2013 Fall TV Thread: Previews, Evaluations, Ridicule and Mourning

its a really nice ensamble. i feel like they've hit a groove.

In which Alessandra Stanley compares OITNB to Clueless: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/arts/television/alessandra-stanley-sizes-up-2013-tv-fare.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1&

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpVoUvLdErw

Never forget, 2013's best response to Alessandra Stanley's bullshit, courtesy of Chris Hayes: http://www.salon.com/2013/10/14/nyt_calls_chris_hayes_a_hollywood_diva/

hahaha

i still like almost human it's like gotham central in transmet universe

yeah I'm still loving it

i should give it a shot huh?

it doesn't really do subtle character sketches, it's very pulpy. i hope they make it weirder and weirder as it goes on

For the end of the year, I think what would be interesting is if everyone reading this thread gave a list of new shows they're sticking with and a list of shows, both new and otherwise, that they're giving up on (or thinking of doing so).

New shows:

The Originals (Best New Show 2013 - but I'm a Vampire Diaries fan)
Sleepy Hollow
The Tomorrow People (such trash, and not even that enjoyable tbh, but I keep on watching this for some reason, maybe cause it's hard to change the channel after Arrow)
Trophy Wife

Shows I'm (close to) giving up on:

Agents of SHIELD (I'm reallyyyy close to giving up on this one - gonna see how they resolve the "midseason finale" cliffhanger and if that isn't resolved in a satisfactory manner, I'm out)
Awkward (I've liked this show a lot and last night's finale was fantastic but it also felt like a series finale since the creator/"showrunner" is leaving the show so I don't know if I want to ruin the neatness of the entire arc so far)
Nashville
Revenge (see Agents of SHIELD)

New Shows:
Sleepy Hollow
Almost Human

Giving up on
Walking Dead
Agents of SHIELD (havent officially given up but cant be fucked watching)
White Collar

New shows:

The Americans
Orphan Black
Orange Is The New Black

Shows I'm close to giving up on:

Revenge, for the same reasons as Murgatroid gave. This series has gone some stupid places, but if what they've teased as happening is really what happens, I may be done.

mordy kinda selling me on almost human. bailed on agentzzz of shield, bailed on nashville a while back (ok show, just expendable), loved revenge season one, lost track w/ season two and haven't really looked back. i could see myself catching up on netflix at some point. i think the only new show i actively watch is brooklyn nine nine? it's kinda come into its own though it's nowhere near its ceiling (i hope). very much mean to check out masters of sex cuz i love period drama and i've heard good things and i find lizzy caplan very very interesting. has anyone experienced this feeling i've had of late where you'll hear some show that you've been meaning to check out whenever you finally somehow find the time has gone to hell and you get this odd sense of relief? in my case thinking here specifically of homeland and sons of anarchy.

i'm so relieved that homeland - whose second season i couldn't finish - is getting terrible and i never have to go back to it

New shows:
Brooklyn-99 - like Parks & Rec skipped ahead to season 2 - they're already on good footing, awesome cast
Trophy Wife - knew nothing about this beforehand, turns out to be mildly charming w/likeable cast
The Blacklist - utter garbage, but I love James Spader and am endlessly entertained by him in this stupid stupid show. I mean they had one episode where they brought Tom Noonan on as a serial killer called The Stewmaker, and that was one of the better episodes.
Super Fun Night - probably cancelled, pretty middle of the road in quality, but as with these other shows I like the cast and hope they end up in better produced/written sitcoms

On the fence:
Agents of SHIELD - only watched the first 4 eps or so, mean to catch up, but i'm not super enthused about it
Raising Hope - never really a top shelf show to begin with and eventually succumbing to the My Name is Earl curse of diminishing returns, but Garret Dillahunt / Martha Plimpton have supplanted the leads (great move) and this is probably the final season anyway so I'm hanging in there while they burn off double Friday episodes

Good returning stuff:
How I Met Your Mother - final season, shockingly good compared to the crap last few seasons that were so up and down, the renewed focus is good. Sentimentality hooray!
New Girl - still climbing in quality, bringing back Damon Wayans was a great move
The Walking Dead - just as dumb, just as fun as ever, show's basically been consistently watchable since end of season 2
Misc Cartoon Network stuff I continue to love: Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe (new and charming)

S2 of Revenge was pretty much garbage but S3 has been quite redeeming but like you said with Nashville, it also feels so expendable at this point.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine would be great if it was just Andre Braugher and Chelsea Peretti but I can't stand Andy Samberg as a lead (he's only tolerable in small doses).

