I steer clear of most TV dramas. They can be a time vacuum and of dubious quality. Few things frustrate like a TV series, formerly good, which recently stinks but has yet to resolve the lives of its characters, forcing you to watch more.
My two favorites drag out their plots, big time, but fool constantly about what turns they will take. I want to watch each episode, rather than feeling compelled. Those programs are DEXTER and LOST. (Aren't they in all-caps?)
Dexter the serial killer murders those who have murdered. That's all the evidence he needs to off someone, and he is an expert at killing and staying out of trouble. Like any series, DEXTER strives to keep an audience on its toes, but does so by killing important characters and speeding the action. I thought I knew how season 3 would end, but the action came in the episode prior. (At 12 episodes the seasons are shorter than on the networks.)
No series baffles its audience like LOST. That the show has a predetermined ending since its debut gives it a fighting chance to be dubbed "Drama of the Decade," and perhaps of all-time. Its third season dragged in a negative way, only because the producers did not know how long the series would run. Once they got an end date, LOST fired on all cylinders.
The series mystifies with its science (fiction) and mythological foci, allowing the producers to do anything they want with the final season. DEXTER takes place in the real world, where gods and time warps can't help him elude a rival killer. Jack, Kate, and company can and will need the aid of both to achieve their ends, whatever they be.
DEXTER and LOST offer superlative alternatives to TV's traditional doctor/lawyer/cop drama triumvirate. What shows, current and past, do the same for you?
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just watched lost for the first time last night, and i can finally see what all the fuss is about.
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