Geek in power

Clotilde 2022-07-26 11:23:01

OK, first of all, what is geek? Simply put... a group of weird people, including nerds, nerds, and computer players. The biggest difference from the weird people in the traditional sense is that they tend to have superior intelligence and are good at studying but don't know how to interact with people. Representatives include Ross in "Friends" or Reid in "Criminal Minds". With the increasing omnipotence of the Internet, the Geek group has grown stronger and stronger, until one day, the bosses of CBS and BBC both decided to make a story about them. So we have "The Big Bang Theory" and "The IT Crowd".
"The Big Bang Theory" is a story between 4 young...or young talented scientists and a beautiful female neighbor. The biggest highlight in the story is the rivalry between this beautiful MM who wants to be an actor and those young guys. I remember that I once saw a test about the personality tendency of men and women that wrote: The only thing in common between men with a score of less than 30 and women with a score of more than 180 is to live on earth. I think it is very suitable to describe the relationship between people in the play. You can feel the sparkle of the collision of completely different ways of thinking. Or the frothy joke that bursts out after throwing a hard candy into a Coke. The show has been soaring since it first aired last year, until it reached the show's highest ratings last week-12.7 million viewers. Plus, the opening MV of this episode is very well done, the music is beautiful, and the pictures are perfectly matched.
The background setting of "The IT Crowd" is a bit simpler. It is about the IT department of a large enterprise. Two Geeks and an unusual female manager form the lead cast of the show. Next, like all British dramas, all kinds of weird stories develop on them, and as an audience you can start...laughing. Take a look at what he wrote on his T-shirt in the first episode: RTFM*, you should guess how absurd the next thing will be.
I started to watch these two dramas almost at the same time, so I had the opportunity to compare the British and American dramas again. Relatively speaking, the story of IT Crowd is separated into chapters. Each episode is very detailed and full of dramatic effects, allowing you to burst into laughter from the first second to the last frame, but between the characters The relationship has stalled. Compared to series, it is more appropriate to call it series. This is also in line with the habit of British dramatists who write each episode as if it were a stage play, gorgeous and flawless. On the contrary, Big Bang's story is not so full. But its advantage lies in the kind of little development of the relationship between the characters, and the expression that is closer to life than IT, which makes you feel like a part of the play without knowing it, and the joy and anger of the protagonist. Sad and happy and caring. In fact, I always doubt whether American screenwriters came to China or South Korea to pick up their experience... Everyone knows that I appreciate British TV dramas more than the fast-food shooting mode of American TV dramas, but this time I didn’t. Can find a winner in these two shows... or I still prefer Big Bang.
In short, if you are a fan of American dramas, then I guess you still have a little bit of sorrow. So when you have time, you might as well take a look at these two dramas, with a little bit of self-deprecation and joy.

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Extended Reading

The IT Crowd quotes

  • Roy: [repeated throughout the series]

    [answering the phone]

    Roy: Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

  • Douglas: How the hell do you two guys work with a finger lickin' piece of chicken like that?