- We Are Men: Last week, I said it was funny. This week, it wasn't as funny—and it was promptly canceled, making it the second new show (after Lucky 7) to be canceled this season.
- Sleepy Hollow: Last week, I had decided to give it up. Then I read that John Noble (Walter/Walternate on Fringe) would be joining the cast, so I decided to keep watching. This week's opening, with Ichabod giving advice to the OnStar-like operator was priceless.
- Hostages: Last week, I said I didn't want to be interested in the show but was. This week, they totally hooked me. I've added it to my viewing schedule.
- The Blacklist: I really want to like this more. I'll keep watching—if only because I'm interested in Red's relationship with Agent Keen and because I want to know what Agent Keen's husband is up to.
- S.H.I.E.L.D.: I gave it up this week. Vic will still watch, and if it gets better, he'll let me know and catch me up and I'll pick it back up. The thing is, I only have so much free time. I have to be very selective in my viewing.
- Back in the Game: I dropped it after the third episode. The end of the second episode was touching and then hilarious, but the third episode just didn't do anything for me.
- The Tomorrow People: This is a great new sci-fi show on CW. We loved the pilot, so it's definitely going into the three-time pile—and I expect a full-season pick-up on the CW as well as in the Love Shack.
- Ironside: Dropped after 15 minutes. It just didn't do anything for me, and now that the rest of my schedule is shaping up, I don't have time for shows like that. NOTE TO NETWORKS: The longer you wait to premiere things, the less room I have in my schedule.
- Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: I couldn't really get into it. Dropped.
- The Crazy Ones: Still needs to be a little more balanced, but I added it to my viewing schedule.
- Betrayal: Dropped it. It's just tough to watch a show that's centered around adultery, and it's not a great show.
- Masters of Sex: Not impressed. I'll do one more week per my three-time rule, but I don't expect it to be on my schedule after that.
- Reign starts this week. It's on the schedule to give it a try, but I don't think I'll enjoy it.
Returning shows:
- Castle: Finally they're back to a "regular" show. I love that—SPOILER ALERT—Castle offered to move to D.C. (even had already leased an apartment there) just before Beckett got sacked by the feds. This way, she can't spend the next several episodes saying "You never wanted me to go there anyway."
- Revolution: I was going to drop it after last week's episode, but next week's episode sounds interesting, so I might keep going. Just for a little while.
- Scandal: Man, this show packs a lot into an hour. It's juicy delicious. Love it.
- Glee: On the one hand, this was a wonderful tribute to Finn. Each person got his or her own moment, and they incorporated the old and new casts wonderfully. I felt like Finn's mother's grief was the most real. But to have Puck and Santana and even Mr. Schue sobbing like babies felt ... forced. Not that they wouldn't be terribly sad. It just seemed over the top. The song tributes were nice. I even liked Rachel's rendition of "To Make You Feel My Love," which is a song I really love sung by a character I don't even remotely like. (Although, just to be my nitpicky self, I hate the way Lea Michele squinches her eyes when she sings, AND although I felt that her tears were real, I don't like the way Glee has the actors sing in a studio and then lip-synch for the show. If you're singing while you're crying, it doesn't sound like that.) And there were truly some wonderful moments—both funny and sad, which is one of the things that Glee does best. AND I have no doubt that these people loved Cory Monteith and are genuinely sad about his death. BUT on the other hand, I have a hard time watching a show give tribute to someone who basically killed himself with a drug overdose. I know addiction is hard. I know he'd been struggling with it since his teens. It's just really hard for me to understand. Still, I give the episode an A. It might make me tune in again when the show starts back up after the World Series. (But it might not—let's face it, it's likely that the show will now carry on as if Finn never existed. Unlike Grey's Anatomy, which still references Mark and Lexie from time to time. [Not that I'm not still mad at Shonda Rhimes for killing them off.].)
- Blue Bloods: You know, I don't talk much about Blue Bloods, but I really love this show. It's an amazing family drama with a police procedural built in. I love the Reagans.
Here's that link again to Zap2It's renewal/cancellation index. It looks like a lot of shows are on the bubble—let's see how it all shakes out over the next few weeks!
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/the-renew-cancel-index/
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