Into the second week of some of the shows:

• Covert Affairs had a big development with potential job change for Augie — I hope he’s not leaving the show, he’s one of the parts I like;
• Suits had a great episode about romance — for just about everyone, and Mike made a big decision that hurt his chances at the firm but helped him reaffirm the kind of lawyer he wants to be (hint: going “soft” in a cross-examination because the witness is a friend is not a selling feature for associates);
• Secret Circle had another death, keeping the force going, and the binding ritual has been completed;
• NCIS was kind of stupid, with storyline about a foster child with a Peter Pan complex;
• Lost Girl brought Kenzi into the Fae fold as an ex-slavic girl who fears a female boogeyman; and,
• How I Met Your Mother reintroduced “Victoria” as a long-lost Ted love, and she was great in the episode but with huge revelation that Ted still has a thing for Robyn (but we know from previous years that she becomes “Aunt Robyn” so she’s not the titular Mother).

I did it! I survived the summer of reruns and, at last, there is fresh food in the TV world! (Okay, so my excitement is a little extreme, but give me the remote, and nobody gets hurt.) So far I’ve seen both new (Secret Circle, Ringer, Whitney) and old (NCIS, NCIS: LA, and How I Met Your Mother).… Read the rest