Molly Dodd

Having spent the week writing about the U.S. TV premieres, something has become clear to me that is probably equally clear to you: this is, even by recent standards, a really underwhelming fall season. There’s no Good Wife or Glee or  Modern Family to be anointed as an instant must-watch. Things are so very so-so that there’s a campaign to save the mega-flop Lone Star based solely on the pilot episode; not that it wasn’t a good pilot, but people seem to be rallying around it because there’s not much else, as yet, that creates any excitement. (So the energy that would normally go into supporting shows that have a chance is instead going into a symbolic crusade to save the last hope for cable-on-broadcast TV.) This may change as the season goes on and one or more shows grow on the promise of their pilots.