September 29, 2014 /  Posted in Best TV Series

NCIS-LA is a crime drama series about a special undercover surveillance team at the Office of Special Projects (OSP), who are responsible for apprehending dangerous and elusive criminals who pose a threat to national security. The team of highly trained agents, including Special Agent G Callen and Agent Sam Hanna, use any means possible by utilizing advanced technology and adopting false identities to bring down their targets, often at the risk of their own lives. The team is assisted by Special Agent Kensi Lo and Operational Psychologist Nate Getz, who is an expert in target profiling. Henrietta “Hetty” Lange is the Operational Manager and Eric Beal & Nell Jones provide computer support. It follows the original NCIS formula with light hearted banter and an elementary investigatory plot.

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September 8, 2014 /  Posted in Best TV Series

House of Cards is a political thriller about an ambitious congressman and his equally conniving wife, who are hungry for power and will go to any lengths to get what they want. Kevin Spacey plays the Democrat Frank Underwood, who will manipulate anyone in pursuit of his political agenda, no matter what the consequences. His wife Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) runs an NGO, also aiding and abetting her husband in his schemes.

The first season of House of Cards sees Frank feeling betrayed for not being chosen as Secretary of State by the new President, and he immediately begins plotting to bring President Walker down and rise up the ladder of power. House of Cards has the potential to be an award-winning favorite of all viewers, what with the aura of importance, prestige and a drama that has...

August 31, 2014 /  Posted in Best TV Series

Person of interest is a crime drama series that started out starring Michael Emerson as a mysterious technology genius Harold Finch and Jim Cavaziel as an ex-CIA agent John Reese. Reese is approached by Finch to help in preventing crimes before they happen with the help of a machine he developed that tracks criminal activity. By the third season, Reese’s role becomes almost secondary as other players become more actively involved. Sameen Shaw (Sarah Shahi) becomes an ally who helps in dealing with the numbers the ‘Machine’ provides, although she is somewhat trigger happy. Root (Amy Acker) is a computer hacker and assassin who eventually becomes an ‘analog interface’ for the Machine and it uses her for missions and as an intermediary between itself and other individuals.

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August 14, 2014 /  Posted in Best TV Series

Suits is a drama series about a law firm and the people working in it. The main characters are Harvey Specter, a partner in the firm and Michael Ross, who is hired by Harvey as an associate. The firm requires a Harvard degree to qualify for the job, which Mike doesn’t have. Harvey hires him anyway because of his extraordinary intelligence and perfect memory, and they agree to keep it a secret from the other members of the firm.

Season 3 finds the firm surrounded in problems as complications arise and Mike’s lack of a degree is discovered by the others. He gets arrested in the final episode and faces the risk of being exposed, but is rescued by his colleagues. Mike realizes he is putting the firm at risk by staying there and decides to leave and find another job at a bank...

July 26, 2014 /  Posted in Best TV Series

Mad Men is a period drama set in the 1960’s, with the main character Don Draper played by Jon Hamm. Another important character is of Peggy Olsen (Elisabeth Moss). There are a large number of other characters vital to the story, as it is about the personal and professional lives of the men and women working on Madison Avenue.

Mad Men brilliantly depicts the culture and norms of American life in the 60’s; from the costumes to social issues like excessive drinking, smoking, sexism and adultery. It focuses on the personalities of the characters and how nobody is exactly who they appear to be. They are all highly ambitious and willing to use any means necessary to get higher up on the ladder to success, none more so than Don Draper.

Mad Men is more a reflection on human nature and how we t...

July 15, 2014 /  Posted in Best TV Series

Season four promises to be the usual mix of violence, sex, elaborate scheming and backstabbing that has become the trademark of Game of Thrones. It sees the return of recurring characters and a few new ones. Prince Oberyn Martell is shown to be from the House of Martell of Dorne (played by Pedro Pascal).

Season three ended with Daenerys Targaryen vowing to free all slaves and acquiring their allegiance. Theon Greyjoy has been tortured sadistically and held captive by Ramsay Snow while Jamie Lannister loses his hand. Robb Stark, Catalyn and Talisa all died in the infamous ‘Red Wedding’, and Westeros is mostly under Lannister control when the fourth season starts. There are two factions still defying them as the War of the Five Kings draws to a close: the Baratheons and the Greyjoys...

June 30, 2014 /  Posted in Best TV Series

Arrow is based on the DC comic character Oliver Queen, who becomes the vigilante Green Arrow when he returns to Starling City after being stranded on an island for a long time. This series focuses more on how Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), makes the transition from billionaire playboy to savior of the city. His time spent on the island is shown through flashbacks that occur in almost every episode of the first season.

Arrow seemed to have faced some difficulty establishing itself in season 1, as viewers tended to make comparisons with the Batman and Spiderman trilogies. However, what worked positively for the show was its distinctive parallel storyline of Oliver on the island rather than just the same vigilante-saving the city routine that has been explored by many others...

June 6, 2014 /  Posted in Best TV Series

Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) are the lead characters in the comedy-crime police drama Castle. Castle is a renowned mystery novelist who accompanies NYPD detective Beckett to crime scenes and often helps solve the case with his intelligence and ability to understand the psyche behind criminals by setting the case as a narrative. He first became involved with police matters when an overzealous fan started murdering people in exactly the same way as shown in his novels, and he was called in to help with the investigation.

As the series progresses, we see Castle and Kate developing feelings for each other. Season 5 ends with their finally getting engaged...

May 31, 2014 /  Posted in Best TV Series

Fargo is based on the 1996 award-winning movie of the same name. It is a crime-drama with an added element of dark humor. The lead characters are Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) and Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman), who are pursued by Deputy Molly Solverson (Allison Tolman) and Officer Gus Grimly (Colin Hanks).

Lester is an insurance salesman who gets tired of being bullied by everyone after he is influenced by the inherently villainous Malvo in a chance encounter, and becomes a suspect in a series of murders alongside Malvo. Both characters are brilliantly written and well-played by the actors. Molly is a determined deputy, in a world full of cynical men, who has her own significant part to play and never lets up on the pursuit of the murderers.

Each episode of Fargo is full of action as...

November 15, 2013 /  Posted in Best TV Series

Da Vinci’s Demons is a British-American show TV arrangement which exhibits a fanciful description of Leonardo da Vinci’s ahead of schedule mature person life as a specialist, innovator, optimist, and educated virtuoso. The arrangement was considered composed by David S. Goyer and advanced and transformed by the BBC’s Adjacent Productions and taped at Bay Studios in Neath, Port Talbot and Swansea in Wales.

Processing area of this arrangement shows that David S. Goyer worked with cinematographer Julian Court on the early scenes. The arrangement imprints the first association between Starz and BBC Worldwide under another co-generation assention molded after the creation of Torchwood: Miracle Day. Chief Jamie Payne worked with cinematographer Fabian Wagner on scenes 3 and 4.

Goyer composed t...