Summer is around the corner, and with it the annual American ritual of watching critically acclaimed shows on cable, undoing that cultural progress with reality shows, and bingeing on all the shows, both trashy and artistically significant, missed during the regular season.

Which overhyped show should you watch? In Showdowns, Defamer's Beejoli Shah and Gawker's Rich Juzwiak tackle the tough issues: Which show each night this week sucks the least during the premiere season of this "Golden Age of Television."