Perhaps the first thing you'll learn about me is that I am unfortunately addicted to binge watching some series of a television show in my spare time. Spare time for me is actually very unlikely for me to have, especially with new assignments and assessments coming in. For me, I've seen loads of Pilots and Season Finales and Series Finales, but here are ten of the top television shows you should have at least seen one episode of.
1. Pretty Little Liars.
Does gender even matter anymore? Despite Popular Opinion claiming PLL is supposedly strictly for women/teenage girls entertainment viewing, it is actually one of the most juicy, cliff-hanging shows that tons of people are hooked on. If I ever hear again that "Pretty Little Liars is just for girls," I will not only shoot myself but the person that said that. Then I'd probably resurrect them (with the magical powers I so do have) and kill them again for putting my ears through that agony. If you've seen something like CSI and want something a little less realistic but in the crime-genre, I'd recommend it to you. At times yes, it can get frustrating, however in the end you've just gotta love it.
2. Friends
Even though it's been twenty years since the launch of Friends and nearly eleven years since it ended, if you haven't seen at least one episode you're bound to be grouped into a bunch of people I would rather sit on than associate with. Does it even matter where you begin? Even though I was not watching Friends when it was airing since I was little (Hint #2, I guess) I still grew up someday to be watching all ten seasons wanting more. In the end you realise that even the spin-off, Joey, should've gone more than two seasons because you want to hold on to the era.
3. How To Get Away With Murder
This show was not one bit at all what I expected or had in mind for it to be like. Originally I had thought it was going to be something like a bunch of kids who take a criminal law class just to find out how to kill people and get away with it for their own advantage. I began watching the show online as I couldn't stand anymore commercial breaks leaving me frustrated in the middle of my eye-widening-gasping-out-of-shock moments just to show me some stupid infomercial about a vacuum cleaner I'd seen at least nine hundred and thirty times the last commercial break. (I ordered it too, by the way, and it did NOT do the commercial justice!)
4. Gossip Girl
I started Gossip Girl thinking it were about young adults that had rivalry among each other and that it were nothing like I had found it. I did not have any knowledge to it being about teenagers living on the Upper East Side of New York City to spend their teen years drinking and doing drugs, going to fancy parties and competing with who slept with who, as well as having every secret about themselves posted on a blog by an anonymous user called "Gossip Girl". During the beginning I had thought about ditching it as I'd gotten annoyed with some of the characters (Leighton Meester in particular during the first three or four episodes) however I'd realised I had nothing else to watch, so I stuck in it and got hooked. I definitely recommend it, seeing as I am still watching it.
5. Web Therapy
Unfortunately Lisa Kudrow did not have much of an effect on me during Season Four of this show. I dropped it and stopped watching particularly because my head had felt like it were inflated and then popped like a balloon. I did enjoy some of the series I had watched, but the voice Kudrow uses to portray "Fiona Wallace" had driven me right out of entertainment and into a psych ward. I did like it but I saw repetition in some of the episodes plots and felt a little frustrated at times with the whole series being on a computer screen. Smart Modality, Smart idea, smart plot lines, smart characters, everything was incredibly clever and I am incredibly impressed with knowing that the series does not uses scripts and all actors are supposed to improvise each episode. I guess Web Therapy was just not for me, however others might like it.
6. The Carrie Diaries
A Prequel to the very famous Sex and the City series starring the even more famous Sarah Jessica Parker. This series only ran for two seasons and I could not be more upset. I have no idea why they cancelled this show because I fell in love with it. The Carrie Diaries focuses on Carrie Bradshaw's life towards the end of high school for her experiencing new things in the world and exploring the magical Manhattan, which we all know already is her belonging. AnnaSophia Robb, that curly blonde that plays the young Carrie, couldn't have done a better job. It was actually tearing for me to hear that the show would be no longer, I mean I had formed such a connection to the characters. It takes place in I think the 80's, showing all of the old fashion, music, hairstyles, people. I think it was just what the 21st Century needed.
7. Orange Is The New Black
Well, I could say that I miss the show since it's been on a hiatus for quite a while. I do hope though that they didn't cancel it or anything. It's only been two seasons and I'm positive the ratings are good. I saw the actress that plays the main character, Piper, in the Nicholas Sparks movie 'The Lucky One' and she did an alright job. I was happy to say that she did a perfect job in OITNB and that I did enjoy it. It's a very full on show. If you can't handle one episode do not watch one season. I can say I was surprised when I saw some things going on in a church other than praying between inmates...right, I forgot, it's taking place in a Women's Correctional Facility, a jail, and it surprised me when I learnt that OITNB is actually a true story based off of Piper Kerman's experience there.
8. Nashville
When I began this show it was originally because I was reading up on how Taylor Swift became famous, and how she got discovered in a place called 'The Bluebird Cafe' which is a small cafe in Nashville. The show takes place, can you guess? In Nashville, of course, duh, but it goes through the lives of fictional country music stars, mostly focusing on 'Rayna James', a fading country music queen who is trying to keep her light in the business. It really does give you an eye-opener to music and how hard a musician's life can be, but it also kinda makes you want to pull out a guitar and write a hit. I love Nashville, and if you love celebrity drama you might just like it too.
9. American Horror Story
Should I just say that even though I had never seen anything more life shattering and disturbing in my entire life, I still continued to watch all of the seasons? Because I did, and I don't even regret it. Each Season of AHS is different, it has a different theme, different characters, the whole lot, and it's all in a plot to make you have a brown stain in your underwear by the time you get up. Season One, Murder House, followed the lives of a married couple experiencing difficulties in their relationship with a depressed teen daughter in a psychopathic house that wants to kill people. Season Two, Asylum, focuses on the lives of people in a Mental Institution over fifty years ago (I personally hated this one). Season Three, Coven, (Personally loved this one) undergoes the lives of witches with odd powers living in a house where they all unite. Season Four, Freak Show, (Personally hated this one too, can you see a pattern?) and soon to be Season Five, just announced called 'Hotel'. Dear God help me.
10. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Now this is a story all about how...wait, what? If the theme song can't make you want to sing-a-long then I don't know what will. My love of Will Smith got thicker than blood after I watched the Fresh Prince all that time ago. It's not a show like AHS or PLL or something, but rather one of those shows that makes you smile and watch at 3am with Sara Lee chocolate ice cream on a Saturday night. Like Friends, my heart nearly shattered after facing the truth that it ended after those seasons (because I can't remember how many there were, but spare me the pity, usually my memory isn't so bad when it's not 1:58am). I think I'll always have that love for The Fresh Prince. Always will. In West Philadelphia, Born and Raised...
If you have not seen at least one episode of each of those shows I might just vomit on you out of pity (???). Now believe it or not, the list could go on. It's actually quite hard to believe that I spent nearly half an hour (I think i'm lying, it might've been an hour) on this list. As it's 2:00am on the dot i think this would be a good cue for you to not read any more words and move onto a different page or post or something.
Goodnight.
Indiana.
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