Sunday Night TV Line Up - Simpsons, Once, The Good Wife, Madam Secretary

Over the past few years, Sunday night has become an extremely popular and competitive night for tv shows. People are calling this the "Golden Age of TV" and I have to agree with this label. The ratings for new and returning shows have been doing very well. Some of the best shows are now on Sunday nights, with many people, including myself having to line up my DVR to tape multiple shows at once. As far as I'm concerned, if the show is scripted then I'm on board to give it a shot. I'm tired of reality shows. They have no substance and have become boring to watch.

According to TV Guide, these are the ratings for Sunday 9/28 night's TV Shows:

8pm
CBS: Madam Secretary 12.7 million viewers (1.4 demo rating)

ABC: Once Upon a Time 9.3 million (3.4)
Fox: The Simpsons 8.5 million (3.9); Brooklyn Nine-Nine 5.5 million (2.6)
NBC: Sunday Night Football 19.9 million (7.6) [8-11 p.m.]

9 p.m.
CBS: The Good Wife 11.2 million (1.3)
ABC: Resurrection 7.6 million (2.2)
Fox: Family Guy 8.4 million (4.5) [9-10 p.m.]

10 p.m.
CBS: CSI 9.7 million (1.4)
ABC: Revenge 5.3 million (1.4)

My picks for Sunday night line up are the following:
7:30 p.m.
Watch Bob's Burgers

8 p.m.
Watch the Simpsons and Brooklyn Nine-Nine WHILE DVRing Madam Secretary. I have to put the drama on the DVR because honestly it's hard to watch captivating drama with commercials. Every time there is a commercial break, it takes me out of the moment.

9 p.m.
The Good Wife - watch while taping Resurrection on my DVR.

10 p.m.
DVR Revenge while watching Madam Secretary on my DVR

This leaves me with the The Good Wife to watch on my DVR the next day! Great cure for the Monday blues!

TV Shows on Hiatus

I love the Olympics but all of my tv shows seem to be taking a break over the next couple of weeks. I understand why the networks don't want to bother competing with the winter games but I still want to see my shows. That being said we still have TEEN WOLF! Yay! But no.. it was actually very sad. Don't read any further if you're not caught up on the show and don't want to be spoiled! Yes poor Stiles. It appears the boy is possessed and it's very sad to see it happen to such a good guy. I mean it's good to see him develop as an actor, but this storyline is very heartbreaking. If he is indeed dying, as his MRI seemed to indicated, perhaps Scott can change him into a wolf and this will cure his disease. Also there might be hope for him with the possession with the help of Kira's mother. The scene at the end in the elevator made me if she can't prevent the spirit, she knows someone who could.  I'm thinking she was referring to her daughter, and that she knows something which Kira does not. Clearly she knows more than we all thought.

Not Happy with Vampire Diaries This Season Grrr

I'm going to take a second to rant about Vampire Diaries. It seems like the bad guys are always winning on the Vampire Diaries and nobody good ever catches a break or when they DO catch a break there is some awful repercussion for doing so. They've killed off a record number of characters and brought back a record amount of characters. You never know if someone is really dead. Most of them come back. I feel like the writers have run out of ideas and there have been some serious plot holes this season. For one thing,  I don't understand how no one is aware Katherine is still alive! Bonnie saw her when she died for two seconds.. SO Catherine would have to pass through her to get to the other side and she didn't. Also they seemed to be revisiting the Damon gone bad plot AGAIN and it's getting kind of old. Same with Katherine. I don't like this whole thing where they take good characters and turn them bad. First it was Damon (OK he was bad from the beginning), but then we saw Damon change and become better (or so we thought). Then it was Stefan. He was bad for a season and then he finally came back to being good. Then it was Elena. They turned her bad for a season. I think they should keep the bad guys bad and the good guys good. It's just getting redundant. I'm pretty happy with the Originals. I hope they keep that show on the same level it is right now because in my opinion it's ten times better.

Tomorrow People Getting Interesting!

There was a big reveal in last evenings episode of Tomorrow People. At the end of the episode we discovered that Stephens mother was one of them. I always suspected the mother had powers or knew more than she was letting on. It does leave a lot of unanswered juicy questions for upcoming episodes. If Stephen's mother had powers all along, how come didn't she realize he was breaking out instead of  having whatever psychological problems she kept stating he had at the beginning of this series? I'm sort of angry to learn she has these powers but led Stephen believe there was something wrong with him. I'm guessing we will find out her motivation behind keeping this a secret from Stephen. I'm also wondering how she has managed to keep her powers hidden from Ultra. It's also unclear if she know the real reason Stephens father left. Then there was the whole situation underground with a Kara/John power struggle. Kara felt betrayed by John when he went against her orders not to take Cassandra back to Ultra. As a result of this, they had a confrontation ending with her kicking him out of the Tomorrow People. Clearly Kara is feeling threatened as it was a cold move. I'm guessing she is going to soon run into trouble and need his help again at some point in the future. This show just keeps getting better and better.

Is "Revenge" Losing It's Point?

I keeping looking forward to Sunday night but then I realize that Revenge is on hiatus. I don't understand why the producers decided to take this rather long winter break. They already have sufficient viewers on the edge of their seats anticipating the upcoming episode each and every week. So why would the network make the viewers hold on until March for another episode?  You would think people would quickly get sick and tired of this all waiting around (zzzz)  and move on to another show. Anyway, after watching the last episode before the break, I feel like this show has unquestionably taken a turn for the worse. (spoilers ahead) I mean they left us implying that Emily had a blackout and slept with Conrad. Seriously? We know she had a head injury but why does Emily continue to have all these blackouts? I just don't like the way in which they turned Emily into this fragile girl. She was badass when the show first started. Her list and the pictures she was making progress by crossing off people that she was targeting for her vengeance. I thought the whole intention of the her being in the Hamptons is for her to always be one step ahead of the Greysons. It is much more rewarding to the viewers for us to see Emily actually carry out her vendetta. Unfortunately the writers have completely turned her in the opposite direction. Now she's just a victim that has accomplished nothing in her quest for revenge.  One might think that after planning this lengthy plot, she would have achieved something but she has accomplished  practically nothing. I hope that when the show returns in March, we get the old Emily back and things start to turn to her favor.

The Following Season 2

I just watched the first two episodes of the Following season 2. I really enjoy this show. The two new twin male characters (both played by Sam Underwood) are a great addition. There definitely is something very poetic about them along with way they behave. I really hope that the writers didn't base the first season off the interpretations of Edgar Allen Poe's writings. He is actually my favorite author and even though he was a brilliant literary artist in the ominous sense, he was above and beyond that! The writers are amazing and so I'm guessing they have a firm interest in Psychology.