Wednesdays
NEW! Super Fun Night
ABC, 9:30 PM
premieres October 2nd
This show, about three nerdy friends who stay in every Friday night who are inspired to switch it up and venture out into the big bad world when Wilson’s character develops a crush on her co-worker, has been given a coveted time slot after Modern Family. It’s exciting to have a sitcom with a not-svelte lead, and Rebel Wilson automatically wins everything, but Defamer’s not optimistic, lamenting that “ABC network development employees are openly discussing throughout the industry how bad the dailies are coming in” and threatening that the show is most likely to “undo all the love you previously had for Rebel Wilson.” IMPOSSIBLE.
http://youtu.be/pg1RtDr-cHE
Our Verdict: pleasebegood pleasebegood pleasebegood
American Horror Story: Coven
FX
premieres October 9th
The third season of American Horror Story will once again star lesbian actress Sarah Paulson and the legendary Jessica Lange, and executive producer Tim Minear claims that this season will have “very strong feminist themes” and “a big theme of oppressed minorities” as well as “a lighter tone.” Furthermore, he testified that “the fun quotient is higher this year, and we’re embracing a sort of velocity and fun with the series this year. I think it might be a little more welcoming to an audience.”
As usual, there will be a lot of time-hops within its with-focused New Orleans setting, this time mainly focused on the 1970’s and the 1830s.
Lange will play witch royalty Fiona, Sarah Paulson plays her daughter Cordelia, Angela Bassett has been cast as the New Orleans’ leading Voodoo Queen and Kathy Bates will star as socialite/serial killer Madame Delphine LaLaurie. Coredelia is the headmistress of Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies, which Entertainment Weekly describes as “like an all-girls Hogwarts… a safe haven for young witches since 1868.” Gabourey Sidibe, Jamie Brewer, Taissa Farmiga and Emma Roberts are featured as the school’s four remaining students, and Farmiga’s character Zoe apparently can kill people with her vagina!
The rest of the cast includes returning actors Frances Conoroy, Evan Peters, Alexandra Breckenridge, Dennis O’Hare and Lily Rabe.
http://youtu.be/BlSnhM-tIqA
Modern Family
ABC, 9:00 PM
September 25th
This season, Mitch and Cam might stop bickering and being bitchy and manipulative towards each other long enough to get married! Yay! No but really I like this show and am eagerly anticipating its hour-long premiere.
Thursdays
Glee
Fox, Thursday, 9:00 PM
premieres September 26th
Despite the recent tragic death of young star Cory Monteith, Glee is forging forwards this fall with its fifth season, set to debut September 26th with an epic two-hour Beatles-themed premiere. There’s a lot to be excited about — notably, the introduction of Demi Lovato as a love interest for lesbian heartthrob Santana Lopez — and a lot to fear, now that a show notorious for its clumsy “issue episodes” intends to incorporate Monteith’s death into its story for its October 10th Finn Hudson tribute episode. (Plus you can’t help but wonder how emotionally heart-wrenching filming has been for Lea and Monteith’s other friends in the cast.) Regardless, you’ll definitely want to stock up on kleenex for Rachel Berry’s rendition of “Yesterday” in the premiere.
Sneak Peak:
http://youtu.be/ttwOCvDY1ck
Season Five Teaser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W48XjIuDWEY#t=34
Season Five Promo:
http://youtu.be/iDQtb9mH7xc
Grey’s Anatomy
ABC, Thursday 9:00 PM
premieres September 26th
Which mediocre show you used to love and now don’t really like but still watch because Lesbians will you be watching Thursday nights at 9PM?!
NEW! The Crazy Ones
CBS, Thursdays, 9:00 PM
premieres September 26th
I don’t hate this show so far, which stars Buffy the Vampire Slayer as an ad exec at an agency owned by her father, played by the great Robin Williams. Plus, it appears that Kelly Clarkson shows up for at least the first episode. It feels funny and fresh and light-hearted — but the fact that it’s scheduled right before Two and a Half Men worries me considerably.
http://youtu.be/pWEL-FqBW0o
Our verdict: I’d totally watch this if it was on Mondays, but there’s so much good shit happening Thursday nights it’s unlikely this one will be on our to-do list.
