Top 5 TV shows for tech lovers

TV is slowly getting replaced with the internet, and that’s probably for the best. But even if TV has been plagued by decades of mediocre shows, it doesn’t mean we can’t find a few rough diamonds on the waves and indulge ourselves with a few hours of guilty pleasure from time to time. If you stumbled upon TechHaze because you typed an geeky keyword into Google’s search engine, chances are that you haven’t bothered with TV shows yet, but as you will soon discover, some are very well suited for a geek’s needs.
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1. Mythbusters

Is the obvious one. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman do dangerous and exiting stuff so we don’t have to. Have y0u ever wondered if shooting a gun inside an airplane would cause explosive decompression? If you could be buried alive? If you could be sucked down by a sinking ship? If cars can explode if shot on? If you can surf a wave created by dynamite? I could go on for hours, you get the point. The Mythbusters have the best job in the world, and we get to watch them at work. And of course, a healthy level of science is included in every episode.
It goes without saying that the whole Discovery Network is Geek-rated.

2. House MD

This one is less obvious. If you’re into tech, your conception of drama is probably represented by a corrupted hard drive or a virus on your PC. Well, if you watch House for the first time, expect the word to get a whole new depth, because House MD is the very definition of drama. Dying patients, drug addicted doctors, hot lesbian co-workers, you name it. The tech? Just have a look at all the gorgeous iMacs they use everywhere, the CAT scanners and whatnot. The hospital is a tech paradise. Oh, and there’s the complicated medical stuff they say between drama sequences, I always wondered if it actually means something. Anyway, House MD is one of the actually smart TV series out there. Hugh Laurie is witty and delightfully cruel, the show is a must-see just because of him. Oh, and it’s less girly than Grey’s Anatomy.

3. The IT crowd

This is the relatively unknown one, mostly because it’s British and not American. Picture two IT guys hanging out in their office all day long with nothing to do, add a crazy boss and a female supervisor, and you’ll get one of the funniest TV series of our time. Watch out for Moss, the guy with the Jewfro (who reminds me of a friend of mine), he’s just hilarious. Don’t miss the episodes where they break the internet and put it in a box. Oh, and memory is RAM! A must see for any tech lover!

4. The big bang theory

This is somewhat of a mixed bag for me. While it is undoubtedly is funny, I sometimes feel like the show is vulgarizing the term “geek”. I mean, it’s not because you know a few complicated words and because you can boot a PC that you are, in fact, a geek.
The show is nevertheless hilarious. Just like Moss is irreplaceable in the IT crowd, Sheldon rocks our world with his bad temper and sociopathic behavior. The story of Penny, the (relatively) pretty blonde aspiring actress who moves in to a new flat which happens to be on the same floor as Sheldon’s and Leonard’s, the biggest nerds on earth, is cute and destined to trigger some funny situations, but the actors aren’t the best. Kaley Cuoco, particularly, isn’t very gifted, but this flaw is easily forgivable thanks to the excellent scenarios.

5. Lost

You saw this one coming, didn’t you? I was in love with this series when it started. The crash landing, the desert Island on which the survivors have to find a way to live, the various discoveries on the island, all this is exactly the kind of stuff I like. But after a few seasons, it got ugly. Time travel started to appear, supernatural beings found their way into the script, characters got resuscitated, and everyone lost track (no pun intended) of the story. A few weeks ago, the last and final season of Lost started, and I must admit I’m relieved: We will finally get answers.
But it seems that even the writers don’t really know where they’re going, and they even said so themselves: Some questions will remain unanswered.
Lost has fatal flaw that many sci-fi thrillers have: when the writers decided to add some pseudo-mythology, the show dropped from being one of the most exiting televison series to being an ordinary multi-million dollar American production the world is drowning in.