Summer TV blahs

David Tennant in Broadchurch, beginning August 4 on Showcase

I find it boring.  I'm not into the Amazing Race: Canada; What's the point? How come we only do Canada, while the U.S. has the entire world?  Generally I've had it with reality television though. Sharknado just has no appeal for me, even though I hear it's so horrible, it's good

I've given The Listener a second chance; or tried to.  It's changed too much since I first watched it.  I loved its otential as a science-fiction mystery show.  But now it's just a procedural crime show where a guy uses his mind-reading ability to solve crimes.  I liked Toby's mystery; where did his mindreading ability come from? Are there others like him? There's still a few open questions left to be solved there.

I watched the first season of Showcase's Continuum.  I've only seen bits and pieces of its second season; and it looks like it's even better maintaining its constant questioning of how your actions affect the future.  I've definitely got some catching up to do there.  I am looking forward to David Tennant in Broadchurch beginning August 4, 2013. 

I've loved  Saving Hope so far this year.  There was a huge pay-off with Charlie (Michael Shanks) finally waking up in the season 1 finale, and the new wrench into the relationship of Charlie's talent.   I like seeing what's going on with the other characters too; it's developed into an ensemble show.

The one good thing about summer is having a chance to catch up on reruns.  CBC is rerunning a lot of last season's lineup; Murdoch Mysteries, Arctic Air, and Republic of Doyle.  If you've missed any of those, now's the time to catch  up on them.

I'm turning to Netflix a lot.  I've watched  House of Cards,  and have got a couple of episodes of  Hemlock Grove left on season one.  It's filmed in Canada, and I think I read somewhere even in Milton.  I'm also starting to re-live old favourites like Foyle's War.  All are worth checking out if you're look for something to watch.

Other than that, I'm more likely to watch a movie, or spend time on the web than watch tv.  The fall television season can't come soon enough.