Summer TV viewing

[agt_spooky]

So summer is finally upon us and with it comes all sorts of different shows on our TV screens. Here's what I'm watching...


• Crisis - this one just came to an end on Saturday night and I haven't had a chance to watch those final two episodes yet. I'm so disappointed that NBC already canceled this show, because I thought it was brilliant, different and so well written. I only hope the last episode wraps things up as best as it could.

• Starsky and Hutch, Knight Rider, Magnum P.I. - we've got this new station, COZI TV and it's playing all these old shows from the 70's and 80's. Been great watching the three I listed. Still love Starsky and Hutch to death, but OMG, Knight Rider was so bad! LOL!

• Rookie Blue - one of my favorite Canadian shows that ABC imports for a summer run. Lots of cast changes over the last few seasons that doesn't make me happy, but it's still a consistently good show.

• Covert Affairs - this gets started up again tonight. As much as I love Chris Gorham the show has become pretty "meh" for me. I really disliked last season with the single plot line with Henry and I'm hoping we get back to a bunch of different missions for Annie and Auggie this season

• Night Shift - thought I'd give this one a shot just for the heck of it since Eoin Macken from Merlin is the star. OMG, he should never try and speak with a Texas accent, EVER! LOL! Best part of the show is Brendan Fehr playing an in the closet gay soldier

• Motive - another brilliantly written show from Canada that we get as a summer series. I already watched the entire season via download but it's so good that I watch it again every week.

• The Musketeers - another show I was impatient for that I downloaded that just started on BBCA. I've watched the first six episodes so far and I'm enjoying it. I love Santiago Cabrera and he's great as Aramis. With Peter Capaldi cast as the new Doctor Who I'm wondering what's going to happen to Cardinal Richelieu. Will they re-cast the part next season?

• Masterpiece Theater with David Tennant - speaking of the British, my Google alert went off last week and told me about The Escape Artist, a three-part mini-series on our local PBS station. We've seen the first part and enjoyed it (David is great) but man, British law makes NO sense!


So that's what I've been tuning into so far this summer. What are YOUR favorite summer shows?

Comments

[faninohio.livejournal.com]

I've been watching Night Shift and really like it. I'm glad to hear that Motive is good. I have the DVR full of episodes I need to watch.

My favorite summer shows are Suits and Royal Pains (even though they also have winter seasons). Oh, and So You Think You Can Dance!!

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

I hope Night Shift doesn’t turn too soap-opery where the main focus is on who’s sleeping with who. I much more prefer the action of the medical cases.

OMG, yes, Motive is fantastic! Even better this season than last season. Amazing guest stars this season. Jason Dohring is on this latest one. Squee!

I’ve had so many people recommend Suits. I think I should be watching. :-)

[faninohio.livejournal.com]

You should definitely check out Suits. It's awesome and I think you'd really love Harvey.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Funny you mention Harvey, because every time I see that actor he looks SO much like a younger version of Adrian Pasdar I do a double take.

[violateraindrop]

I re-watched Graceland S1 since I forgot so much about it (even though I loved the first season!) and now I'm watching S2, I'd call it my favorite summer show :D
I'm also watching Salem and True Blood at the moment. A friend recommend Penny Dreadful which I'll probably watch soon and I want to watch Halt and Catch Fire, mostly for Lee Pace lol

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

You’ve got a busy summer TV schedule, too! How is Salem? I’d like to give it a try, just for Seth Gabel.

[violateraindrop]

I also started it for Seth, but that horrible beard hides his pretty face :/
Weirdly enough, I don't care that much for his character unless he has scenes with John Alden (played by Shane West, the eye candy^^).

The show itself is a mixture of fantasy and horror, but if you watched the earlier seasons of Supernatural, there shouldn't be anything you can't handle. I'm also happy that they don't exaggerate the nudity.
What's interesting is that you often don't know if you should side with the witches or the others, at least that's how I feel. I also like the mythology and I honestly like the show more than I thought I would. The historical setting + fantasy did not sound like something I'd usually watch (which is why I've never tried to watch Game of Thrones), but at the end of every episode I want to know what happens next.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Ha, that's so funny you mention Seth's facial hair. As soon as I saw him in the first commercial for the show I was like, "Nooo! Don't hide your face!"

