The Graveyard
Shameless (Showtime)
I watched the entire first season of this show. And it was pretty decent. The story of a dysfunctional family is usually pretty juicy if done right. While the Gallagher family continues to get itself into crazy situations, this show has more become a pity party for the Gallagher family. Sometimes it’s fairly funny, but most of the time I’m fairly disgusted. It’s very difficult to watch at first due to some of the life choices that are made on the show, hence the name Shameless. The show is definitely catered to a specific taste, and as the plots get more raunchy and disgusting, I’m finding out I might not be that demographic.
House of Lies (Showtime)
Don Cheadle is charming as hell. And this show looks very promising at the idea of Don Chealde smooth talking a bunch of people. But as I continued the watch, I found it to be relatively boring. And there’s a lot of unnecessary sex. If I wanted sex over interesting stories, I’d happier spend my time with the darker parts of the internet than this tv show.
The Office (NBC)
I legitimately stopped watching this show last season, but I still think it’s worth a mention because I’ve caught wind of some of the deconstruction. James Spader is officially leaving at the end of the story. Mindy Kaling is leaving to do her own show. And apparently Dwight Schrute is getting his own spin-off. The right thing to do is let this show die at the end of this season with what dignity it has left. But knowing NBC, they’ll squeeze their cash cow for everything its got and try and hold for a season or two more while the ratings become a shadow of what it once was.
The Walking Dead (AMC)
Ugh, this was such a promising show too. Season one was amazing, the survival battles in the heart of Atlanta [woot woot hometown]. But here in season 2, they’ve spent majority of their time squabbling with an old man on some farm. For a show about zombies, there really aren’t that many. And with extremely uninteresting human story lines and the idiocracy of some of the dialogue and plot movements, this show has truly become a zombie itself in all its laziness. Even Shane can’t help it now. Until I catch wind of something interesting happening, I’ll probably leave this one be. And apparently, according to sources, you could’ve found out what they had cooking for the rest of the season on the website. Talk about an NBC sized bluster.
In the Shadows
Mad Men (AMC)
Still haven’t gotten into it. There’s far too much on my plate, and what I’ve tried to watch incredibly bored me. Someone has to tell me it’s worth it or I might not ever get started.
30 Rock (NBC)
I’ve heard this show is also a shadow of it’s formal self [six seasons can do that to any show], but I still can’t find the time to play catch up. I normally have a policy to not try and play catch up unless for a really good reason [a lesson learned from 10 strenuous seasons of Friends]. It may not even be worth catching up anymore.
Modern Family (ABC)
Awards out the wazoo and I still haven’t picked up on it. Sofia Vegara alone might get me to watch this show, given some of the amazing pictures, gifs, and cleavage that have plagued the internet as of late. Hmm, and only 3 seasons…
Banana Scoop 
agreed on The Walking Dead. Great first season, life and death all the time. Suspense. Awful, awful second season. As you pointed out, very few zombies (so what’s the point?). Cliche too, you can tell every time when they make it so obvious that they’re trying to spur some interest in the plot, but fail. And all the decisions they make, the childish attitudes they have towards one another. Can’t stand it. As soon as the “rebel” kid was brought onto the farm and a preview of the next episode just showed them arguing about his life, I stopped. Not going to touch it anymore.
Archer had me almost instantly hooked. You are absolutely correct, it is incomperable with other shows of its genre.
Fox manages to screw around with their own shows. I have no idea what their rhyme or reason is. I have actually forgotten about New Girl; I did enjoy it, but an irregular work/life schedule coupled with their own scattering, means I have no idea what I may/may not have missed.
I used to hate Happy Endings but since I have 30 minutes to waste before my next show I’ve started watching it and I don’t hate it. I still don’t get half of it but it’s not bad.
And I agree with Awake. I was instantly hooked and I hope they can keep it going!