Category Archives: Television

Suits

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My kind of TV show. Excited for the new season this summer 2012. Meanwhile, Game of Thrones season 2, and The Killing season 2 will pre-occupy my tv viewing habits.

Person Of Interest

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Put Jonathan Nolan in the screenwriting credit and you had me. The Dark Knight writer is a genius. His new baby is the CBS series “Person Of Interest” starring Jim Caviezel. I just saw the premiere episode and I like it. It’s like Big Brother, for good. I know that its too early to review the series (it has just release its second episode) but I like the concept. I hope the writers will sustain this.

Screen Rant said that “Person of Interest is one of the most exciting new shows on broadcast TV this year. If you’re looking for a thought-provoking thriller with solid action and storytelling, look no further – especially if you’re a fan of Nolan’s flavor of caped vigilante”.

 

New TV shows that I need to see.

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Forget local TV shows. They insult my intelligence. For excellent production value, I prefer watching US TV shows because they are like movies, and the CGI effects makes it very convincing and real.

Aside from the upcoming seasons of my Glee, Dexter, The Good Wife, and The Walking Dead, there are new TV shows that will premiere this fall in the US.Terra Nova is one of them–a mix of time travel, dinosaurs, and cutthroat natural selection.

TV.com compiled 10 of these in an article. See here. Full trailer of Terra Nova below.

Breaking Bad

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After watching the entire seasons (1, 2) of The Good Wife (which I like), I am now starting with another TV series marathon—AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” Below is the synopsis from its official website.

“Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn) and teenage son (RJ Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family’s financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White’s releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.”

The Good Wife

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For one week now, my nights were pre-occupied by watching The Good Wife. I have just started the entire season 1, and I was glued from the start.

It is a legal drama, created by Robert and Michelle King. It stars Juliana Marguiles, Christine Baranski, Archie Panjabi, Matt Czuchry and Josh Charles, and is executive-produced by the Kings, brothers Ridley and Tony Scott, Charles McDougall, and David W. Zucker.

SYNOPSIS:

 

THE GOOD WIFE is a drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who must assume full responsibility for her family and re-enter the workforce after her husband’s very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. Pushing aside the betrayal and crushing public humiliation caused by her husband Peter (Chris Noth), Alicia Florrick (Margulies) starts over by pursuing her original career as a defense attorney. As a junior associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm, she joins her longtime friend, former law school classmate and firm partner Will Gardner (Josh Charles), who is interested to see how Alicia will perform after 13 years out of the courtroom. Alicia is grateful the firm’s top litigator, Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski), offers to mentor her but discovers the offer has conditions and realizes she’s going to need to succeed on her own merit. Alicia’s main competition among the firm’s 20-something new recruits is Cary (Matt Czuchry), a recent Harvard grad who is affable on the surface, but will use any means to ensure that he, not Alicia, secures the one full-time associate position that’s available. Fortunately, Alicia finds an ally in Kalinda (Archie Panjabi), the firm’s tough in-house investigator. Gaining confidence every day, Alicia transforms herself from embarrassed politician’s scorned wife to resilient career woman, especially for the sake of providing a stable home for her children, 14-year-old Zach (Graham Phillips) and 13-year-old Grace (Makenzie Vega). For the first time in years, Alicia trades in her identity as the “good wife” and takes charge of her own destiny.

I will start watching the second season tonight.

 

Alphas

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I have a new TV series to follow, while Dexter is still not around. Not as grandiose as Heroes, or too-geeky as Fringe, but I like its concept based on the three episodes that I saw so far.

Its official synopsis below:

When a witness is inexplicably murdered in a locked room at a federal courthouse, Dr. Lee Rosen is put on the case. He leads a team of “Alphas”, human beings with enhanced abilities due to differences in their brain structure: Gary Bell, a highly functioning autistic with an ability to process information that rivals most computers; Bill Harken, a former FBI agent who can amp up his “fight or flight” reflex, giving him extraordinary strength for a brief period of time; Nina Theroux, a beautiful woman who can reprogram other people’s minds to do as she bids; and Rachel Pirzad, a sheltered Persian girl who can intensify one sense at the expense of the others. However, with said powers comes a price – for Gary, autism which makes him a child for all intents and purposes; for Harken, severe anger issues that cost him his job and family; for Rachel, struggling to overcome her parents shame at her “illness”; and Nina, never really knowing how those close to her actually feel. In any case, they’ve all come together for the common good with Rosen as their mentor, teaching them to further control their abilities with each passing day. As for the courthouse murder, it’s not long before the team uncovers that one of their own kind was responsible – Cameron Hicks, a former Marine sharpshooter with supernatural balance and aim (he guided the bullet through a ventilation duct). After bringing him in, however, they realize someone even more powerful was pulling the strings… someone with a new technology that can be used to mimic one of the team’s gifts.

The Voice

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The mentors and the host

Now that my bets for American Idol did not make it to the Top 5, might as well look for other singing shows that show promise. Until I find, THE VOICE.

This is actually a remake of a Dutch show. Four coaches will select eight promising singers selected through nationwide auditions in the US (Round 1). These coaches are Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, and Christina Aguilera. The show is hosted by former MTV VJ Carson Daly.

Round 2 will make the shortlisted singers from the four mentors to compete with each other, leaving only 4 singers per mentor. Or a total of 16 for the live telecast, to which the audience will vote for their favorite singers who will move on to the next round.

The early standout so far is Javier Colon, whose audition piece of Time After Time is one of the best I heard. It reminds me of the version by Hall and Oates.

Now that AI will be over in a week, this will be the TV reality show I will watch.

House: The Last Temptation

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Dr. Foreman: I’m glad you’re gonna be sticking around after today.
Masters: Really? You want me to stay?
Dr. Foreman: It’s good to add a different perspective to the department. Someone who still remembers there are rules other than House’s.
Masters: If I don’t play by House’s rules, he won’t let me in.
Dr. Foreman: Find a way around them.
Masters: I’d have to lie to him, which is still lying.
Thirteen: Lying about a lie, that’s practically telling the truth.

That is one of the clever lines in last week’s episode of House, where Masters did her last day at the Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. I just find the chicken scenes funny (in a hospital!).

Also, it made me play The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” in my iPod a couple of times.