# The New TV Season -- What looks good to you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922 "2003-09-06T12:51:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922/21 "2003-09-11T12:33:21Z")
Enterprise was good. Jake 2.0 was pretty good for a Six Million Dollar Man retread. Fun! Whee! Angel, Tru… I dunno, there anything else? ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922/22 "2003-09-11T13:19:37Z")
About the only new shows I’m excited about watching are _Cold Case Files_ and _Carnivale_. Nothing else really appeals to me this year. Of course, I am dying to see the new seasons of _24, Alias, Six Feet Under, Survivor, ER, and CSI_, so my Fall TV watching schedule is pretty full. ---
**Author:** ![boobah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@boobah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boobah)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922/23 "2003-09-11T19:50:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ellis Dee \* > \*\*I watched the first couple episodes of Nip/Tuck and liked them, but missed one and haven’t been able to get back to it. Should I bother? Is it still good? (missed the last three weeks, including tonight, assuming it is still on Tuesdays.) > > If I should, could someone toss up a spoiler box with any info I’d need to get back into it? i.e: Major plot points of the last 3 eps that I would actually need to know. Nothing long. \*\* **Ellis** , get caught up on Nip/Tuck at FX [here](http://www.fxnetwork.com/shows/originals/niptuck/main.html). ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922/24 "2003-09-11T22:58:16Z")
Whoopi Goldberg’s show and Peacemakers. Please, please, please check out Peacemakers on cable USA - first showing Wednesday night at 10:00 and repeating Saturday at 10:00 pm. Not your typical western - very authentic (I’m a civil war re-enactor, do living history, and am a horsey person and I know realistic 19th century). Tom Berenger (US Marshall) and his assistant are just discovering crime scene investigation techniques and new-fangled gadgets like the telephone. I like Woopi in anything – her smark-alecky attitude and sarcasm. New show references current events and racial comments and attitudes – had me laughing out loud. Also eager for the last season of Frasier – the funniest, sharpest, wittiest show on tv and I will miss it. If you don’t like “reality” shows and are tired of the same ol’ same ol’ sit coms, check out Peacemakers and Whoopi. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922/25 "2003-09-12T11:38:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sycorax \* > \*\* Please, please, please check out Peacemakers on cable USA - first showing Wednesday night at 10:00 and repeating Saturday at 10:00 pm. \*\* I mentioned _Peacemakers_ in my other post. I love it. I hope USA renews it for another season mid-winter. ---
**Author:** ![nisosbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@nisosbar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nisosbar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922/26 "2003-09-12T12:21:44Z")
_Luis_ and _Survivor_. And a new season of _60 Minutes_. When I think of _Joan of Arcadia_, I think of a cross between Hallmark Cards and Amy Grant. If I was going to watch, I would be curious to see how realistic the stories are. I can’t stand shows like this because the protagonists in these popular, neo-Christian shows are always high school students who jaywalk or sneak a cigarette or something lame, never streetwalkers with AIDS, or junkies, or diabetic, minority mothers confined to wheelchairs. The reason is, obviously, because the producers wish to broaden the show’s appeal to those within a certain cross-section of the TV-watching public, and so, they dumb down the stories. If you can watch without rolling your eyes, or even if you enjoy them, more power to you, but personally, I feel foolish watching and letting myself be emotionally manipulated by trite, hackneyed plot devices designed to make your eyes tear and stomach knot up. ---
**Author:** ![nisosbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c37758/32.png) [@nisosbar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nisosbar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922/27 "2003-09-12T12:25:43Z")
One last remark about Joan of Arcadia: in the preview, Joan says something like, “what? are you going to turn me into a big ball of fire?” “God” responds, wincing his eyes and snickering, “Where do you guys get this stuff?” To me, God would never speak in such a derisive manner, no matter how mild. That just seems very contrived and overdone. ---
**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922/28 "2003-09-12T15:13:21Z")
Books. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922/29 "2003-09-12T16:06:27Z")
nisobar- never have read the Book of Job, have ya? _G_ Must check TV for me- TRU CALLING JOAN OF ARCADIA CARNIVALE MISS MATCH HaveToSeeBecauseI’mAppalledTheyAreEvenAttemptingThis TV- the PBS remake of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922/30 "2003-09-12T21:02:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sycorax \* > \*\*Whoopi Goldberg’s show and Peacemakers. Please, please, please check out Peacemakers on cable USA - first showing Wednesday night at 10:00 and repeating Saturday at 10:00 pm. Not your typical western - very authentic (I’m a civil war re-enactor, do living history, and am a horsey person and I know realistic 19th century. \*\* Peacemakers is great. Love it! “Whoopi”:rolleyes: :dubious: OhLord, This sounds so terrible, that even the thought makes me queasy. You know, one time, once, years ago, this woamn said something funny, and for the next decade they hade tried to get her to repeat it… with no luck at all. Crass- AND unfunny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season-what-looks-good-to-you/199922.md?page=1)