What's on TV this fall? Well, Rippers, let's check out with Monday night!
The most exciting returning show for the Strait household is Castle, the series about a mystery who gets to hang with a police homicide unit, featuring the intelligent beauty of Kate Beckett (Stana Katic). Alison and I are huge Nathan Fillion fans (albeit our reasons may differ slightly), and we look forward to this season, as we find out how Beckett will deal with and Castle's proposal. Yes, it's just a TV show, BUT, I don't see why they can't have both. Why she can't start a career in Washington and they be married, or engaged. Why? I'll give you a hint...Castle is RICH, very RICH. He can buy a damn jet and be in Washington lickety-split. also, he can write from ANYWHERE. He's not tied to NYC. But, of course, that's probably not what's going to happen. She'll probably take the job and find out it doesn't work out for some reason. We will see. This is Castle's fifth year on the fall schedule.
The most intriguing new show on Mondays is The Blacklist. James Spader as an unrepentant criminal genius now working to solve crimes? I'm on board! Also of great interest is Hostages. It's limited to 14 episodes, which is a good thing, because that lends it to more novelistic approach. It seems like a stretch of a relatively finite plot, but I'm willing to give it a try. What they would do for a second season is beyond me.
Other new shows on Monday include Sleepy Hollow that is about a character (or characters) from that time waking up in today's world. It sounds like it's a Washington Irving mash-up, combined with CW style teen/young adult appeal. I missed the premiere but I might stream at some point, if the buzz about is good
Two new comedies are We Are Men, a male bonding comedy that stars Jerry O'Connell (Sliders) and Tony Shalhoub (Monk), and Mom, a spitfire daughter (Anna Faris) comes back home to live with her spitfire Mom (Allison Janney). Coming later in the fall, after some episodes of Bones, is Almost Human, a show set in the future centered around a cop partnered with an android. I am really looking forward to this show as it done by the people who did Fringe, my favorite show of the last few years.
CBS has a couple of returning crude comedies that I don't watch but may be your cup of tea. How I Met Your Mother is in it's 9th season, and is now officially the world's longest explanation to one event. 2 Broke Girls starts season number 3.
Other returning shows include Bones for it's 9th fall season, Hart of Dixie for season 2, and Beauty and the Beast, also for it's second season. These may be fine shows but I've never seen them.
That wraps up Monday! Hope to get to Tuesday in a day or two as we continue to role through the week. Whether you watch one show or no show, a few or a dozen, stay kind and tolerant, Rippers! More to come!
I'm getting tired of the "fairy tale" shows (Sleepy Hollow). It's GRIMM for me. The rest fail. The Blacklist and Hostages are it for me. I have a feeling I will like Hostages better even though I am a HUGE James Spader fan. From what I have read, the first episode of The Blacklist is a bit much, as in highly improbable?!?! We will see. I have watched the trailer for Almost Human and, I must admit, it looks pretty darn good.
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