With the advent of the PVR I find that I watch practically NO commercials so I didn't get to see alot of advertising for the new fall line up aside from The Originals! which is a spin off of one of my daughter and I's favorite shows The Vampire Diaries!
Perusing the new offering this fall season here
I noted a few that off the bat seem interesting
Almost Human (Fox Prem: Nov 4)
Haven't watched this yet obviously since it hasn't premiered but this show comes to us from JJ Abrams (Fringe) and is described as a Futuristic Cop Drama about humans paired with Androids. I look forward to giving this one a watch as I think Karl Urban is kind of a hottie!
The Black List (NBC Pre: Sept 23) -
Well my review of this show is sort of so-so, I will be giving it another chance next week, but I really wasn't impressed, I felt that the show was a bit confusing as to the direction it was going and instead of allowing the audience to get involved in the characters and potential direction they just went straight to mysterious situations. Megan Boone plays a recent graduate profiler from Quantico (Liz Keen), who appears to have a happy home, life we see her interacting with her husband and discover they are wanting to adopt a baby, on her supposed first day of work she wakes up late and rushes out the door only to be picked up and flown to a top secret high profile prisoner holding facility, where we meet James Spader's Character "Red" who is a former government agent that went rogue and has now turned himself in with vital information about a terrorist plot that he will only give to New Agent Liz Keen, Red advises there is a plot to kidnap a high ranking military official's daughter, so the FBI swoops in on the daughter and pickers her up to keep her safe, but during transport the terrorist attack the multi vehicle convoy and make off with the child, THIS is a bit far fetched as the ambush by the "terrorist's" is very well planned out and executed, which brings to mind the question if the FBI hadn't have picked up the child to keep her safe would the terrorist's have been able to kidnap her? How did the terrorists know the route the FBI was going to take? and get into position so quickly since obviously their first plan went awry? After the ambush we see Agent Keen arrive at home to a house filled with balloons and she quickly realizes that they have been approved for adoption and happily rushes through the house to find her husband, but in the dining room she discovers him bloody and tied to a chair, before she can touch him, the main "Terrorist" comes out of nowhere and stabs her husband again and interrogates her as to how she "knew about him and the plan" after she doesn't answer he stabs her husband again and leaves, we see her calling for an ambulance, shortly thereafter she storms into the hotel where they are keeping Red and tries to interrogate him for information about how the terrorist found her house and why he would stab her husband, she then stabs Red in the neck and leaves. While recovering the hospital from his wound Red escapes and meets with the Terrorist and who discloses that RED ordered the Terrorist to visit Keens house and Stab her husband, THIS is where I am confused, so is Red on the bad guys side? or does he want to help Keen catch him and retrieve the little girl? Since Red's information led to the FBI moving the girl which allowed the terrorists to kidnap her along with his friendliness with the terrorist and the fact he ordered the hit on Keens husband, it stands to reason he is working with them not against them. Red then digs out the tracker the FBI planted in his body and gives it to the terrorist to lead the FBI on a merry chance and to ultimately lead to his certain death when they catch him. AGAIN why would the terrorist take the chip and ultimately face off with the FBI leading to his death if he wasn't working WITH Red? Keen tracks the little girl to the Zoo and discovers that the little girl is strapped to a Chemical bomb that is set to go off in less that 3 mins, Red advises her by telephone that he has a friend on his way to "Help", within seconds a man rushes over mumbling in a foreign language and disarms the bomb and runs off with it, Agent Keen wants to follow to retrieve the deadly chemical weapon but Red shows up and stops her and advises that it was payment for disarming the bomb, we then see Red back in custody giving the FBI information that there is many more "Blacklist" criminals out there that he can lead them to if they meet his demands, Flash to Agent Keen at home ripping up the blood stained carpet to find a box filled with cash, passports and guns all in her "husbands" name and the show ends with her walking into the holding cell of Red and looking at him and his reply "you just found out some interesting things about your husband didn't you" Again I really didn't think this was a logical scene and I guess it was the producer's idea to leave us wanting more but it really just put me off, but I promise to give it at least one more try.
