Fall viewing guide

Family Guy has grown painfully unfunny, but American Dad is probably my favorite show on right now. I have every episode of the Simpsons from this season on my DVD, but I really don't care. The episodes I've caught have been dismal.
I hated the season finale of Mad Men. The first season's ending was so thoroughly satisfying that it echoed. It reached an artistic pinnacle and pronounced it's storyline in ways that will be studied and referenced. This season had weaker storylines that had the characters staring into space wondering where it was taking them; the ending felt slapdash, more collage than poetry.
After one episode of Top Chef in New York, I don't hate it as much as I thought I would. It seems a running gag on the few reality shows I watch that as soon as a friendship is forged, one of those friends will be eliminated. In one episode, two pithy amateurs, classmates at culinary school, were both eliminated.
Padma lost weight again, and seems more bemused this season than the alien death goddess I've written about before. The fat broad from Food & Wine Magazine is back, snarky and irrevelent as ever. Tom Co.. licky-o?(too early to check/care) looks like a man who has killed a few puppies with a hammer in his day. The man's head is his most menacing feature, and when he doesn't shave he looks like he just got off a double-shift on the killing floor.
What else? South Park had it's best season in almost 10 years. Swingtown was so good- well, enjoyable- we dvr'd the marathon on Bravo.
I've lost interest in most of the rest of tv-land. Astrid watches Charm School with the women from Rock of Love for its trainwreck value- ditto that goddamn show about that cult-family with 17 or 18 children with names that start with J (to which, if we're talking about Vagina As Clown Car Shows, I prefer Jon & Kate Plus 8's visibly suicidal father). She also genuinely enjoys the new Paris Hilton show, and is wise enough to watch it when I'm nowhere near home.