Terra Nova is bad, don't bother with it.
The Walking Dead is terrific. Some folks are carping about how sloooow it is, but since they did a great job locking in the characters in the first season, I find it easy to be patient. A slow story about fascinating people is still good.
American Horror Story is a mess, writing-wise, and it's not actually very scary, but the cast is great and it's incredibly entertaining, if you don't mind a lot of sexy, violent, demented sleaze and tawdry gimmicks being thrown at you, rapid-fire fashion, so you don't even dream of reaching for the zapper. I gotta like any show that tries that hard to keep my attention.
Once Upon a Time is interesting, and you might check it out if the idea of traditional fairy tales being rewritten in some surprising ways appeals to you.
Grimm is a paint-by-numbers fantasy cop show of the type we've all seen too many times before.
Falling Skies at least has actual aliens in it, which makes it a rarity nowadays. I like the premise and the characters, even if the first season was a bit repetitive - fight the aliens, run away, etc - but where they left off, the second season could be going very interesting places that will kick the drama up a notch or two. They need to do something.
Dunno about the movies, the only genre movie I saw in the theater this year was
Captain America - I loved it!
