# New "Fall" TV Shows 2021 COVID Delay Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [February 12, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fall-tv-shows-2021-covid-delay-edition/932762 "2021-02-12T14:12:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fall-tv-shows-2021-covid-delay-edition/932762/1 "2021-02-12T14:12:34Z")
After the COVID hiatus, new TV shows are starting to crop up. _Resident Alien_ on SyFy has its own thread. I’m enjoying it, but I’m not sure how long they can spin out the premise. Beyond Alan Tudyk is a hoot as an alien badly trying to blend into a small town, I personally don’t think it has all that much going for it. _Walker_ is for some reason a gritty re-boot of _Walker, Texas Ranger_, with Sam Win-, ahem, I mean, Jared Padalecki as an alcoholic widower with PTSD trying to re-connect with his alienated teen children. Oh, and he’s a Texas Ranger. I tried the first episode and quit part-way through. I was like half-way in, and not a single bad guy had received a spin kick to the head. What’s even the point? 😁 Others? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fall-tv-shows-2021-covid-delay-edition/932762/2 "2021-02-12T15:35:05Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > Beyond Alan Tudyk is a hoot as an alien badly trying to blend into a small town, I personally don’t think it has all that much going for it. This sounds like _Third Rock From the Sun_ without Jane Curtain as the “straight man”. Pass. > [@gdave](#): > > _Walker_ is for some reason a gritty re-boot of _Walker, Texas Ranger_ , The entire point of _Walker, Texas Ranger_ was how utterly cornball it was. From Chuck Norris having the chutzpah to [‘sing’ his own theme song](https://youtu.be/NIYZVSElmj4) to how quickly you can spot which popular film they stole the plot of this week’s show from, it was pure goofy 'Nineties fun, back before _The Sopranos_ came out and made television a serious endeavor which sucked all of the fun out of everything. Nobody wants to see “an alcoholic widower with PTSD trying to re-connect with his alienated teen children”, particularly on “The CW”, which really exists only as a route to mainline DC _Arrowverse_ shows directly into the entertainment arteries of GenXers hoping that they’ll recreate the ‘magic’ of _Lois and Clark_. I’m still missing _The Americans_ and _Justified_, waiting for _Falcon and the Winter Soldier_, and just trying to cope with the fact that _The Mandalorian_ is probably the last Cheyne–Stokes gasp of the cancer-ridden corpse of _Star Wars_. Excuse me, I’m going to rewatch _The Expanse_. Again. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-fall-tv-shows-2021-covid-delay-edition/932762/3 "2021-02-13T02:20:33Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > > [@gdave](#): > > > > Beyond Alan Tudyk is a hoot as an alien badly trying to blend into a small town, I personally don’t think it has all that much going for it. > > This sounds like _Third Rock From the Sun_ without Jane Curtain as the “straight man”. Pass It’s more like “What if Mork had murdered Robin Williams and took over his body after crashing into Boulder, Colorado? With Alice Wetterlund as Mindy.” I’m enjoying it, and will stick with it for as long as it lasts.