Thanks for all the info on Salem. I'm thinking I might need to check out at least the pilot episode now.

[nerthus.livejournal.com]

I need to look up Musketeers, meant to watch it but forgot about it; I've been watching that BBC America show "In the Flesh" about the zombies who are now 'human' again because of some drug they have to take and how they try to reassimilate into society. I think it's finished its season now, though. Watching "Nightshift" and there's a new series on syfy, "Dominion," that was pretty good, just watched the pilot episode of that so I'm gonna give that one a try. I've been watching this reality show (can't recall the channel, maybe Bravo or Lifetime?) called "Ladies of London" about American expat women trying to fit into posh London society and all the rules of the hoity-toity British elite women, ha; also loved watching "The Little Couple" this season but I think it's done for now. It's time for "Under the Dome" to start back up, and the season premiere of "Falling Skies" was pretty good, I'm gonna be watching that show again this summer. I can't think of all the other ones I'm watching or have watched recently.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

The Musketeers is pretty good. I don’t really care for the young guy playing D’Artagnan but the other three guys are good. Ooh, hadn’t heard of In the Flesh. Sounds interesting, a different take on the whole zombie thing. Dominion! Dang, I forgot that got started! I’ll have to see if I can find the first episode for download because the commercials for it looked really interesting. I love The Little Couple, too! Those kids, Zoe and Will, are so darn cute. I was interested in watching Under the Dome last season until they decided to not just make it a limited run and instead renew it for another season. Just don’t have time for another multi-season show! But I’d like to see Colin Ford. He’ll always be little Sammy Winchester to me!

[candygramme.livejournal.com]

I just discovered the Heroes of Cosplay, and I am mesmerized. I want to be them when I grow up.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

I don’t know this show! What channel is it on? It sounds like something on SyFy?

[candygramme.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's Syfy of course, and I found it by accident and have mainlined it over the past few days. It's as good as Face Off, which is another show from Syfy, but concentrates less on conventions and more on competing. Both are fascinating to me.

And thank you for Night Shift. I LOVE Brendan Fehr, and can't wait to watch it.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Once we move and upgrade our cable service I'll have SyFy again so I'll have to find it and give it a shot.

You're welcome about Night Shift! Looks like Brendan's character was take front and center last week when his boyfriend comes home from Afghanistan and gets into a car accident and he has to try and save his life. My cable wasn't hooked up yet so I need to download it. If they kill the boyfriend I'm going to be pissed.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

What are YOUR favorite summer shows?

Teen Wolf and Longmire.

I'm watching The Musketeers, but it's not really grabbing me yet. I'll give it a couple more episodes. I need to stay away from the fandom, though. Every time somebody squees about Aramis, I just want to rant at length about how his character turns out in the books.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

I tried to like Longmire, I really did. But IMO Katee Sackhoff can't act her way out of a paper bag. I've seen two episodes that Lee Tergesen guest starred in last season and it was great to see Lou Diamond Phillips. Really like him. He's such a wonderful guy in person.

Aramis - LOL! I know, I know. But I can't help myself because every time there's been a movie or TV show it's been an actor I really like playing him so I can't help but squee. :-)

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Katee Sackhoff or her character either. I love Walt, though, and I love that they have to go out and actually investigate crimes by gathering evidence and questioning people, rather than having the crimes solved for them by DNA in 5 seconds.

There has usually been an actor I like playing Aramis too, but he's still a dick. ;-) I've had a crush on d'Artagnan in all of his forms (except Chris O'Donnell--just, no) since I saw an animated version when I was about 5 years old. He is one of my great, long-standing literary crushes, along with Lord Peter Wimsey and Thomas Boniface from The Element of Fire by Martha Wells.