New TV Shows (No spoilers)

[charmax]

So far nothing has grabbed me the way Veronica Mars and Lost did last year.

I watched Bones because DB was in it. He certainly looks prettier than he has for a while. It was decent enough police procedural show and the main characters were entertaining and interesting. It just wasn’t amazing and the truth is if it wasn’t for my curiosity about how David manages to break away from his Angel persona I probably wouldn’t have bothered watching it at all. I’ll probably stick with it for now though just to see if it can build on a reasonable start.

I was looking forward to Supernatural. I liked the idea of the show and I thought the two brothers were quite interesting and there were some quite spooky moments in it. The problem is that there are a lot of quite similar shows premiering this season and it seems inevitable some of them will fall by the wayside after a few eps and I don’t want to get invested in a show that won’t make it to the end of a season. I will have to see how the other ghostly/alien/creepy shows turn out before deciding how many of them are worth keeping up with.

Threshold is another of the new sci-fi shows. I have to say I was really disappointed in this one. It seems to think it is X files the next generation but I found it really hard to care much about any of the characters. They seemed to be taken from stock character types. There’s the female professional with no private life and some major daddy issues, the gung ho soldier manfully hiding his secret pain and then there are three maladjusted science geeks all very familiar territory.

Thanks to xandra_ptv I have a new obsession; the 4400 which I was initially sceptical about but that I decided to try because she rated it highly. I was hooked after the first episode and watched the first season in one session because for the first time in ages I really had to know what happened next. I love Shawn and Richard and the creepy little girl whose name I can’t spell.

Oh and yay for British sci-fi Hex is back minus the bland, blonde jock but with the addition of a time travelling brutal kickass bitch that I am already a little in love with.

Still on the agenda to watch:

Rome
Surface
Out of practice
How I met your mother
Invasion
Criminal minds
Ghost whisperer
Killer Instinct
Night stalker

And of course –
Veronica Mars
Lost
Alias

Comments

[charmax.livejournal.com]

Yes why are you avoiding sci-fi this season? There are an awful lot of "lost" clones starting. TV companies just have no imagination. Still if it signals the end of reality TV it can only be a good thing.

The truth is that 'Bones' is pretty much your standard csi style investigation show. It does have a slimmed down DB in the daylight though. But I suppose a perfectionist like you would expect sophisticated characterisation and involved plotting as well. lol

You should definitely catch the new season of 'Hex' it airs Sunday nights here so I guess you would be able to get it on Mondays. They have added a great character, ditched my least favourite one and got rid of the fringe from hell that one character had.

Oh and thank you for pushing me into watching 4400 it's the best thing I've seen in a while! :D

[astartexx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sorry about that, I’m just so used to browsing through the bittorrent-pages to get up to date, that I forgot, you don’t need to do that… ‘Kitchen Confidential’ is a well done show, agreed on that, haven’t seen the screener, but the Pilot was great. I really love Bradley Cooper and the whole ensemble comes together flawless. So compared with ‘How I met your mother’ KI wins without doubt.

The sci-fi this season is a bit overwhelming, but like Charmax said, if it’s the end of Reality TV, I ride the wave. You should check the pilots Supernatural and Threshold out, if you don’t like it, you don’t have to stick with it.

[xandra-ptv.livejournal.com]

i'll dl and watch them when i got the time.

see the end of 4400 yet?