# 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:** 79
**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:** [August 2, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1562 "2022-08-02T18:22:10Z")
That’s how I felt about season two. A lot of dick jokes and not a lot else. We quit watching after two episodes. ---
**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 2, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1563 "2022-08-02T19:18:50Z")
I’ve enjoyed many of the jokes in the current season of What We Do In The Shadows. ---
**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, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1564 "2022-08-02T20:20:14Z")
The entire episode with the vampire rapper and his Fred Armisen familiar, tween Colin Robinson and the Djinn/Penis negotiation was hilarious. My whole family laughed all the way through it. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1565 "2022-08-03T00:08:15Z")
Season 2 of **Reservation Dogs** starts tomorrow on Hulu. ---
**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:** [August 3, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1566 "2022-08-03T14:23:20Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > Frankly I’ve found the new season of What we do in the shadows not particularly funny I must disagree; it’s firing on all cylinders for me. Kristin Schall’s character, the Wraiths, Nandor’s aforementioned negotiations with the Djinn, the entire Night Market episode, and more. Though I do wish they’d get to wherever they’re going with Colin Robinson 2.0 already. ---
**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 3, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1567 "2022-08-03T14:24:38Z")
The episode _before_ the night market episode had me laughing much more. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1568 "2022-08-03T15:18:21Z")
The Staircase (HBO) – the dramatization of the documentary of the same name on Netflix. With Colin Firth and Toni Collette. I dunno. I’m sure there will be Emmy nominations for the actors, but the story does take a long time to go nowhere in particular. And it’s edited in a most confusing fashion, flipping between 2001, 2011 and 2017 and leaving the viewer often asking “Wait…what year are we in now?” ---
**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:** [August 3, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1569 "2022-08-03T15:22:01Z")
We watched the series [_Signora Volpe_](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15193160/). Wanted to see it since it stars the great Emilia Fox. Who plays Sylvia … Fox. And Fox/Volpe, get it? She’s an intel officer who takes off to Umbria to get away from it all (and has a sister there). Of course immediately gets drawn into solving mysteries. 3 double-length episodes. Each on a single mystery. Quite a disappointment. Frankly, if it wasn’t for Fox I would have bailed on it quite quickly. Don’t see how this is 7.2 at IMDb. If you want to see her in something good (besides _Silent Witness_, of course) try _Delicious_. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1570 "2022-08-04T08:05:04Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Season 2 of **Reservation Dogs** starts tomorrow on Hulu. The first two episodes have not disappointed. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2022, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1571 "2022-08-04T08:59:36Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > 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. There will not be a second kill. > **[‘First Kill’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season](https://deadline.com/2022/08/first-kill-canceled-vampire-drama-no-season-2-netflix-1235083979/)** > > EXCLUSIVE: Netflix will not be picking up a second season of First Kill, its teen vampire drama series executive produced by Emma Roberts. Netflix’s renewal/cancellation decisions usually com… ---
**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:** [August 4, 2022, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1572 "2022-08-04T10:54:22Z")
A-ho! ---
**Author:** ![dummygladhands71](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@dummygladhands71](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dummygladhands71)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1573 "2022-08-05T04:28:40Z")
Binging Prime Suspect, because Helen Mirren. The old portable phones are jarring. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1574 "2022-08-05T07:56:28Z")
Bummer. I liked it. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1575 "2022-08-05T20:40:36Z")
Stumbled on _Resident Alien_ and liking it quite a lot after three episodes. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1576 "2022-08-05T22:16:10Z")
Is that the one several people have nicknames “Quincy, E.T.”? Interesting. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1577 "2022-08-05T22:24:58Z")
Yes. Yes. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1578 "2022-08-06T00:34:21Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Is that the one several people have nicknames “Quincy, E.T.”? Interesting. That nickname didn’t hold up—I thought there would be a lot more crime-solving. ---
**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:** [August 6, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1579 "2022-08-06T19:23:00Z")
_ **Boundless** _ (Spanish: _ **Sin límites** _ ) on Amazon Prime, a 6 episode series about the Magellan expedition. It made a 3 year voyage seem like 10. It sugarcoats Magellan’s sins (re: attempting to forcibly convert the natives) but it does validate the great accomplishment of the man who finished the journey, Sabastian Elcano. Elcano is the only character who’s really developed. More could have been done with Magellan’s slave, Enrique or the voyage’s chronicler, Pigafetta. It doesn’t help that it’s difficult to tell one bearded Spaniard from another. ---
**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 6, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1580 "2022-08-06T19:52:24Z")
We watched the first episode of _The Terminal List_ last night. it was decent, but a little slow. We’ll watchn the next one, but it has to get more compelling for us to stick with it. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1581 "2022-08-07T01:42:42Z")
I thought it was middling. Chris Pratt was actually pretty convincing, and the acting and action were good. It really tried to _say something_ about the issue of veterans’ mental health and… kind of did? It was also nicely paced, moving along from plot line to plot line. On the down side, it was VERY predictable. And I never really enjoyed the flashbacks/mental breaks, although I appreciated what they were aiming for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=78) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=80)