Blog Assignment #2: The Fascination of a TV Series

I think we can say what we want about TV and to much TV-watching but nothing is like a good TV Series or a another good program. I think it has something to do with an escape, an escape to a place or a world where you don’t need to think so much. Or, of course, in a crime story you have to think a lot about who was killed and who will be killed next? But it is an escape to something else; you can forget all needs in life for a short while. Nevertheless now I am going to tell you about my favourite TV Series.

Firstly I am completely enamoured in a good British crime story. And it has to be British. The British beautiful countryside has enchanted me totally and all these series always remember me of how much I would like to go to Britain. British crimes that I love are for example The Inspector Lynley mysteries, Wire in the Blood, Silent Witness and of course Midsomer Murders. Nothing is like a sweet summer night, when the day ends with the charming crime story Midsomer Murders where Detective Chef Inspector Barnaby and his faithful companion Jones always solves new murders every week in the fictive Midsomer, probably England’s most dangerous place to live on. And I can’t forget to mention the beautiful theme song that follows every episode, which give the program something extra and exciting every week.

Secondly I must say Så ska det låta because it is a fantastic Swedish “all come together” family program. I am very interested in music and singing and therefore this, of course, is an ultimate “feel good experience” for me. The intro is the best part I think where Swedish singers are supposed to sing out load when they now the answer of what song and so do I. It has become a sport for me to sing out loud before the famous singers in the program do. These 58 minutes of happiness are always ending to fast and next Friday is never so far away as then. A good thing is that I can watch it on svt play again and again if my need is too big.

Last of all I remember some series I watched as a child; Rederiet, Tre Kronor, Skilda Världar and the American Series Sunset Beach. I was completely taken by these series. However, I am not a big fan of these kinds of series, or soap operas, today. I think that the fascination came because it was something new for me. I had never watched something like this before and it was so fantastic. But in some years we had so many of these series and then it was too much for me. Little house on the Prairies was my favourite Series when I was a little wee girl and I always watched it with Grandmother and my sister, a lovely time I think.

Good TV Series are nothing to disdain I think. In other words, what should we do without them? There are so many different Series which I can’t count and I think it is good that we all are different. Because then will probably all of us find something that we love and need to follow every week. And nothing is like waiting for a great Series; it gives me a fantastic feeling. At the same time we can look at the aspect of learning English when watching an American or British Series and that is not bad at all.