TV update!

So, in a post about new midseason shows, I covered a few. Here's what I've been watching that I haven't been relentlessly blogging:

Arrow: (CW, Wednesdays 8 PM) Yes I'm blogging it but just need to say I love this show I love this show I FREAKING LOVE THIS SHOW. And the producers are self-admitted Whovians, which they say is why they got John Barrowman and Alex Kingston in the same episode!

Body of Proof: (ABC, Tuesdays 9 PM) Still an enjoyable forensics show. 

Bones: (Fox, Mondays 8 PM) Meh. Nothing particularly interesting lately, and it's been getting a bit like CSI: After-School Specials, it feels.

Continuum: (Syfy, return TBA) I'm actually really, really liking this series. Things get very interesting in the last few episodes of the first season!

Criminal Minds: (CBS, Wednesdays 9 PM) This is alternating between being like almost-softcore-torture-porn, and having some really, really interesting episodes with unexpected endings.

Cult: (CW, um... when?) I think the only positive point of this show is just how genre-savvy it is - it mercilessly makes fun of the industry. But that's enough to keep me watching. It's been shuffled around time slots, because it used to be Thursday, but then a week and a half ago I found it in the Friday Night Death Slot, so I'm guessing it's doomed. Unless the fact that a lot of it is filmed using the WB lot as "on location" happens to make it worth the few viewers it brings in.

Elementary: (CBS, Thursdays 10 PM) So much love for this show, and it just keeps getting better. If you don't already, watch it. 'Nuff said.

Glee: (Fox, Thursdays 9 PM) Somehow, this show went from over-the-top satire, to confusion, and now it's surprisingly good and has a more diverse cast than ever. Plus, they have been doing some truly amazing songs - including a rendition of "In Your Eyes" complete with a boombox, and a wonderful mashup of "Bye Bye Bye" and "I Want It That Way." 

Grimm: (NBC, Fridays 9 PM) The plot is really, really picking up and I'm really liking it. Also, this show is doing a good job of surviving the Friday Night Death Slot, as some SF shows do - and probably with an increased audience now that Fringe (RIP) is off the air.

Haven: (Syfy, returns fall 2013) I love this show. I started it after one of my friends who watched Fringe liked it. The first season was very, very reminiscent of old-school X-Files. (There was a guy whose shadow killed people in one episode, I know for sure. But they solved it by surrounding him with ambient light)

Law & Order: SVU: (NBC, Wednesdays 9 PM) Still full of ripped-from-the-headlines cases, as usual. I'm liking the two new detectives, though.

Project Runway: (Lifetime, Thursdays 9 PM) There's not anyone I love this year, but there was an episode with male stripper. And the team dynamic is really interesting.

The Following: (Fox, Mondays 9 PM) This is a lot better than I expected. Granted, Kevin Bacon's character likes to go alone into places where he knows that there are serial killers, a lot. The story is moving, and it's actually not going down the apparently obvious plot lines.

My DVR: Network TV

So, if anyone's wondering what kind of TV I watch... I'm doing several posts on the contents of my DVR. So here's the regular-season network TV shows that are on my DVR:

Sunday: Once Upon a Time (ABC), Revenge (ABC). I don't actually watch either of these a lot - I don't have any way to catch up with the first half of season 2 of Once Upon a Time, and Revenge is my roommate's.

Monday: Bones (Fox), The Following (Fox). Long time Bones fan, but the show seems to be getting a bit boring, and The Following is just starting but looks promising.

Tuesday: Body of Proof (ABC). I like medical examiner shows, for some reason.

Wednesday: Arrow (CW), Law & Order: SVU (NBC), Criminal Minds (CBS), Supernatural (CW). Arrow is one of my new favorite shows, which I've blogged about before, and my DVR's priorities are set to record SVU and Criminal Minds if all three of the latter shows are on.

Thursday: The Big Bang Theory (CBS), Glee (Fox), Elementary (CBS). I don't keep up with Big Bang Theory very much, and I don't know why I still watch Glee but I kind of like watching it, and Elementary is another one of my favorites!

Friday: Grimm (NBC). This one is fun if still a bit monster-of-the-week, but the season 2 storyline is picking up quickly, and I still can't even get over the last screen before the (very long) midseason break, which read "To Be Continued... Sorry."