In my mid-season reviews, so far I've already covered my favorite new and returning shows. Now it's a quick look at my least favorite and most frustrating shows to watch and yet I still watch them.
Least Favorite:
This for years has been one of my favorites, but this year; my lord, it was awful. The cast was boring, the show was fairly predictable. Speaking of predictable, the producers really need to mix up how they're doing things with this one. The players know when things are going to happen and part of their strategy is to use that. They know when the merge is coming, they know what's up with redemption island and they've planned their game-play around it. I say, every six days on the island, all the buffs going back in a bag and they get re-sorted. There is always new tribes, keep them on their toes and try to slow alliances since people won't have time to really make them.
Another one of my favorites, again this comes down to a cast that really wasn't all that exciting to watch, for the mast part. I did have a few favorites, but still. BORING. For the first 6 episodes, I think the people forgot this was a race for a million dollars. Another show in need of some sort of switch up, with this one I think it might be a little more difficult to change. But it seriously needs it. What's with only going to 7 countries this season?
This one, I took a bleep-kicking on twitter last season for saying I liked this and that it was a good show that people needed to watch. The cast was great, the cases were relevant and I was entertained. It was also quirky and fun. I don't know what happened in the off-season, but half the cast was dropped, the backdrop for the show changed and all of a sudden this fun show started to take itself way too seriously. It was like I was watching a totally different show. With that, I'm done with you. I've got a lot to watch and not enough time to get it all in.
BIGGEST disappointment of the season, well actually make that second. The biggest is coming up soon. But seriously, how bad is this show without Steve? We all knew last season when he started to get less and less lines, that this was a show in trouble. But we all held out hope this summer that they'd get someone great to play the next boss. So. To our shock and awe, they go and make the least funny guy in the office the boss and it's just totally awkward for the staff and for me, the viewer. Click.
Yep, the biggest disappoint/least favorite/most frustrating show so far this year, without a shadow of a doubt. What the hell happened? Budget cuts I say. This farm story was maybe 50 pages in a great/amazing/terrific graphic novel that has seen WAY too much screen time. This show more than any other needs some serious fixing during the break. I hear more complaints in my travels than I do about any other show. FIX THIS! NOW!
Two more frustrating shows so far this season.
I saw the preview for this one at Fan Expo last August and I tore it apart. But I thought, it can't be that bad. Well, it hasn't bad "that bad". But somewhere along the way, they totally forgot to render some dinosaurs and they made the show a family drama. If I wanted family drama, I'd watch Parenthood. I want Dinosaurs and I want them asap. I'm a geek, I know it. This show "should" be for me, but week in and week out, I'm just annoyed at the show and I'm annoyed at myself for spending another 60 minutes on it. I hope it gets renewed for a second season, but I really, really hope it gets re-tooled.
This one, if you've read this blog before you know I love anything even close to being related to JJ Abrams. I held out high hopes for this one. But in September after watching the pilot, I said and I remember. This show can be great as long as they don't fall into the weekly procedural trap. It took 3 weeks, I think. But that's exactly what's happened here. The last two episodes, maybe three have started to correct this with some sort of ongoing plot and the last episode before the holiday break was truly the best of the series so far. I just want to know more about our main characters, what made them the men that they are today. Let's dig into that a little bit more. Please.
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