Monday, March 23, 2009

Can't Get Enough of TV Series...

The history of my loving of American TV Series can be traced back to my junior high in Taiwan, if I'm right~
So when I was in US, it's definitely a good chance to watch them.
Because the TV channels in Taiwan don't carry all the TV series, so fans in Taiwan couldn't see them on TV unless the fans can find them via the mighty Internet.
I really wanna recommend some of the TV series that I've seen. The plot is really tense and all the performers are really great at what they do.
The performers all act like those are what they've been doing in the reality.
So once you love to watch the TV series, you'll wonder how come the Taiwanese soap operas could be alive for like hundreds of episodes. And the stories of Taiwanese soap operas seem like they can't live without love, love affairs, mafia, death...The story like this is like junk and too clichéd.
The company which produces these junk operas are all wanna get highest audience rating, but they somehow didn't think about the quality but quantity. It's a shame.

Unlike Taiwanese soap operas, American TV series are more educational and entertaining.
Take House, M.D. for example, House is the main character, who is a doctor, in this story. So the whole story is about the patients' illness and the process of how doctors save them.
So based on that, this is the main line of the story, along with that, each character has its own development like their personalities, their point of views toward life, and their expertise in medicine.When I saw this series, I have difficulties to understand every medical term. But that's how you learn things and know about things. Therefore, that's why I would say it's educational and entertaining.
Love them...

Below are the list of TV series I've seen ( GREAT!! ):

24 (Fox, 2001): Season 1-7
Alias (ABC, 2001): Season 1-5 (END)
Being Human (SyFy, 2011): Season 1
Big Shots (ABC, 2007): Season 1 (END)
Bones (Fox, 2005): Season 1-6
Cashmere Mafia (ABC, 2008): Season 1 (END)
Criminal Minds (CBS, 2005): Season 1-6
CSI (CBS, 2000): Season 1-11
CSI: NY (CBS, 2004): Season 1-7
Desperate Housewives (ABC, 2004): Season 1-3
Dexter (Showtime, 2006): Season 1-4
Eleventh Hour (CBS, 2008): Season 1 (END)
Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011): Season 1
Glee (Fox, 2009): Season 1-3
Gossip Girl (CW, 2007): Season 1-4
Grey's Anatomy (ABC, 2005): Season 1-5
Grimm (NBC, 2011): Season 1
Heroes (NBC, 2006): Season 1-3
House, M.D. (Fox, 2004): Season 1-6
Hustle (BBC-1, 2004): Season 1-7
Kitchen Confidential (Fox, 2005): Season 1 (END)
Knight Rider (NBC, 2008): Season 1 (END)
Kyle XY (ABC Family, 2006): Season 1-3 (END)
Lie To Me (Fox, 2009): Season 1-3
Lipstick Jungle (NBC, 2008): Season 1 (END)
Lost (ABC, 2004): Season 1-4
Medium (NBC, 2005): Season 1-6
Mistressess (BBC, 2008): Season 1-3 (END)
Moonlight (CBS, 2007): Season 1 (END)
Monk (USA, 2002): Season 1
Nikita (CW, 2010): Season 1
Nip/Tuck (FX, 2003): Season 1-3
Numb3rs (CBS, 2005): Season 1-2
One Tree Hill (WB, 2003): Season 1-6
Pasadena (Fox, 2001): Season 1
Prison Break (Fox, 2005): Season 1-3
Secret Diary of A Call Girl (Showtime, 2007): Season 1-2
Sex And The City (HBO, 1998): Season 1-6 (END)
Smallville (WB, 2001): Season 1-10
The 4400 (USA, 2004): Season 1-4 (END)
The Apprentice (NBC, 2004): Season 1-3
The Mentalist (CBS, 2008): Season 1-2
Traveler (ABC, 2007): Season 1 (END)
Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006): Season 1-4 (END)
Veronica Mars (CW, 2004): Season 1-3 (END)
... ... ... ...
Only saw part of each one:

Friends (WB, 1994): Season 1-10 (END)
NCIS (CBS, 2003): Season 1
Six Feet Under (HBO, 2001): Season 1-5 (END)
The X -Files (Fox, 1993): Season 1-9 (END)
... ... ... ...



But I hate that when I start to follow some of the series I think they're good, then somehow TV channels just put to an end of them no matter how far the stories go. They just think the rating's not good enough, but I can see many audience still love them from the related forum/discussion board, fans are complaining the same thing, hoping those series can return to TV again.

Back to the topic, I just wanna say I love those TV series very much. The whole production teams are really awesome, the scripts, the cast, all the other crew contributing to the series...and so on, they all deserve a big clap!!!

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