Thanks to both of you. I will check out Burn Notice.
I've read Dune and really enjoyed it. Dune Messiah, not so much. It suggested to me that the energy had run out in that series. Oddly, I was reading Martin's the Song of Ice and Fire series and never tired of it, same with the various Expanse novels. Ender's Game was very good. Too bad the author is so vile a human being. As for Dan Simmons, I read the Hyperion Cantos and the two related novels, at your suggestion, and enjoyed them as well. You know, I've never read Asimov's Foundation series.
I did see the first episode of Black Mirror, involving blackmail and getting up close and personal with a member of the porcine species. It was pretty dark. I don't know if the husband is up to more of that. If not I might pursue that. We liked season 1 of The Terror but the first episode of the second season was so gratuitously and graphically violent that we gave up after a short time, electing not to finish the episode.
If my German were better, I'd be finishing the Gereon Rath series by Volker Kutscher (the guy behind the Babylon Berlin series). I've read everything that's been translated into English, thus far. The third season of Babylon Berlin is out, but so far I've only been able to find it dubbed into Russian, and beyond "Nyet" and "Da," I'm pretty much hopeless there.