New TV Shows Report Card: How Are They Doing?

why are someones personal opinions on shows posted as news ?

i was wondering that too. it seems like it's just a tv guide editorial being posted as news.

and a colossal failure of opinion to boot. cleveland show as a b-? please! i still like family guy in spite
of all the internet griping about it, but cleveland show is just awful. i watched the pilot episode and
was mortified that i'd never get those 22 minutes of my life back. and v's reboot as a mere c+? come
on. it's not a brilliant show, but it's certainly better than that.

this has got to be joke....sombody needs to look up 2 words *perception* which has been argues to be
"individual reality") and *perspective*

v = c+ ?????

vampire diaries = a- ?????

ummmmm...... to use another rating term that i have seen others use *epic fail*

community being rated b+ is also absurd. it's an awful, derivative show. the sarah silverman
producers decided to take their show, combine it with weeds, and then soak it in weaksauce. chevy
chase's piss poor "doug from weeds, but watered down for middle america" makes me want to break my
tv. the only good thing on the series is senor chang. i'd watch a senor chang show.

the cleveland show isn't awful, it's just not good. b- sounds about right.

v would be good if it was a long form miniseries, but as an open ended show? meh. c+ sounds about
right. non-serialized action/drama is so 1995. episodic shows are crap.

funny enough, i agree with most of this reviewers assertions; which has got to be a first, considering
that i usually never agree with tv guide. there are a few minor exceptions, but that is expected
considering no two people will ever agree 100% on too much of anything - especially in the post-9/11
america, when everyone's attitudes seemed to be far more galvanized in one direction of another, than
any person's opinions have any right to be on most subjects.

as i stated, i pretty much saw eye-to-eye with most of the write-up, so i will focus on the few
differences (most of them, minor).

accidentally on purpose - they gave it a d+, but i give it a c . . . maybe even a c+. no it's by no
means the most original sitcom ever, but something about it just plain charming. and i've always been a
sucker for jenna elfman. it's always a treat to see her on tv.

the cleveland show - they gave it a b-, i give it a d-. i'm not the biggest fan of family guy, but
when i do come across an episode of the show while channel surfing, it does tend to transfix me to the
television - despite of it's rampant, and spastic stupidity. nothing about the cleveland show even
remotely screams charm. were it not for the fact that cleveland brown has the coolest voice in a
character since darth vader, there would be no point in watching this show.

community - they gave it a b+, i give it and a-. community, like arrested development and
even modern family, is one of those very rare television programs which are just too smart for it's own
good. where modern family has the sense to at least write itself into situations that most people can
directly (or indirectly) relate to, community follows arrested development's path (in a watered down
fashion), and i think that most of the comedy goes right over the heads of most viewers. and as much
as i love this show, i feel that it may last as long on air as arrested development. which was not long
enough, unfortunately.

glee - they give it a b+, and i am thinking to myself, how could they not give this show an a+.
glee is beyond a doubt, the first show since boston legal went of the air, that actually makes me feel
good when i watch an episode. it does not matter how wonderfully great, or how awfully shitty my day
has been, by the time i complete watching an episode of glee, my life feels that much better. and
frankly, with the exception of doctor who, no other show on television can do that for me.

modern family - they give it an a, i give it an a+. quite possibly the smartest show currently on
american tv . . . and maybe the smartest show currently being broadcast anywhere in the english
speaking world. this show quite simply is what i wish every sitcom could be: equal parts fun, snarky,
open-minded, intelligent without being condescending, down to earth, and heartwarming.

trauma - they gave it a c, i gave it a b. after watching the pilot, i thought i was going to hate
this show. but there is just simply something about it that warms you over to it after you down a couple
of episodes. if there was ever a new millennium remake of chips, then trauma would be it - they even
have their own cocky and suave latin male lead in aviator shades. you go, cliff curtis!

v - they gave it a c+, and i give it a c+. yeah, i know it is the same score, but i gave it to v for
different reasons. with so much good going for this remake of a 1980s era classic, it lost me the
moment you see the alien, reptilian skin right underneath the human flesh, gag. that crap was okay for
the campy and decadent 1980s, but twenty years later, you cannot help but wonder just how skinny
those reptilians have to be, to squeeze themselves inside of a human suit - it's not exactly like these
guys are from raxicoricofallapatorius or anything. they are just lizards in a human suit, which frankly
for a halfway, science literate new millennium audience, is preposterous at best.

they lose me even further, when we find out that removing the human suit is a death sentence to these
lizards - wtf?! it's not even their real skin, but taking it off will kill them. in the original series, the
lizards were taking of their own skins every other episode.

