The best television series 2014
2014 will be remembered by us as the most successful in the career of Matthew McConah. Last year, of course, was piercingly magnificent " Dallas Club of Buyers ", But " Interstellar »He still does not overshadow. You have just already understood what series we put in the first place (and no, excuse me, please, this is not " Fizruk "), But let's start with a small.
About continuations
The fourth year in a row series " Game of Thrones »Raises a fair noise. From the fourth season, connoisseurs excited most of all " Ice and flame songs ": What will we see further, because the authors of the series told most of what was written, and George Martin is in no hurry to finish a new book?! What will happen to the little finger and Sansa Stark? What is the fate of Arya, Tyrion, Bran? About who will be the next season at all? But we will learn this only in 2015. Intrigue!
► U " Games of Thrones "Some completely crazy costumers and decorators. You need to watch the series only in 1080p and on the most large screen!
Half of the fresh season was plowed " Walking dead ". The popularity of Rick Grahams and his team is gaining momentum - in the United States there are already more than seventeen million spectators, but the very history of survival that the season resembles a zombie walking in circles. New people appear, new people disappear, and the end-deck is not visible.
Much more successful, everything develops for " Hannibala " - he was successfully extended for the third season, and at the same time the intensity of passions in the adventures of the known doctor of Lecter is not lost at all.
Over the mid -eighth season, it exceeded " The theory of a large explosion ", Which is worth saying thanks for the popularization of the culture of geeks. The series is extended for another three years (until 2017), and the actors now receive a million dollars per series. The “theory” has been going on for seven years, geeks are actively growing and acquires families - heroes do the same. Someone got married, someone is just going, and Sheldon seems to plan his first intercourse. Life goes on as usual.
► There is an opinion that " The theory of a large explosion »Grows even faster than spectators. Somehow it’s even a shame-sheldon has a girl, intercourse is inexorably approaching, and you are all “playing toys” ..
Residents of Chesters-Mill from " Under the dome »Based on the book of the same name, Stephen King finally learned to leave his prison with transparent walls, but it was no longer easier - the series moves deeper from the source and breaks off all logical connections. The series is extended for the third season, but, we think of us, his unpleasant fate of another similar series will be comprehended - “” Jericho ".
I got to the logical final the most successful series of FX TV channel - “ Sons of anarchy ". The final series collected the maximum number of spectators, and in the intensity of passions was not inferior to last year's finale " Breaking Bad ". These were seven complex and cruel years.
In 2014, he once again reborn " Doctor Who ". Alas, the expectations did not materialize - the doctor himself was old (now Peter Capaldi plays him), but the plots of Stephen Moffat and the teams remain the same naive. But after the penultimate series there was a small scandal - Moffat suggested that after the death of the “soul” of people, everything that is happening with their bodies in the real world feels. Grandmother was cremated? Stephen Moffat has bad news for you. Some viewers, of course, did not like it.
► the leitmotif of the fresh season was the study of the humanity of the doctor. Is it so different from the soldiers that he hates? Good or bad, if you draw a line between good and evil? The answer at the end is ambiguous.
And of course, one cannot but mention " Sherlock "Who visits our screens only once every two years and little by little. The next series, all the same Moffat steamed with Mark Gatiss (he plays Mycroft), they arranged a puberty-fan of triple ecstasy, and all normal people-a pleasant, albeit surprisingly illogical, stylish sight with Benedict Cumberbitch, Martin Freeman and-a little! - Andrew Scott. Whether we missed? Well, until 2016, get bored now for a whole year.
► even more shocking, even less logic and meaning.
Games with history
More and more historical series appear. This year, the shows of two pirate series began at once. At first they shot well " Black sails ", Following from the on -board guns, he fired around the audience" Skull and crossbones ". The first one has an indirect attitude to history (this is rather a prequel to the “Treasure Island” of Stevenson), but the second tells of the black beard played by the famous John Malkovich. It is difficult to say what is better - decide or see both of them yourself!
