# 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:** 94
**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:** [October 23, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1864 "2022-10-23T23:33:01Z")
Once I heard it was based on a true story, and it was never solved, I lost interest in watching it. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1865 "2022-10-24T08:07:42Z")
Watched it all over this weekend with my partner. Certainly kept us guessing, entertained and inteigued, and very much a “binge-er”, but SPOILER > **Summary** > > the ending, if it even deserves to be called that, left us fuming!! Why they made this when the case isn’t even solved, just leaves the audience frustrated as hell. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1866 "2022-10-24T14:09:21Z")
I think leaving the audience frustrated was the point. It allows you to relate to the characters. ---
**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:** [October 24, 2022, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1867 "2022-10-24T14:52:34Z")
Well it certainly worked if that was the case haha ---
**Author:** ![BrianDime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ad7895/32.png) [@BrianDime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrianDime)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1868 "2022-10-24T15:15:12Z")
Just watched the first two episodes this weekend. It’s based on a book of the same name I enjoyed by William Gibson. So far, it feels like they are at least hitting the beats that I recall from the book. My wife was lukewarm on it, but I really enjoyed the first two. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1869 "2022-10-25T09:57:13Z")
Finally finished all six seasons of **Lucifer**. Yes, it’s silly and camp and theologically dubious but it never really pretended to be more than it was, the characters were all generally engaging and we were thoroughly entertained. I regret nothing. We binged all six episodes on Netflix of **The Empress** about Elisabeth of Austria and Franz Joseph. It’s beautifully shot and the usual “love amongst the halls of power in the midst of turbulent world events” storytelling that will have general audiences enthralled and historians tearing their hair out at the myriad inaccuracies and anachronisms. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1870 "2022-10-25T11:08:25Z")
_Cowboy Bebop_ is worth a watch. Adaptation of a graphic novel. I never read original, so I can’t judge how faithful the adaptation is, but it has the obvious signs of being a comic adaptation (heavy-handed exposition, over-detailed world-building, melodrama and in-jokes galore). I expect that fans of the comic must be thrilled with it, but I found myself wishing they’d toned it down a notch, leaving something maybe like a _Firefly_. Still, I’ll watch another season if they make it. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1871 "2022-10-25T11:18:02Z")
Which _Cowboy Bebop_ - the animated one, or the more recent live action one? ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1872 "2022-10-25T12:42:08Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > _Cowboy Bebop_ is worth a watch. Adaptation of a graphic novel. The manga was an adaptation of the anime (though the manga did start publishing a few months before the anime began to air). > **[How the Cowboy Bebop Manga is Different from the Anime](https://www.cbr.com/cowboy-bebop-manga-anime-changes/)** > > The acclaimed anime series Cowboy Bebop inspired two different manga adaptations. Here's how they differ from the beloved series. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1873 "2022-10-25T15:01:45Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > S3 of **Derry Girls** just dropped on Netflix! That’ll be included in my binging this weekend. Took me longer to finish than I thought. The writing and filming for se3 was a bit uneven, but I am sure COVID had something to do with that. There was no cliff hanger, they wrapped up the show which was disappointing, but I think they did a great job and it ended the way it should have. Now I’ll have to find something else to fill this Irish Sitcom shaped hole in my life. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1874 "2022-10-25T15:13:30Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > We binged all six episodes on Netflix of **The Empress** about Elisabeth of Austria and Franz Joseph. It’s beautifully shot and the usual “love amongst the halls of power in the midst of turbulent world events” storytelling that will have general audiences enthralled and historians tearing their hair out at the myriad inaccuracies and anachronisms. This is why I enjoyed (an enjoying so far) Hulu’s black comedy The Great about Catherine of Russia. From the tagline an occasionally true story in season 1 to an almost entirely untrue story in season 2 they’ve given themselves leeway to play fast and loose with history as a framing mechanism. Which I’m okay with in a satirical comedy. That works far more for me than more serious fare that shits the bed. Like, say, the move Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett which purports to be a dramatic biopic, but makes me twitch uncomfortably with all the ahistorical foofaraw. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1875 "2022-10-25T15:15:56Z")
Yeah, it was entertaining enough to finish it, but riddled with gaping plot holes. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1876 "2022-10-25T17:31:21Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Actually, it’s the commercials that convinced us not even to give it a try. It’s far worse than you can even imagine. The commercials are _Citizen Kane_ to the show being _Plan 9_. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1877 "2022-10-25T17:56:56Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Which _Cowboy Bebop_ - the animated one, or the more recent live action one? Live action. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1878 "2022-10-25T18:13:06Z")
I liked the live action Bebop series but I don’t believe it got renewed, sadly. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1879 "2022-10-25T19:18:47Z")
Ah. News to me. Well, maybe that’s a mercy. I felt like the show fired all its barrels getting Season 1 over the finish line, so I didn’t expect much from Season 2. So maybe it’ll be another _Firefly_ after all. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1880 "2022-10-25T20:03:55Z")
We are on episode five of season two of _The Great_. We liked season one a lot as a sort of quasi-historical screwball comedy. I was worried that season two wouldn’t be as good, but so far it’s better. Huzzah! ---
**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:** [October 25, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1881 "2022-10-25T22:24:24Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Ah. News to me. BTW, there is a thread. > [@Cowboy Bebop (Netflix)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cowboy-bebop-netflix/953316): > > Oh boy. Where to start with this… Cowboy Bebop is close to 25 years old now. It is the anime series to recommend to people who ‘don’t like anime’. Twenty six episodes and one full length feature film of high quality stuff. Is it all great? No, but as a whole the show occupies a place in my brain that really, really loves it. There had been a rumour of a live action movie (with Keanu Reeves as Spike) back in the aughts. For various reasons that never happened but we now have the live action Net… ---
**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:** [October 26, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1882 "2022-10-26T00:07:26Z")
Just finished **The Patient**. This was excellent throughout and I highly recommend it. There are Emmys waiting to be handed to both Steve Carrell and Domhnal Gleeson. Superb work by both of them. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2022, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108/1883 "2022-10-26T02:41:28Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > There are Emmys waiting to be handed to both Steve Carrell and Domhnal Gleeson. Superb work by both of them. Agreed. But something weird has happened in the space-time continuum. How the heck did the kid from The Last Starfighter become the grey-haired father of the Patient? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/series-youve-recently-watched-are-now-watching-or-have-given-up-on/946108.md?page=95)