NEW! Welcome to the Family
NBC, Thursdays, 8:30 PM
premieres October 3rd
In this new sitcom, Mike O’Malley (you know him as Burt Hummel) and Mary McCormack (you know her as being fierce and looking hot with a holster) star as Caroline and Dan, the parents of a wild teenage daughter (played by Ella Rae Peck) who just got knocked up by her valedictorian teenage boyfriend, Junior. Caroline and Dan immediately clash with Junior’s Dad Chuey (played by Ricardo Chavira) and Mom Lisette (played by Justina Machado, a.k.a, Rico’s wife from Six Feet Under). The Washington Post has predicted that it will be this season’s “quickest and most punitive cancellation.” The jokes mostly fall flat and are mostly delivered as unnecessarily cruel snark between near-strangers, relying on lazy stereotypes about race relations and teen pregnancy. Anyhow, the pilot’s already up on Hulu for you to decide for yourself!
http://youtu.be/HaersTXk5Nc
Our Verdict: No thanks.
NEW! Sean Saves the World
NBC, Thursdays, 9:00 PM
premieres October 3rd
Stars Sean Hayes as a single gay Dad and the gay guy from Reno 911 as his boss! It seems not bad and also immensely better than The New Normal. Obviously if this show flops, it will be treated as the ultimate evidence that gay doesn’t pay on prime-time television, which’ll be fun for the whole family. Scheduling this sucker opposite Glee seems like a death wish, but then again who still watches Glee. (me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPAp6U7_rAg
Our Verdict: Will watch it on Hulu the next day while washing dishes, probably.
Scandal
ABC, 10:00 PM
premieres October 3rd
Creator Shonda Rhimes has said of the premiere, “We’re going to dive into a lot of things at the beginning of Season 3. The first episode, much like all of our other episodes, does that thing where you think the show is going to be about this and then they answer something very quickly and then they move onto something else.” Unfortuantely that’s about all I can tell you, because I’m like five episodes away from finishing up Season Two and cannot risk spoiling myself in the name of writing this description.
Parks & Recreation
NBC, 8:00 PM
Premieres September 26th
Season Six’s premiere will see Leslie and her crew taking a trip to London for her to receive a woman-in-government award, where she’ll meet a bunch of ladies who will make her feel shitty about how mean everybody is to her in Pawnee. Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany is set to guest star in two episodes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq-aJ4vyfBo
TBA
Killer Women
ABC
This show will see the reunion of two very tall Cylons with great bone structure! Yup, that’s right, the actors behind Caprica Six and Samuel Anders are in the ensemble cast of this program, which’s yet to release a premiere date but has concocted this trailer to get your hopes up:
Seed
The CW
This is the only new show with a lesbian character, as far as I can tell, and it’s not actually even a new show — it’s a Canadian comedy The CW has picked up for the 2013-2014 season. According to The Toronto Star: “The show stars Adam Korson as bachelor bartender and sperm donor who becomes an overnight father and begins relationship with the families of three of his children: a laid-back lesbian couple with a 9-year-old son, an upper-class family with a rebellious teenage daughter and a neurotically hopeful single mother-to-be.” As of yet there are exactly zero hints about when this show will cross the border into our hearts, but in the mean time, any Canadians have an opinion about it?
What are you looking forward to watching this fall? Do any of you love Nashville as much as my girlfriend does? Let’s talk it out.
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i don’t even care that they are shamelessly trying to rip off mad men aesthetics and failing
LIZZY
FUCKING
CAPLAN
ORGASM
PIONEER
also brett dier, who played ye olde questionable love interest for gladys and spoiled corbett child on bomb girls, is in ravenswood. i know this because i still follow all the bomb girls cast twitter and he uses his like that goofy 16 year old boy you thought would make a safe beard in high school.
Well I’ll watch Masters of Sex and Lucky 7 (for Anastasia Philips) and anything moderately interesting that involves lesbians.
Seed is funny. There were a few jokes about the lesbian couple that I thought missed the mark but overall I recommend it.
That was such a great summer that I didn’t even miss TRLW
If Ravenswood is “more of the same” that’ll be a good thing in my book. More lesbian/bi characters than you can shake a stick at! Hope they have some gay guys too.
I don’t know where you got the fantastic show rec for Chicago Fire. It’s only so-so in my book. And Leslie Shay has tons of potential but really, she was terribly under used and had a mind numbingly stupid storyline for the last part of the season.
