My family and I don’t have regular TV in our house. We watch
all of our TV online, through Netflix (DVDs or on-demand) or by purchasing the
shows through iTunes. Surprisingly, that doesn’t keep us from missing out too
much on what comes out each year. We have also found it cheaper to buy Season
Passes than to have cable TV for more than a year now. What it does make us do
is choose what we want to watch more carefully and not waste our time on crappy
shows just because they are on. In this post, I will cover all of the shows we
are watching and those that we have stopped.
Go On – This NBC
comedy starring Matthew Perry as Ryan King is one of our favorite new shows and
about the only comedy we are still watching besides the Big Bang Theory. I have watched a lot of failed Matthew Perry shows
since Friends and this one finally
seems to get it right. We get a sarcastic and self-centered character for Perry
to play. We also get an ensemble cast of likeable weird people who are part of
the grief support group that Ryan King joins when dealing with the loss of his
wife. There is some out there quirkiness going on in the show, but it is
consistently fun and funny. Four Mick Happies.
Elementary – The
Sherlock Holmes in New York with a lady Watson show. This new procedural drama
has the right mix of smart insight by Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller), banter with Dr. Watson (Lucy Liu) and everything is wrapped up in ~42 minutes. I am a big
fan of the BBC Sherlock show and this
is not it and is good all on its own. There is definitely room in my viewing
world for both. Besides, Elementary’s
Holmes seems way more edgy and at risk of drug relapse (and associated
problems) than the BBC version Holmes. If you want to buy it like we do, iTunes
has the Season Pass in SD for only $24.99 (about a dollar an episode). Also
Four Mick Happies.
Malibu Country – Reba
McEntire’s new comedy about a recently divorced woman making it on her own with
her kids. We gave this one two episodes and stopped in the middle of the
second. It isn’t as good and the cast isn’t as interesting as her former Reba show. Lily Tomlin is good as her
mother, but that isn’t enough to carry any show or we wouldn’t be waiting for
The New Normal to come out on DVD (Ellen
Barkin ruled that show in the pilot). Malibu
Country gets two Mick Happies.
Suburgatory – This
little comedic look at up-scale suburban living us by surprise last year and we
really enjoyed it. Unfortunately, the delay between seasons has left us feeling
that the best was behind for this show. The jokes seem the same, the characters
also seem the same, but it just wasn’t as funny this time around in the first
two episodes we watched. Don’t think we will be giving Suburgatory a full season pick up in our house. Two to three Mick
Happies.
Revolution – The
post-apocalyptic show from Eric Kripke on NBC. The show is set in a future
where all forms of electricity have stopped and looks at how things might be
eleven years after that event. Some of this show really scratches my dystopian
future genre itch and the writers are trying to have reason behind how it
happened and (if) it can be fixed, but the stories and situations are pretty
far fetched. I have been watching this online from NBC.com and will probably
keep watching though I find I have to really work up to finding the 45 minutes
to tune in. At best three Mick Happies.
Big Bang Theory –
The king of all comedies right now. We have all of the seasons on DVD or in
iTunes and have been watching this one as a family. It is too bad that this
season seems to be going downhill for us. We are not as amused by the typical
jokes. My wife and I discussed it and where the show is losing us is:
·
Leonard and Penny – these two need to break up.
·
Penny – she needs something other than drinking
and back and forth relationship with Leonard.
·
Howard – needs to grow up a bit. C’mon, man,
you’re married to Bernadette (one of the more interesting characters on the
show).
One of the few bright points, besides Sheldon (as always),
has been the budding “bromance” between Stuart and Raj. The other is Alex,
Sheldon’s new assistant. More of that, less of the 3 bullets above please. We
are still watching, but just less amused. Three Mick Happies.
Grimm – This is
one of our favorite shows right now. It is based on the premise that all of the
Fairy Tales creatures are real and hiding amongst us. The Grimm are people who
are descended from the Brothers Grimm who can see the creatures for what the
really are and have traditionally hunted them. Grimm is a procedural cop show with a supernatural element and
season one was good and season two (this year) is as well. We are about eight
episodes in (out of 12 aired to date) and liking it. The only nit to pick here
is the storyline about Juliette’s memory – if you are watching you know how
annoying it is. This show has supplanted Supernatural
as our supernatural weekly fix – Four Mick Happies.
Other mentions of shows we liked but aren’t watching this
year:
Supernatural – The
wife has seen everything up to the end of last season and I have watched most
of them as well. The end of last season was a let down with where the
characters ended up. Felt too much like that time when Dean went to Hell and
Sam was left on Earth. Maybe we will catch this season when it hits Netflix
next fall. Certainly didn’t seem worth us paying to see the week they air – we
can wait if we watch at all.
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