Poll: So what TV Shows are You Watching ?

[shadowkat]

I like to do this every once and a while - find out what tv series that people reading or lurking on my livejournal are reading. Assuming of course anyone is outside of the handful of folks that occasionally comment. It's really impossible to tell who reads your journal and who doesn't, even if you lock all the entries - isn't it? Sort of true about most things that we write or say - actually. You don't know if people read it or heard it - unless they respond. Whether they grokked it - is a whole other issue. (Grokked is now a word - which Robert Heinlein created - and it means understood, but really totally understood it, as opposed to just got it.)

A couple of caveats regarding this poll - it is unfortunately slanted toward American Standard and Basic Cable Television, because that is what I have access to. Also, only tv shows that are on this season, nothing that is cancelled or in hiatus. (ie. only available on DVD or netflix streaming). Also if your favorite series is not referenced, because seriously there are over 125 tv series on at the moment and I can only remember or possibly watch 28 of them, please just list it in the comments. And it's more than possible I'll forget one of the one's I'm watching. (Lack of sleep may be killing short term memory cells.) Apologies for mistakes in advance. I'm doing a poll because they are easier to get responses to than memes.




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Oh I only listed the new shows that have premiered to date. If it hasn't premiered yet, I didn't list it. And with the exception of Walking Dead (which is rerunned on numerous channels, and Arrow, I left tv shows that haven't aired yet this week off the list. Or tried to. Trying to keep it current.

Comments

[atpo-onm.livejournal.com]

Gotham has really impressed me so far, at least with the assumption that the following eps are as well-crafted as the first two. The visual aspects are so stunning that it's easy to think that the show is mainly style, but there's quite a bit happening on many levels if you either pay close attention or simply rewind and rewatch.

The villains are particularly well crafted. Selena Kyle / Catwoman (who isn't, yet) is a spin I haven't seen before, and very intriguing. The actor playing the Penguin is fabulous-- this may turn out to be the best version of this character ever.

There was quite a lot of hype for this show pre-debut, but this may be a case where the hype was valid.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Would have to agree - more or less on the above. I admittedly went in with low expectations due to the mixed reviews. But it has some nice twists, while still keeping true to the noir-ish universe created in the Christopher Nolan films and Frank Miller/Tim Sale comics. Probably helps that it is based on a comic of the same name.

And the villains are far more interesting. Batman always had the best and most colorful villains.

Selena Kyle's character is quite close to the grown-up version of the character in Frank Miller's Batman: Year One and later Nolan's Dark Knight Rises. There's a nice symmetry there - I think. At any rate - it impressed me as well - best new series that I've seen to date.