For me, TV series in the US is a fever comparable with soap operas, in Brazil. But they are not as shallow and dichotomists as the last ones. Their plots are profound, most of the time, and the production is far more complex.
There is an American TV series for every taste, intellectual disposal, cultural laziness or entertaining reasons. Most of them are in the open channels here, but there are some good ones in the cabo channels as well.
They start their new seasons in the Fall - current season in the Northern Hemisphere - and in Spring. Everybody waits for this time of the year, anxious to see the new episodes of their favourite series.
Last week was the premiere week for most of them. Some have their time schedules at the same time others are playing in different channels - nothing that the Internet does can not help!
Everyday this week, I am going to give my humble opinion about each premiere. Although I do not intend to make a high level critic, I will tell you what I liked, what I didn't, and I will make a summary of the premiere chapter, trying not to pass too much information to the point of ruining it for you, or not bringing spoilers.
Monday is day the of House. I like this series since it started, in 2004. The premise of having an honest doctor - Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) - to the point of being rude, but super-extreme-mega competent, is good, in a world where medicine “for the good of the sick person”, as Hippocrates wanted, is long forgotten. And the similarities with Sherlock Homes also amuse me: they are both geniuses of forensic, musicians, drugs users, aloofs, and friendless, misanthropists I would say. And all the discussions about certain behaviors that it presents are cool, new, fresh. I love it.
The premiere day for this season was 2 hours long, with the plot going all around House's inner fight in the clinic in which he had gone to, at the end of the last season (for those who missed it, Dr. House started to have allucinations which he thought were from the abuse of the opium medicine Vicodin and decided to go into rehab voluntarily).
I loved the psychologist, Dr. Nolan (Andre Braugher) who treated him and all the dramas of the other patients showed in the hospital. The editing was a surprise, as also as the strong images.
The bad thing is that House is in the FOX channel at 8pm, exactly the same time Heroes is playing on NBC, so I didn't watch that one. I will have to find sometime and watch it on the internet.
A complete description of the House series you will find in the site Wikipedia.
On Mondays there is also a series that had only one season called “Lie to me”, with Tim Roth. The Fox calendar says that it will be played on Mondays, after House, at 9pm. But the season premiere is tonight, so I will talk about it tomorrow.
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