-06-12T14:46:27Z")
The title of that show is in perfect synergy with your avatar. 😆 ---
**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:** [June 12, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1352 "2022-06-12T20:43:26Z")
The wife and I are looking forward to the _Dark Winds_ series starting tomorrow. We’re big Tony Hillerman fans. (_The Dark Wind_ was his fifth book.) From the commercials though, Lt. Joe Leaphorn looks emaciated, while I believe he was a little on the chunky side in the books. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1353 "2022-06-12T20:52:09Z")
I’m looking forward to it too. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1354 "2022-06-12T21:18:39Z")
**Alias Grace** (Netflix, 2017) we are only one episode in to this limited series but I love it already. I am a sucker for period dramas so I watched the first episode by myself, I liked it so much I pulled in my Handmaid’s Tale loving wife in the mix and enjoyed watching the first episode even more. I’ll come back to this as we watch more, but it’s so nice not to stumble on more dreck I had to say something. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1355 "2022-06-12T21:27:55Z")
I’m planning to watch the new Borgen season; my wife tells me it’s been a decade since the last? Definitely my favourite of the Scandinavian TV I saw when it was trendy some years back (I was a bit underwhelmed by The Killing, and so on). ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1356 "2022-06-13T01:10:48Z")
I previously watched and enjoyed Season 1 of _The Beforeigners_, and just watched the first episode of season 2. I might give up on it because of the Jack the Ripper tie-in. Someone please tell me if I should keep watching or just give up on it. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1357 "2022-06-13T03:34:16Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > I might give up on it because of the Jack the Ripper tie-in. Someone please tell me if I should keep watching or just give up on it. That’s the story arc for the entire season, so if you don’t like that, there isn’t much to stick around for. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1358 "2022-06-13T10:59:57Z")
Yeah, I didn’t realize it had been that long, but we watched the original more recently than that. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1359 "2022-06-13T12:42:13Z")
I still liked the 2nd season - the Jack the Ripper story line was not great but there is still some original story twists and also the fun times of a Viking king trying to reassert his “power” in modern times (“The king yields to no one!”). It wasn’t as good as the 1st season but if you enjoy the two leads and the very odd world building, I thought it was still worth watching and am looking forward to season 3. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1360 "2022-06-13T23:58:44Z")
> [@Staggerlee](#): > > I’m planning to watch the new Borgen season; So far, it’s putting me to sleep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=67) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=69)