Life of the Lifeless

This whole mini thesis thing has got me to the forced hiatus of keeping this blog posted. I mean that is the obvious reason why my life has become a little bit out of the order. To keep my sanity I let myself stumble into these good shows. I mean TV is the most therapeutic cure for the stress, I gotta admit though sometimes it provides nothing but bunch of craps. But FYI I don’t get stuck with craps, so I bought myself bags of potato chips, cans of soda, sit my ass down on my black floppy couch and watched. And you’re told that I’m a generous man so here I am sharing what it is that gets me through the lifelessness, lol. 

Well, let me get you to this hilarious show. Anyone who watches Modern Family has to agree with me that the show can make you laugh like crazies. And I did, I didn’t know what other tenant at my lodge thought when they heard me all alone laughing like crazy. Duh, who cares!

So the show goes around the families of Pritchett and Dunphy. So Jay Pritchett, who is re-married to a Columbian widow with one son, Manny Delgado, Gloria Delgado, has two children Claire and Mitchell. Claire is married to Phil Dunphy and has three children, Haley, Alex, and Luke. And Mitchell lives with his boyfriend Cameron Tucker and adopts a daughter from Vietnam, Lily. Each episode of the series goes around the comical events, family problem and trivialities of the daily basis. They do not seem to try to act funny yet the effort shows otherwise. Each of the characters shows their own strength and ridiculousness. 

Here is the reason why you’d like the shows: simply hilarious.

Here’s the reason you might not like it: NONE.

While I watched Modern Family I was also enjoying this action series, Hawaii Five-O. It’s the remake of the 60s Hawaii Five-O except that there is one hot female cast join the tough and go-strike task force named Five-O and maybe the story line. I honestly have limited research on how the 60s version went but I’m quite confident that I could give some good reasons why you’d like to watch this present version of the series. So, it’s about a long shot investigation of Commander Steven McGarrett over his parents’ deaths. 

In the pilot episode it’s told that Steve‘s father is amid the home invasion and threatened to be killed by some violent gang in exchange with the freedom of some perpetrator Steve holds into custody. He cannot make it, his father dies and the perpetrator finds his way out. Later he learns that the affair has something to do with his father’s investigation about his mother’s car accident that goes way beyond a mere accident. The all lead he has is a tool box full of postcards and photographs and the documents of investigation his father leaves in his garage of their house in Hawaii. With the help, as in the resources and full immunity, of the Governor he starts the investigation to hunt down the man who kills his parents as well as to fight for the justice in his childhood homeland, Hawaii. Later join the force, Detective Danny Williams, ex-cop Chin Ho Kelly and his cousin, the hot female character I talked earlier, Kono. 

     

Here is the reason why you’d like the series: it’s all about action and explosion. Car chase, martial arts, gun fire and all are the must-requirements in every episode (the fights and murders would be an understatement). Besides, it’s set in Hawaii, man! Exotic beaches with girls in bikinis running around, DUH!? And Kono is a surfer. Occasionally she poses the role as a surfer, riding those big waves of Hawaii on a surfing board. Man, she’s hot. And for girls, I think (since I’m secured enough to spill it out that I can appreciate other men’s attraction) Steve and Danny are another attraction to the show, they look nice. Oh yeah BRAH, I’m that shallow!

The next series is White Collar. Just like any other US action drama series, it’s a crime-themed series. It follows the story of the white collar crime detective of the FBI, agent Peter Burke and a flamboyant ex-con artist-soon-be-FBI consultant, Neal Caffrey.  

The pilot episode sets the scenes in which Neal is a prisoner with four months to go for his freedom after being booked in by Peter who’s been chasing him for years. But something goes out of the schedule when Neal gets a visit from his girlfriend Kate. The rendezvous gets Neal broken hearted and yet he senses something wrong with the breakup. Afterwards, with his skills as a con artist he escapes from the prison and tries to find Kate to get the answers to her disappearance, which he can’t, and the entire attempt only leads him to another question. 

For the second time, Peter manages to catch Neal, only this time they arrange a deal. The deal is to let Neal free under Peter’s custody with the tracking bracelet put on Neal’s ankle to keep him in guard and track down his every whereabouts. In returns Neal becomes a consultant for the FBI to hunt down the white collar criminals and at the same time he continues to find Kate and seeks the answers to what is really happening behind his girlfriend’s disappearance that seems far beyond a breakup. Join the team inside the FBI agent Diana Berrigan and Clinton Jones, as for Peter himself he is helped big time by his amazingly supportive wife Elizabeth. Neal on the other hand is propped by his eccentric fellow con artist Mozzie. In one or two episodes the teams from these two corners work together to fight crimes! The show is classically fabulous. Yeah that’s strange that sentence just struck me! Anyway, it’s worth awhile.   

Alright, in the process of writing this posting by the way, I run into the fifth season of 30Rock. Oh I just realized how I’ve missed the ‘lemons’. The show sure, still has it. And really want to talk about the show. But wait, yeah I think I already do that. Then let’s just talk about Castle. Yep crime is still the most popular theme for US TV series. This show is one of a bunch that is considered good. It tells the story of a beautiful NYPD detective, Kate Beckette and a popular mystery writer, Richard Castle.  

I would start with the pilot when I talk about a series because I think it’s the point through which you’d know where the show is going, is it going to be somewhere or just another “pfft, it’s not gonna make it!” kind, you know? So yeah let’s talk about the pilot episode of Castle. Well, I think you may a bit wonder why a popular narcissus mystery writer would wind up catching bad guys with a rigorous and devoted detective of NYPD. Yep, the novel the writer writes is the connection. Well, it seems that one of Castle’s readers really wants to make something real out of the novels. He, the fan, imitates the killing procedure or ritual I might say as what Castle has written in the novel. Kate realizes soon enough that she needs the expertise of the mastermind of such killing procedure, or wait, the one who inspires the mastermind. And just like that they end up working together to catch the perpetrator. 

Having the idea that the two of them have the sparks glimmering around them, Castle assures the irritated Kate to let him join in the team in her several cases to observe how she works, telling Kate that she’s his new muse. Of course with the help of his popularity Castle can make his way in. Together they catch killers and start having up-and-down feeling for each other. With his witty, imaginative and fun attitude, Castle brings life and usefulness to Kate’s team in every case they work on, making them so fun to solve. Join with the team Detective Javier Esposito, Detective Kevin Ryan and their boss Captain Montgomery and a lab tech Lanie Parish. At home Castle is supported by his lovely teenage daughter Alexis and his mother Martha Rogers. Each episode tells about lots of different murders and motives and means and yet the story has also a long shot plot in which Kate is actually investigating her mother’s murder back then when she is a teenager. And it’s the reason why she becomes a cop in the first place. And I gotta say the show is also the one you don’t want to miss out whenever you have time to get cozy on your couch. 

Well, as fun as it is for me, I think I really need to stop writing. phew.. I can see it on your face. But ooh, before I go, gonna be quick. Here are some other shows that I also want you to watch but I can't review. 

Weeds

United States of Tara

and Cougar Town

well, my final remark: watch them all!!!