Today’s Recommendation is Alias, which aired for 5 seasons on ABC from 2001-2006.
From Creator J.J. Abrams, who’s went on to create LOST, as well as Fringe, Alias is a spy drama shows, based around the life of Sydney Bristow (played by Jennifer Garner). The show starts off with Sydney getting recruited to work at the CIA, and follows her life from there. I can’t remember a Pilot episode that was as good as Alias’s, it was incredible. All 3 of J.J. Abram’s shows have had incredible pilot episodes.
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(Note, this Recommendation may contain minor spoilers for the show, I tried to avoid them wherever possible)
Today’s Recommendation is for the HBO show Carnivàle, a 2 season show that aired from 2003 until 2005.
Carnivale is one of the best shows I have ever watched, and it’s a shame it was only 2 seasons. I read it was originally planned for 6, and than cut short, which is disappointing, I wish it had gone on longer.
Carnivale is a story about good and evil, it starts showing 2 different settings, one setting with a man representing good, and another representing evil.
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For today’s recommendation, I’m going to recommend my first movie, I’ve always been more of a TV watcher than movie watcher, but I love both and will put recommendations of my favorites from both mediums on the blog.
Today’s Recommendation is for the 2005 fantasy movie MirrorMask. Created by the Jim Henson Company, Mirrormask follows the story of Helena, a 15 year old circus performer, who is cast into a fantasy world, where she must find a mystical item known as the Mirrormask, to help save the kingdom and be able to return home.
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Today’s recommendation is for Dirty Jobs, my favorite show on the Discovery Channel.
Dirty Jobs is about, just what that title says, Dirty Jobs. And most of the time not just dirty, but filthy. The show follows host Mike Rowe around as he goes to places people work, that happen to be very dirty jobs. Mike goes to these places, and spends a day at each one, doing the parts of the different jobs for a day, though more often getting in the way than helping.
Each episode usually has 2-3 different jobs that Mike goes to. For example, some of the jobs Mike has worked at in the past include being a coal miner, alpaca shearer, chimney sweeper, bridge painter, cave biologist, cranberry farmer, and snake wrangler. And that is just a few, there have been a couple hundred different dirty jobs on the show.
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The Lone Gunmen is a spinoff from the X-Files, aired in 2001, based on the characters from the X-Files. It only lasted 13 episodes, and was cancelled, which was disappointing, because I thought the show was excellent, and had a lot more potential.
The Lone Gunmen is about a group of 3 friends, John Byers, Richard Langly, and Melvin Frohike (played by Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund, and Tom Braidwood respectively). Together these 3 run a newspaper called “The Lone Gunmen”. A newspaper about conspiracy theories and things related to that.
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