I'll turn the question right around and tell you about the shows I like on TV.
The Tudors: because historical fictions are awesome, and so much more fun than sitting around waiting for someone who's in front of a bigger desk than you to start chewing facts together.
The Borgias: for the exact same reason.
A Game of Thrones: largely because it's the same as the previous two, with a light drizzle of fantasy elements. Of course, the fantasy elements are growing more pervasive as time goes on (White Walkers, wooo!) but I don't mind. It'll allow this delicious mix of The Tudors, Les Rois Maudits and The Lord of the Rings to boil down to a more centralized form. I'd like to expect Westeros to stop dicking around once the Wall will be breached, but I'm fairly sure everyone's going to keep messing with everyone else for the sake of claiming that damn throne.
Really, I'd be curious to get a look at Jonah Aryn's ghost. Poor dude's probably shaking his head in dismay at all this.
Revolution: the premise, insofar, has been captivating. It's like returning to the heady days of the first two seasons of LOST, when you couldn't get to bed without having those damn numbers floating in a corner of your mind.
Dexter: I keep coming back to this even though the same plotlines are beginning to be revisited. Dex is adjusting with the idea of being a single parent and with the fact that as much of a monster as he thinks he is, he sure damn loves his son - while Debra's still stuck bouncing from romantic fuckup to romantic fuckup because it seems that's the only thing the screenwriters see her as being any good at - which sucks.
Granted, I think I'm two seasons behind most people. No spoilers, please!
I used to watch True Blood, and I did so religiously for the first three seasons. Then shit turned increasingly crazy, Sookie's reached the pinnacle of Sue-dom at least a year ago, Tera's a vamp now and Bill's this evil supervamp ************.
I - pretty much clocked out at that point. I have no clue if this is faithful to the books, having never read them, but I'd like to imagine this is so OTP there's no way in Hell Charlaine Harris put that on paper. I mean, seriously. If Stackhouse ends up forgiving Bill after his basically turning into a Marvel Comics supervillain, that tears it.
As for the rest of what's on TV, I really couldn't care less. I see people going "Fuck, Honey Boo-Boo is destroying television!" and I'm reminded that the same thing used to be said about Canadian or American Idol, or The Bachelor, or anything else that's widely popular yet intellectually bankrupt.
The sanest and simplest thing to do is to either VOD what you like or record it (which is what I mostly do) or Torrent it. The Internet gives you the power to pick and choose what you want - sitting there complaining about the small screen's state won't help you.
