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| Number one show of the night, by a whisker over The Blacklist, is How to Get Away With Murder. Shondaland at its finest and whodunniest. This show will keep you entertained, guessing and gasping. Nobody does the melodramatic episode ending as well as this show.
Thursday is Shondaland night on ABC. Super creator/producer Shonda Rhimes is the driving imagination behind all the shows on this night. Season 12 of Grey's Anatomy (9/24) starts things off, followed at 9 PM by Season 5 of Scandal (9/24) and Season 2 of How to Get Away with Murder (9/24) at 10 PM. Scandal is a great show, and one of Alison's favorites, but I really have to cover my ears and brain when they talk about politics, and the odd way their world works. A moderate to liberal Republican President? Not happening in our world ever.
CBS has Season 3 of Mom (11/5) at 9 PM. This year Jamie Pressley, one of my favorite comedic actresses, becomes a regular cast member. Is it enough to make me want to see the show. Sadly, no, it is not. 9:30 has new series Angel From Hell (11/5) featuring Jane Lynch, and I think she's really an angel in it, just not the type you're used to. 10 PM has Season 4 of Elementary (11/5), which SPECIAL ALERT!!! will feature new this year, John Noble playing Sherlock's dad. Notice how late all these series start? CBS starts the year with Thursday Night Football.
The CW Thursday night shows bite! Literally. They're vampire shows. 8 PM has Season 7 of The Vampire Diaries (10/8) and 9 PM has Season 3 of the show's original sequel, The Originals (10/8). Fox has Season 11 of Bones (10/1) at 8 PM, featuring the guy I know as Angel and Zoey Deschanel's sister as a forensic specialist in, ah, well, bones. 9 PM is Season 3 of Sleepy Hollow (10/1). I've watched and enjoyed this show, but there are a couple of warning signs about the coming season - 1) John Nobles has moved on to Elementary and 2) new showrunners promise more fun and less myth. Great. The dimming down of a good serial show. If I wanted more fluff, I'd be watching more shows on USA Network and TNT. NBC has the return of Heroes at 8 PM, one of my favorites from the past. But let's not call it that. Let's celebrate it's rebirth by calling it Heroes Reborn (9/24). A mix of the old cast members with some new ones, mostly skewed to pick up a larger young adult audience. 9 PM has Season 3 of The Blacklist (10/1). James Spader as the good bad guy (or is that bad good guy?) is outstanding, and some of the potting and cinematography/editing are at feature film level. At 10 PM is new series The Player (9/24). It's got Wesley Snipes, doing I'm not sure what. Dodging the IRS, maybe? What will Tom Strait be watching? Alison and watch two of three of the Shondaland shows, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder. We will be adding Elementary this year because of the cast addition of John Noble. We are going to keep Sleepy Hollow a chance, at least at first. What new shows will I try?  Heroes Reborn, of course! Yes, the original was mixed. sometimes very good, sometimes wandering. But I'm more than willing to give it another try. It should be an interesting experiment. Can a show like this get a second act on network television? Maybe, although I might have scheduled in the spring. The 13 episode format should help focus and improve it. |
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
2015 Thursday Fall TV
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