5 TV series that will keep you watching.
TV watching has changed completely with the rise of digital formats — back 15 years ago, the idea of watching a show on VHS from start to finish just wasn\’t convenient or very common at all. Now, it\’s par for the course, and the brilliant, addictive nature of some of TV\’s finest series can be seen by everyone. Here are 5 that will keep you hooked.
#5 \”Gossip Girl\”
Following the machinations of these spoiled New York rich kids might seem strange at first, mainly because they\’re such jerks and their private schools are so fancy. But when you have money and privilege and combine it with Manhattan and an insanely juicy plot-line, you\’ve got the recipe for a show that\’s as addictive as a hard drug. If you get the DVD boxsets, be prepared to stay in your house for many days.
#4 True Blood.
The southern atmosphere and the civil-war era vampires, mixed with a great dose of sexiness and a little bit of Anne Rice-style craziness gives HBO viewers (and those of us following on DVD) a series we can\’t seem to turn away from.
#3 Jersey Shore.
There have been few reality shows (especially in the latter part of the decade) that have captured the public imagination like this trashy MTV series does. When you watch it all on a dvd boxset, the sheer shininess of it all might be a little bit too much, but it also lets you see the hilarious behavior patterns that made the show so memorable.
#2 The Office
Sure, it\’s an ironic show that mocks the modern office environment, but they\’ve managed to write in an absolutely wonderful romance story that has got practically the entire country hooked on this show and the ups and downs of its characters, and when you watch this tv series on dvd, you realize how well they\’ve planned this all along.
#1 Lost
Lost has taken its lessons from the old serials of the 1950s: keep the audience wanting more, and you\’ll get them hooked for the entire run. Possibly the most addictive show in history, Lost has hooked viewers around the entire globe, and is even worse when watched as a dvd boxset.
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5 Movies That Shift Your Perspective in a Fundamental Way.
What exactly does it mean when you stumble upon a movie that changes your life? One critic defined it as the ultimate in perspective shift, something that really comes along and shakes the foundations of how you view the world.
Sometimes people make a list of movies that aren’t all that watchable. Not these — you can see these 5 ones thousands of times, and they are really, really powerful films.
#5: Triumph of the Will.
All film is spectacle, it has been said, and there was no larger and more grotesque spectacle than Hitler and his Nazi party. This film celebrates them with movie techniques that were pioneering in its day, and since it is such a celebration of his party, it is so ultimately disturbing that it alters how you see ‘tribute’ films forever.
#4: Neo-Realism At Its Best — Bicycle Thieves.
If you want a little bit of proof that a simplistic story with the vaguest of outlines — man gets bike and job, bike is stolen, man loses job and steals another bike — can say universal things about humanity and sadness, then this is your film.
#3: Chinatown.
Polanski, despite the mess he created for himself before leaving America, made what is undoubtedly one of the best American films of all time. This might just be one of those movies that says more about Hollywood than any other, which is important if you ever think about what the movies ‘mean’ to us.
#2: Hitchcock Never Got Better Than Vertigo.
A wonderful thriller that also happens to be all about falling in love, idealizing women (or men), wanting other people to conform to our expectations, and an examination of the director’s role in shaping how a movie is made. No other film is so good both on its surface and in its multiple layers of meaning at the same time.
#1: The Godfather.
It doesn’t matter that this film is about the mafia — it’s actually about family, power, children, America, crime, and politics. It’s also told so unbelievably well that sometimes you literally cannot believe it doesn’t have a bad moment. Which it doesn’t. The ultimate example of film’s completely unique cultural position.
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