Father J. J. Abrams (son is now shooting " Star wars ") In September, he rolled out a mini-series" Gudini ", You yourself understand about whom, but in the main roles-not someone, but Edrian Brody (" Pianist "," King Kong "). Surprisingly, the fact: large movie actors are increasingly condescending to participation in the television show. But there is a reverse trend: Travis Fimmel, who played the son of Odin, Ragnar Lodbrok, for the series of the History TV channel Vikings "(The second season has successfully ended in May), now plays in Warcraft!
► " Vikings »Interesting primarily from the point of view of history. If the only thing you know about ancient Scandinavia is Thor and Loki, they should be viewed.
But most of all from the historical intrigue " Marco Polo ", The budget of the first season of which is 90 million dollars (there is a lot of damn television show). The first season turned out to be very beautiful and spectacular (still, for that kind of money), but at the same time very smart and ... honest, or something, or something. Moreover, how often you see on the screens of the harsh descendants of Genghis Khan and ancient China?
Strain
We don't know what Guillermo del Toro is doing in development Silent Hills Together with Kojzima, but, apparently, he is not going to leave with his head to work. Direct proof of this - "" Strain ", Which Del Toro directed from his own book.
At first it seems that this is another series about the zombie apocalypse. Then it turns into Resident Evil 4 , And after - in the next story about vampires and ancient evil. But not everything is as simple as it seems: closer to the end of the season, Del Toro begins to frankly thicken paints, and a harsh drama turns on. Few the series holds the intrigue so tightly: here it cannot even be assumed that it will happen next.
The team of “vampire hunters” is also impressive - all the heroes are strikingly different from each other both in character and type. It is even surprising that the primary source is a book, not a comic book.
Hospital Nickerbox
Glory " Dr. House »Does not give rest TV channels. So Stephen Sodelberg (“11 friends of Ocean”) took up the series about the Haro-Haro-Harvest for Cinemax Channel. But here, unlike House, events occur at the beginning of the 20th century, and the narrative is more or less integral - the series are not collected according to the same template. It turned out very stylish and smart.
" Hospital Nickerbox " - unequivocally the most fierce series of the year. At that time, treatment methods were, let’s say ... interesting. You have no MRI or defibrillator, even the X-ray just appeared (and in order to take one picture, you had to irradiate for an hour). Wild times, in a word. The faint of heart is strictly not recommended, dinner during viewing - all the more. And the positive from the series is not worth waiting.
Flash
This year DC Comics has a single film, but at once four series. Which is especially noteworthy, events " Flash »Occur in the same world with events" Arrows ", Just passing in half the new season. It was in the "arrow" that Barry Allen was first shown - even before the blow of lightning, but already damn cheerful and cheerful, despite the personal drama.
“Flash” partially followed in the footsteps of the series about Superman “Secrets of Smallville”: almost all the enemies (and allies) Barry, like himself, appeared as a result of the explosion of the collider in s.T.A.R. Labs. Both the weather wizard and Gorilla Grodd (he has not yet been shown, but they will soon show it), and many others. For half the season, the captain of the cold, a thermal wave, fog, plastic, reverse flash and even damn a fiery storm managed to light up in the series! If you don't tell you these names, just know-it's very, very cool! But there is a bad news - you probably will not be very interesting if you do not like superheroes.
► And Barry Allen is helped by Caitlin Snow, the former girl of a fiery storm. If you are not afraid of spoilers, drive her name into the search engine. Scriptwriters generally very skillfully treat the primary source.
The series was definitely successful - the fan service was more than anywhere else, the audience likes it, the ratings are good. But the best in this whole story is that " Flash " And " Arrow "Are in one universe and constantly intersect. First, the creators of Tisersyat Captain Boomerang in Flash, then show him to the “arrow”, then they are pulled by superheroes with each other and as a result they make him fight with a boomerang together. There has been no such diffusion, it seems, since the time Star Trek , When Next Generation Walked in parallel with Deep Space 9 , And he, in turn, is in parallel with Voyager.
3rd place. Gotham
But " Gotham ", Another series of DC Comics, you can safely advise even those who have no idea who are a female cat and a penguin (such people are there?). By the way, penguin! He is played by a young and ambitious Robin Lord Taylor, who is just right to give a premium for acting. The master of intrigue and the avid psychopath, who only recently embarked on the path to criminal glory, is very valuable for Batman's universe.