CHICAGO FIRE HAD A CRAZY-EXGIRLFRIEND-TAKES-REVENGE-THROUGH-FALSE-RAPE-ACCUSATION PLOTLINE LAST SEASON
CAPS BECAUSE THAT IS THE WORST PLOTLINE IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY AND I AM VERY ANGRY AT BEING TRICKED INTO WATCHING THAT SHOW
Yeah, Chicago Fire is horrible and I really only watch it because I enjoy complaining about it and watching things combust. I enjoy the rescue scenarios but hate every. single. plotline. Also the only time Leslie Shay is on screen outside of work is when she’s wearing see-through pajamas and reiterating the fact that this show was written exclusively for and by men.
Ahem. WHERE IS LOST GIRL?? I’m definitely chomping at the bit for November to get here omg, All aboard the Doccubus love-train.
Also, I haven’t watched Glee since like, 2009 but I have such a HUGE LADYCRUSH on Demi and so I will definitely be watching this season. For Demi.
I’m also a little scaredy-cat when it came to watching American Horror Story which my girlfriend and housemates adore, but I actually might watch this season! Witches ftw! (if it’s not too scary. *cowers*)
The Mindy Project is adorable and I love it and I need to watch more of it.
aw, i only did shows with september and october premieres! but i’m really excited for Lost Girl as well!
Oh, sweet! November can’t come soon enough. I hope these other shows will tide us over until then!
Coydingo, we’re on a fight because there is no way Doccubus is better than valccubus. NO WAY. VALCCUBUS 4 LYFE.
Omg Valkubus <3 <3 <3
Dani, I think we all can resolve this fight with…VALKUDOCCUBUS.
It's the beeeeest of both worlds….!
Hm. Except for SHIELD, I am singularly unmoved. I’m just terrible at television I guess?
honestly this year’s offerings are the least innovative i’ve seen in a while, and that’s saying A LOT.
I am so unbelievably excited for American Horror Story! I enjoyed last season but it was so much I had to take a break halfway through so I’m happy they say this season is going to be more fun and lighter.
I’m a horror fanatic, but last season overwhelmed me in spots. I thought it was good and all, but it was a bit much at times.
SHIT GOT SO DARK.
and also gross.
Yes. While last season was truly terrifying/overwhelming/dark/gross, I have high hopes that this season is going to involve a lot of me wanting to join A-Coven.
All those fabulously deviant ladies in black? Not scary. Just awesome.
My wife and I just finished season 1 on Netflix and she was grossed out/scared by that so I’m guessing I should watch season 2 alone. Thanks for the heads up.
Also for Bomb Girl fans, looks like Eugene is part of the Ravenswood cast.
i can’t wait til i get to be hilarious on this show.
Half the videos don’t work in Canada :(
but you have health care and ellen page
and Shay Mitchell and Emily VanCamp. Is there a story about all the hot Canadians and why they are awesome beyond their hotness and Canadian citizenship? There should be.
A lot of the shows look like a good premise for a movie but not a tv show, right? Like Lucky 7, Super Fun Night and Masters of Sex.
yeah you’re totally right
I’m so excited for Shield! I have been waiting for so long for this. (okay not that long but still) I also highly recommend Elementary when it comes back on for season two. Lucy Liu plays a fierce version modern version of John Watson named Joan and she steals the show. Plus there is a trans character played by an actual trans person. (She only had one appearance, but will be back this season)
YES YES! And a man-woman duo without overwhelming sexual tension and a fairly equal relationship yes yes yes
The second season of ‘Arrow’ premiers on Wednesday, October 9. I’m kind of excited for it! I liked it way more than I thought I would, and it’s actually on the cusp of moving from a guilty pleasure to a regular pleasure for me. Plus, I just found out Bex Taylor-Klaus (who played the adorable baby dyke Bullet on ‘The Killing’) is going to be guest starring.
Unfortunately Bex (who is awesome) is a terrible piece of whitewashing in Arrow. :(
Oh no! That sucks :( Who is she playing?
Sin, a character who’s asian heritage is a important and defining part of her story.
Well, damn. I’m so torn! Bex is awesome and I want to see more of her, but whitewashing is so gross and angry-making.
*shakes fist at ‘Arrow’ PTBs for not giving me both a properly cast Asian character and Bex in another part*
Agents of Shield is about the only new show I’m looking forward to this year, it’s a lackluster line up. I’ll check out Super Fun Night but after that Defamer article I don’t have much hope for it. At least Good Wife and Scandal and Elementary and Parks and Rec will be back.
