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.]



[Poll #1788231]


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

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

I got a chance to see the Once Upon a Time pilot at ComicCon and absolutely loved it. Though it hasn't begun airing yet, it's by far my favorite pilot of the season, and industry friends of mine who've seen the second and third episodes say it only gets better from there. I am chomping at the bit for the next installment.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I'm definitely curious about 'Grim' and 'Once Upon a Time' but then I was curious about a lot of the others... (and I'll probably stop watching 'Ringer' soon... I fast forward through parts, when they play music particularly, already).

But I adore Suburgatory and the UK version of Free Agents (it is so much funnier than the USA version was, with 200% more Tony Head).

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

None of the above on favorites. It's not that kind of TV for me. Just watchin'.

And I don't watch comedies at all.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

I'm also looking forward to the fairy tale shows.

So far Homeland is my favourite, although the first two normal eps were not quite as good as the pilot and Revenge is getting better and better.

I'm hard to get with comedy. I did not stick with something since Malcolm in the Middle. I tried How to be a Gentlemen (drivel) and Enlightened (ok, but not really interesting enough to dl it every week). I can't even watch HIMYM though everybody seems to love it.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

The only new show I'm really interested in at the moment is Homeland. Still watching American Horror Story, but mostly because... I'm not really sure why.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

That should be The Secret Circle not The Secret History.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Revenge is great and Suburgatory is pretty strong. 2 Broke Girls has good chemistry between it's leads but could grow into being really good if it stops being so lazy.

Ringer is on probation with me - it benefits from being on the weakest night of TV and needs to step up by the time I have college basketball as an alternative...

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I just saw my first episode of Person of Interest and I think I'm hooked. It's funny, it didn't sound interesting to me until I saw Michael Emerson (from Lost) promoting it on The View.... he made it sound intriguing and it was (kind of like Leverage only without the humor, and with a lot more dangerous/suspenseful edge).

Definitely better than Ringer.