Saturday, November 27, 2010

TV Shows - 2010 So Far

In no particular order...
  • Top Gear (rated top show in U.K.! check out the 60 Minutes episode and the overtime web segment)
  • 60 Minutes (very good news show)
  • The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (very best "fake news" show with real news)
  • Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (best travel show, with food ;-))
  • Gardener's World (U.K. show, the best gardening show)
  • This Old House/Ask This Old House (best home improvement show and home improvement DIY)
  • Good Eats (still the best cooking show)
  • Mythbusters (most entertaining "science" show)
  • Dirty Jobs (do not watch while eating, ever)
  • Chuck (going strong in season 4, story arc is still moving along OK)
  • Misfits (U.K. show, season 2, very good and realistic about limits and downsides of superpowers)
  • Bones (season 6, getting stale)
  • Caprica (storyline got bogged down, canceled, too bad)
  • Dexter (still going strong, but saving up episodes to watch all-in-one-go due to too much suspense)
  • Doctor Who (first season with a new Doctor, pretty good so far, a few too many "I'm The Doctor and baddies should just fall at my feet" bluffs/moments though)
  • Eureka (cringe at the fake science, still a bit fun, but once they started down the time travel plot, usually signals boredom for me)
  • Fringe (too slow moving for me, compiling to watch all at once)
  • Human Target (just started season 2, pretty good)
  • Haven (not bad but borderline)
  • No Ordinary Family (new, not bad)
  • Spartacus: Blood And Sand (started a bit weak, but now a full blown epic)
  • The Walking Dead (new, lots of zombies, pretty good)
  • The Mentalist (season 3, starting the move the story arc forward again, finally)
  • Stargate Universe (season 2, finally getting somewhere)
  • Sherlock (slick remake on Sherlock Holmes in modern setting, will keep watching)
  • True Blood (fast forward through a lot, but the storyline is interesting)
  • White Collar (slick, not overdone, quite good)
  • Weeds (going strong)
  • V (yawn, skipped 6 episodes to the season finale and didn't feel like I missed a thing)
Saving up for a slow weekend, maybe:
CSI
CSI: New York
Nikita

To Watch:
Broadwalk Empire
Lost Girls

Abandoned:
Covert Affairs (weak backstory)
Criminal Minds (got stale)
Hawaii Five-O (yawn)
The Event (FlashFoward wannabe)
Warehouse 13 (too campy, the concept had so much promise)