# What TV shows are you NOT watching this season? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 1, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026 "2006-09-01T02:14:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/21 "2006-09-01T15:56:37Z")
I’m dropping Desperate Housewives - it was just toooooo much. I thought about losing Prison Break, but the first two episodes this season have been pretty good, so I’ll stick with it. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/22 "2006-09-01T15:57:16Z")
[QUOTE=Ichbin Dubist] 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? [/QUOTE] Are you talking about “Stand Off”? I think part of the premise is that they are not a couple (in fact I think he has a wife at home) but are sort of work-spouses. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/23 "2006-09-01T16:37:56Z")
I might watch one episode of **ER**. Paula Malcomson – Trixie from Deadwood – is joining the cast as a single mother with a child. Not sure if she’s a nurse or a doctor. Isn’t that Linda Cardellini’s spot? I’ve never seen her in anything but Deadwood, and I’m sorta interested to see how she does with a different sort of character. (I’m assuming she won’t be offering open air blowjobs on ER.) ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/24 "2006-09-01T17:09:43Z")
Man, I lost track of _ER_ like five years ago when it started getting so absurd I couldn’t watch with a straight face-- and I was a _big_ fan for the first several seasons. I wasn’t even sure it was still around. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/25 "2006-09-01T17:23:07Z")
[QUOTE=light strand] Shows hanging by a thread:The Office [/QUOTE] Weird… I can certainly understand someone just plain not liking **The Office**. But there seems to be a nearly universal consensus among people who watch it that last season was just fantastic. So I can see it as a yes, or a no, but I can’t figure out how you have it hanging by a thread. Anyhow, all the things that people say about **ER** are true, and yet, I keep watching it. Maybe it’s just that I have a crush on so many of the actresses… ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/26 "2006-09-01T17:44:52Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] I am _so_ done with _Battlestar Galactica._ That whole thing with the time-traveling monkeys was just _intensely_ irritating. [/QUOTE] Can I buy some drugs from you? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/27 "2006-09-01T18:15:44Z")
[QUOTE=yellowval] 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. [/QUOTE] Seriously, was that hospital built on an Indian burial ground with masonry from the death chamber of the old state prison? My wife who likes the show is also getting sick of it, so we may quit watching it. I’ve been losing interest for a while, but she had been somewhat interested last season, except for the Darfur episodes. I’ve given up on the Law and Orders as well, I’ve just seen too many of them to really care and be interested anymore. I may check out Heroes and Thats how I married (met) your mother, but it depends. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/28 "2006-09-01T18:45:23Z")
[QUOTE=Push You Down] Are you talking about “Stand Off”? I think part of the premise is that they are not a couple (in fact I think he has a wife at home) but are sort of work-spouses. [/QUOTE] Apparently I am completely wrong.. They are having an affair.. and therefore I am no longer interested in the show. I think a much more interesting idea is exploring the complex, almost spousal relationship partners can form. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/29 "2006-09-01T19:21:56Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] I’ve never seen her in anything but Deadwood, and I’m sorta interested to see how she does with a different sort of character. (I’m assuming she won’t be offering open air blowjobs on ER.) [/QUOTE] If anyone can straighten those fuckin’ ER cocksuckers out, she fuckin’ can. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/30 "2006-09-01T19:26:03Z")
I think the only show we’ve decided to stop watching is _24_. ---
**Author:** ![light\_strand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@light\_strand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/light_strand)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/31 "2006-09-01T19:50:24Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool] Weird… I can certainly understand someone just plain not liking **The Office**. But there seems to be a nearly universal consensus among people who watch it that last season was just fantastic. So I can see it as a yes, or a no, but I can’t figure out how you have it hanging by a thread. [snip] [/QUOTE] It’s not the show, it’s me. I think it’s funny, but not hysterical other people do, so I’m starting to think that I just shouldn’t watch if i don’t start “getting” it soon. What’s weird is that I love the British version, but the American version just seems so “sit-com” to me. