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By Maggie Martin Sept 19, 2013
5 Netflix shows that will spark a full-blown addiction
Since the fateful day that Netflix and I started our relationship, binge-watching TV shows has been a pastime of mine. In an effort not to embarrass myself, I’m only going to share 5 series’ I have watched that are worth starting.
1. Revolution
I know I made an official post about this show a few days ago, but I just want to reiterate how GREAT this show was. It’s set in a not-so-distant-future 15 years after all of the power stopped working. You can imagine the chaos that ensued.
Nineteen year old Charlotte “Charlie” Matheson (Tracy Spridakos) has basically grown up in the world without power and has lived only with her brother and father for the past 10 years. When the Monroe Militia come searching for her father for his supposed knowledge of how to turn the lights back on, they kill him. In Charlie’s father’s last breaths he tells her to go find her uncle Miles about turning the lights back on.
I can’t get over how intricate the details were and the crazy complexity to each character. Season 1 is on Netflix and season 2 will be airing on NBC on Wednesday September 25 at 7/8c.
2. Parks and Recreation
If you don’t already love Amy Pohler you will after watching this comedy. It’s similar to The Office in that it’s a mockumentary style show. It follows Leslie Knope, director of the Parks and Recreation department of Pawnee, Indiana and her dynamic co workers. Honestly I laughed through most of each episode. It is a gem that I cannot wait to air on television on Thursday September 26 on NBC at 8/7c.
3. Roswell
This is the dark horse of my list, purely because this show came out in 1997. I’m being 100% truthful when I tell you that my starting this show stemmed from Snooki tweeting about it. Not kidding. But I’m so glad I started it.
Roswell, New Mexico is the site of Area 51, the supposed alien crash landing of 1967. In the show, there were true aliens that crashed, leaving behind half-human half-aliens to walk the Earth. Three of these aliens stayed on Earth and integrated into human life, Max, Isabelle (a young Katherine Heigl!), and Michael.
One day while a very human Liz Parker is working at her family’s diner, a stray bullet strikes her. The hunky alien Max heals her with the touch of his hand telling her to tell no one. The rest is history. If you’ve read Twilight you will probably wonder how Stephenie Meyer got away with coping the general premise and changing it from aliens to vampires.
4. Gossip Girl
I have to talk about it. I have a very real obsession with this show and it’s very sad really. The premise sounds ridiculous, following the lives of spoiled rich kids from the Upper East Side of New York City, but I think that’s what makes it so great—the fact that it is so over the top.
Obviously not all of us are going to be able to get their wedding dress personally designed by Elie Saab or rent out a room at The Plaza for extended periods of time. It’s just exciting to escape into that world of heightened drama. The references are just so good though. The writing is superb season 1 and 2.
5. The Vampire Diaries
I mean, Ian Somerhalder should be reason enough to start watching this show if you haven’t already. My roommate and I have argued that TVD has the single most attractive cast on television and I’d like to see anyone challenge me on that statement. TVD follows Elena (Nina Dobrev) who falls in love with the gentle vampire Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley). When Stefan’s “bad boy” brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder) moves in to Mystic Falls he shakes everything and everyone up. With his general beauty. The cast is coming back in all its glory on Thursday October 10 at 8/7c on the CW.
