The lines are starting to become blurred, but there are two (for now) distinct seasons for TV watchers... Fall and Summer. Some shows are trying to smudge things a bit by starting early. Covert Affairs, my favorite from last summer's lineup, is already on its fourth episode this season, while Warehouse 13 hasn't even started yet. And Rubicon, a sleeper from AMC last year, didn't even start until August 1st, and I don't expect it to change that.
So far this summer season, Covert Affairs is meeting my (rather high) expectations, considering it had quite a first season to live up to. Teen Wolf, on the other hand, is disappointing. I was hoping for lighthearted comedy with a supernatural theme, but apparently someone has passed a law in California that you can't have a paranormal teen show without a crap-ton of angst, midnight black sets where you can only see 50% of the action, and child actors. And with sixteen year old actors comes sixteen year old acting skills. Bleah. Sure, at sixteen I was no Lawrence Olivier, but then I wasn't trying to peddle my acting on a major network.
On the SyFy front, Eureka, Warehouse 13, and a new show I'm trying out, Alphas, all premiere on July 11th, while Haven will premiere on the 15th. Alphas looks to be a combination of NUMB3RS and what Heroes should have been, a national special-human taskforce that takes on cases the FBI and other agencies can't solve. They're not radioactive mutants or people affected by some weird eclipse, they're non-neuro-typical naturally-evolved humans who can do certain things better than typical humans. This is something I can relate to with my recent Asperger Syndrome diagnosis. Even if you're not neuro-typical, you can still function (and at some things quite well) and have an impact on society. I'm curious to see how they play it.
There was a rumor going around that "The Walking Dead" had its premiere pushed up to July, but that has since either been changed or disproven, however you want to look at it, and we will not be seeing our favorite zombie apocalypse story back again until October, which I think sucks. There is a ton of wonderful material in the comic books to cover, and at only six episodes per season, this is going to crawl along like a zombie geek with its legs missing. Their only saving grace is the largely-confirmed rumor that Stephen King and his author son Joe Hill will be co-writing a script together whenever their schedules will allow.
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