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/32 "2006-09-01T20:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=light strand] It’s not the show, it’s me. I think it’s funny, but not hysterical other people do, so I’m starting to think that I just shouldn’t watch if i don’t start “getting” it soon. [/QUOTE] That’s kind of how I feel about the show too. I’ll probably watch some episodes this season, but it’s not a must see show. It’s funny, but I don’t really care about the characters enough to watch each week. I watched one episode of ER last season (the finale), and this season I’ll watch long enough to see how the cliffhangers are resolved, but that’s it. The first few seasons were really great too. Lost is out this season too. Last year was the first time I watched, and even though I read up on the first season, it just didn’t hold my interest. The show when on hiatus in for awhile, then I missed a few shows once it came back. After that, I just didn’t care anymore. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/33 "2006-09-01T21:06:01Z")
[QUOTE=cbawlmer] I think the only show we’ve decided to stop watching is _24_. [/QUOTE] Me too. I got tired of the idiot plots and gaping plot holes (same thing really), as well as a lack of creativity as the show has gone on, even tho Kiefer is completely convincing and appealing in the role otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/34 "2006-09-01T22:24:32Z")
_Lost_. Apparently, in order to keep up with the shenanigans this season, there is like eight hours of Internet footage and back-stories that the viewer has to research. Wait a second. Homework? For a TV show? I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/35 "2006-09-01T22:52:40Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] 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. [/QUOTE] The “dead” guy? That was a little surprising, but I didn’t mind it. I gave up on “Lost” last year, and my husband is debating doing the same this year. I think that’s the only show I used to watch that I’ve ditched. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/36 "2006-09-02T00:09:24Z")
I gave up on **ER** ages ago, Not bovvered if I miss **CSI: Miami** (hate Crane), ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/37 "2006-09-02T15:30:54Z")
I quit watching ER and CSI Miami a long time ago. The last straw with ER was a few years ago when they crushed a woman between two cars–I thought that went way too far. I probably won’t be watching CSI New York. I’ll watch CSI and Law & Order if nothing else good is on. I might not be watching Grey’s Anatomy, but I’ll give it a chance. I have a feeling it’s going to go totally in the wrong direction, and I’m tired of Derek and Meredith. Does she own stock in a mascara company? She needs to lighten up a little bit–you can’t see her eyes under all that mascara. Does she even have eyes? ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/38 "2006-09-02T15:49:30Z")
OT, but the makeup artists on Grey’s clearly haaaate Ellen Pompeo. I know she’s supposed to look tired, but is she supposed to be deathly white except for a large red splotchy area around her nose and mouth that appeared sometime around the middle of the second season, and and stayed? It’s like every day is Opposite Day for the person applying her concealer. I don’t think she’s a particularly attractive woman anyway, and the makeup on Grey’s is \*not \* glamour makeup (see Heigl, Katherine: veritable goddess in RL, passably pretty on Grey’s), but they really make Meredith look _awful_. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/39 "2006-09-02T15:54:21Z")
[QUOTE=DianaG] OT, but the makeup artists on Grey’s clearly haaaate Ellen Pompeo. [/QUOTE] I’m clearly in the minority here; I think she’s a cutie. The appeal of Sandra Oh escape me, though; that nose is waaaaayyyyyy too long. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2006, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026/40 "2006-09-02T16:19:13Z")
Eesh. Last year I watched _way_ too much TV. At least an hour or two every night, and mostly shows that I felt I couldn’t miss, somehow. It just ate up my life. I’ve dumped everything except for _Lost_, which I intend to make time for when it returns. So now I’m not watching _Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, House, Prison Break,_ any flavour of _CSI_ or _Law & Order, The Office, My Name is Earl, 24, Nip/Tuck, ER, Without a Trace, Cold Case,_ etc. I’m also not watching any of the new shows that will replace non-returning ridiculously redundant shows that I watched last year, like _Surface, Invasion,_ and _Threshold_. I’m not watching _The Daily Show_ or _The Colbert Report_. I _might_ occassionally watch _The Simpsons_, _King of the Hill_, or _Family Guy_, but I’m not going to plant myself in front of Fox for them all (and _American Dad_) again. I’ll probably also check in occassionally with the stuff my GF likes to watch from time-to-time, like _Canada’s Next Top Model_ or summat. Holy crap, when you cut all that passive time out, it’s amazing how much more you can fit into a week. I used to hardly watch any TV at all – didn’t even subscribe to cable. Then in 2001, a few compelling shows caught my eye, and I guess I got a bit of a habit – which kept creeping upwards each year. I think in the future I’ll wait for DVDs of _Six Feet Under_ quality shows, if I’m going to watch them at all. (Except for _Lost_. I can’t live without the SDMB _post mortems_.) 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-shows-are-you-not-watching-this-season/371026.md?page=3)