Another update to the list of new US shows worth watching, now we're a month further on, have a few more results in and with a couple of new arrivals.
Watch
Community (NBC): Review (Carusometer rating: 1) [Picked up for a season]
Cougar Town (ABC/Living – 2010): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [Picked up for a season]
The Good Wife (CBS/More4-Channel 4 – 2010): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [Picked up for a season]
The Middle (ABC): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [Picked up for a season]
Modern Family (ABC/Sky 1 – October 15): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [Picked up for a season]
Stargate Universe (SciFi/Sky 1 – already airing): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [Low ratings]
Trauma (NBC): Review (Carusometer rating: 2) [Cancelled]
Undecided
V (ABC/SyFy): Review [Ratings dropped significantly for second episode]
Don't watch
Accidentally on Purpose (CBS/E4 – 2010): Review [New episodes ordered]
Bored to Death (HBO): Review (Carusometer rating: 3) [Picked up for a season]
Brothers (Fox): Review [Probably dead, but not officially cancelled]
Eastwick (ABC/SciFi – 2009/2010): Review [Cancelled]
FlashForward (ABC/Five – already airing): Review (Carusometer rating: 3) [Picked up for a season]
The Forgotten (ABC): Review [Endangered, but new episodes ordered]
Hank (ABC): Review [Cancelled]
Mercy (NBC): Review [Picked up for a season]
The Vampire Diaries (The CW/ITV2 – 2010): Review [Picked up for a season]
White Collar (USA): Review (Carusometer rating: 3) [Endangered]
November 13, 2009 | Reply
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November 14, 2009 | Reply
I REALLY wished I listened to you about FlashForward. the sad thing is, is that I originally planned on avoiding the show in the first place because I couldn't think how it could possible keep being good once the pilot came and gone. Someone (else) changed my mind last minute and now I feel like I have to keep watching so I know how it resolves, but the journey is really sucking.
November 14, 2009 | Reply
Really? Huh, I've really been enjoying it since episode 5. Though the two main characters are terrible, the secondary characters are really drawing me in.
Surprised White Collar is under "don't watch". I mean, I'm not watching it but for the type of show it is, I think it does it quite well.
I guess part of the problem is of course that there is so much better to watch that merely good doesn't cut it any more. Bizarrely though I know plenty of people that purposefully stay away from good tv and embrace the mediocre (I assume because it is more relaxing).
November 14, 2009 | Reply
@TheCuriosity: I'm just going to wait until the end and then read the Wikipedia article to find out what it was all about. I've seen enough of these shows now to know how they generally pan out in terms of rate of explanation and knew that whatever was going on, the journey itself was going to be too dull to make the conclusion worth it all.
@bob: You're not wrong, but White Collar's there, because it's not bad, but it's just not compelling. There's nothing really that new there, and the characters aren't really interesting enough.