I have a fairly extensive backlog of movies/tv/game impressions to write on the forums, so I might as well get this one over with first:
So The Walking Dead is back, and despite numerous viewer complaints the characters are still on that ****ing farm bickering at each other and generally being emo, making me despise each and every one of them. If this show doesn't pick up soon, this will be my last season of the show. I haven't seen a show descend into "suck" this badly and this fast since the second season of Heroes, a comparison I'm sure AMC is proud of.
While playing through Final Fantasy XIII-2, I also finished watching The 4400, and while the show did improve since the last time I talked about it (several episodes into season 3), by the end I just didn't care about the show anymore. There's only so many backstabbings; sudden character changes; and allegiance-switching I can take before I just want the entire cast to die horrible, painful deaths, and The 4400 crossed that line by the end of season 3. There were almost no likeable characters left by the end of the show (and several I'd despised for several seasons, like Isabelle, somehow managed to stay alive), where (naturally) it ended on an extremely open and unsatisfying ending because the show was canceled. I will give the writers credit, though: the moral dilemma they presented as the main story of Season 4 was an interesting one, though looking back I think it made the show less engaging by downplaying the importance of the characters we had followed the previous seasons. A good show with a lot of unrealized potential, ruined by trying so hard to be "edgy" that it was no longer likeable.
I've started watching House as well, and as I'm nearly at the end of the first season I like the show despite generally not liking this kind of show. House is an interesting character, and the characters he surrounds himself with generally don't irritate me that much. The show's formula can get rather grating ("everyone gets the diagnosis & treatment wrong until the last 6 minutes, where a last piece of missing information leads to the miracle cure"), but the characters make the show worth watching.
The US version of Being Human is back as well, and it's been a good season so far. I'm disappointed that a key element of Nora and Josh's relationship from last season got written out so easily since it was leading Josh down a path I found really good for his character, but the twist it has taken has not been boring. Sally has more to do now that she can possess people, and Aidan is...not irritating. The writing has been engaging enough, so for now it's a show worth following.