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I'm the guy next to you while you are wearing that I'm With Stupid t-shirt Doc. Yeah...it was flat and ordinary where it should have popped and been something 'whiz-bang-y'.
 
Sleepy Hollow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. make big Monday/Tuesday Live+3 DVR gains

How in the hell is my DVR capable of handling tonight. And what were/was HBO/Showtime thinking. Besides the show that EVERYONE should be watching live, Eastbound & Down/Hello Ladies and HOMEfreakingLAND start back up tonight. Oh yeah, Fox's Animation Domination comes back too. For ****s sake? Am I missing something. If you are another station WHY would you try to counter-program to, what is bound to be a new high standard for cable ratings?

Breaking Bad, Homeland and so much more: Are you ready for TV Dramageddon 2013?

oh wait there is even more stuff.

* The "Homeland" season 3 premiere (9 p.m., Showtime)
* "The Good Wife" season 5 premiere (9 p.m., give or take a football overrun in your market, CBS)
* The debut of "Masters of Sex" (10 p.m., Showtime)
* The season premieres of "Once Upon a Time" and "Revenge" (8 & 9 p.m., ABC)
* The premiere of "Betrayal" (10 p.m., ABC)
* A new episode of "Boardwalk Empire" (9 p.m., HBO)
* New installments of "Last Tango in Halifax" and "Foyle's War" (8 & 9 p.m., PBS)
* A new episode of "Low Winter Sun" (bumped all the way to 11:15 p.m., due to AMC's desire to put the final "Talking Bad" on immediately after the "Breaking Bad" finale).

And those are just the original dramas. The same night will also feature the premieres of all of FOX's Sunday animated comedies, the beginning of the final season (again) of "Eastbound & Down," the debut of HBO's new "Hello Ladies," the 23rd "Amazing Race" premiere, and more.

I've seen most of the ones I care about in advance, save for "Good Wife" and the "Breaking Bad" finale, and the latter will be occupying all of my focus tonight. But for those of you who don't get review screeners and care about more than one show in a competing timeslot tonight, how are you going to approach this programming overload? What gets watched live tonight, what gets saved for later, and what possibly gets punted altogether because there's just too darned much to deal with?
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Where is the TAR thread... Gone? Still surprised they showed the Kings Logo so much for the Ice Girls! :)
 
Dr. Naysay said:
And a bigger bummer for me...... it's a Joss Wheedon project (ostensibly) but it didn't seem to have any genuine Joss Wheedon "joy" or "wonderment" in it. Maybe it's because every half decent (and they were only half decent) joke has been previewed and repreviewed to death by the hype machine?

I mean... the "it means someone really wanted our name to spell SHIELD" joke would have been a cute and funny moment that endeared that character to me had I NOT SEEN IT FIVE TIMES A WEEK FOR OVER A MONTH.

Also... why bother having a big Agent Coulson reveal when
A) anybody who knows who he is already knows he's the star
B) anybody who doesn't know who he is won't give a ****

I know it would have been hard to hide is involvement but.... I dunno.... THAT would have been a great "what? NO WAY!" moment to have him actually be a surprise.

AND ANOTHER THING..........

too much reference to the movies. I mean hopefully they drop that and just felt they had to to kind of re-enforce what this thing was but... Extremis, the Chit'auri...... I get it. This is the same "cinematic Universe" as the films.

Anyway... I'll keep watching cus I'm dumb.
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Well, maybe without all the previews and repreviews of the next episode, it'll work better for you.

I enjoyed the episode quite a bit myself, but I hadn't really seen more than a couple of commercials. So the "someone really wanted it to be called SHIELD" joke landed just fine for me.
 
New shows I've watched:

Mom: horrible.
Trophy wife: Love Malin Akerman. Off to a good start.
The Crazy Ones: Ugh. SMG as the straightman in comedy = yikes. Williams way too over the top.
 
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Very disappointing for Brooklyn as that's the only new comedy I've seen that I really like.
 
I couldn't get into the Shield episode. Felt like as it went on I was just playing around on my phone more than paying attention.

Solid runs for the Goldbergs and Trophy Wife this week.
 
So this looks to be my fall schedule as far as Network TV goes...

Monday: The Blacklist
Tuesday: Brooklyn Nine Nine, New Girl, Chicago Fire
Wednesday: Revolution, Modern Family
Thursday: Nothing. Just waiting for Community to return.
Friday: Masterchef Junior

I enjoyed Back in the Game as well, but I never remember what night this show is on. I just saw the pilot on Hulu and I'll make sure to catch the next one there too.
 
TooCool said:
So this looks to be my fall schedule as far as Network TV goes...

Monday: The Blacklist
Tuesday: Brooklyn Nine Nine, New Girl, Chicago Fire
Wednesday: Revolution, Modern Family
Thursday: Nothing. Just waiting for Community to return.
Friday: Masterchef Junior

I enjoyed Back in the Game as well, but I never remember what night this show is on. I just saw the pilot on Hulu and I'll make sure to catch the next one there too.
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Back In The Game is on Wednesday right before Modern Family. The second episode was as not bad as the first for me. I actually liked the second episode of Shield better than the first - the lines were much better and as cheap a move it was to bring Sam Jackson in at the end, I had a smile the whole time. Sleepy Hollow was good but not as good in the second episode, although I loved the main guy's "there were more?" every time I saw it in a promo and still when it came up in the show.

Let's see how many episodes of Revolution I can pile up before I start watching any.
 
adgy-san said:
Have you never watched Homicide, or are you speaking of a re-watch?
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Booby and I (if I remember correctly) bonded on our mutual love for the much underrated Homicide. I watched EVERY episode and kids that was pre-dvr and the horrible days of setting a vhs program. Story time w/jerseydevil now concludes.
 
I think the big problem with Shield (not The Shield, which was brilliant) is that four of the actors are just too young. This ultra-important team of government agents is 2/3 college kids. Somehow Whedon managed to cast grown-ups in Firefly, but couldn't bring himself to do it here. One of the scientists can be that young, and then maybe the hacker chick, although she would be better off being five years older. The worst casting by far was the agent guy, who looks like he should be on Gossip Girl and doesn't bring anything special to the table to begin to overcome that. Recast him with Max Martini and act like nothing happened.
 
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