She finally got to be popular! 
You mean to tell me The Paintball Man is what lied to me???
That was TV Guide’s take on the show. Buried deep down in the body of the article was the fact that Square Pegs’ ratings peaked at the premier and went steadily downhill with every succeeding episode, ending the season 58th in the overall ratings. It may have gone downhill, but it was never popular.
“a totally different head… totally.”
We’ve been watching “the FBI” for several years. Last night we watched the first episode of the new season (8.1). Definitely jumped the shark and then some. Residents of an island community are angry over repeated break-ins so they roadblock the only bridge, beat the crap out of a suspicious looking black teenager, kill his father - who happens to be a Federal Judge and then blow up their only bridge to keep the FBI away. Naturally 4 or 5 FBI agents go out in rubber boats, invade the island and out shoot the 40 or 50 armed townsfolk. One agent dies.
Just so preposterous that I’m amazed they had the balls to air it.
What amused me about that episode of FBI was that the island community was described as less than 5,000 residents with an average income of $44,000. And yet it was in Nassau County, New York. So this island community, less than an hour or so drive from Manhattan is somehow a poor one with residents on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum and not by extremely wealthy people? That’s hard to take.
The 9-1-1 TV series.
The original show jumped the shark this season by sending first responders into space, thanks to a tech billionaire played by Mark Consuelos (husband of Kelly Ripa). (And if you think Consuelos is acting, he’s not. He’s a self-centered, sexist fool in real life. Just watch how he treats Kelly on LiveWithKellyandMark.) The new version, 9-1-1:Nashville, began this season with a number of ludicrous story lines and jumped the shark right off the bat.
The first spinoff, 9-1-1: Lone Star was killed off last season. We suspect the story lines are a setup to cancel the entire franchise as soon as possible.
Bones was a show that started with a great initial premise. Straight-laced FBI tough guy Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) is assigned to work with quirky/nerdy ‘squints’ led by the brilliant Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel). The squints use improbable science to aid in tracking down bad guys, while Booth supplied all the derring-do. There was great sexual tension between Booth and Brennan for the first several seasons, but once the show runners decided to resolve that tension and made the show about Booth and Brennan’s relationship/marriage/family, it went steadily downhill.
Blame Emily Deschanel for that. They decided to put them in a relationship because she got pregnant in real life and they didn’t like the alternatives (Trying to hide it or having someone else be the father).
I haven’t seen this one yet, but it sounds like the same isolated community as used in L&O:CI “Sounds Bodies” where a small community close enough to Manhattan for the police to investigate is too poor to keep their church open. Yeah, right.
Maybe they’ve taken my idea about eliminating all the diversity and then the only employees left are incompetent?
Is it a main character, or some disposable swat or background character?
And Barney Miller in 1982 on ABC.
To be honest, I never even attempted going that far–just like Moonlighting, that NBC police procedural never truly grabbed me.
I know! When I saw the commercial preview for that, I did such a hard eyeroll I think I sprained my eye muscles.
How is it even determined that a department of first responders out of Los Angeles should have jurisdiction for a rescue in space? Never mind if there’s an actual silly answer to that…rhetorical question; I don’t really care 
Ow, I sprained my eyes again.
Preach it, baby! By the end, I couldn’t even hate-watch it, and couldn’t recall how I had previously found it so enjoyable.
I should search to see if I or others mentioned Modern Family upthread. In early years, I thought it about the funniest thing I had ever seen. At the end - definitely not so much.
We used to like it. Then they made Zach the gormaprentice, then they had B&B covering up for her murdering father, and that’s when we officially quit, so we completely missed the B&B&Baby. And thank goodness. We had the first couple seasons on DVD, and we gave them away and still came out ahead.
They are going as civilians - selected at the whim of the billionaire - so jurisdiction doesn’t come into it
They made the townsfolk look like every stereotype of hillbilly redneck sov cit gun totin’ MAGAnuts. With dirty thrift shop clothes and filthy redneck ballcaps. Who have more rifles than any random Bass Proshops and a marina full of expensive boats. (now with a few holes. )
And the FBI apparently has never heard of helicopters in this universe. We need Agent Johnson and Agent Johnson (no relation) from Die Hard and their huey gunship.
So unbelievable a situation. NO ONE in the town said, “Hey aren’t we going too far?” EVERYONE was willing to take on the federal government because someone robbed a store? “There must have been a point where we could have said no.”
Did you notice that at the end (of season 8, episode 1 of FBI on CBS) that as the deceased was covered with a white sheet, an ambulance was in the background? This was on that island with only one bridge to the mainland, which had been destroyed earlier in the episode. And yes, those townsfolk are facing very serious charges, what with the destruction of the bridge, the murdered federal judge, the dead FBI agent and the imprisoned kid. Also, as I said, how is that island not a colony of multi-million dollar homes?
I loved Northern Exposure. It was a can’t-miss show back in the 90s. I thought I’d rewatch it. Oh boy! I watched S1 & 2 before I gave it up. I didn’t remember all of the wacky episodes.
I did not, but my wife did. D’oh!
I read an article by the showrunner, He’s quite proud of the new season. And that piece answered a question I had from earlier, about Isobel:
The show runner thinks she’s the “heart and soul” of 26 Fed. The creamy center of the FBI Oreo, the drum solo in In A Gadda Da Vida.
And poor Jubal. The Mr Motivation Riker to Isobel’s Picard. He gets no recognition. I mean, he just successfully saved the FBI and exposed a conspiratorial organization within the core of the agency, and…he gets to continue as…whatever he does. He should have the SAC job. And Alana can find that her ADA Rubirosa character has dual US-Canadian citizenship and move to L&O:Toronto:Criminal Intent.
I did not like the tension thing at all. Yes, Moonlighting worked- due to great casting and a kinda new concept. But stop trying to remake it- They did the same thing with Castle.