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!!!

             

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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Date Night: A Date that Jeopardizes Souls

What’s going to happen as the queen of comedy meets her king from the different realm? There you can witness the ridiculous affair they will serve in Date Night. Tina Fey (30Rock TV Series) will play the wife of Steve Carell (The Office TV Series) in this action comedy movie.

It’s told that this couple, Phil Foster (Carell) and Claire Foster (Fey) have a moment in her marriage in which they start to feel saturated by all the routine they have. Work, house, each other, work again, then house, and each other. There, to regenerate their love and to spare the saturation, they decide to visit places where their love used to grow as they began the relationship.

However, the trouble begins as they change their identities to be the other couple Mr. Tripplehorn and Mrs. Tripplehorn, who appear to be criminals. The dangerous and breath-taking yet ridiculous adventure then begins. They, Foster couple, have to deal with the fact that police will be after them for they are now the bad guys. Not to mention that they also have to deal with the big boss of criminals and being chased in the taxi with its nuts driver. Their date time obviously will be the most unforgettable date ever. But, will it spare them the saturation (only if they can get through all the dangerous parts of their date night safely)?

If we see the casts of the movie, there’s no doubt that they will make such entertaining comedy. Tina Fey herself is known as a prominent comedian for her career as a writer for Saturday Night Live (SNL) and the creator and main protagonist in Emmy-winner TV series 30Rock for her role as Liz Lemon (the head of creative team for The Girlie Show (TGS) who is a funny, overbearing and opportunist woman). While Carell is known for his role as Michael Scott, the overbearing, strict, yet clueless and ridiculous boss in The Office TV series. Besides those two protagonists, the movie is also supported by the young promising actress Mila Kunis (That 70’s Show TV Series, The Book of Eli), as Mrs. Tripplehorn. Her experience as a comedian is also unquestionable for her role in That 70’s Show TV series for her role as Jackie Burkhart, a wealth-and-social-status-centered and narcissist cheerleader girl. Not to mention the others prominent actors in Hollywood Mark Wahlberg (The Lovely Bones), James Franco, and the beautiful young actress Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl TV series). 

Based on the premise of the story and the actors and the actresses in it, the movie is interesting. It’s lightly entertaining and might be able to be accepted easily by the wide watchers for its simple plot of the story. You can prove it at April 9th for its release in both US and wide. Can wait to see it!