Top 10 T.V. Shows

Guess what, dear reader? Lists are back because of popular demand! Apparently, Ms. Hudler loved so much The Rant List and assigned us to write Top 10 lists of whatever stuff. In this entry, I am going to write about my Top 10 favorite T.V. Shows that I watched during High School. Most of these series were aired during my senior year, however there is one from the 90’s (therefore, it has primitive special effects). Position number one is my favorite T.V. Show.

10.- Sherlock

This british T.V. Show (which actually is a mini series) aired by the BBC is about the detective Sherlock Holmes, but it has a modern twist. In contrast with the movie Sherlock Holmes (Tony Stark as Sherlock Holmes), in Sherlock, Mr. Holmes has a laptop and phone, Dr. Watson instead of writing Mr. Holmes’s  adventures on paper, he now has a blog; Scotland Yard uses more modern methods, and Irene Adler (in contrast with the book, in which she manipulates men) is a Dominatrix (I am not kidding, watch the first episode of Season 2). Sherlock is so popular, that even Dr. Who made a cameo in a Sherlock episode (or was the other way around?) I like this show because I love to hear the british accent, and it is quite interesting of what would Sherlock Holmes do to solve cases in these days.

BBC’s Sherlock in the Point of View of an Otaku.

9.- The Simpsons

The Simpsons have been on the air for more than 25 years. If this show is not in the air by when my grandchildren read this blog, this show was a cartoon starred by an American family (with yellow skin) and they made a satire criticizing the Government, Corporations, and Human s̶t̶u̶p̶i̶d̶i̶t̶y̶ nature.Homer is the dad, and is a very (extremely) dumb character, and is my favorite character because besides all the stupid things that he does, he says truth about the society, Homer represents the irresponsible and uneducated worker who only got a High School diploma and is in charge of the security of the Nuclear Plant (Oh, no!). The mom is Marge, who is the mom who works in the house does the chores. Then there is the son Bart, who is a troublemaker at school, and always does disaster, and does not have respect for Homer (who ends up choking Bart)Bart tell us about society that tyoday’s kids don’t care about their parents and do whatever they want. Lisa is the sister who is liberal, conservationist (of nature), smart, and Buddhist, she is the least stupid person in all the city of Springfield, and is a motif of Bart contrasting the naughtiness of Bart and the nerdiness of Lisa. because in Springfield time is relative, Maggie (the baby) is still a baby since season 1.
The only episode in which she grew up was in which the local scientist (Dr. Flyn or something like that) shows Bart and Lisa their future using some sort of time machine. The simpson show us how the police is incompetent, the education system is crap, the government is bought by the wealthy, and the ecological disasters in the US (represented by the Nuclear Plant).
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8.- The Big Bang Theory.

Another sitcom. Is about a group of nerds and geeks that are good friends and hang out together. I like it because of the references to pop culture, such Marvel, DC, Stephen Hawking, etc. Not political satire, but social satire.

7.- Once Upon a Time

Disney, the giant corporation on entertainment, finds another way to make money, and is by using all the characters in the Fairy Tales movies and Mulan (Mulan is not a fairy tale) and put them together in a single fictional universe in a T.V. Show. The plot is that in a far far away land, the characters of fairy tales were living together happy in there, but then Snow White’s evil stepmother curses that world and sends them to another reality in which the characters don’t remember about their past in the other reality. In this new Reality that takes place in the fictional Maine town of Storybrooke, Jiminy Cricket is a psychiatrist, Snow White a schoolteacher, Little Red Riding Hood is a hot waitress, Snow White’s stepmother is the mayor, the Huntsman is the police chief, and Mulan is an Asian who like girls. Disney also added Elsa from Frozen.

6.- Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.

Aired during 1990’s, and didn’t survived to see the 2000’s. It is about a highschool girl named Buffy, and is the chosen one to be the slayer to exterminate the Vampires and the forces of Darkness. Often, the Vampires and the Forces of Darkness attack at her school and actually kill people there and throw the bodies in school, but the amazing thing about this is that the police department rarely investigates the crimes and leave the hard work to Buffy. Because it is from the nineties, it has primitive special effects such masks, costumes, make up, etc, but what can you expect from the 90’s?

5.- Blue Bloods

A cop T.V. Show, but before you ask what is so different of this show from other cop shows is that in this show the characters (in the fictional universe) are related between them and all of them are involved in the greatest Police Department of all the US (NYPD) or in the justice part of the government. The grandpa was a former police commissionerate, then the father is the current police commissionerate, then the son is a detective, the sister is the district attorney, and the brother of them is a regular police officer. They often quote Theodore Roosevelt and FDR.

4.- Parks and Recreations

Another sitcom and political satire. It is formatted in the same way as The Office. It is about Leslie Knope, the subsecretary of the department of Parks and Recreations of the fictitious city of Pawnee, Indiana, and the great ideas that they have to improve Pawnee’s parks, but they are often stopped by the item #72 of The Rant List (Bureaucracy if you are too lazy to look it up).

3.- Arrow

DC comic’s superhero Green Arrow is taken to  T.V.Show. Oliver queen is the son of the wealthy family of Starling city named Queen (the Queen Family), owner of Queen Incorporated. One day Oliver goes with his dad on vacation on a yacht, and the yact sinks in a storm, then Oliver arrives to the Chinese Island of Lian Yu (which means Purgatory), and he learns the art of throwing arrows with a bow. Then he returns to Starling city and becomes the local vigilante. It’s like Marvel’s Hawkeye, but in DC comics.

2.- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Disney strikes again and uses the Marvel’s Characters (because Disney bought the characters of Marvel Comics) and produces The Avengers, Captain America, Thor, Ironman, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc. All of this movies are related in the same fictional universe called “Marvel’s Cinematic Universe”. But what is amazing about this universe is that the show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is also inside this universe and plays a big part in the plot of this universe. S.H.I.E.L.D. is a fictional government intelligence agency that seeks the world security. In this show elements that appear in The Avengers,  and other Marvel movies are mentioned, for example, in an episode the agents of SHIELD need to find a weapon from Asgard that allows warriors to have super strength and fight with rage, then in another episode it is revealed the technology that HYDRA in World War II in Captain America: The first avenger. It is creative. Directed by Joss Whedon, the director of The Avengers and Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.

1.- The Office

It is about an office of the fictional corporation Dunder Mifflin, a paper maker, in the non-fictional city of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The boss, Michael Scott (starred by Steve Carell), thinks that he is the best boss in the world and treats his employees like friends, but sometimes  (which is frequently) mess things up (like John Fields!). It used to be a british T.V. show of the BBC, but then NBC took the idea.