some more serials!

I continue the previous article:

CSI : Crime lab set in Las Vegas. A team of scientists (who also carry guns!) will solve crimes happening in and around LV. They use the smallest possible clue – could be a thread or a snatch of a sound – and find the culprit.

CSI NY : This happens in New York with another set of scientists.

CSI Miami : This is supposed to happen in Miami, but actually shot in Los Angeles. To make us believe that it happens in Miami, for a scene change stock shots of Miami are used.

The disadvantage here is that in all the three serials, the connection between individual characters is very less. They almost do not ‘know’ each other that much.

Burn Notice : This serial is particularly interesting to me because the hero is ‘burnt’. He does not know how to know who has burned him. He has a girlfriend (ex) and a friend. With the help of these two he keeps helping people in distress. His mother and brother also add color to the troubles he undergoes. Generally there is a big story where he helps someone and he will be working how to know about his burn notice. The hero Michel Westen is good. He keeps having a monologue with us while there is no dialogue with other characters. Really nice serial.

The Mentalist : Patrick Jane who is hunting the killer of his wife and child helps the California Bureau of Investigation to solve murders. He is a psychic. So he straightaway asks the characters “Why did you kill so and so?” much to the embarrassment of the onlookers.

Nikita : A good one. A rogue agent who comes out of  a rogue division tries all her methods to destroy the division with a lot of resistance from the division. Interesting plot, lot of action and speed

NCIS : Naval Crime Investigation Services: this is mainly to do with the Naval Crimes. This is based in Washington DC. Here, there is an element of humor which sometimes felt that wrongly placed.

NCIS Los Angeles : Here the background is LA. Good star cast and humor is part of the serial.

Outsourced : An American from Kentucky comes to Mumbai as the boss of a call center. Lot of American humor and Indian sentiments and comedy are thrown in. Quite interesting interspersed with Bollywood songs.

Bones : A very interesting one, if one can ‘digest’ the dead bodies and bones! The hero Booth is an FBI Agent and the heroine is a forensic anthropologist. She is Temperance Brennen. She doesn’t remember some of the manners of ordinary people. The humor, the suspense, the mystery surrounding the dead body are all interesting. We grow with the characters. A murder investigation with lot of human elements thrown in. Another funny thing is, the city shown is Washington DC, while actual shooting has taken place in LA!

Castle : This one I ‘identify’ myself with! The hero, a friend of the Mayor of NY, is a detective thriller writer. The heroine is a NYPD police officer. The love, hatred, disinterest between these two are depicted well. The author with his uncanny thinking helps in nabbing the culprit.

The pretender : A boy is imprisoned by an office and put under various tests and simulations to understand human behavior. One day the boy  who is a pretender runs away. Now his aim is to help wronged people by bringing the culprits to justice. He does it in his own unique way. He will also be searching for his parents. He is hotly pursued by his old guru and a girl.

Prison Break : the hero’s elder brother is wrongly sentenced to death declaring that he has killed the VP’s brother. The way the hero breaks from the prison is the crux of the story

Revenge : Very interesting. A girl whose father has been accused of something he has not done, comes back to the city to take revenge on each individual who has wronged herself and her father.

Scandal : Olivia Pope, who was once in the White House comes out to help people in distress.

Touch : Very different. Individuals across the world. One boy who doesn’t speak or doesn’t allow anyone to touch him, has a penchant for numbers. He keeps writing some numbers and his father is amazed how people across the world are ‘connected’ in some manner or the other.

The unit : A team of brave men who are directly reporting to the President of the US of A, secretly help the Government to nab culprits. Their families, the troubles they undergo form the story.

Well, I think the reader should not go crazy seeing so many serial. So, I stop here.