What are you really looking forward to? What are you planning to check out in hopes of being happily surprised? What do you hope/expect to die a quick death?
New shows I’ll watch at least once and hope they turn out to be watchable: Playboy Club, Grimm
Might not be too bad: Unforgettable
Returning shows I’m looking forward to: The Good Wife, Glee, Big Bang Theory. Will probably check out CSI to see what they do with Ted Danson, who I like. Also, of course, my various reality shows (DWTS, TAR, Survivor).
Getting much better buzz than I expected, but I’m still not planning to watch: Two Broke Girls.
Shows I hope die a quick death, just so I don’t even have to see the fucking ads: Charlie’s Angels, Whitney, New Girl
After an uneven (to put it kindly) second season, Glee might turn it around this season…or crash and burn horribly. Either way, I’m curious to see what happens.
I am not sure of the title, but the new Tough, Hott, “Don’t-Take-No-Shit-From-Nobody” Lady Cop show with Maria Bello (ER), on which she apparently has had a Porkpie hat surgically attached to her head looks good for a few laughs until it’s canceled in early October…
That’s a remake of the UK series Prime Suspect. The original starred Helen Mirren and was excellent but I’m doubtful about the remake that stars Maria Bello.
House. I keep hearing that the show is ending this season, but I’m not sure how true that is.
Glee. Apparently they are bringing in a new crop of kids to “replace” the original 12 who are graduating seniors. I don’t really care about those kids, but I recently re-watched most of the first season and would like to see the conclusion to the main characters’ stories.
And, of course, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Whats NBC replacing Outsourced with? Their Thursday comedies are the only thing I usually watch (well, those and Psych, but I don’t think the latter is coming back till mid-season).
It’s just like last season. There’s not a damn thing that I’d bother watching.
Somewhere else on the boards, someone mentioned the seventies show Starsky and Hutch, saying that the show would never make it today because it had long scenes where people just talked and smoked cigarettes.
I remember thinking, “Yeah, scenes like that were called plot and character development.”
Now what do we have? Pretty people running around shooting cartoon dinosaurs. Ooooh, that’s exciting.
And I’m saying this not even liking Starsky and Hutch.
Nope. There’s been plenty of fantastic television over the last couple of decades. If sci-fi, high concept, or camp isn’t your bag, there’s plenty of fantastic series that have great plots and characterization (if not some of the greatest plot and characterization on television ever) on right now. Breaking Bad and Mad Men come to mind. There’s dozens more.
Okay, I took a gander at a"best of" clip of Mad Men. Are you kidding me? That’s the best of? The script was such laughably stilted dialog that I couldn’t even sit out the whole four minutes. Plus again, everybody way too pretty. Except the poor nanny help of course. Dumb. Nobody in the world talks the way these people do.
Breaking Bad I found less putrid. They had gangsters sitting around a table talking a deal. Suddenly some guy gets killed. Then for no reason the scene gets all artsy and in slow-motion so it quickly becomes detached from any real drama the scene might have otherwise had. Another meh.
I think only some of the original 12 students will be graduating at the end of the coming season (with the others being either a year younger or held back for various reasons), but it seems like most of the kids who’ve had major plots will be seniors in the coming year. The writers have confirmed that Finn, Rachel, and Kurt are graduating, and I assume Quinn and Santana will be too.
Part of the reason I have hope that the third season will be an improvement over the second is that with graduation looming the writers may actually start resolving things with these characters.
