New Fall 2014 Shows -- The "E," "F' and "G" Shows

 

 It's the most wonderful time of the year!  NEW FALL TV SHOWS!  I am reviewing each and every one of the new shows and will be posting them in chunks.  

Continuing my series of reviews, today it's the E, F and G Shows! (Click here If you missed the A shows and Click here for the B and C shows!)

What do you think?  Do any of these look good?  Leave your comment on the facebook page

Empire (Fox) – MIDSEASON -- EMPIRE is described as a unique family drama set in the world of a hip-hop empire. It centers on Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard), a charismatic, savvy music superstar (who sold drugs as a child so he could buy food), and is now about to take his company, Empire Entertainment, public. 

My Thoughts….after watching the preview, it looks more like a major motion picture than a series.  It looks amazing and interesting and very well acted.  I predict that EMPIRE will be on the cover of TV Guide twice.  Once as “The Best Show You’re Not Watching,” and once as one of the “SOS: Save Our Shows” show.  

 

Forever (ABC) – Ioan Gruffudd plays Doctor Henry Morgan, a New York City medical examiner with a secret.  He doesn't just study the dead to solve criminal cases, he does it to solve the mystery that has eluded him for 200 years—the answer to his own inexplicable immortality. He can never die.  He always comes back…in water…naked (thank GOD Henry is in very nice shape for a 200 year old fella!).  He is partnered up with a pretty detective, (played by Alana De La Garza) who wants to figure out his secret. 

My thoughts… This looks really good!  Henry’s only real friend, played by Judd Hirsch, tells Henry, ”You might not be able to die, but you haven’t lived for a long time,” which tells me that Henry might venture off his lifelong goal of looking for answers, and might start seeing what’s actually around him now.  I really want to watch this, but I’m afraid.  ABC has a really bad habit of getting me sucked into shows and cancelling them after about 10 episodes.  With no closure.  And that sucks. 

Okay…I’ll watch it and you should, too!  I looks really good. 

 

 Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) – MIDSEASON -- It’s the 90s and 12 year old, hip-hop loving Eddie just moved to suburban Orlando from DC’s Chinatown with his parents. It’s culture shock for his immigrant family in this comedy about pursuing the American Dream. Cultural confusion=funny.  FOTB is based on Chef Eddie Huang’s memoir, “Fresh off the Boat.”

My thoughts…ALL AMERICAN GIRL (Margaret Cho’s 1994 series) meets BLACK-ISH meets ROSANNE. It looks funny, but I think the excitement and uproar from the Asian community will turn people off.  Doing research on this show, I found quite a bit of finger-pointing and name calling towards the “Whites.”

 

 Galavant (ABC) – MIDSEASON – ABC says: “Screenwriter/executive producer Dan Fogelman (Crazy, Stupid, Love, Tangled, Cars) teams up with Broadway and Hollywood award-winning musical team -- composer Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast) and lyricist Glenn Slater (Tangled) -- for a musical comedy fairytale of epic proportions. Once upon a time, the dashing hero, Galavant (Joshua Sasse) lost the love of his life, Madalena (Mallory Jansen), to the evil King Richard (Timothy Omundson). Now, our fallen hero is ready to take revenge and restore his “happily ever after.” But it won’t be without a few twists and turns along the way.”

My thoughts…OMG OMG OMG!  I can’t stop watching this preview! At first I was thinking “This is kind of like ONCE UPON A TIME meets Shrek.  But then Timothy Omundson started SINGING!!!  (Omundson is probably best known as Detective Carlton Lassitor from PSYCH).  I enjoy “fallen hero-making a comeback” stories and I enjoy Disney movies (and I love Timothy Omundson!)-I will love this.  I will watch, and if it’s amazing, I will make you watch, too!

 

Gotham (Fox) – The good. The Evil. The Beginning.  (Dun, dun, dunnnnnnnnnnnnnn!)  GOTHAM will tackle Bruce Wayne's younger years through the eyes of (not-yet-commissioner) Detective Gordon (Ben McKenzie). But as much as it's about the origin of Batman, it's also about the beginning of his enemies. 

My thoughts…the whole “Before Batman, there was GOTHAM” this is a great concept.  This looks to be a great program.  I’m just worried that the hardcore Batman nerds will pick this show apart the way they did S.H.I.E.L.D. and if so, will they give up on it early?

 

Gracepoint (Fox) -- Ten-episode mystery event series, GRACEPOINT, follows the tragic death of a young boy, and the major police investigation and nationwide media frenzy that subsequently overtake a picturesque seaside town, where anyone is a suspect.

