Five TV Shows You Wanna Watch

Been a long time since my last posting, for I’ve been crazy about my internship, to be quite honest; not really in a good ways though. Ok, not so much for the talk, I’m going to review five most recommended series I ever watched. Yep it’s American-TV-Series we’re talking about, not some sort of local soap operas in some local TV. So here come the undeniably entertaining shows. Let’s begin with 

Chuck.

Major idea is that a civilian that out of sudden is to be involved in national security matters in undercover. The show focuses to the life of Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) (a.k.a. special agent Charles Carmichael) who in all of sudden becomes a spy for that he receives an e-mail from his former “best” friend back in Stanford five years ago, Bryce Larkin who not only gets him kicked out of the university but also takes away his girlfriend. Apparently the e-mail that Chuck gets and reads is not a hey-so-long-buddy-you-come-to-the-reunion e-mail, but it’s got the ‘intersect’ with it that contains a big deal of secret information that the government’s to keep, which downloaded into his brain during the process, that later allows him to access information through flashes he gets.

As of the all e-mail and the intersect things, Chuck becomes the asset of the NSA and CIA, so valuable that he has to be protected by a hot, blond, breathtakingly beautiful CIA agent Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) and a muscly, edgy, cold-hearted NSA agent John Casey (Adam Baldwin). With them, Chuck plays all the spy and secret agent things, jumping from one dangerous, but funny mission to another with his naiveté and ridiculousness yet the thing that keeps him human, living a never ending romance with agent Walker, not to mention his protective big sister Ellie Bartowski (Sarah Lancaster) and her boyfriend, Captain Awesome, his lifetime best friend Morgan Grimes and co-workers in the Buy More (an electronic store in which Chuck works as a computer technician as well as a TV set installer in Nerd Herd unit) who are annoyingly funny. The series is just like a mini action, romance and comedy movie in one package served not in just two-hour long. I guess four and a half is not overrated. 

Dexter.

 

This series is rather dark, and so is the joke. It’s adapted from Jeff Lindsay’s novels Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter. This crime thriller series focuses on the life of Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a blood spatter analyst in Miami Metro Police Department, with his sister, Debra Morgan and his deceased foster father (who somehow still lives in his mind) as a police officer and a former police officer, respectively, in homicide unit.

Dexter is depicted to have a seemingly normal life at the day time. He is supportive to his sister, has a steady girlfriend with two children who love him. However, at the night he has another kind of “productive” life. He is a hunter, he has another life that no one close to him has ever known; that he is a night hunter. He hunts down criminals who escape law for crimes that they’ve done. Following the code his foster father, Harry Morgan, instilled him, which is some sort of basic rules; he tracks down his prey, and terminates them in a traceless and particularly constant method. Well okay, a crime-detective-themed series narrated through the cold-hearted, two-faced murder’s viewpoint, think it kinda gets into me. I guess three and a half for Dexter.

30Rock.

 It’s a comedy series created and acted by Tina Fey as Liz Lemons. Liz is the head of creative team for TGS (The Girlie Show) described airing in NBC starring Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) and Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) with their executive producer Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin). The series shows the entire stupid and funny thing that happens amongst the characters and the creative team from TGS, mostly from the insecurity of Tracy and the stupid attention-seeker artist Jenna Maroney. And at the end of the day Liz Lemons comes up to clean up the mess in also ridiculous and sometimes hard ways. The series is funny for its sharp comments, stupid action, which sometimes lead it to be found slapstick, which is also very “Tina Fey” to me. The show has won a great deal of awards one of which is from Emmy for the best drama comedy category. Four certainly is not overrated for this show. 

Grey’s Anatomy

With focus on scared and insecure yet a great surgeon Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) (well, at least until fifth season it is), the series tells the story of several surgeons in Seattle Grace Hospital. There are a hot blond emotional Izzy Stevens (Katherine Heigl), an ambitious hard-core Christina Yang (Sandra Oh), an edgy closed-personality Alex Karev (Justin Chambers), a kind-hearted quite George O’Malley (T. R. Knight), a brain surgeon also known as Mr. McSomething and Meredith’s love interest Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), a hard-working, kick-ass surgeon Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) and other characters that keep coming in through the seasons, some of them are an attractive neonatal surgeon Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh) who later becomes a main character in another series Private Practice as the same person, and an orthopedist Calliope Torres (Sara Ramirez). The series is all about drama, love life amongst the characters, life lesson derived from their patients’ stories that have been told to them during the medical process, surgery and all. The series has won lots of awards from Emmy Awards and Golden Globe and now been in its sixth season. Well, I give three and a half for Grey’s Anatomy. 

Lost. The story starts as Oceanic Flight 815 from Sidney to Los Angeles crashes somewhere on mysterious tropical island in South Pacific. The story developed in both primary stories in the island about the survivors to find their way out of there, the island that’s not located in the map, and secondary stories about their lives outside the island. Those survivors are a man of logic, spinal surgeon Jack Shepherd (Matthew Fox), a brave tough fugitive Kate Austen (Evangeline Lily), a “bad boy” conman James Ford also known as Sawyer (Josh Holloway), a paralyzed destiny-believer John Locke (Terry O’Quinn), a pregnant girl Claire Shepherd (Emily de Ravin), a former Iraqi torturer Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), a likeable lottery winner Hugo Rayes a.k.a. Hurley (Jorge Garcia), and Korean spouses Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun (Yu Jin Kim). Together they are thrown to the adventure on the island to find their way out facing the deadly mysterious black smoke, finding a hatch that leads them to the fact that the island has inhabitants called Other and former researcher community of Dharma Initiative, not to mention the mysteriousness of the island itself.

Through the seasons, the story of the series developed ramifying, that tells not only about love, devotion, redemption, life choice, but also mystery and science and at the same time about conflict between all of them and more specifically between science and belief. And each episode gives unpredictable twists. Just like Grey’s Anatomy, it is in its sixth season now, which turns out to be its season finale. The series also won lot of awards from Emmy and Golden Globe for several categories. Four is given to Lost.

That’s five shows amongst many that you might want to watch. But hey, here I give you another five worth watching TV series yet without a review. There are musical drama Glee, science-fiction Fringe, comedy-science-fiction Warehouse 13, medical-themed drama House, and detective-themed drama The Mentalist. And oh yeah, the rate that I give for each show above is in the scale of five. Well, then, that’s it. See you guys at another review…

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