# Your personal hits and misses of the new TV season **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-hits-and-misses-of-the-new-tv-season/638738 "2012-10-24T16:27:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-hits-and-misses-of-the-new-tv-season/638738/41 "2012-10-26T15:26:34Z")
Elementary is the one new show I’m watching. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-hits-and-misses-of-the-new-tv-season/638738/42 "2012-10-26T15:36:41Z")
I’m surprised at the _Ben & Kate_ love. The pilot seemed funny enough, but we just took it off series recording status because we’ve watched the rest, waiting to laugh. Still waiting… ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-hits-and-misses-of-the-new-tv-season/638738/43 "2012-10-26T16:16:44Z")
_The New Normal_ is good background TV. I just don’t want to see it pull a How I Met Your Mother where the surrogate is perpetually pregnant and the baby is never born. I wanted to check out _Nashville_ but I don’t get it OTA here and I just never think of streaming it from the network’s site. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-hits-and-misses-of-the-new-tv-season/638738/44 "2012-10-26T16:39:34Z")
Shoot me if you must—I like _Partners._ The writing makes sense in this context and is funny in a non-laugh track kind of way. A lot of the gay guys I knew were drag queens so maybe I’m used to over-the-top, but I think the _friendship_ is aptly portrayed. I’m trying Chicago Fire as opposed to Nashville. Aren’t there already enough soaps? _Revolution_ is insulting. I still don’t know why The Middle or Raising Hope hasn’t toppled Modern Family. If you like your humor cookie-cutter it’s still lacking in anything progressive; it’s reflective. And also slapstick in its execution. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-hits-and-misses-of-the-new-tv-season/638738/45 "2012-10-26T17:19:52Z")
I know it’s off-topic but I have to agree with Becky - I prefer The Middle and/or Raising Hope to Modern Family. Just don’t get the over-the-top praise for that show. I wish Chicago Fire were better because I like Jesse Spencer. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-hits-and-misses-of-the-new-tv-season/638738/46 "2012-10-26T19:23:29Z")
I’m loving **Go On** and **Animal Practice**. And I detest **The New Normal**. It seems to me like a schticky throwback to what gay culture “was” in the 90’s. I kinda like the **Mindy Project**. It’s a leetle too “self conscious about being overweight” for my taste. Like the episode where her colleague tells her to lose weight? And she’s furious? It’s a mean fact but it’s still a fact. I don’t like her insecurities clouding her humor and the overall tone. Supporting cast getting better here, IMO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-hits-and-misses-of-the-new-tv-season/638738.md?page=2)