My thoughts… David Tennant!  David Tennant!  David Tennant!  David Tennant!  Maybe I’m too much of a fan girl to give an unbiased opinion on this show, but the full review nearly took my breath away as I was waiting to hear what they would say next. 

Plus…..did I mention David Tennant?

 

 

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New Fall 2014 Shows -- The "B" and "C" Shows

 

 It's the most wonderful time of the year!  NEW FALL TV SHOWS!  I am reviewing each and every one of the new shows and will be posting them in chunks.  Today it's the B and C Shows! (Click here If you missed the A shows!)

What do you think?  Do any of these look good?  Leave your comment on the facebook page 

Backstrom (Fox) – MIDSEASON – Two words; Rainn Wilson. Fox calls this “subversive and comic procedural”. Wilson plays Portland’s Detective, Everett Backstrom, an “offensive, irascible detective who tries and fails to change his self-destructive behavior.”   

My thoughts….too bad this isn’t on NBC so we could have a GRIMM crossover!

 

 

Bad Judge (NBC) – In this comedy, co-created by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay and Anne Heche, Kate Walsh plays a tough judge in Los Angeles.  Her private life is W.I.L.D!  Partying and sleeping around. When the child of a couple she put in jail comes to her for guidance though, a bond is formed. He needs a little stability in his life, and she does too. It should work out as long as she remembers he isn't one of her drinking buddies.   

My thoughts….The promo gave me the “ha-ha’s” and “the feels.” I will probably watch.

 

 Battle Creek (CBS) – MIDSEASON – Produced by Vince Gilligan (creator of BREAKING BAD) and David Shore (creator of HOUSE), BATTLE CREEK is a drama about two detectives in Battle Creek, Michigan.  It stars Josh Duhamel, Dean Winters and Kal Penn.   

My thoughts…there isn’t a preview to watch online yet, and there isn’t too much info about this show yet to give you my thoughts.  I did read that this show (the premise??) is very similar to HBO’s TRUE DETECTIVES

 

Black-ish (ABC) – Andre Johnson has it all: Wife, kids, house in the ‘burbs and a successful job…but he feels that they have lost some of their heritage.  Creator Kenya Barris explains, “The show is about a black family – not about a family that happens to be black.”  

My thoughts….Any family that has wanted to explore their culture will probably enjoy this show.  It’s like they took that one episode from The COSBY SHOW and that one episode from A DIFFERENT WORLD and made an entire series about it. The first episode is funny.

 

Constantine (NBC) – Based on the wildly popular DC Comics series Hellblazer, seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult John Constantine (Matt Ryan) is armed with a ferocious knowledge of the dark arts and a wickedly naughty wit. He fights the good fight - or at least he did. With his soul already damned to hell, he's decided to abandon his campaign against evil until a series of events thrusts him back into the fray, and he'll do whatever it takes to protect the innocent. With the balance of good and evil on the line‎, Constantine will use his skills to travel the country, find the supernatural terrors that threaten our world and send them back where they belong. After that, who knows... maybe there's hope for him and his soul after all.   

My thoughts….This. LOOKS. AWESOME!!!!!   This will be on Friday nights after GRIMM. (Which if you haven’t watched GRIMM yet, RUN!  Don’t walk to Netflix and/or Amazon Prime and binge watch it NOW to get caught up before October 24!)  Crap! Looks like I’m not going anywhere on Friday nights for a while! 

Oh and by the by…as an added plus, the score for CONSTANTINE is by Bear McCreary…so you will have no choice but to feel what they want you to feel while watching this show!  So far- doing the A’s and B’s- this is the first show that I am excited about.

 

Cristela (ABC) -- In her sixth year of law school, Cristela is finally on the brink of landing her first big (unpaid) internship at a prestigious law firm. The only problem is that her pursuit of success is more ambitious than her traditional Mexican-American family thinks is appropriate.  

My thoughts…This looks like a female version of the GEORGE LOPEZ SHOW…which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  Cristela Alonzo is a funny lady, and she says that she hopes to keep things “real” and portray a real person. That’s nice.  If I watch this, it will be on HULU, since my Friday nights have been spoken for (See CONSTANTINE)

 

 CSI: Cyber (CBS) – In this latest CSI spinoff, James Van Der Beek plays FBI Agent, Elijah Mundo; A self-proclaimed action junkie, who often put himself at risk to seek permanent justice. Patricia Arquette plays Special Agent Avery Ryan who will “level (Mundo’s) diehard behavior with her expertise in psychology.”  

 My thoughts… I think that CSI junkies will watch – just because it’s CSI.  Also, I’m not gonna lie, I loves me some JVDB, and the whole “cyber” thing intrigues me.  I’ll check it out.  On HULU.

 

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