ISYS100 Modern TV Shows

Adventure time is an animated series which follows the Adventures of Finn the Human (Jeremy Shada) and Jake the Dog (John Dimaggio) as they venture across the fictional ‘Land of Ooo’. During these adventures, or ‘quests’ as Finn likes to call them, the pair come across various lovable characters such as Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), The Ice King (Tom Kenny), BMO(Niki Yang), Treetrunks (Polly Lou Livingston), Flame Princess (Jessica DiCicco), Marcelene the Vampire Queen (Olivia Olson) and many more. Some characters even receive their own episodes with Finn and Jake showing up only momentarily or not at all. These quests take on various forms some are dangerous while others are more comical, but all the episodes aim to teach some kind of valuable life lesson, which is due in no small part to the fact that the show is aimed at a younger audience. The lessons this show teaches are further emphasised through the shows gender swapping episodes which offers a unique perspectiv...

Image source That's right! It's every one's favourite controversial comedy! South park is a comedy show created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, and it's filled to the brim with crude, silly and sometimes just plain disturbing humor. If you're looking for a show that's not afraid to breach the boundaries of political correctness then look no further! South Park has become extremely popular over the last 20 years thanks to its seemingly fearless approach to comedy. There's almost no celebrity or major political issue that hasn't been mocked hilariously by South Park. Under it's rich layer of comedy however, the show often subtly contains hidden meanings behind seemingly silly jokes. Recommended episodes include: Make Love not Warcraft, Stanley's Cup and Free Hat. Characters to keep an eye are Randy Marsh, who's every body's favorite father figure and of course the infamous Eric Cartman, famous for tricking a boy into eating his ...

How I Met Your Mother is a 10 season sitcom comedy show.  The series follows the adventures of  Ted Mosby,  narrating the story of how he met the mother of his children. The story goes into a flashback and starts in 2005 with a 27-year-old Ted Mosby  living in New York City and working as an architect. The story deals primarily with his best friends, who are the long-lasting couple  Marshall  Erickson  and Lily Aldrin ;  the eccentric, womanising  -playboy Barney Stinson   ; and news reporter  Robin Scherbatsky . The lives of all characters are entwined in each others. The series explores many storylines, including a "will they or won't they" relationship between Robin and each of the two single male friends, Marshall and Lily's relationship, and the ups and downs of the characters' careers. Each episode starts with Ted Mosby in the present with his children, recalling stories from the past and continues into a flashback. Ea...

Continuing on my path looking for more tech oriented TV shows I recently stumbled upon Mr. Robot. Being the geek I am, I was sold after watching the first episode. I won't be going into the story because I believe other sites have explained it better but I will be giving my opinion on what I loved about the show and what I didn't. Image Source A little disclaimer before I go in deeper: The show is a little crazy and it only gets crazier as the story progresses, so, watch out. Anyways, getting to the good stuff, I can go so far as to say that this show has depicted the concept of 'Hacking' better than any other Movie or TV Show I've watched till date because they use real technical terms, like 'Pentesting' rather than saying 'Hacking WiFi' or 'Rootkit' and more. Things don't get hacked with the click of a button, they have to plan everything, take help of other 'Hacking groups', run scripts, type long pieces of code, and ac...

SONS Of Anarchy  Sons of Anarchy is an american tv drama, It follows the lives of exclusive Motorcycle club operating out of a small town named Charming. The tv show aired from 2008 to 2014 having consisting of 6 seasons in total. Sons of Anarchy had  more then 4.9 million weekly viewers making it FX's highest rated series.  The show stars its main actor Jackson 'Jax' Teller,  centering on both his personal, family and outlaw life in Charming, as he starts of as the Vice-President of the club he soon starts to question his involvement in the club, the safety of his wife and kid, his brotherhood and loyalty, which are essentially the main themes of the show. SAMCRO ( S ons of A narchy M otorcycle C lub, R edwood O riginal) are involved with gun running, deals with rival bikie gangs, politicians and authorities. The main characters also include Gemma Morrow, Bobby Munson, Alex Trager, Flip Telford and Tara Knowles. -Joshua

The IT Crowd The IT Crowd is a simple, yet hilarious British Comedy show based around the semi-disastrous lives of two antisocial IT professionals, Maurice Moss (played by Richard Ayoade) and Roy Trenneman (played by Chris O’Dowd). Throughout each series the pair provide IT support for their company, Reynhold Industries under the watchful eye of their new department supervisor Jen Barber (played by Katherine Parkinson), who does not understand technology in the slightest. Together the trio end up getting themselves into ridiculous situations that defy even the most basic form of common sense. Many such situations getting them into trouble with their somewhat unusual boss Denholm Reynholm (played by Christopher Morris) and later their even stranger boss Douglas Reyholm (played by Matt Berry) the son of Denholm. The IT Crowd aired for a total of 8 year between 2006 to 2013, with the show boasting a total of 5 seasons and 25 episodes with each episode running for an average t...

What’s a Modern TV Show blog without Modern Family! Modern family is a hilarious family sitcom that follows the lives of a diverse extended family. The show follows the same family every episode, and does not fail to make you laugh every single episode. Quick recap of characters: The head of the family, Jay, is remarried to a much younger woman, Gloria, a passionate  Colombian with whom he has an infant son, Joe Pritchett, and a son from Gloria's previous marriage, Manny. Jay's daughter Claire was a homemaker, but has returned to the business world. She now works in her father's closet business. She is married to Phil Dunphy, a realtor and self-professed "cool Dad". They have three children: Haley, a stereotypical ditzy teenage girl, Alex, a nerdy, smart middle child, and Luke, the off-beat only son. Jay's lawyer son Mitchell and his husband Cameron Tucker have an adopted Vietnamese, daughter, Lily Tucker-Pritchett. As...

We all know that technology is a big part of our present, and it's only gonna be an even bigger part in the future, for better or worse. Black Mirror tries to depict the dystopian view of it and yeah, it's kind of scary. I'll try not to spoil it but each episode touches a different topic, ranging from the future of VR(Virtual Reality), the future of blackmailing using your own computer(yeah, I'm sorry, don't know how to put it without spoiling the plot), AR(Augmented Reality) embedded into your freakin eyes and connected to your brain which allows you to browse through and watch your old memories, how you can stay in touch with dead person (this one was probably the creepiest) and my personal favourite that shows how much 'online' social media can influence our 'offline' lives where how many upvotes you have or your 'total score' decides whether you'll get to rent that house or not or if you can even board that flight. Oh and none of the ...

Hello and Welcome to our blog about our favourite modern TV shows! This blog hopes to both entertain and inform you on a variety of modern TV shows. Each blog post will cover a different TV show, informing you on what the show is about, some of the key characters starring in the show and an over all rating of the series. Our team consists of five ISYS100 students: William. G, Sushmi G, Joshua R, Ojaswin S and James H. Each week we will individually make a post about one of our favourite TV shows. We hope you will thoroughly enjoy our posts and feel free to leave your opinion!