JourneywomanFour of the Greatest TV Shows You've Never Seen
July 29th 2007 10:07
Hollywood without the consequences
However, it has to be said, it is becoming less lonely in the cable-TV-only stakes, as quality US TV is snapped up with greater frequency by cable television networks - leaving the major free-to-air Aussie TV networks stuck with, well... other stuff!
Who here watches How I Met Your Mother or the re-runs of That 70's Show? If your hand is up right now do please cut it off, because you are referring to show's that almost nobody watches in the States - even for the Americans it's too trashy!
Now who here has heard of or better yet seen TV shows called 30 Rock or Weeds or Pushing Up Daisies or Damages?
I'm guessing the percentage of you there is less. Here are four great TV shows that have not and most likely will not make it to any of the major free-to-air Australian networks any time soon. Read on for some quick reviews...
30 Rock
Brilliant writing, a fantastically talented cast and wonderfully realistic (and yet not) situations allow 30 Rock to show case with each new episode a mecha of acting and writing talent. It has just concluded its second US season, won a raft of Emmy nominations and yet, it remains without an Australian DVD release date!
Weeds
Starring Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds is a Desperate-Housewives-esque dramtic comedy set in the suburbs, where a young mother decides to sell marijuana in order to keep her children safe in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed. But just what is that lifestyle when you pull away the trappings? And who better to see beyond the social norms than a drug peddler?
Disturbing realisations come fresh on the heels of moments of side-splitting comedy in this series. As fresh as it is funky and as harsh as it is heart warming, Weeds is a slightly more adult look at suburbia that is sure to get tounges wagging.
So many moral dilemmas can't help but be delicious!
Pushing Daisies
Just see the trailer - it speaks for itself!
Damages
This new drama - starring Oscar winning actress Glenn Close and ex-patriate Aussie Rose Byrne - is not your run of the mill legal-eagles in the city TV series. Damages manages to go further than any legal drama has done since perhaps the early years of The Practice. More like a blockbuster thriller it takes New York's legal empires apart one step at a time, starting at the top. Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) is the greatest legal mind of her generation and a lawyet to be reckoned with, so when she takes on the corrupt corporate empire of magnate Arthur Frobisher she's asking for it. She hires a new assistant Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) who instantly becomes privy to the inner workings and the dirty dealings of the world of litigation. See the trailer - just don't blink!
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