Leverage

Leverage. The show about a group of con artists. Their jobs are to help people who have been abused by companies. So if a company took a million dollars from them, they would do their job to bring it back. In only seeing a few episodes, I can really say that this is a good television show. I won't lie about it, I was never really into it when it first started, but now that I am actually sitting down and watching a full episode, it's not half bad.

One of the episodes that I watched recently, there was a man who was killed in a plane crash and the company of the plane tried to cover the whole thing up as if it wasn't their fault when it was because it was a plane malfunction. The company refused to pay the family and they lost the lawsuit that was filed against the company. It turns out that the man had a video of the owner of the plane company discussing something with someone from another company negotiating an illegal deal to smuggle certain goods into another country. The thing about this is that it was important because the plane that they would be using was going to crash filled with passengers. They group went into action in order to bring this mother and daughter the money that she deserved. As you can see, the team in this show is mainly around to help the common man get what they deserve from the abusing companies.

Lost

Recently, after being persuaded by all of my friends, I started watching the show "Lost". I had thought of watching it before but with six seasons and 25 episodes in the first season, it was always such a huge time commitment to start it. So I guess it was now or never. I know that it has gotten plenty of mixed reviews with many people loving it and many people hating it. I ended up loving it. Granted im only through the first season, but I am hooked.

What I really like about it is the amount of character development. They make use of intensive flashbacks to get the points across of each and every characters back story and how they all tie in with each other and how they are all in each others back stories, even if only slightly. These flashbacks in turn influence how characters act while on the island and what they do while they are there. The backstories explain more and more each episode which is one of my favorite things about Lost.

I know that things get more and more ridiculous as it goes along through all six seasons, and there were ridiculous things that happened already in season 1, but once I got past that and understood that that is part of the show, everything got better. So my only complain thus far would be how far fetched some things are, but hey, that's the way the show is so if someone doesn't like it they just don't need to watch it.