# What's bingeable on Starz? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023 "2022-03-14T12:49:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/1 "2022-03-14T12:49:42Z")
Wife picked up a 3 month hitch of Starz in order to watch the latest season of Outlander. What else is good? I casually scrolled through the menu the other day and didn’t see much that really jumped out at me. We’re watching “Shining Vale” a new Starz original with Courtney Cox, Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino. It’s a “horror-comedy”, which is a difficult genre mashup to get right, and it’s not bad (basic plot: dysfunctional family moves into haunted house). The comedy aspects are balanced pretty well with the scary, creepy elements, which is not easy to do. I know “Black Sails” has its following. I tried watching it years ago with a previous subscription to Starz and didn’t really get into it for whatever reason. Maybe I’ll give it another chance. Anything else good? To my wife, getting to see her precious Jamie again is worth the price of admission, so anything more we can get out of Starz is all gravy. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/2 "2022-03-14T12:57:19Z")
Seen _Counterpart_ yet? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/3 "2022-03-14T13:12:14Z")
Nope. Never heard of it. A quick googling reveals: a sci-fi drama series about an alternate Earth with J.K. Simmons? I’m in. Sounds like something my wife would enjoy as well. ---
**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:** [March 14, 2022, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/4 "2022-03-14T13:16:12Z")
> [@Counterpart, new series on Starz (spoilers boxed in 1st post)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpart-new-series-on-starz-spoilers-boxed-in-1st-post/806662): > > Only one episode so far, but I really, really enjoyed it. Very intriguing premise (spoilers for the first episode): And very well done. They were incredibly lucky to get an actor of the caliber of JK Simmons for a complicated role like this. Anyone else watch it? I’ll suggest that spoilers are game beyond the 1st post so that we can talk more easily. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/5 "2022-03-14T13:24:06Z")
If you like murder/detective shows, I thought Dublin Murders was a really great adaptation of the Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series and has a kind of other world feel sometimes. Also second Counterpart, I really enjoyed it- JK Simmons and Harry Lloyd were excellent in 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:** [March 14, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/6 "2022-03-14T13:50:17Z")
The only thing wrong with Counterpart was that it ended early, after only two seasons. Starz also had a series about Spartacus, which you might like, though it featured lots of blood and sex. They also had American Gods, based on the Neil Gaiman novel, and Party Down, though I think that’s now available elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/7 "2022-03-14T14:17:06Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Nope. Never heard of it. > > A quick googling reveals: a sci-fi drama series about an alternate Earth with J.K. Simmons? I’m in. Sounds like something my wife would enjoy as well. Counterpart was fantastic. It managed to star both J.K. Simmons from Whiplash and the J.K. Simmons from the Farmers Insurance commercials! _High Town_ is pretty good. It about a gay National Marine Fisheries Service agent living in Provincetown, MA who is mostly content to drinking, partying, and hooking up and basically doing fuck-all until she discovers a dead body and gets pulled into doing actual police work. If you like historical dramas, there are the various “princess” series - _The White Queen_ (starring Rebecca Ferguson), _The White Princess_, and _The Spanish Princess_ I’ve never watched them, but the crime series _Power_ looks pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/8 "2022-03-14T14:54:54Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > They also had American Gods, based on the Neil Gaiman novel Loved the book, and did watch the first two seasons when we had Starz previously. Is there s Season 3 out? If so I’m there. > [@msmith537](#): > > Counterpart was fantastic. It managed to star both J.K. Simmons from Whiplash and the J.K. Simmons from the Farmers Insurance commercials! But…those are two very different J.K. Simmonses! How do they pull that off? Oh yeah, parallel Earths is how, I’m guessing. > [@msmith537](#): > > _High Town_ is pretty good. It about a gay National Marine Fisheries Service agent living in Provincetown, MA who is mostly content to drinking, partying, and hooking up and basically doing fuck-all until she discovers a dead body and gets pulled into doing actual police work. Sounds interesting, will make a mental note to try ep1. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/9 "2022-03-14T16:52:40Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The only thing wrong with Counterpart was that it ended early, after only two seasons. Indeed. That was disappointing. It was a really interesting show which is slightly more eerie now. as alternate Earth was decimated by a pandemic - though far far deadlier than Covid ---
**Author:** ![BigDfromLA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@BigDfromLA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDfromLA)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/10 "2022-03-15T05:27:25Z")
Vida…two sisters with VERY different personalities return to the Boyle Heights section of East Los Angeles to mourn the death of their mother and take over her failing neighborhood bar. They discover a changing community and struggle to adjust to their changed lives. Melissa Barrera, who recently appeared in the films In The Heights and Scream, was excellent as one of the sisters. One of the very few shows about the Mexican-American experience and very well done. Hightown is really good. The second season is even better than the first, which is always good for a show. It was renewed for season 3. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/11 "2022-03-15T10:56:08Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Seen _Counterpart_ yet? So we watched the first episode of Counterpart. Odd thing though, we signed up with Starz through a Hulu deal and access it through Hulu, and could not find CP on the Hulu / Starz hub. So I did a wider search on the Firestick (which searches all the streaming channels we have) and it turned out to be on Prime. So maybe Starz dropped it from their rotation as a failed series, and it was picked up by Prime. Who knows. Anyway, we enjoyed ep1. Interesting premise, that a man finds out he has a ‘counterpart’ to himself on a parallel Earth who was identical to himself until 30 years before, when the portal joining the Earths was open. Then changing circumstances on the separate Earths caused the the counterparts to make very different decisions in life, which led to them becoming very different people. How much of who we are, indeed, is formed by the choices we make? ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/12 "2022-03-15T12:07:06Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Loved the book, and did watch the first two seasons when we had Starz previously. Is there s Season 3 out? If so I’m there. Yes, the show made it through three seasons before being canceled. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/13 "2022-03-15T12:12:31Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > Yes, the show made it through three seasons before being canceled. Did they manage to wrap up the story or did it end on a cliffhanger? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/14 "2022-03-15T12:27:49Z")
IIRC they only get as far as Shadow hanging out on Yggdrasil, so very much not wrapped up. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/15 "2022-03-15T12:40:50Z")
I’d spoiler that. Season 3 basically covers the Lakeside chapters of the book, although it takes significant liberties with the plot and characters. I loved Season One of the show (I thought Season 2 was dreck and Season 3 just OK) but it seemed like it was always falling apart behind the scenes. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-bingeable-on-starz/961023/16 "2022-03-15T16:02:44Z")
_Magic City_ is pretty good, starring Javier Bardem Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko and Holden from _The Expanse_. Late 50s, Miami Beach and Havana, the mob and other intrigues. The show seemed to make zero splash in the public consciousness, but it was much more entertaining than I expected. Worth a try.