As a companion to Omega Glory’s thread on what we’re watching, what are you not watching in the new season?
I’ve given up on former favorites Desperate Housewives, ER, and The Apprentice. Not sure about Nip/Tuck – depends on how big a story line that rotten kid has. I think my TV time will be about 3-4 hours a week.
What have you dumped?
I dumped CSI: Miami. My loathing built up in small doses at first. First, I merely couldn’t stand Wolfe … then the wooden quality of Emily Procter’s acting began to grate on my nerves … I began to view David Caruso as merely bad instead of so-bad-he’s-good. Then, toward the end of the season – in the middle of the “Hmm, I wonder if the girl who was added to the show for the sole purpose of marrying the lone wolf main character is going to get killed by his enemies just after the wedding?” storyline, I realized that I wouldn’t mind if all of the main characters were killed. I stuck around for the resolution of the mole storyline, which further incensed me with the way it was botched. The discovered a freaking MOLE in the lab – a SPY, for crying out loud – and as far as I can tell, her coworkers are probably going to do nothing harsher to her than leave her out of next December’s Secret Santa gift exchange.
I was also planning to dump CSI: New York. It’s an old story; I had been going steady for years with Law & Order, but the magic had kind of run out, and I fell for the sexy new kid on the timeslot. Eventually I realized that I still had feelings for my old beau. However, since Law & Order has apparently been moved, I guess I could just as easily be a two-timer. Nonetheless, I have downgraded CSI: New York to the “extremely optional” category.
Can’t take the* Law and Orders* anymore, and will probably drop CSI.
I watched the first two episodes of the summer run of The Dead Zone and gave up.
I really need to cut back - I think I’m giving up on Medium, L&O:SVU, and CSI.
I’ll probably watch the first few episodes of ER just to see what happens with the cliffhanger, but I’m getting sick of that one, too.
I might give up on L&O:Original, but I like Criminal Intent, so I’ll keep watching that one.
Sadly, I’ve given up on Gilmore Girls. That leaves House–which doesn’t really stand up in re-watching, in my experience–as the only show I plan to watch regularly, though I’m hopeful for the new Aaron Sorkin show.
I enjoy House when I watch it, but it’s not something I feel the need to “keep up with”. I tend to catch reruns, or watch it when whatever I usually watch at that time is pre-empted for some reason.
I thought about giving up Gilmore Girls, given last year’s sucktasticness, but since this is the last season, I figure I’ll stick with it.
Last season’s ending of “Cold Case,” when Lilly made a play for the creepy young guy. Man, I heard that shark hit dry land with a thud.
Last year was fine until the transparent attempt to delay the Luke-Lorelai marriage with the addition of Luke’s daughter and his uncharacteristic insensitivity on the issue. It just annoyed me, and the longer it went on the less I cared. That, along with the long-building development of Rory as a selfish little bitch, lost me. Once Lane got married (which I was glad to see), my interest was over; I didn’t even bother watching the last three episodes of the season The only thing that could bring me back would be Rory finally realizing that Paris is in love with her and falling in love in return.
I’m willing to give GG a chance, but I’m not expecting to like it at all, and am fully prepared to cut it loose. I mean, after all the damage that the Palladino’s have done to it in the last couple of episodes, I really can’t think of a way to salvage it.
I only have a couple of shows I watch anyway, so I got nothing else.
Me too. I have to know what happens to Abby and the baby, and after that I’m out. I’m so sick of the old, played-out storylines and cliffhangers. I mean, how many times can that place possibly be shot up? It’s become pathetic.
Really, the only show I have left that I care about is Lost (until American Idol and Scrubs come back). I gave up on all the CSIs last year, and Two-and-a-Half Men lost me when Charlie and Alan got annoying girlfriends. I think HBO and Showtime have officially spoiled me with shows like the Sopranos, Deadwood, Entourage, and Weeds. So much of the network stuff just seems stupid to me after watching those.
I ill not be watching:
CSI family…those shows just bore the shit out of me.
L&O family…Eh… I’ll have better things/shows to do/watch.
Anything in the three camera sitcom format.
Vanished… I gave the pilot 10 minutes… When one of the character’s (a supposedly competent agent of some kind) ran toward the kid strapped with explosives instead of trying to stop the guy with the detonator…I just turned it off.
ER… Why is this still on?
I’m excited for Gilmore Girls… the new showrunner is a character in and of himself so I hope something interesting happens…or he has another real life breakdown which would also be interesting.
I’m pretty loyal to my TV shows, especially ones I’ve been watching from the beginning. If I can survive The Amazing Race: Family Edition, I can survive almost anything. Except the Gil/Sara relationship on CSI. Hopefully they will put that on the back burner. Like not even mention it. Because if I have to see them make googly eyes at each other, I’m gonna hurl then delete the show from my DVR schedule and find something else to do on Thursday nights.
“Celebrity Duets”.
Oh, wait. You all meant shows that someone actually USED to watch.
My bad.
(Cheech Marin and Peter Frampton was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen, though)
I am so done with Battlestar Galactica. That whole thing with the time-traveling monkeys was just intensely irritating.
I recently saw a preview for this new hostage-negotiator show starring Ron Livingstone. I can’t recall it’s name. It’s apparently about a husband-and-wife team of negotiators, and the preview makes the show seem like 48 minutes of:
Husband: You’re not going in there!
Wife: I’m have to go in there!
Chief (gruffly): You’re both way out of line!
And she goes in to become one of the hostages. Et effing cetera. How can this show not possibly be the same exact plot over and over?
[hijack] I saw an ad where they brought back Dr. Weaver (Laura Innes) without her cane. What was the story there?
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I am giving up on: Survivor, CSI in all its iterations, & America’s Next Top Model.
Shows hanging by a thread: Las Vegas, Gilmore Girls, and The Office
Sows I gave up on last year: Law & Order, Lost, Desperate Housewives, ER, and Grey’s Anatomy,
I don’t watch all that much to begin with… so the only thing I’ll be giving up this season is Grey’s Anatomy. There was a change in the show between the first and second seasons that brought it from a sort of light, funny, interesting rom-com-bordering-on-soap-opera into full-fledged prime-time soap mode. It still has some decent points (fun music selection, Sandra Oh’s acting, the intense hotness of Katherine Heigl, etc), but I don’t think it’s worth my hour anymore.
She had hip replacement surgery last year. After years of “what’s wrong with her and why does she need that cane and no one’s allowed to ask” it was finally revealed she had hip displasia. Big whoop. She had the surgery and is just fine now.
They’re bringing back John Stamos as the hunky paramedic to flirt with the newly-widowed Neela, so I guess she’ll get to be happy with him for a few epsiodes before one of them gets killed off in spectacular fashion. After all, it is ER.
I’m on the fence with Grey’s as well. On the one hand, I really like pretty much everyone on the show who isn’t Meredith or Derek. On the other, it’s mostly about Meredith and Derek. And it’s on opposite Supernatural. I’ll give them three episodes to get it together, but if they don’t show any signs of moving past television’s most annoying “romance”, I’m out.