I've never gone from being super-excited about a show to giving up on it quite as quickly as I have with Homeland.

steven universe, rick + morty

the big fix between seasons 1 & 2 for the office us and parks were them figuring out how to write the lead so maybe they can fix it, i'm fine w/ samberg (eg had no problem w/ him as a lead in hot rod) but agree they have some work to do there. braugher's been fantastic. i hesitate to recommend a denis leary project but the job, his cop sitcom from the early 00s, is pretty great imo, i like it better than rescue me though it helps it got cancelled after one season and didn't have time to go completely off the rails like rescue me.

oh shit I forgot

New Shows:
Blacklist - I could watch Spader in this all day long. It's totally rote but he KILLS it every week
Brooklyn Nine Nine - gets funnier every week & totally worth it for Joe Lo Truglio & my girlcrush on Chelsea Perretti

love joe lo truglio so much, neck and neck between him and ken marino for fave member of the state.

only thing i don't love about brooklyn 9-9 at this point is how often samberg's (and sometimes peretti's) motivation in a scene appears to be "ain't i a stinker?"

gave up on every other new show though i could see going back to a few once given the season 2 all-clear

The only shows I've watched with any regularity of late are S.H.I.E.L.D. (which is mostly cute and undemanding and not nearly as bad as everyone keeps saying, and which is supposed to start getting much much Marvel-ier after the break, so I'm hangin' in there) and HIMYM (which is mostly painful and cartoonish and not nearly as good as everyone keeps saying...there were some lulls prior to this season, but I never had so much trouble sticking with it before) and The Eric Andre Show (which makes me laugh super hard almost every episode).

Best new show I've seen this year is the waaaaaaay underrated and underexposed Nathan For You:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2rgzsO-AMM

New shows I'm sticking with:

Rectify
Hannibal
OitNB
Masters of Sex
Moone Boy
Nathan For You
Inside Amy Schumer
The Americans
Orphan Black

Returning shows I gave up on:

The Walking Dead
Homeland

Oh, yeah, Orphan Black was good value. As was however many episodes of Hannibal I've watched thus far. Will be returning to those.

So very smugly pleased with myself that I saw through the Homeland hype machine by the end of season 1.

I'd maintain that it was mostly great up until "Q&A." That's where the series really ended in my brain.

Until and including, I should say.

I hung in for another half a season, but much of my credulity fizzled along with Brody's bomb.

Am I really the only person who thinks Getting On on HBO is the best current show on television? Everyone should try it.

I intend to! The majority of my TV watching time of late has been devoted to an umpteenth rewatch of Roseanne, and I'm thrilled that Laurie Metcalf is back on TV.

oh, u know what else is good? alpha house on amazon prime.

Yeah, would like to watch that for similar reasons (plus Trudeau's previous televisual effort, Tanner '88, being one of my favorite shows ever).

Oh yeah, if Hannibal counts as new, then yeah, I'm sticking with that one. I tried The Americans for like, five or six eps and I just couldn't get into it. Same with the ten minutes of Getting On I watched.

Wow, you went in for 5 or 6 episodes and still didn't get into The Americans? The S1 finale contained THE MOST INTENSE bit of television I've seen anywhere all year.

I dunno, maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there or whatnot, but FX dramas on the whole have this kind of "HBO but not quite there" aesthetic that annoys me.

ok, i got bored enough to draw up a list so here's my stuff i'm currently watching / continuing to watch / will watch when it returns from hiatus. i can not recommend everything here:

15-30min comedy: alpha house, trophy wife, mindy project, new girl, brooklyn-99, modern family, eric andre show, children's hospital, eagleheart, parks + rec, comedy bang bang, key & peele, suburgatory, louie, always sunny in philadelphia, cougar town, himym, snl, i'll probably give community another try, veep,

hr-long dramas: almost human, game of thrones, orange is the new black

animated: bob's burgers, american dad, adventure time, rick and morty, china il, metalocalypse, steven universe, venture bros, archer, boondocks

rip: anthony jeselnik (cancelled), newsroom (maybe i'll catch up on the 2nd season - i doubt it), girls (blah), mad men (boring), homeland (ridiculous), ja'mie (stupid)

murgatroid otm

Justified and The Americans were both better than anything on HBO this year.

sigh. Justified. I can't wait til it comes back

Yeah, I was about to say in my above post that at the same time, I'm not really watching anything on HBO these days either save Veep. I'll check out Looking too as it's my sworn duty as a Gay (though Alyssa Rosenberg, who I usually trust with TV and whatnot, sez it's good).

i watch game of thrones and enjoy boardwalk empire a ton though i never watch it week to week i always wait til the season's over and binge watch it. i watch girls also, i like lena dunham so sue me, and if/when curb comes back i'll watch it also.

the only show that was really crucial for me this year was canceled. rip bunheads.

;_;

Yeah. At least Sutton Foster is getting a new show! On...TV Land! But still!

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view7/2532644/crying-baby-o.gif

Didn't know how I managed to not throw my TV out the window after Bunheads, Enlightened, and Happy Endings were all cancelled in the span of a year but I somehow survived.

Happy Endings was never gonna live man, let's face it. It was one of those shows.

A question about Enlightened. Did it end in a satisfactory way? I'd hate to start at the beginning and find out I'm going to arrive at a cliffhanger with no chance for resolution.

Oh, it ends PERFECTLY.

Okay, cool.