here is a better more scientifically believable story for the writers of v: the reptilian aliens alter their
dna to appear human; or the reptilian aliens create a hybrid reptile/simian to service as the vanguard
to their invasion fleet. this not only makes for a more scientifically sound story than reptiles hiding in
human suits, but it also would explain how a reptile could fall in love with a human . . . or how a reptile
could impregnate a human . . . or how a human could have sex with one of the aliens and it never occur
to them that something is wrong with their physiology, as something tells me that sleeping with a lizard
hiding in a human suit, is going to feel a wee bit different than sleeping with an actual human - just
sayin' is all.

the vampire diaries - they gave it an a-, i give it a d. having no misguided resentment against
the twilight series, i approached this show with a completely open mind, and it still managed to lose me
in the very first episode. i can live with the idea than a 150 year old vampire comes back to his home
town, in search of a woman who is the reincarnation of his long, lost tragic lover - after all, i have the
entire dark shadows series on dvd, and let's face facts, the vampire diaries completely rips it's
premise from dark shadows. where this show loses me, is when the vampire's brother shows up
determined to fuck everything up all over again. look, i'm just a 40 year old, ordinary average guy,
and i can honestly tell you, that if my brother showed up out of the blue, looking to ruin my life and
destroy everything i have been working toward (much less, trying to ruin things between me and the
love of my life), i'd have no problems killing that douche - even if i have to play dirty to get the job
done. i'd get rid of the bastard, and i'd likely do it as soon as he made the mistake of letting me know
he was in town to ruin shit.

now in the vampire diaries, this guy who has been a murdering, marauding (now reformed) vampire
for over 150 years, suddenly has qualms with dispatching his brother, who he obviously already hates,
when his brother shows up in town to ruin this guys life, especially in regards to him getting back
together with the love of his life, who he has waited 150 years to be reincarnated. so the writers of this
show wish me, the viewer, to swallow the idea, that a guy who has been murdering to survive for the
better part of a century and a half, suddenly has problems with killing one more asshole (who's not even
a human, but another murdering vampire), who has the stupid misfortune to cross his path?

i don't think so.

the writers illustrate quickly enough, that the story's protagonist is physically weaker than his asshole
brother, because he is a reformed vampire who no longer drinks blood. but just because you are
physically weaker than someone, does not mean you cannot kill them just as easily as if you were their
physical superior. barnabus collins would have a field day whopping the ass of both these so-called
vampires that the writers of the vampire diaries expects the audience to take seriously. he'd outsmart
the dumb, stronger brother, and simply take sadistic joy in overpowering the weaker, emo brother. and
he'd kill them both off in less time than this series has been on the air, and moved on to more pressing
issues.

in the simplest terms, from what i have seen of the vampire diaries, is the show is just plain stupid.
and worse than being stupid, it speaks in illogical, emo-driven melodrama to it's audience, and throws
any sense of reason right out the window. with the vampire diaries, i was hoping that cw would take
this entire vampire craze of late, and produce something more akin to the superb supernatural (i would
not even mind a smallville-esque love triangle thrown in for the entertainment of all the vampire crazed
'tweens), but instead they have just produced what has got to be one of the stupidest shows on
television. the beautiful people was a far better show than the vampire diaries, and cw axed it after
only two episodes, yet they keep drivel like the vampire diaries around to further dumb down the
american television viewing audience. i really feel for this network after eric kripke leaves supernatural
at the end of this season, as there won't be much left for intelligent and halfway mature people to tune
into the network for any longer. and in an ever aging america, not having something that appeals to
mature audience members, is quickly becoming broadcast suicide.

just had to throw in that while i do watch modern family and enjoy it for the most part, i feel like it's
trying too hard at times. more to the point it seems to be trying too hard to be arrested development,
but without taking the characters to the over-blown, charicaturesque, self-involved levels of the
original. in the end that's what it comes down to, it's too heartwarming. the moral sewn into the fabric
and blatantly stated at the end of every episode ruins it for me. assholes have a long tradition of being
the funniest characters and making for the funniest tv shows, from seinfeld to arrested development
and more currently it's always sunny in philidelphia (and of course the irreverent curb your
enthusiasm). modern family has made a good showing out of the gate but the family demographic the
show is trying to juggle at the same time as the young adult crowd results in something far too
saccarine for me to agree with your a rating. i'd be more apt to give it a b. to see how morals can be
weaved into an episode without making you want to vomit i would recommend community instead,
complete with assholes.

the good wife is top notch. i also enjoyed flash forward.

melrose place is meh, for me, and i thought v was terrible.