# 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:** 83
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1642 "2022-08-20T13:36:29Z")
Been slowly watching **Venture Bros** , an episode or three a day. The first season is hit or miss, but it seems to have found its stride in the second season. Currently near the end of season 3. Enjoying all the parody. First thing that really made me laugh was The Master talking about what his other heads were doing. The Scooby Doo episode was great. ---
**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 20, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1643 "2022-08-20T22:38:43Z")
Finished two series: **Extraordinary Attorney Woo** (S1): I have to admit that I became hooked on this. It’s a real feelgood series but with assorted lawyery stuff and corporate politics and various little twists that don’t necessarily go the way you expect. And Park Eun-Bin is genuinely delightful to watch, despite my initial unease about the extent to which her portrayal of someone on the autism spectrum reflected reality. It’s not remotely serious drama, but it’s an enjoyable show. Would recommend. **Westworld** (S4): Well that was impressive. By which I mean it’s impressive how they took a series with such an brilliant first series and an amazing cast and then continued to find new depths to spiral down to. Even this season started out on such a promising note and failed to deliver anything. Really, all the clever stuff they built up about what was real and what wasn’t didn’t really matter in the end. I’ll watch S5 when it happens just to finish the story but I can’t see how they will even manage to crawl out of the hole they’ve dug, let alone cap it off in any sort of satisfactory manner. Don’t bother - or just go back and watch S1 again. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1644 "2022-08-21T01:21:19Z")
Re: **Westworld** Season 4. I was quite hopeful for awhile that season 4 was back on track; back up to Season 1 levels even. Nope. Not even close. ---
**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 21, 2022, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1645 "2022-08-21T06:59:11Z")
_Westworld_ is like tylhe works of M. Night Shyamalan. You make something with a twist, and suddenly you’re the one who makes things with twists, even if it means that everything else sucks. At then end of season 5, we will learn that the whole thing was Bob Newheart’s dream. ---
**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 22, 2022, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1646 "2022-08-22T10:06:25Z")
I was thinking about _Heroes_ as a comparison - excellent first season, and then a rapid decline into incoherence, cheap gimmicks and clumsy “twists” that have clearly just been stuck in as a failed attempt to be clever. At least _Heroes_ had the S2 writers strike as an excuse; _Westworld_ went slowly and increasingly off the rails all on its own. ---
**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 22, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1647 "2022-08-22T15:32:52Z")
We’ve started watching episodes of Key & Peele, but I have a question: why, since it is on HBOMax, is the profanity bleeped? ---
**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 22, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1648 "2022-08-22T15:47:23Z")
Just a guess, but since it originally aired on broadcast television, perhaps the censored versions are all that are available. That, or somebody decided it wasn’t worth the effort of re-editing from the master tapes, if they still exist. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1649 "2022-08-22T16:37:17Z")
Gave up on _The Outlaws_ after 4 episodes. Just too bored to stick it out for the final two. Started _Outer Range_. Not a big Brolin fan, but I liked the first episode okay. I also hate the trope of someone finding an amazing object/place and just keeping it to themselves like it’s no big deal. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1650 "2022-08-22T17:04:56Z")
Re: trope There’s more to it. 🤫 😁 ---
**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:** [August 22, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1651 "2022-08-22T17:10:05Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > There’s more to it. 🤫 😁 I certainly hope so. Some tantalizing hints already. 🙂 I plan to catch a couple more episodes tonight so I should have a better feeling for the show after that. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1652 "2022-08-22T17:36:54Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Enjoying all the parody. First thing that really made me laugh was The Master talking about what his other heads were doing. The Scooby Doo episode was great. _Tag Sale, You’re It!_ is my favorite episode of the entire show. ---
**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 24, 2022, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1653 "2022-08-24T14:53:34Z")
**The Orville: New Horizons** - S3 was a definite improvement over the previous two seasons overall; they’ve kept just enough comedy to keep it fun while getting rid of the “We must appeal to the _Family Guy_ audience” bullshit that really dragged the previous seasons down. All ten episodes were reasonably solid and the stories moved at a decent pace. Also, I haven’t checked the rest of the internet but I’m pretty sure I spotted a goodly number of nods to _Star Wars_ along the way. Downsides: Apart from the soapboxing (a habit it shares with _Star Trek_), there were a couple of actors who still are quite wooden, several scenes ended with characters silently staring at each other because the writers clearly didn’t know how to finish the scene, and much as I like Scott Grimes there is a limit to the number of cheesy songs I want to hear him sing and this season blew past that limit quickly. Still a lot better than _ST: Discovery_ though. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1654 "2022-08-25T16:15:59Z")
> [@bump](#): > > I’m about to start watching _Knightfall_, because it looks like something I will like. Well, add _Knightfall_ to thel list. Started out great in the first half of the first episode, but soon devolved into something less… historical and more soap-operatic than I prefer. Way too much intrigue and nonsense for what I had thought was a series about the Crusades, not some post-Crusades palace intrigue tale. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1655 "2022-08-25T20:09:51Z")
Just started 2 series, and I can recommend both: **Five Days at Memorial** (AppleTV+) Five episodes, and we’ve finished the 3rd. Gripping, engrossing, devastating about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on a NO hospital, and how it was a complete clusterf\*\*\*. Can be summarized as: “What evacuation plan? I thought _you_ had the plan?” and “We’re sitting around waiting for someone to give us an order.” **Mo** (Netflix). If you remember Ramy (Hulu, I think) about a Muslim immigrant in the US – this is basically the same idea; possibly because Ramy Youssef is an executive producer. Young Palestinian man, with his mother, brother, and Mexican-American girlfriend in Houston. Charming, warm, thoughtful, and very funny. Thanks to Netflix I’m versed in the experience of Korean immigrants in Toronto (Kim’s Convenience), Indian immigrants in LA (Never Have I Ever) and now Palestinian immigrants in Houston. ---
**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 27, 2022, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1656 "2022-08-27T20:46:33Z")
**Guilt** , season 2 starts tomorrow night on PBS. Season one was great and I’m looking forward to it. Starring Max Bonnar. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1657 "2022-08-29T14:36:29Z")
Hotel Portofino on PBS. I had high hopes for this series - I love Italy, and I love period pieces (20s). But it kind of dragged and I got confused with certain characters. I also didn’t like the extortion and fascism part of it. ---
**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 29, 2022, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1658 "2022-08-29T14:37:53Z")
Hotel Portofino seemed designed to capture the audience from The Durrells in Corfu, though it wasn’t as good. ---
**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 29, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1659 "2022-08-29T15:34:39Z")
I’m enjoying **The Offer** on Paramount+, prompting me to look up the real life people depicted. I don’t want to spoil anything, but this isn’t the first notable appearance of Ruddy’s girlfriend (the real one; not the actress) in a memorable limited series. [This text will be blurred](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Prem_Hasya) ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1660 "2022-08-29T15:39:49Z")
I loved the Durrells! ---
**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 29, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1661 "2022-08-29T17:19:08Z")
Finished **Hacks** (S2). Nice to have all the storylines wrapped up, and I’m still fancrushing on Jean Smart. Started **Lucifer** (S1), which I’d managed to avoid heretofore. It’s diverting but I’m unlikely to develop an emotional commitment to it. The banter is top quality, but the spouse finds Tom Ellis’s devil just a smidge too camp to really take seriously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=82) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=84)