# 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:** 85
**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:** [September 3, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1682 "2022-09-03T16:10:32Z")
> [@Red\_Wiggler](#): > > I could easily have watched a couple more seasons of _Counterpart_ but alas. Me too, great show. > [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > The _Rings of Power_ is not… good. It looks expensive but it’s soooooo boring. I read that people had trouble watching episode one due to too many people overloading the servers, but were able to watch the second episode already. My Prime only lists episode one. What’s up with that? ---
**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:** [September 3, 2022, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1683 "2022-09-03T18:08:55Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > I read that people had trouble watching episode one due to too many people overloading the servers, but were able to watch the second episode already. My Prime only lists episode one. What’s up with that? Don’t know, but it’s definitely up. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1684 "2022-09-03T21:40:29Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I watched the 2 episodes of **The Patient** (Hulu) that are out, starring Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson (son of Brendan Gleeson). So far it’s _very_ good. Really _really_ good? I think they’re both very good actors, but shows/movies about serial killers torturing people are a big turn-off for me. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2022, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1685 "2022-09-04T01:06:52Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > I watched the 2 episodes of **The Patient** (Hulu) that are out, starring Steve Carell and Domhnall Gleeson (son of Brendan Gleeson). So far it’s _very_ good. > > Really _really_ good? I think they’re both very good actors, but shows/movies about serial killers torturing people are a big turn-off for me.- So far, it’s been tame. But that’s only 2 episodes. My impression is that it’s about the relationship between patient and therapist, but anything could happen, I guess. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2022, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1686 "2022-09-04T22:01:27Z")
We’ve recently started getting into _Archer_. It’s quite good. I’ve recently started taking a look at _It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia_. Don’t really like it, but can’t seem to look away, like watching a bad traffic accident. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1687 "2022-09-04T22:19:59Z")
Loved Its Always Sunny! ---
**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:** [September 4, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1688 "2022-09-04T22:23:08Z")
Well, maybe it’s not so much that I don’t like it as I can’t figure out if I do like it. A trivia point I recently read. _Sunny_ has surpassed _Ozzie and Harriet_ as longest-running sitcom. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1689 "2022-09-04T22:24:51Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > We’ve recently started getting into _Archer_. It’s quite good. Archer is fantastic for the first five seasons, okay for the next three or four, but has gone off the rails for the last two ot three. But don’t let that bother you - there’s no aeries-long plot arc to follow or anything. Each episode pretty much stands on its own. But the first five aeasons are among my favorite things ever. Stick through it at least until then. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2022, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1690 "2022-09-05T09:29:48Z")
I always recommend jumping to season 3 of it’s always sunny. Then come back later to do the first two as if they are a pilot season and a prelude. They didn’t really have a direction on the first two seasons, and danny was forced on them but with very limited access, shoot his scenes all at once, then gone. So the second season didn’t get to grow vaguely sequentially, it was written ad hoc. What became ‘Real Sunny’ starts in Season 3. You can work out quite quickly if you like it and know the rest will be similar. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1691 "2022-09-06T16:25:20Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Don’t really like it, but can’t seem to look away, like watching a bad traffic accident. I think you’ve summed it up pretty well. There are some truly classic episodes, but mostly I watched in stunned amazement at how awful these people were. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1692 "2022-09-06T17:28:25Z")
Kitten mittens. I wonder if they complaints about that. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1693 "2022-09-06T17:37:05Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > **Five Days at Memorial** (AppleTV+) Five episodes, and we’ve finished the 3rd. Gripping, engrossing, devastating Amending my own review. We just watched episode six, which is the investigation to the events that happened in episode five. It ended so abruptly that I thought for a minute that I had accidentally jumped forward to the closing credits. I need to go on Google to find out what actually happened. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1694 "2022-09-06T17:59:02Z")
I just watched the Netflix mini series, “Re:Mind”, which was actually released in 2017, but which I just discovered while browsing the titles. Mini synopsis: “After awaking in an old European-style room, eleven high school classmates find themselves sitting at a large dining room table, with their feet shackled to the floor. They find that their situation could be related to another classmate named Miho who had disappeared months before. As they try to figure out how to escape, some of the girls start disappearing from the table one by one. The girls realize they each share a checkered past with Miho, but also suspect one of them could be behind the trap.” I don’t how much guys would like this. It’s really about the complex social relationships between women, changing coalitions, unforgivable acts, and retribution. It also has an extremely sad ending. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1695 "2022-09-06T18:24:52Z")
We just finished watching season one of _Darby and Joan_ on Accorn (it’s also on Amazon Prime). It falls into the cozy category mostly. Not a lot of hard core crime, it’s mostly about the growing relationship between Darby (Bryan Brown) and Joan (Greta Scacchi). Gorgeous Queensland scenery. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2022, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1696 "2022-09-06T19:44:37Z")
Some streaming service news: Hulu is jacking up their prices by $2 a month again. They have some 46 million subscribers, so this translates to about $100M dollars/month if one assumes that everyone goes with no ads. Greed is good. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1697 "2022-09-06T20:27:53Z")
Just finished watching s1 of the mind-bending German time-travel thriller _ **Dark** _ on Netflix. Couldn’t recommend it more. Feels a bit like a cross between a Scandi-noir and The X-Files. Not exactly laugh-a-minute but really engaging. Looking forward to moving on to s2. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1698 "2022-09-06T23:02:05Z")
If you’re keeping up with _Dark_ without taking notes, good on you. I loved it but might not have been able to keep up with the different characters in the different timelines without the help of a dedicated thread at another board. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2022, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1699 "2022-09-07T05:44:47Z")
> [@iamatractorboy](#): > > Just finished watching s1 of the mind-bending German time-travel thriller _ **Dark** _ on Netflix. Huh, that’s coinkydink - I just started it yesterday as well. I’ve only plowed through four episodes so far, but I’m liking it. I didn’t know anything about it before starting, but four episodes in it is already apparent it is going to get ridiculously complicated 😀. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1700 "2022-09-07T09:18:52Z")
Finished S1 of _Farzar_. Not sure why, and would not be upset if there wasn’t a S2. My original assessment holds: > [@Gyrate](#): > > 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. Finished S1 of _Lucifer_ and am chugging through S2. It really does require suppressing any thoughts of Lucifer as a serious being, but damn there are some great lines in it. > [@](#): > > Charlotte [watching a mac and cheese commercial]: “Mazikeen - what is this strange, gooey substance that this boy is cooing about?” > > Mazikeen [off]: “You watching porn?” Starting watching _The Fuzz_, a “Muppets do _The Wire_” kind of show (a concept later repeated in _The Happytime Murders_). Fell asleep. I do get the attempt to riff on puppets as a drug-and-crime-addled underclass to contrast with their usual _Sesame Street_ image, but it really doesn’t hold up. _Avenue Q_ was probably the most successful at pulling this off; _The Fuzz_ on the other hand can’t decide whether it wants to be funny or tragic and thus fails to be either. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1701 "2022-09-07T13:03:22Z")
Knowing how the characters are connected to one another is really critical to understanding how and why events in other timelines were important. I found myself periodically hitting the pause button during an episode just to mentally recap the relationships. It was a challenge but, again, I really enjoyed _Dark_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=84) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=86)