Poll: What New Shows Are You Still Watching?

[shadowkat]

Because I'm curious - doing a tv poll. Feel free to explain in the comments or not. Sorry can't include the non-US shows, outside of a few British ones, since I don't know them. The US is woefully bad about importing content, but quite adept at exporting it. What can I say? It is, what it is.

The following are the shows I know about, several have already been canned. If you want to know which ones? Ask and I'll tell you. Or someone else very well may.

Hopefully, I'm not the only one who takes the poll - because that's embarrassing and why I'm not overly fond of doing polls.
Interactive posts or posts that rely on interaction can be challenging.

Because the poll may seem a bit long, a la take up too much room in your lj and mine, it's behind the cut.

[ETA: "The Secret History" listed below? Should be THE SECRET CIRCLE. Thank you,petz. I have no idea why I keep wanting to call it the Secret History. Sorry. about that.]



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Oh, there are some new shows starting this weekend and in November. AMC has a dark anti-hero/gritty Western by the same guy who did Deadwood - called Hell on Wheels, and is in the tradition of "Breaking Bad" or that general trope. I don't know if I'll be able to watch it. While I do like Westerns and noire, nasty bullies as the protagonist - is a bit more than I can handle on tv at this point in my life for reasons I won't bore you with. But I will most likely try it - simply because I'm a sucker for a Western, even an revenge flick anti-Western, which this appears to be. The other new show, which I'm looking forward to, because it looks like a lot of fun and the most innovative thing that has popped up so far - and that is Once Upon a Time - by writers from Lost and Buffy and few other shows. This is Jane Espenson's new gig. And it is a somewhat tongue in check look at fairy tales, with a good cast, and awesome production value from the trailers. ABC's been advertising the heck out of it. Also the reviewers who like it, I tend to agree with (they also liked Buffy, Lost, and most cult shows), the one's who hate it - loved Pam Am, adored The New Girl, and thought Ringer was the most exciting thing to come around in a while. While Ringer is admittedly amusing in places, I am wondering what drugs these tv critics are smoking and if I can have any (Robert Bianco, hon? Yes, I'm looking at you.) Ken Tucker from EW is a bit more reliable. He loved Revenge and gave Once Upon a Time a good review. Also lauded Homeland. I confused reviewers, it's the other one. Tucker's the idiot who lauded Pam Am and
The New Girl and thought Ringer was great.

Comments

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Oh I didn't mean to compare the two shows (except that I consider the writing of Person of Interest to be much better), I meant that in your question of 'favorite new drama' (above) I didn't respond because I hadn't found any dramas that I liked well enough to call it a 'favorite' but now I think I've finally found one that I would have voted for (if I hadn't previously voted).

I was tolerating Ringer because of the humor (intended humor? I couldn't really tell) and the suspense/mystery... and of course for SMG. but I was getting sick of it because of the soap aspects... (and those musical choices). I still haven't watched this last week's episode, it is sitting on my DVR.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I don't tend to notice the music choices unless I a) like the music or b) it gets in the way of the dialogue and voice over. (ie. I can't hear.)

In my opinion the only tv series that ever did music well was Buffy.
All the others are unmemorable and I ignore. ;-)

Hee, I think Ringer is (unintentionally) hilarious. But I also, as you know, love serial dramas. Procedurals on the other hand...

But I am please that you've found a show you enjoy this season, the pickings have been admittedly thin. :-)

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Actually I'm like you normally: the music isn't important to me and I don't notice it unless it is either beautiful or annoying. The thing is I find musical interludes (long stretches of music while we watch novel writing guy clean up the evidence of his wife's death...) to be an announcement by the writers that we really don't have enough story to fill an entire episode so instead of sparkling dialogue we've decided to play this crappy music....
But there again, if the music was beautiful then I wouldn't mind... but it just seems like filler by lazy writers to me.

OH! Jason Dohring! I'm watching that Ringer right now and I'm hoping they plan to spend a lot of time in the school room now (I'm a fan of Jason Dohring, did you guess?).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

to be an announcement by the writers that we really don't have enough story to fill an entire episode so instead of sparkling dialogue we've decided to play this crappy music....
But there again, if the music was beautiful then I wouldn't mind... but it just seems like filler by lazy writers to me.

Otherwise known as the music video montage. ;-) I've grown used to it (I watch daytime soaps, remember. They invented the music montage. Then people like Whedon, Ron Moore, etc stole it from them.) I only mind when they try to overlay dialogue and voice-over with the music montage - which makes it impossible for me to figure out what they are saying. (Which Grey's Anatomy likes to do, and Revenge for that matter). I tried close-captioning...but it doesn't work, the close-captioning people get confused. They can't decide which to do, the lyrics, the voice-over, or the dialogue. It's actually amusing.

Actually Ringer's aren't that bad - I mean what did you expect them to be doing while he was cleaning the walls of blood? Buffy did the same thing, granted it was usually better music...but teen shows tend to have better music, not sure why.

You didn't know Jason Dohring was cast in it? Hee. Yes, as Juliet's teacher of all things. Sigh. I admit I'm torn. On the one hand we have whiny teen daughter subplot from after-school special cliche hell, and on the other Jason Dohring. Wish he had a larger and more interesting role. Seeing Logan and Buffy in a clinche? Fan worlds collide.