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user-inactivated  ·  3178 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What TV show do you watch over and over?

I don't think of myself as a person who rewatches things often, even though I have a quirk of rewatching the scenes or moments dozens of times if I find them awesome or very funny.

Still, so far, I've rewatched the whole Scrubs (excluding the last season; in Russian dub - folks here did an amazing job at dubbing the series, it's the only English-language cinematograph I dared to do this to, because most often the dub quality is offensive), Intelligence (the US series), am rewatching Chuck and avoiding rewatching Person of Interest.

The first and the third attract me with their simultanious providence of drama and comedy, and do it well. Intelligence, on the other hand, is a serious mostly-drama story with an emotionally healthy male protagonist, it shows a healthy development of relationships between main characters and it deals with hypertechnology. Too bad the latter lacks scope and depth that Person of Interest provided at times: it would make an amazing show with.

Person of Interest impressed me from the first episode on. Even though it lacked at times, it dealt with the subjects well enough to pick me up when I was falling off. One thing that impressed me in particular is how, after four seasons of establishing the character, they've managed to deepen John Reese's story in 4x20 masterfully (I'm a guy who's not in contact with his emotions, but I've felt for John at the moment, which ought to be telling), and how well the episode was made overall (it's the best episode of the show so far, even including the hyped "If-Then-Else"). I'm afraid that I'm going to spoil the image of the show in my head; I'm hoping to preserve it, at least until it finishes. Maybe then, like with Chuck, in a few years, I'll get back to it.





elizabeth  ·  3178 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have you watched "interns" in russian? It s basically a russian copy of the TV series.

user-inactivated  ·  3178 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    It s basically a russian copy of the TV series.

I've seen a few bits of it. Calling it a copy is a disgrace to the original. Rather, it's an unintentional parody of a copy of the show.

elizabeth  ·  3178 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh maybe, I've never really watched it either but my parents and all their friends loved it so I guess it's not complete crap. From what I understand it's still pretty different from scrubs even tho the idea came from there.

user-inactivated  ·  3178 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interns is a show designed for the timeslot for when people get off work and want to relax. Naturally, it includes barely any of the things that will make them think and engage in the plots, much like the Tom & Jerry cartoons. Scrubs, though not very complicated as well, bears depth that I can't discern; it may be that because of it I could relate better to the latter, as well as the better writing.

Interns is fine for when you want to spend time stupidly gazing at the screen, but as far as TV shows go, it's not a good series.