# 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:** 78
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1542 "2022-07-27T17:17:59Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > We finished **The Split** (Hulu). All three seasons were outstanding, although the final 30 seconds of the last episode were cheesy. An outstanding look into human nature and behavior. Loved _The Split_, sad to see it go. If Nicola Walker is in it, we’ll watch it. * * * Just finished watching _[The Chelsea Detective](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14321914/)_. While I like the main characters and such the actual crimes and criminals are fairly uninteresting. If there’s a 2nd season I’ll probably give it a pass. ---
**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 28, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1543 "2022-07-28T10:59:01Z")
Started watching _Farzar_. Wants to be Rick & Morty, but is more like if the South Park guys made Rick & Morty - a _lot_ of dick and anus jokes, a lot of gratuitous violence and gore, a lot of weird alien creatures, but not particularly clever or funny. It has its moments, but not that many. ---
**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 29, 2022, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1544 "2022-07-29T08:13:27Z")
Just finished _[The Old Man](https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/the-old-man)_ (which I keep wanting to call “this old man”, but no nick-nack is played). It is a spy drama starring [The Dude](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski), [Dick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Solomon), [Maeby](https://loveinterest.fandom.com/wiki/Maeby_F%C3%BCnke), [Amy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judging_Amy), and sometimes [Doc](https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Doc). Not really my favorite genre, but it isn’t bad. The first season of seven episodes ends in a cliffhanger, but season two has been approved. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2022, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1545 "2022-07-29T11:53:02Z")
Been enjoying The Old Man for the most part, although Bridges is really quite long in the tooth to be playing a bad-ass. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1546 "2022-07-30T00:28:10Z")
Season 3 of **Blown Away** is available on Netflix. This is a show about glass blowing, so it’s kind of a niche, but it’s interesting and the competition is fun. We saw the winner of S1 in her residency at the Corning Glass company a few years back. Having taken a few classes in making things from glass, I can appreciate how difficult it is to work with, especially since the techniques and most of the tools haven’t changed in hundreds of years. Glass blowing is a giant leap above making plates and the like, however. ---
**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:** [July 30, 2022, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1547 "2022-07-30T09:05:26Z")
If you’re a Zahn McClarnon fan, he has a bit part in the MCU/Disney series _Hawkeye_, and was a regular on [“Longmire”](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836037/) during its 6-season run. ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1548 "2022-07-31T04:55:20Z")
So, “The Old Man” Jeff Bridges. Just ends nowhere?? WTF? Not even a cliffhanger, just OK folks, stay turned for a month or 12. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2022, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1549 "2022-07-31T11:36:23Z")
No kidding. An hour of blahblahblahblah and then. . .done. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1550 "2022-07-31T12:38:32Z")
Wait…was last week the finale? We were looking for a new episode… didn’t feel like a finale and was looking forward to Bridges/Lithgow being together more. ---
**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 31, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1551 "2022-07-31T15:24:50Z")
> [@LVBoPeep](#): > > Wait…was last week the finale? We were looking for a new episode Yes. The whole season was released at once. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1552 "2022-07-31T15:31:18Z")
Time to put Hulu on a six month hold again, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1553 "2022-07-31T20:22:51Z")
It wasn’t dropped all at once for us but maybe we didn’t have the right level of Hulu…oh well… ---
**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:** [July 31, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1554 "2022-07-31T20:26:13Z")
As far as I know, the FX series The Old Man wasn’t released all at once (Netflix-style) but instead new episodes aired once a week, from June 16 through July 21. Now that all of the episodes were released, presumably it can be binged on FX on Hulu. ---
**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:** [July 31, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1555 "2022-07-31T20:42:39Z")
Over the past couple of weeks, I re-watched _[Silicon Valley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series))_ on HBOMAX. Now I’m rewatching _[Ghosts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(2019_TV_series))_. ---
**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 31, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1556 "2022-07-31T23:53:55Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > As far as I know, the FX series The Old Man wasn’t released all at once (Netflix-style) but instead new episodes aired once a week, from June 16 through July 21. Huh. I guess I just happened to first discover it after it had finished. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1557 "2022-08-01T14:53:41Z")
Have now binged Season 1 of _Hacks_. My previous comments about Jean Smart still stand - she is a delight to watch. It’s like she appeared in _Designing Women_ and then was completely off my radar for 25 years until she popped up again in _Legion_ and suddenly she’s all over the place absolutely killing it. I will get to S2 in a bit. ---
**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 1, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1558 "2022-08-01T14:56:46Z")
Jean Smart is also in Watchmen, which should be available on HBOMax. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1559 "2022-08-01T15:04:12Z")
Seen it, loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1560 "2022-08-02T16:06:34Z")
The new season of, “What We Do in the Shadows” is back, and it’s just as hilarious as the first two seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1561 "2022-08-02T18:08:10Z")
Frankly I’ve found the new season of What we do in the shadows not particularly funny… Just more of the same without the jokes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=79)