Well my review of this show is sort of so-so, I will be giving it another chance next week, but I really wasn't impressed, I felt that the show was a bit confusing as to the direction it was going and instead of allowing the audience to get involved in the characters and potential direction they just went straight to mysterious situations. Megan Boone plays a recent graduate profiler from Quantico (Liz Keen), who appears to have a happy home, life we see her interacting with her husband and discover they are wanting to adopt a baby, on her supposed first day of work she wakes up late and rushes out the door only to be picked up and flown to a top secret high profile prisoner holding facility, where we meet James Spader's Character "Red" who is a former government agent that went rogue and has now turned himself in with vital information about a terrorist plot that he will only give to New Agent Liz Keen, Red advises there is a plot to kidnap a high ranking military official's daughter, so the FBI swoops in on the daughter and pickers her up to keep her safe, but during transport the terrorist attack the multi vehicle convoy and make off with the child, THIS is a bit far fetched as the ambush by the "terrorist's" is very well planned out and executed, which brings to mind the question if the FBI hadn't have picked up the child to keep her safe would the terrorist's have been able to kidnap her? How did the terrorists know the route the FBI was going to take? and get into position so quickly since obviously their first plan went awry? After the ambush we see Agent Keen arrive at home to a house filled with balloons and she quickly realizes that they have been approved for adoption and happily rushes through the house to find her husband, but in the dining room she discovers him bloody and tied to a chair, before she can touch him, the main "Terrorist" comes out of nowhere and stabs her husband again and interrogates her as to how she "knew about him and the plan" after she doesn't answer he stabs her husband again and leaves, we see her calling for an ambulance, shortly thereafter she storms into the hotel where they are keeping Red and tries to interrogate him for information about how the terrorist found her house and why he would stab her husband, she then stabs Red in the neck and leaves. While recovering the hospital from his wound Red escapes and meets with the Terrorist and who discloses that RED ordered the Terrorist to visit Keens house and Stab her husband, THIS is where I am confused, so is Red on the bad guys side? or does he want to help Keen catch him and retrieve the little girl? Since Red's information led to the FBI moving the girl which allowed the terrorists to kidnap her along with his friendliness with the terrorist and the fact he ordered the hit on Keens husband, it stands to reason he is working with them not against them. Red then digs out the tracker the FBI planted in his body and gives it to the terrorist to lead the FBI on a merry chance and to ultimately lead to his certain death when they catch him. AGAIN why would the terrorist take the chip and ultimately face off with the FBI leading to his death if he wasn't working WITH Red? Keen tracks the little girl to the Zoo and discovers that the little girl is strapped to a Chemical bomb that is set to go off in less that 3 mins, Red advises her by telephone that he has a friend on his way to "Help", within seconds a man rushes over mumbling in a foreign language and disarms the bomb and runs off with it, Agent Keen wants to follow to retrieve the deadly chemical weapon but Red shows up and stops her and advises that it was payment for disarming the bomb, we then see Red back in custody giving the FBI information that there is many more "Blacklist" criminals out there that he can lead them to if they meet his demands, Flash to Agent Keen at home ripping up the blood stained carpet to find a box filled with cash, passports and guns all in her "husbands" name and the show ends with her walking into the holding cell of Red and looking at him and his reply "you just found out some interesting things about your husband didn't you" Again I really didn't think this was a logical scene and I guess it was the producer's idea to leave us wanting more but it really just put me off, but I promise to give it at least one more try.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox Prem: Sept 17)
I have watched both the pilot and the followup and honestly, I laughed ALOT! We found this show to be shot in sort of an "The Office" type format, and the cast which includes Andy Samberg, Terry Crews, Joe Lo Truglio and various other funny people, has been so far well written and entertaining.
The premise of the show is the inner workings of a detective unit in New York, with Andy Samberg playing the lead, A cop who "plays by his own rules, Andre Braughner who I don't recall ever seeing in a comedic role before as his new Captain trying to whip the unit into shape, Terry Crews plays a cop that is currently on desk duty as the recent birth of his twin daughters has caused him to fear everything, and a supporting cast that really allows for a great half hour . The humor is a mix of clean and dirty I hope that the writers keep giving us smart, funny and entertaining scripts.
Dracula (NBC Prem: Oct 25)
I heard of this show over the summer and I am patiently waiting for it to debut (well as patient as I can LOL) This is a reinvention of the old Dracula Myth starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula in Victorian London, I am really hoping for good things out of this as I love Jonathan Rhys Meyers and I love Vampires!
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (ABC Prem: Sept 24) - Currently PVR'd will update once I have had a chance to watch.
Stay Tuned for Part 2
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