I quite like The Event, Hawaii 5-0, and The Whole Truth. I wasn’t going to watch Raising Hope but I caught the beginning by accident and got hooked.
I caught one episode of Boardwalk. I don’t care for the criminal organization aspects of it, which why I wasn’t planning on watching it, but I do find the period aspect to be interesting. As well as for some reason, Michael Pitt.
I planned on watching Undercovers and No Ordinary Family, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Shit My Dad Says was just OK. The main draw, the funny quotes of the Dad, weren’t really highlighted, so that was a bust. The guy trying to reconnect with his Dad aspect has mild potential.
The actress that plays the mother is as old as I am so now I am as old as a grandfather. Yikes. She was in a lot of movies back in the 1980’s, but I haven’t seen her in 20 years.
Just watched No Ordinary Family. I think I’ll like this take more than the way Heroes unfolded, which I’m sure they’ll be carefully avoiding the pitfalls of. As a concept, though, it is clearly stolen wholesale from The Incredibles.
Haven’t missed an episode of Terriers. Love the writing and the actors, close to top notch, and has about the right pacing. I guess its kind of a poor man’s CSI or cop show with characters and story you can actually care about and that actually has some old fashoned twists and turns and suspense, but that’s coming from someone who has never seen an episode of any of the CSI shows and doesn’t watch cop shows.
Saw the second episode of Outsourced, I like it ok, nothing really made me laugh out loud though, and all of their head bobbles seemed kind of inauthentic.
I’m upset that I missed Rubicon from the beginning, I’ve tried to watch a couple of episodes but I find I have no idea what’s going on and a lot of the suspense and point of the show is lost on me.
I’ve watched every episode of “Rubicon” and I have no idea what’s going on. I find it plodding rather than suspenseful most of the time. I’m not sure why I keep watching.
Did anyone see the show about the call center in India? I’m not sure if I should be ashamed to say it made me laugh as it seems to have a lot of potential for offense. Would any of our Indian dopers care to comment on if they thought it was funny / offensive?
Me too. I think possibly hypnotism or some sort of subliminal message once the show gets you groggy. I think getting you groggy and suggestible may be the point of the show.
Well, I can appreciate it for what it is though, it’s a pretty realistic depiction of what medium level intel offices/officers/agencies and grunts experience on the cutting edge of quasi NSA/CIA covert ops. It’s a world of rea’l impressionismus
Nooooo! I’m not even a father yet. Don’t tell me I’m old enough to be a grandpa. I remember her being only slightly older when I saw Mosquito Coast, but haven’t seen her in anything since.
…Why? Woosh?
No but it’s called Outsourced in case you want to see others’ comment son it in this thread.
I thought about watching it but it was less priority than my other two DVR choices in whatever time slot it’s in.
OTOH…
Free on demand on my cable box means I can watch Chuck without illegal downloads. I think there’s only NBC and some other channel (for broadcast, there are other options for cable). I might check out some of my other third choices on there…
I thought about Nikita, but… for both the original and American films, the appeal was: wildly untamable woman is ‘put to death’ but then is recruited by spy/assassin organization which has to both tame her, and also take advantage of her lack of morals… but in taming her, they inadvertently give her morals that interfere with her job, which make her desire to escape.
Whereas a TV show seems to be inevitably focused on just being a generic spy/assassin show. Granted the new one makes her a double agent, but still…not either film. Might as well have just made it a new premise and saved the licensing fees.
Terriers – Excellent. Great cast. Interesting show. Seems to be a mix of case-of-the-week with story arc, which I like.
Blue Bloods – See above, but with more moments that seem overwritten.
The Defenders – I think this will prove to be fun, though it’s a bit frenetic at the moment.
Hawaii Five-O – I really want to like this. I really do. I’m just finding that the plots make very little sense.
L&O LA – It’s Law and Order. In LA. What more do I really need to say? You know what that means, and you know whether you’re likely to like it.
No Ordinary Family – Anyone wanna bet this was pitched as “The Incredibles” meets “Heroes”? I will keep watching it because I think the premise is interesting, but I thought the writing in the pilot was very, very thin.
Boardwalk Empire – I wasn’t paying a ton of attention while this was on, and I couldn’t tell the characters apart enough to know who was who. I think I will want to watch this, but only once the season is over and I can go back and watch it straight through on DVD.
The Whole Truth – I really like the premise here, and I think if Rob Morrow can chew a tiny bit less scenery, I will enjoy it greatly.
Nikita – Oh my god. So, very, very, very, very, very, very bad.
Outlaw – Multiply the very-badness of Nikita by 10-fold. I didn’t even finish watching the whole episode of this, it was so cringe-inducingly awful.
Undercovers – I really, really want to like this show, as well, since it involves food and spying, but I just can’t. The writing is deplorable, the attention to detail is nonexistent, and the performances are completely unbelievable.
It was a summer series, so it’s not new to the fall season, but I’m also enjoying The Glades. It’s very much a police procedural of the rule-bending outsider aggravates people and solves crimes mold, but I happen to like shows like that so it’s working for me.
$#!t my Dad Says: Absolutely hate it. It’ll be gone very soon.
Detroit 1-8-7: Saw the first two, I’ll probably let it go. I like seeing the local landmarks, but the stories are pretty lame. And I’m so tired of seeing nothing but gorgeous women in roles of authority.*
Lone Star: Had the pilot DVR’d. No point in watching it now. Erased.
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*Not that it cannot be so, it’s just become such a cliché.
I think it shows promise, providing it doesn’t go down the Heroes path.
The only other new show I’ve caught is The Event. Didn’t hate it, but I wasn’t overly thrilled with it either. As someone else said upthread, it seems to be trying too hard.
