State Of The Fall TV (non-spoilery)
I'm having trouble with this season of Fringe. I think that, other than the Pacey Peter thing, it's that the characters that are supposed to be the same people I grew to give a shit about are now different. And they're not different in ways that I can predict or understand. And they're not alternate universe, groovy What If characters, whose uniqueness is a feature. They're just other people. And it keep taking me out of the story. The stories not being particularly good doesn't help, but it wouldn't be as much of a problem for me if I didn't feel like they killed everyone off and put impostors in instead.
Community is brilliant. It's not just funny and clever and chock-full of pop-culture references and homages and other goodies, which it is. It's that they manage to do some really complicated and complex storytelling in a 20 minute slot, which is pretty extraordinary. So top notch writing, plus, people actually have sex. It may be silly to want more sex on TV, but really, when it comes to the classic UST thing? I'm SO over it.
Speaking of being over the UST thing, I'm watching Castle because I love Nathan Fillion, and because the writers are geeks, but the whole Castle/Becket thing is getting seriously tiresome at this point.
Vampire Diaries is still cracktaskic fun, as is Supernatural, though both shows are not as good as they were when they were really really good, but then they both started out really fucking lame, so I guess I'm not expecting consistency. The Spike and Cordelia episode was fun, though. :D
Boardwalk Empire is still very good, and I still don't love it. There's nothing wrong with the show. On the contrary, it's well written, well acted, well directed, there's character development and plots and plot twists and all things good. I just doesn't spark that visceral attachment in me that I get from other (often lesser) shows.
In new shows, Boss (unsurprisingly) and Homeland (unexpectedly) are excellent.
American Horror Story is growing on me, despite a weak first episode. Once Upon A Time started out much better than I was expecting, which is more than I can say for Grimm.
I'm still undecided on Terra Nova (cheap Jurassic Park, but kinda fun, mostly?), Pan Am (hit and miss), Ringer (getting progressively better), and Unforgettable (I can take it or leave it). Secret Circle is rather lame, but I'm still watching, probably because TVD started out rather lame too, so I'm hoping it gets better, though, really, I'm not sure why.
Community is brilliant. It's not just funny and clever and chock-full of pop-culture references and homages and other goodies, which it is. It's that they manage to do some really complicated and complex storytelling in a 20 minute slot, which is pretty extraordinary. So top notch writing, plus, people actually have sex. It may be silly to want more sex on TV, but really, when it comes to the classic UST thing? I'm SO over it.
Speaking of being over the UST thing, I'm watching Castle because I love Nathan Fillion, and because the writers are geeks, but the whole Castle/Becket thing is getting seriously tiresome at this point.
Vampire Diaries is still cracktaskic fun, as is Supernatural, though both shows are not as good as they were when they were really really good, but then they both started out really fucking lame, so I guess I'm not expecting consistency. The Spike and Cordelia episode was fun, though. :D
Boardwalk Empire is still very good, and I still don't love it. There's nothing wrong with the show. On the contrary, it's well written, well acted, well directed, there's character development and plots and plot twists and all things good. I just doesn't spark that visceral attachment in me that I get from other (often lesser) shows.
In new shows, Boss (unsurprisingly) and Homeland (unexpectedly) are excellent.
American Horror Story is growing on me, despite a weak first episode. Once Upon A Time started out much better than I was expecting, which is more than I can say for Grimm.
I'm still undecided on Terra Nova (cheap Jurassic Park, but kinda fun, mostly?), Pan Am (hit and miss), Ringer (getting progressively better), and Unforgettable (I can take it or leave it). Secret Circle is rather lame, but I'm still watching, probably because TVD started out rather lame too, so I'm hoping it gets better, though, really, I'm not sure why.