This season's TV shows have been hit and miss. Thank goodness we don't pay for cable.

Despite the fact that we haven't had cable television in almost ten years, we keep up on TV shows just fine. It used to be, we had to wait a while for the good shows to come out on Netflix, but nowadays, with Hulu.com and Abc.com and such, we get the shows a day after they air on TV, which is pretty awesome considering we pay nothing.

Daily Show & Colbert Report
Every weeknight, baby! These shows just never get old.

Fringe
We're really liking this show. The mad scientist's got great lines and there's no character we would want to kill off. Interesting premise, rather like an X-Files/Alias premise-with Lost music and writing. We weren't Dawson Creek fans, so Peter hasn't been too weird.

Life
Again, one of our favorite shows. The main character is a cop and an ex-con and the tension of when he will snap under the pressure of resuming his duties at the police department keep things interesting. They've got a good setup for conflict, but they really need to work in the partner better, since she's got issues but really she's pretty vanilla right now.

Bones
Bones is awesome. It's gotten a little bit sappy lately and the season premiere in England was grating, but the whole forensic anthropology stuff stays interesting.

Pushing Daisies
Still an amusing show with the best narrator on the planet-Jim Dale. I hope the writers can keep this going for longer than a single season. I really like the private investigator who knits.

Tudors
I love a good lighthearted historical drama. Tudors provides.

Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles
Hubby likes this show, but Wifey couldn't care less if Sarah Connor bites it, she's too annoying. And John Connor makes dumb decisions too often, just because Hollywood only knows how to have young teenage heroes. They should have made him more like Veronica Mars.

Ugly Betty
We've lost all interest in this show. Even last season, the whole story arc with the two male leads was irritating.

Heroes
Or I should say, Villains. The jury is still out on this. We're still watching but we got really upset in this latest episode. They killed off our favorite character (We still call him Sark) and its getting complex having to go back and constantly save the world. Now that Suresh is a reincarnation of Stephen King's It, we're waivering on this one. The one interesting thing is the Sylar story arc, it's always nice when they swap good guy/bad guy roles.

Crusoe
Just started watching this. It might be ok, we're going to give it a couple more episodes before we decide.

Grey's Anatomy
This show is fading fast. The characters aren't particularly interesting and the latest episode with the flood was ridiculously unrealistic. Fire them all!

Private Practice
The health-related plot lines can be pretty interesting, but we'll see how it goes.

Chuck
Hubby likes Chuck. Wife says meh.

Torchwood
Doctor Who-like show. Amusing in its location, but the alien artifact collecting needs a new spin.

Knight Rider
The new one. Hubby finds silly and stupid yet insists on watching it. Wife avoids. (Wife ACTUALLY is just avoiding the treadmill, not the show. She hasn't seen it yet.)

Shows we will probably check out soon
Life on Mars

Posted by sorsha on October 23, 2008 10:32 PM | Permalink