So that trailer for Super Fun Night was really frustrating and a bit angering. Mind, the entire premise puts me off anyway. – lol a bunch of not-conventionally-attractive women always stay in because they can’t get laid – just isn’t a fun premise for me. And then only venture out to get laid…WTF!
And then pretty much every single joke in that trailer rests on the fact that Rebel Wilson is fat. ‘omg lol, Rebel Wilson’s character tried to seduce her way into a club but of course that didn’t work cuz she’s fat.’ and ‘omg lol Rebel Wilson is nude with ridiculous underwear on.’
Actually, to be honest, I’m not a huge Rebel Wilson fan. I know she bills herself as not caring about her weight…but to me, making a whole bunch of fat jokes about yourself is the exact opposite of ‘not caring.’
I just want us to make a pact to never start watching 2 and a half men even if the entire cast consists of lesbians at some point.
Parks & Rec! Also Lost Girl?
Will I be tuning in to watch the implosion of Calzona’s marriage once and for all on Grey’s Anatomy? Why, yes I will. Because I am a glutton for punishment and we are ten seasons in and I am going to finish it GODDAMN IT.
I managed not to watch Glee at all in Season 4 and I thought I was free with them breaking up Brittana but ugh… Santana getting a Demi Lovato girlfriend and the fact that the premiere is a Beatles episode might draw me back in. DAMN IT RYAN MURPHY! At the very least, I’m gonna have to see that Beatles thing just to know if it’s a trainwreck or not.
(Don’t they realize they’re playing with fire with this though? C’mon, us Beatlemaniacs are STILL fiercely divided over Across the Universe…)
That show with Lizzy Caplan sounds right up my alley, though. PLEASE LET THIS BE A HISTORICAL DRAMA THAT ACTUALLY IS BOTH GOOD AND GETS ENOUGH OF AN AUDIENCE TO STAY ON AIR. I need something during the fall when I’m waiting for Mad Men and trying to resist the temptation to watch Downton Abbey illegally (I never succeed…)
I’m in the same exact boat w/r/t Glee, and my plan is to read recaps and then Youtube/Hulu the scenes/episodes with Demi Lovato.
Eagerly awaiting the first season of that sex show so I can create a supercut video of every time Lizzy Caplan says orgasm. #noshame #finalcutho
Yeeeessss. I have had the biggest crush on Lizzy Caplan since the very first time I ever saw Lizzy Caplan. Like even many years ago when I thought I was straight I still totally acknowledged that I wanted to sleep with her.
LIZZY CAPLAN
1. I love nashville
2. Ss excited to see SMG on a screen again, regardless of how uninterested I am in this show
3. kerry washington
that’s about all.
I will always watch Grey’s Anatomy. Always. (even though reports indicate Sandra Oh is leaving…)
I will probably hate-watch Glee for a few episodes and then just read Riese’s recaps and laugh/rage/cry.
I got a good laugh out of Sean Hayes’ white-person-in-an-infomercial moment when the daughter asks him about his sex life.
Ayyyy the glorification of Masters and Johnson is going to make me break out in hives. In reality they didn’t do anything groundbreaking, used their research to strengthen the institution of marriage, and had AWFUL unscientific inaccurate methods.
are there any articles about them? i had not heard of them before the show
There were whispers that one of the main characters (not Rebel) from Super Fun Night might discover she’s queer?
Everyone should watch BROOKLYN 99. Premieres tonight. So many people of color (even a gay one!) and Chelsea Peretti. It’s from Dan Goor and Michael Schur (creators or Parks and Rec).
After suffering through Dads (which was truly fucking terrible, yet I did not change the channel…) I was pleasantly surprised with Brooklyn 99. I was definitely expecting hot boots lady to be gay, not the captain. All in all I thought it was a pretty cute show.
I just watched Brooklyn 99… I haven’t genuinely laughed so much at a tv show in a long time. I love that actor who plays the new Captain, I even watched that Navy (?) hiding on an island show last season because of him.
I liked Brooklyn 99 a lot, but I found it really irritating that the two female detectives seemed to mainly be there for the male characters to lust after. I was enjoying the chemistry between the two leads until they brought out the old “if he wins the bet, she has to go on a date with him.” Hoping they move away from that in the future.
My take aways from this were:
1) Anna Faris is old enough to have a teenage daughter? Fuuuuuuuuu-
2) Sofia Vergara is the executive producer of the Texas show? weird. I REALLY love Six though, so maybe I’ll watch like, an episode.
