Ahh TV shows…They make us laugh, cry, fall in love, hate it and even make us create discussions in the society about some subjects (like 13 Reasons Why). They are even more popular now, with the streaming services (Netflix, for example), but they are present since the 50’s! Besides the current series are addicting, let’s remember a good selection (of very hard choices) of the 10 best TV shows from the 00’s.
Gilmore Girls
Based on the relationship between Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her daughter Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel), the serie debuted in 2000 and the last episode was shown in 2007. Mother and daughter live at Stars Hollow, in Connecticut, a small town located 30 minutes from Hartford, the state’s capital. The series explores a lot of themes such as family, friendship, many conflicts and social classes.
Smallville
“Somebody saaave me…” is the first thing that comes to our minds when we hear about Smallville.The Show that was on TV between 16 October 2001 and 13 May 2011, is based on the DC Comic Superman’s character, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. It tells the trajectory of Clark Kent (Tom Welling), who lives in Smallville, in the state of Kansas, as a normal kid with superpowers. The idea of the series is to show how his life would be like if the spaceship would fall at the earth at the present time, mixing modernity from the twenty-one century with old values. A lot of heroes and bad guys appeared in the story.
That’s so Raven
Who doesn’t remember of laughing hard with the messes of Raven? That’s So Raven was a series show from Disney Channel, and it tells the story of the teenager Raven Baxter (Raven-Symoné), who has the power to predict the future. She and her best friends, Chelsea Daniels (Anneliese Van der Pol) and Eddie Thomas (Orlando Brown), have a lot fun with moments when things get out of control.
The series was on TV from January 2003 until November of 2007, but a spin-off, with the title “Raven’s Home” was showed in July of this year only in the USA. At the spin-off, Raven has two kids and Nia, her daughter, has her powers as well. Let’s hope this episode comes to Brazil.
The O.C
The O.C was a TV show produced by Warner Channel from August of 2003 until February 2007, and it tells the story of a group of teenagers and their families who live in Newport Beach, Orange County, in California. The show was a big success. The good soundtrack and the track of Ryan and his friends was a hit made for teenagers.
Two and a half man
Charlie Harper is a bachelor that lives very well by himself. He writes jingles and makes a lot money with that. He is always surrounded by women, drinks and gambling. When suddenly, his brother Alan Harper get divorced from his wife, Judith (Marin Hinkle), and asks to move in with him, in Malibu, taking his son, Jake, with him. The three of them starting living under the same roof, creating situations worthy of 13 awards and another 32 nominations (including Emmy and Golden Globe).
The series was on television from 22 September 2003 until 19 February 2015, after 12 seasons.
FYI: in 2011, Charlie Sheen was fired and replaced by Ashton Kutcher.
Lost
After the plane that traveled from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles, United States crashed somewhere at the Pacific Ocean, a group of passengers need to fight to survive. Led by the doctor Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and by the mysterious John Locke (Terry O’Quinn), they will find out the place they’re living hides dangerous secrets. As time goes by, informations about the past of the survivors are revealed, as Hugo ‘Hurley’ Reyes (Jorge Garcia), Savid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) and James ‘Sawyer’ Ford (Josh Holloway). Because of its big cast and the costs of filming at Hawaii, the show was one of the most expensives until now.
House
In this story, the bad guy is the disease and the hero is the brilliant Dr. House. With a strong personality, sarcasm and geniality, House is always fighting with his boss and his team, ‘cause his diagnosis are almost always based on controversial and unlikely hypotheses It was the most watched show on television in 2008 and won a lot of awards, the show was on air from 16 November 2004 until 21 May 2012.
Grey’s Anatomy
Also based on a hospital environment, the show is starred by Dra. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), resident at the surgical hospital Seattle Grace (later Memorial Grey-Sloan Hospital), in Seattle, Washington. With a cast that renews itself every year, some veterans say goodbye from time to time, some new faces gather to the medical team and the show gains big emotions and good stories about doctors and patients.
Supernatural
Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles have a lot of females fans while playing the Winchester brothers, Sam and Dean, at their demons, monsters and supernatural creatures hunting. When they lost lose their mother, some dark creatures start to get involved with them, so their father decides to teach them to handle with the supernatural life, teaching defense techniques against the dark forces. Now the Winchesters travel the country with their old Chevy fighting against the evil. Launched in 2005, the series was renewed for its thirteenth season for the beginning of next year.
Everybody hates Chris
It’s impossible to forget Rochelle and her kind way. Everybody hates Chris is a comedy and a drama inspired by the personal experiences of Chris Rock in Bed-Stuy, a neighborhood in New York City. Starred by Tyler James Williams and with Terry Crews, Tichina Arnold, Tequan Richmond, Imani Hakim and Vicent Martella in the cast, the show had four seasons, originally displayed in USA between 22 September 2005 and 8 May 2009. With charismatics characters and full of clichés, everybody misses Chris and his family.
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