What better to do in the fall than try and find out with new TV shows deserve to get a go on our television/laptop screens at home? Well, we all know that with our tight schedules, be it school, work or both, and our perseverance to watch our favourite “change-it-with-nothing” returning shows, it is merely impossible to ever get ourselves to watch everything that is currently on air. Besides, deciding what not to watch and what to give a go can be a major pain in the a**, so to ease the process for you here’s a top five list I assimilated which I think you confusing peeps should give a go.
1. How to Get Away with Murder
How to Get Away with Murder is ABC’s new compelling legal thriller, executive-produced by the very people who brought to the screens, Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal. This show, starring Academy-Award Nominee Viola Davis, as a fierce yet brilliant criminal defense professor, takes murder to a whole new level, when she together with five of her most ambitious law students, who she picks to work at her prestigious law firm, get caught up in a murder plot that jolts the entire University, and changes the course of the students’ lives forever.
Why you should watch it. A compelling show full of thrills, twists and cheats with a touch of both college-like drama and the bitter-sweetness of everyday life.
2. Flash
Flash is DC’s latest superhero-based television show starring Grant Gustin (formerly known for his role as Sebastian Smythe on the Fox Series Glee) as Barry Allen aka Flash. This CW series chronicles the life and adventures of Barry Allen, a young scientist who is struck by lightning after an advanced particle accelerator malfunctions at the city center, bathing everyone with an unknown form of radiation. Ellen who is driven into a coma, awakes nine-months later only to discover that he has the ability to move at superhuman speed, a gift which he uses to protect Central City from “metahuman” criminals who developed the same mutation as he did after the malfunction.
Why you should watch it. A show full of action, drama, paranormal occurrences and the never-ending search for the super-hero’s mother’s actual “metahuman” murderer.
3. Gotham
Gotham is the creation of none but Bruno Heller, the mastermind behind shows like Rome and The Mentalist. It chronicles the life of detective James Gordon (Ben McKenzie) long before the birth of Batman, and his rise to prominence from rookie detective to Police Commissioner and ally of Batman. This Fox Series also acts as an origin story of DC’s most peccable super-villains and vigilantes, which foreshadows the life of young Bruce Wayne long before his Batman days, and foretells the origin stories of several Batman villains, including Penguin, Riddler, Catwoman and Poison Ivy among others.
Why you should watch it. A brilliant masterpiece which mixes the genres of action, crime and drama outstandingly well, and one which raises brows with its brilliant showcasing of a time where the villains we so know of today, were still merely in their infancy (or at least their thoughts of world damnation was).
4. The Affair
The Affair is perhaps Showtime’s most elusive and provocative drama of the year. It recounts the psychological effects of an affair between Noah Solloway (Dominic West), a married New York City schoolteacher, parent to four children, and struggling writer and Alison Lockhart (Ruth Wilson), a young married waitress from the resort town of Montauk in Long Island who’s struggling to piece her life and marriage together after the tragic loss of her child. The story unfolds after the two meet in Montauk, when Noah together with his family arrive for a summer’s stay at his in-laws’ estate. In between Noah’s book publishing struggles and Alison’s loss travesty, sexual infidelity happens, and with it a serious crime which drives the story into a series of biased recounts of “he-recalls-she-recalls” versions of the same story.
Why you should watch it. A thought-provoking psychological drama with an intriguing mystery, that is unnervingly captivating and sexy.
5. Scorpion
Scorpion is a true-story based CBS series about the life of Walter O’Brien, an Irish genius and computer expert with a higher IQ than Einstein’s. O’Brien, who is arrested at the age of 11 for hacking into NASA to get their blueprint for his bedroom wall, now leads a complex team of geniuses that help the US Department of Homeland Security solve some of the worlds most complex and high-tech threats across the globe. Meanwhile, Paige Dineen, a former waitress and a young single-mother of a nine-year old who she thinks is challenged, only to discover later by Walter that he is actually a genius, translates the "normal’ world to them and in exchange they translate her mentally gifted son to her.
Why you should watch it. A rather peculiar show with a difference, full of tech-driven drama and one which uses a genius hoot to act as the last line of defense from some of the world’s most complex threats. So really what’s not to like?