I’m looking forward to Revenge. It’s so ridiculous but I really love Emily VanCamp’s face, and she outed herself as Amanda!
Oh man Revenge is usually so lovely and cheesy fun, plus fantastic bisexual representation with Nolan, but occasionally they make serious missteps? It feels like all the writers are great and educated except for one weirdo who was in charge of Takada and the Regina/Charlotte storyline… super problematic. That being said, I am so excited for next season!
Yeah the Takada story line was weird and confusing… perhaps they’ll clean it up this season?
I hated the Charlotte storyline ugh, like what was the point? To make rich lesbians look like insane closeted assholes?
I love Nolan, even though he’s currently a bit busy for a love life being accused of being a terrorist and all, I hope his bisexuality comes into play again.
I just feel like the whole character of Takada is one giant stereotype, which is weird since the other people of color on the show are generally well-rounded and developed. And man that Charlotte storyline was so annoying! Mostly because every character just conflated Regina being into Charlotte with Regina being crazy and manipulative.
Nolan is so great! For a while I was wondering if he was going to hook up with Jack. I mean, I secretly want Nolan and Emily to be together… we’ll see.
How can you not mention the last season of How I Met Your Mother. NPH is excellent as always, Cobie Smulders is just adorable, and who can forget Alyson, Jason, and Josh who add their own charm and brilliance.
i’ve never seen HIMYM
I thought the show went down hill a lot during the seventh season. NPH is amazing in everything as is Alyson Hannigan (I had such a crush on her when I was a kid)
You guys, I want to start watching American Horror Story SO BADLY, especially this season because who can turn down “strong feminist themes” and an all-girl witch school, but I normally avoid horror like the plague because I really value my sleep. Is it hardcore horror, or just creepy and unsettling? More importantly, will I be able to sleep after watching?
season two is pretty hardcore (in my opinion and I watch a ton of movies and run a horror blog) but season one is really mild.
I feel like if you handle season one really well then most likely you will be able to go on and watch season two but it will be more unsettling.
I’m not going to lie, in season two I had to pause it a few times and gather myself. I had to pull myself out of the narrative because it was overwhelming.
Pitch for new fall TV show:
Slam poet falls for cat lady. One of them is a superhero, but it’s not really clear who.
Hijinks ensue.
I would watch this religiously.
someone needs to write this.
There’s not much I’m interested in this season. Definitely going to check out Agents of Shield because Joss Whedon. Also will probably give Hostages a try because of Toni Collette. I missed Sleepy Hollow last night but I heard good things about it (no queer characters that I know of, but does have a black female lead). And I’ll watch Ravenswood because I’m sure it’ll cross over with PLL.
Other than that, I’m one of those people who still watches both Glee and Grey’s Anatomy. I will see those two through to the bitter end.
I am here to strongly encourage everyone to watch Sleepy Hollow! In terms of representation, three of the five main-ish characters in the first episode are PoC, and the main character is a badass woman of color. In terms of storyline, it’s all supernatural-y drama with a healthy dose of snark and is just super fun.
It’s like Supernatural but without being, y’know, hella problematic. So there’s that. PSA over.
I was pleasantly surprised by Sleepy Hollow! Will definitely keep watching.
Oo. See I really like Supernatural despite it being hella problematic…so if I can get a Supernatural buzz without having to feel guilty about it, I’ll be a cat with cream! :D
I’d pay more money per month if Netflix streamed the Mindy Project. Just saying.
I <3 Nashville. That is all.
One question: Do I need to have seen the previous seasons of American Horror Story to watch this new one? I’ve only seen about 3 episodes of the first season.
nope. each season has its own arc
Brilliant. Thanks!
Honestly stopped functioning after I read “Lizzy Caplan.”
I just realized I have a type, and it’s mean brunettes.
Also I just found this photo of her with The Shane on her head, which is causing me some confusing feelings:
http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/images/desktops/celebrity/lizzy-caplan05.jpg
Without trying to spoil anything, the Masters of Sex pilot does feature a lesbian character.
Chicago Fire is an excellent show, but my opinion may be clouded by how gorgeous Monica Raymund is.
I hate Glee so very much, but omg…cannot wait to hate-watch for Santana with Demi.
And finally, I maintain that Grey’s got good again and I’ll watch til it’s dying day.