We continue our look back at my expectations for the fall television season, and today we are focusing on Tuesdays.
7:00
Selfie – I love Karen Gillan and am quite fond of John Cho, but put them together in this loose adaptation of Pygmalion and, at least based on the pilot, you get a steaming pile of something or other. I will give this a chance to improve due to the talents involved, but I don’t hold out a great deal of hope.
Well, the show was quickly pulled off the air and cancelled. Hopefully, Karen Gillan returns to our television screens quickly, in something worthy of her talents.
The Flash – Spinning off from Arrow comes this latest forray from the CW in to the world of DC superheroes. Hopefully it follows more from Arrow‘s example than Smallville‘s.
I don’t know if this has been the best new show of the season, but it has certainly been the most fun. It has a sense of joy that neither Smallville nor Arrow had before it that brings a bit of levity to the DC television universe.
7:30
Manhattan Love Story – I’m not too sold on giving this new show, about the romance beteen two nuerotic New Yorkers, a shot. But, I’m willing to try anything once.
Well, some show had to be the first one cancelled this season, which is about the only thing this show accomplished.
8:00
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – The show, which greatly improved following the events of Captain America: Winter Soldier, returns for a second season at a later timeslot and with a new status quo.
The battle between SHIELD and Hydra continues in a much improved show from one year ago.
Supernatural – For some reason that nobody can particularly understand, the show returns for its 10th season. The show has been adrift for quite some time now and last season really started to drag. I’m willing to keep watching, but I don’t know for how much longer.
Due to timeslot conflicts, I had to record this on a different TV. To date, I’ve watched maybe 3 episodes of the new season and I’m not in much of a hurry to watch the rest.
Marry Me – Casey Wilson reunites with the creator of Happy Endings, who also happens to be her husband, for this new comedy. Happy Endings was a tremendous show that ended way too early, so I will give this a shot and hope that it rekindles some of that magic.
This also needed to be recorded on a different TV due to timeslot conflicts. I haven’t watched much of it, but I have enjoyed what I’ve seen. It does seem to scratch, at least a little bit, that Happy Endings itch.
New Girl – The group returns for season 4, and less couples than we have seen in year’s past. Hopefully, the funny keeps coming.
I think the problem is that they have too many characters that they don’t really know what to do with.
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I was thrilled to hear last spring that Karen Gillan, fresh off her run as Amelia Pond on Doctor Who, would be coming to my TV every week, along with the talented John Cho, on a new show called Selfie. Sadly, my optimism was short lived. I managed to get an early look at the pilot and was not impressed. I stuck with it in the hopes that it would improve, and it did, slightly, but not enough to save it. It got pulled off the schedule in November, having aired only 7 episodes.