TV Drama Research Task

TV Dramas

Sherlock - Broadcast on the BBC

Wounded Afghan veteran Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) meets brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and moves into a flat on 221B Baker Street with him. They work as detectives, looking in detail at crimes that can't be easily solved.

Doctor Who -  Broadcast on the BBC

The Doctor is a renegade Time Lord: an eccentric, highly-intelligent scientist from a distant planet. He travels through time and space in the TARDIS, a curious device, larger on the inside than on the outside, which was designed to change its appearance to suit its surroundings. The series consists of seeing aliens and solving mysteries due to these aliens. 

The Walking Dead - Broadcast on AMC (America) Fox TV (UK)

The only way to permanently kill a walker (zombie) is to damage its brain or otherwise fully destroy the body, such as by cremating it. The series centres on sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who wakes up from a coma to discover this apocalypse. He tries to survive whilst finding a place to shelter with other survivors of the apocalypse.

Breaking Bad- Broadcast on AMC (America) Fox TV (UK)

To make sure his family is financially secure, he teams up with a former student Jesse Pinkman and turns to a life of crime to make and distribute the purest crystal meth on the streets. A once loyal father and chemistry teacher, Walter White, turns to a life of crime due to developing stage 3 terminal lung cancer.

Orphan Black- Broadcast on BBC

The series begins with Sarah Manning, a con artist, witnessing the suicide of a woman, Beth Childs, who appears to be her doppelgänger. Sarah assumes Beth's identity and occupation (as a police detective) after Beth's death. During the first season, Sarah discovers that she is a clone, that she has many 'sister' clones spread throughout North America and Europe that are all part of an illegal human cloning experiment, and that someone is plotting to kill them and her.

Mad Men - Broadcast on AMC (America) Fox TV (UK)

The first season opens in March 1960, as genius advertising executive Donald "Don" Draper meets Peggy Olson, his new secretary. They both work at the small but prestigious agency Sterling Cooper. Though Don is welcoming towards her, Peggy is subject to passive-aggressive hostility from office manager Joan Holloway and sexual harassment from her male colleagues. Junior accounts manager Pete Campbell, who is about to get married, takes a liking to Peggy and the two have sex the night of his bachelor party. Don, meanwhile, has trouble balancing his life as he cheats on his repressed wife, Betty Draper, with a beatnik artist named Midge Daniels. Roger Sterling, the acerbic son of one of Sterling Cooper's founding partners, cheats on his wife, Mona, with Joan, with whom he is enamoured.

Reviews

Power

The trailer for season one is intriguing as I can see the basis of the plot and how things seem to be unsteady underneath as a plot hole to be created with the tension and risk of the ideas in the show. The season 2 trailer becomes more tense, making the situation for the main characters even worse which then involves guns and violence between main characters to try and save their reputation. Even though this looks intriguing to watch, I don't think the genre is very interesting for me.

True Blood

The trailer for True Blood is really interesting, making me intrigued to watch the aeries. This is because it has multiple elements of comedy, violence, tension and romance from what has been shown so far. It seems a simple idea but much more extensive with a problematic plot when things go wrong which makes it look like a good series to watch.

Orphan Black (I put this above as a synopsis but never watched it)

This program also looks very intriguing to watch. It has an interesting plot which takes place in the age where cloning humans is developing so women have been cloned and placed over the world which then find out that they are clones as they meet together with each other. To add to the plot, someone is out to kill all the clones so there is violence and mystery which makes it look like a good program to watch.

Mad Men (I put this above as a synopsis but never watched it)

The trailer to me seems to show the show as boring, probably because it is set in the past, but underneath that, towards the end I can see that there are hidden elements that haven't been emphasised on which show tension and mystery, This isn't the type of show I'd be willing to watch as it seems slightly bland with an un-shown plot twist to make it interesting as it doesn't give the viewer any plot information.

Stranger Things

The Stranger Things trailer is highly intriguing as it has the element of horror but mystery at the same time which makes it look like a good show to watch as from the trailer I get the idea of the plot and a view on some of the characters and what part they play which makes me want to watch it to find out what happened.

Game Of Thrones

I'm not really interested in this show after watching the trailer as it seems to mostly be about relationships and fighting which looks to be an occurring motif in the show. It shows progression in later season trailers but mainly focuses on one perspective and seems confusing when watching it which is why I'm not intrigued to watch it.