Other characters, also brilliantly played by little -known, but very talented actors, are not far behind. I would very much like to see how the casting was going through - all the actors fit in their roles surprisingly organically: the mysterious (he is still working in the police), and the maniac Viktor Zsasz, and Alfred, and the cat (still not a woman), and two -faced, and two -faced, and two -faced. And in general everything!
► While Batman is growing up, Detective Gordon is fighting crime. It turns out not very. Yes, and it is unlikely that it will turn out: we need more techniques.
The series begins as a sort of gloomy version of the film " Training day ": Detective (not yet commissar) Gordon sets up in the Gotham police and first of all faces the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents, who has yet to overcome his fears and become Batman. The entire police are sold, officials, too, including a vile mayor, and the mafia is refueling the city. In Gotham, scumbags, by order of the head of one of the houses of the mafia, can easily come to the police station and ask all the cops to leave their jobs. How to survive? Detective Gordon knows how.
AND " Gotham »Could easily become a series of the year - thanks to an amazing cast, a gloomy saturated atmosphere, undeniably subtle work with the original source and everything else ... If not for two television shows that will be discussed below.
By the way, "Konstantin" , The fourth series DC, we did not include on the list, although I really wanted to. Although it was shot according to the cult of the British comic book Hellblazer (read about him here), but ... alas. Events were transferred to America, of all three hundred issues of the comic book, only one was used in half the season, but all this looks like " Supernatural ", Only with stupid dialogs. Let's see what will happen next, there are still chances of success.
2nd place. Fargo
" Fargo »In many ways, the series is unexpected. Unexpected so that it was even shown by the "first". The television show has already grabbed several awards and will surely receive something at Emmy. Why? Because, firstly, this is a continuation of the cult Oscar-winning film of the Cohen brothers " Fargo ", Secondly, in the main roles here Martin Fream and Billy Bob Thornton, and thirdly, he was shot simply amazingly.
Of course, there are not so many of the branded atmosphere of the film, and the dialogs are not so elegantly crazy, but nevertheless this is one of the best series of the year, and everyone should watch it all. Because of the hired murderer-psychopath, Lorne Malvo with a stupid hairstyle, which gets out clean of any, even the most dirty situation, because of the usual dissatisfied family man Lester Nigaard, who suddenly discovered acute craving for life, due to corporate black humor ... in generally, it is " Fargo ". Each frame here is worth the time spent.
1st place. Real detective
This year, Matthew McConahi, who actually revived like a Phoenix from ash, received his star on the Alley of Glory. From the sexual fantasy of the ladies, he turned into a tragic hero who now gets the characters that are completely broken by fate. And philosophical monologues from his lips sound unexpectedly appropriate.
As in the case of " Fargo ", Every new season" A real detective "Will be about new heroes, and even somehow sorry. McConachi very successfully fit into the image of Rast Cole, who in the past abused drugs and now regularly catches the “parishes”.
Unlike a partner (he was played by Woody Harrelson), in the obvious he sees non -obvious, and believes less to his mind than images from the subconscious. The sect of maniacs, for which this is vegas casino detectives hunt, does not seem to him gathering the killers, but in some other other world-from another world where he himself had once visited, a world who wants to return his faithful servant back. Where an ordinary policeman will see the daub on the wall, the plant will see the entrance to parallel reality, full of pain and rage. What is the meaning of human existence? It seems that Rast Cole knows, this is evident from his eyes. Just cannot explain.
► Whether an evil person from birth, or evil is brought up in him over time? “Real Detective” does not give an unequivocal answer, but the tips and hints are mass here.
" Real detective " - not one of those series who are watching dinner or dinner. If you are not attentive, if you do not think while watching, magic will not work. But those who can get inside be next to the heroes, " Real detective "Will turn out inside out, so much so that even crying at the end will not work.
Whether at least the first season of the series will become cult, like " Twin Pix "? Time will show. But still in the subway, buses and trams you can hear that very initial melody, and I don’t want the owner of the phone to pick up the phone and speak his lifeless “Hello” ..
First place from "gambling", and this is not discussed!
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