So it's been a pretty unexciting fall season; one of the least-exciting (for me, anyway) in at least as long as I've been doing this.
[Quick new show run-down: I watched an episode each of Son of Zorn and Kevin Can Wait and-- wow-- not good. But I did like Speechless and Designated Survivor enough to keep going with them (both of which have been picked-up for a full 22-ep season). And while I rarely watched the original, the new MacGuyver has just enough charm that I will continue to watch it sporadically when I'm not at the DVR in my house and and have limited options OnDemand.]
Anyway, here's where shit gets real. This week are the season premieres of most of the shows I really get into- and new shows that sound like things I'd be into. Yeah, I'm an old comic book geek, but some of these shows are so fun, I'm not afraid to admit I eat them up as much as any of the more realistic shows out there.
And who have guessed that The CW is the network I'd be hardcore into...?
Monday, 10/3
Scorpion; CBS. 8 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.
Conviction; ABC. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
The great Hayley Atwell stars as the head of a legal firm that finds (possibly) wrongly convicted people and tries to get them set free.
I, unfortunately, haven't heard much great about it.
Timeless; NBC. 9 pm CST.
Three people travel through time to stop another person from changing history.
Tuesday, 10/4
The Flash; CW. 7 pm CST. 3rd Season Premiere.
Unlike the moody, brooding, emo bullshit that is the DC Movie Universe, the DC TV Universe feature heroes who "do the right thing", Barry Allen is about as pure and good-hearted a hero as you can find. He does what he does because he is the only one who can.
But he also makes mistakes because he's human. Like when he has gone back in time and changed his past. Like in the 2nd Season finale, when he made a big, selfish, mistake any one of us would have also made that will undoubtedly change his entire life, as well as the lives of the people he's close to. (And, if the show follows even a portion of the comic book story "Flashpoint" that this storyline is based on, it's likely much more than just Barry's world that changed. And they may just have the basis for the big crossover event later this year.)
MasterChef Canada; Cooking. 7 pm CST. Season Premiere.
No Tomorrow; CW. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A young woman lives a normal, boring, life-- until a charismatic Aussie comes into her life and urges her to do more and be more.
Sounds great-- except the man actually thinks the world is going to end in eight months, so he may be going a little too gung-ho on the bucket list.
The Mindy Project; Hulu. Streaming. 6th Season Premiere.
Wednesday, 10/5
Arrow; CW. 7 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.
This show has been embracing the more fantastical elements of super-hero stories as its seasons have gone on, but they may have gone too far with Damien Darhk last season.
So they're pulling back a little this year and getting back to ground-level heroics with Prometheus and The Vigilante, as well as (maybe) Mr. Terrific and Artemis.
Frequency; CW. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A young woman detective in 2016 finds herself able to communicate with her dead cop father from 1996.
Friday, 10/7
The Ranch; Netflix. Streaming. Mid-season Premiere.
Netflix drops the back half of the the first season on us.
Saturday, 10/8
The Graham Norton Show; BBC American. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.
The best celeb chat show out there.
Watch it and then cry because the U.S. equivalents are so dull.
Sunday, 10/9
Divorce; HBO. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Hayden Church star as a couple who are deciding if their marriage is worth saving.
Sounds like a hoot...
Insecure; HBO. 9:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Issa Rae (from the Awkward Black Girl webseries) brings her voice to HBO.
