Fall TV, Week 2

I've finally caught up on all my new and existing shows. Still a few shows that haven't premiered yet (Emily Owens, M.D.--which I was thinking of dropping until my niece Margeaux said she was going to watch it, so now I want to watch it so we can compare notes, Nashville, Arrow, Chicago Fire, and Beauty and the Beast). I'll get to those in a later post.

So where are we after week 2?

• Only one new show premiered after my last blog. Still waiting for Emily Owens, Nashville, Arrow, Chicago Fire and Beauty and the Beast, so I won't comment on those.
• 666 Park Avenue was the new show that premiered. I was really looking forward to it, but I felt like it was a little bland. Still, it's intriguing, so I'll give it my three-try rule.
• After week 1, I was on the fence about Partners. Still am. So is CBS: It's considered on the bubble. I will give it my three-try rule as well, but my friend Michelle may have very well been right--it could be the first show canceled this year.
• Revolution: We've watched the third episode, and I like it enough to add it to my schedule. So, apparently, does NBC, which has given it a full-season pickup.
• The New Normal: I've now watched the first four episodes of this. I really don't like Ellen Barkin's character. I know why she's there, but I liked the way they handled the opposition on The West Wing. Remember when Ainsley Hayes joined the cast? She always made really smart arguments that made you realize there was another point of view in the world. And my EW skewered it (and Partners, and Cam and Mitchell on Modern Family) as presenting gay people stereotypically. So I'm a little uncomfortable watching it. But NBC picked it up for the full season, so I will give it a few more tries.
• Elementary: Dropped it. My friend Michelle said she thought his schtick would eventually get old, like Simon Baker's on The Mentalist. His doesn't. But Jonny Lee Miller's does. Besides, I figured if I wanted to like something so badly and was still "meh" about it, it was time.
• FYI: Go On (the new Matthew Perry show) has been given a full-season pickup.

And the rundown of my existing shows:

• Once Upon a Time: I was already tiring of it last year. Wasn't any more interested this year, so I dropped it.
• The Good Wife: Not my favorite show, but it's so consistently well done and the story lines are quite intersting, so I'm keeping it.
• Mentalist: Still loving it.
• Scandal: I do not love this show, and I almost dropped it after the first week. But I tuned in the second week--and almost dropped it again. Until the last scene. Now I'm comin' back for more. Stupid Shonda Rhimes.
• Blue Bloods: I never think of this as one of my favorite shows, but I think it is. Like The Good Wife, it's just consistently well done. Love it.
• New Girl: Dumped it.
• Grey's Anatomy: I know I already said I'm keeping it, but that Shonda Rhimes, she does not make it easy for me to love her.
• Haven: When I realized I didn't know why I was still watching it, I stopped watching it.