Yeah, The Middle. It’s just OK, but I find myself watching still. I still don’t understand why the youngest kid whispers things to himself after saying them.
While I enjoy the show some of the time, I find Dexter, especially this season, to be too predictable. I absoultely can’t take the show seriously since there is no real suspense. I dislike House for similar reasons. Of course I constantly compare everything to The Sopranos and The Wire, so I’m never going to be satisfied by regular TV.
I record the first hour and half of CBS’ monday night lineup, even though I really only like How I Met Your Mother. But I find I usually nap through the other two shows.
The youngest kid is actually pretty disturbed and fucked up. I think it’s brilliant the way the whole family knows he’s a creepy little weirdo (who’s likely a Malcolm in the Middle-type genius), but they don’t make a big deal out of it.
For me, the answer to this thread is 30 Rock. My wife loves it, but I just think it’s OK. And some episodes (especially the live one), are downright terrible. But I watch it because she loves it.
It’s not that bad, for me, but that is a show I still do that to.
I’ve seen a couple of episodes of this and thought it was total crap. Ridiculous plots, mediocre acting, etc. I’ve only seen it as a captive audience, like on long flights, though. Then I don’t particularly care for any of the Law & Order/CSI type shows, although I loved Homicide and The Wire. Maybe I was spoiled by those.
OH C’mon that show was, as Tony The Tiger says “GRRRREAT” 
I watch Two And A Half Men and I hate toliet humour and that show is one big bathroom joke.
I wil watch Cleveland hoping it will have anything funny in it, but mostly as it is on between the Simpsons and Family Guy
Same here. And now I have taken a vow never again to start with one of these watch-while-the-twisted-mystery-unravels(-or-maybe-until-we-add-so-many-twists-we-can-never-explain-everything-satisfactorily)-type shows.
Yeah, I should have learned my lesson with The X-files, but at least on that one I had the sense to give up after Season 4.
America’s Next Top Model.
How I loath this show. How I detest Tyra Banks. How I resent every minute of the episode that actually focuses on the girls instead of the Jays and Nigel. And yet, I watch every single episode of every single cycle for the past 7 cycles (caught the earliest ones during a marathon on Vh1 natch). It hypnotizes me.
Damn you Tyra!
Castle…it’s almost exactly like The Mentalist. I gave up on the latter, but still watch Castle…huh??
**CSI/Law & Order **(any of them). The wife likes them. I’ve wanted to punch everyone on **CSI: Miami **in the face repeatedly for years.
I do, however, like **NCIS **- the cartoony characters are fun to watch.
Same. All my friends love it, but I’m getting bored with the predictable formulaic plots. And Miami looks like a very dirty grimy place. Ugh. And now it’s back this week, and I’ll probably keep watching, for some reason.
I watch both, but I think Castle is much more fun. I suspend a mega-ton of disbelief for them. For me, it just seems like the folks on Castle are enjoying themselves and I have fun watching it.
My wife and I watch it quite a bit, even though it pisses her off that I get the puzzles before she does pretty much every time.
I may stop watching it if they keep up this “let’s keep the camera on the frat boy, the house wife from Boise, and the grad student at Berkley” instead of SHOWING THE GOD DAMNED PUZZLE, however.
-Joe
Glee although mainly because my wife watches. But I think she’s starting to give it up as well.
I was never enthralled by the singing so once the plot lines and dialogue started taking a plunge, I lost my reason to see it. As stated upthread, Sue’s quips are about the only bright spots (the other being the remarks from Dumb Cheerleader).
My wife likes the new Hawaii Five-O. Usually, if she’s watching something I’m not fond of, I’ll read or do a crossword or something. But for reasons unexplainable, I always sit there and watch the seemingly only 4 cops in Hawaii go through the motions of unrealistic police work, illogical behavior, and unlikely coincidences toward each episode’s predictable resolution. Somehow I just can’t stop paying attention – even when Grace Park isn’t on screen.
I’m worse than many of you because I don’t watch the shows on TV, I seek 'em out online despite my not liking them very much.
Glee – I watch this 'cause I feel I should like it. I want to. I love musicals and comedy and OTT stuff. But every time I watch the show I’m disappointed in the crap auto-tuning that makes every female voice sound like GLaDOS and its not-as-funny-as-it-thinks camp. It’s down to Jane whatsername’s Sue character to make this pleasurable.
I feel like a traitor but I’m beginning to feel this way about 30 Rock, The Office and Community. The first two because I’ve loved them for so many years and now that they’re on the decline – well, TO has been declining for a couple of years – it’s starting to be a chore to watch. And Community is still good but I’m rarely as amused by it as it is pleased with itself, if you know what I mean. (And if you do, congrats, 'cause I’m not sure I do!) God knows I am never as enamored over it as its over-the-top, blissed-out fans tell me I should be.
Pawn Stars and American Pickers. My husband likes these shows, so I’ve started watching them with him. But sometimes I’ll get into it a little bit. For instance, if he’s watching an episode, then has to go to work, I’ll finish the episode. I just have to know how much that vintage popcorn popper is worth!
We still watch it quite a bit, because after three years, it ends up kinda growing on you.
I think they only show glimpses of the puzzle because otherwise it’d be too easy for home viewers to figure the puzzles out. You solve the puzzle too fast, you quit watching.