Fall season, end of week 1

Let's get right to it: How are the new shows faring?

• Sleepy Hollow: Still intrigued. Will watch one more week.
• Brooklyn Nine Nine: Better on second viewing but still haven't permanently added to my viewing schedule.
• Hostages: Meh. In the three-time pile.
• The Blacklist: Love it. I'm ready to add it; Vic's not so sure—yet.
• Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: I liked+ it. I thought it was funny and look forward to another episode. But we haven't added it to the viewing schedule yet.
• Trophy Wife: Unfortunately, this went into the dumping pile five minutes in. Admittedly, I did expect it to go there, but I was hoping it would be better.
• Lucky 7: Made it through the whole episode, but into the dumping pile it went. Again as expected. I felt like I could have written the rest of the season myself.
• Back in the Game: I did not like it, but Vic thought it was worthy of a second look.
• The Michael J. Fox Show: We made it through a whole episode, but could have put it in the dumping pile much earlier. Dumped!

And the old shows that premiered this week?

• Castle: Loved it. It was a little more awkward than it needed to be, but let's face it, anyone who thinks Beckett is moving to Washington is ... [insert appropriate adjective here].
• Person of Interest: Loved it. I love the addition of Amy Acker and Sarah Shahi.
• Chicago Fire: This is never my favorite show, but it's a reliable performer, and nothing has changed.
• Modern Family: Laugh-out-loud funny. Plus Phil reminds me of Vic in a lot of ways (and let's face it—I'm Claire), so that probably helps. Although I would give much better proposal advice than Claire did.
• Criminal Minds: Continues to be one of the most disturbing shows on television.
• Revolution: Not sure I care anymore. I'll see if Vic does.
• Grey's Anatomy: Sure, Shonda Rhimes killed off another cast member, but I thought it was a great premiere.
• The Crazy Ones: I actually liked it. Robin Williams eventually ended up at the top of his game, and he has great chemistry with James Wolk. Sarah Michelle Gellar leaves something to be desired—but I'm not a fanboy, so I suppose that has something to do with it.
• Glee: I think I'm going to drop this after they dispose of Finn. I just found myself not caring about any of these people anymore.
• Hawaii Five-0: Reliably fun. The story lines are preposterous, but the scenery is gorgeous—and I'm not just talking about Hawaii.
• Blue Bloods: This is just a great family/police drama. Love it.

This week's premieres:

• Betrayal (9/29): This is one that Vic picked—he must have been on HRT that day. We'll see how he likes it.
• The Good Wife (9/29): Florrick+Agos: Can't wait to see how this plays out!
• The Mentalist (9/29): I'm really interested to see who Red John is—and I've heard things about a cast shuffle up, so it'll be fun to see how that shakes out over the season.
• Homeland (9/29): I'm on the phone with DirecTV as we speak because I'm tired of watching this on my computer. Showtime, here I come!
• Masters of Sex (9/29): As long as I have Showtime, I might as well watch this, right? It is atop virtually every critic's list.
• We Are Men (9/30): These previews are looking more and more horrible. I may not even try it.
• Ironside (10/2): Ditto.
• Scandal (10/3): Yet another show that had a great cliffhanger that I can't wait to see how it resolves.

And while I won't go off on another Emmy rant, I will say that this year's Emmy show was not that great. The awards were fun—there were a lot of surprise wins, and one of my favorite Neil Patrick Harris lines was "No one's winning their Emmy office pool this year."—but the show was ... in a word ... awful. I liked the host bit at the beginning that ended with Kevin Spacey doing his bit from House of Cards, but that was it. Most of the presenters were wooden and horrible. There were so many show-stopping events (and not in the positive sense of the word), such as The Number in the Middle of the Show, the Year in Television piece, and the extended death tributes (which were moving but really stopped the show cold). I'll tell you this, if they don't start doing better shows, I will only watch for 10 or 15 or 20 more years. ;-)

Happy TV week, everyone! See you next time!