The winter movie and TV seasons begin this week. Well, the fall TV season kind’a ended and went into hibernation a few weeks ago during the holidays, but the 2019 season begins now.
Honestly, I found the whole 2018 fall TV season a little dull, though I suppose this is normal. There were a few shows I was really into but for the most part I didn’t find too much to watch. Let’s put it this way — on my DVR I have room to schedule 50 series to record. In years past I’ve had all of those slots filled up and have had to pick and prune what I wanted to record and what I was going to have to watch live. This year after I went through and cleaned out this schedule I only had 22 shows I was recording. Now 22 sounds like a lot, but that includes things that aren’t currently on the air like Better Call Saul or Westworld in addition to things I’m recording now. So realistically there were maybe like between 10 and 15 shows I was following last fall.
I think what has started to replace a lot of things I used to DVR are streaming series. I’ve been streaming new shows like The Haunting of Hill House and Corner Gas more and more lately, and other than a few shows like The Good Place can’t think of many things I watched on network TV last fall.
Looking back over my “best of” lists it looks like the last time a network drama appeared there was Chuck in 2009. And I’ve never ranked a network drama as the best show of the year, though admittedly network comedies like Community have and, please don’t hold this against me, Modern Family have appeared there in the past too.
And moving into 2019 there’s only one new network show I’m interested in checking out; The Passage on FOX. Though I’ve been far from amazed as to how that’s been promoted so it wouldn’t surprise me if that show’s another “one and done” for me.
