Veronica Mars in a Nutshell

Show Name: Veronica Mars (2004-2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Run: 3 seasons (64 episodes)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: UPN/The CW

Veronica Mars is a junior in high school as well as a private detective on the side in Neptune, a town split between the wealthy and the not-so-wealthy. She used to be one of the cool girls, blonde and a cheerleader, until the death of her best friend, Lilly Kane, which she's investigating. Now, her life is split between before Lilly's death and after Lilly's death. Her life after consists of her being the school pariah and her dad Keith being hated by the town. However, Veronica doesn't care because she's hard at work solving her cases, trying to leave Neptune as soon as possible.

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Scandal in a Nutshell

Show Name: Scandal (2012-present)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Run: 5 seasons (78 episodes as of today)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: ABC

Washington, D.C.—home to scandals, the White House, and Olivia Pope. She's the one who makes the problems go away. Ironically, she also creates a few herself. One being a secret affair with the President of the United States...

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Vlog on a Blog: All Things Pride & Prejudice (Book, Movie, TV Show, & More)

Book Name: Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
First Published: January 28, 1813
Movie: 2005
TV Series: 1995
Genre: Romance, Drama

What do you get when two people who hate each other fall in love with each other? A classic love story known as Pride and Prejudice.

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The Blacklist in a Nutshell

Show Name: The Blacklist (2013-present)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Run: 2 seasons (44 episodes as of today)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: NBC

Criminal turned Robin Hood? Is that Raymond Reddington? Nah. No. 4 on the FBI's Most Wanted List turned FBI informant with his own agenda? That's more like it! In a mutually beneficial relationship, Raymond Reddington and the FBI team up to take down the world's most notorious criminals as part of The Blacklist. DUN DUN DUUUN! However, Reddington will only communicate with rookie agent Elizabeth Keen for reasons unknown. Together, they take down the criminals. One by one.

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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in a Nutshell

Show Name: Marvel's Agents of Shield (2013-present)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Run: 2 seasons (44 episodes as of today)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: ABC

Starting right off where The Avengers movie left off, S.H.I.E.L.D. Phil Coulson handpicks the chosen few, Melinda May, Grant Ward, Skye, Leopold Fitz, and Jemma Simmons, to be part of a small team to fight the dangerous, out-of-this-world beings that threatens Earth. However, S.H.I.E.L.D., the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, must also face threats from within, because what's a super secret government agency without a double agent or two? Meanwhile, there's the Nazi-era organization Hydra that's back at it after its demise! Throughout, there's no secret too dark. No act too impossible.

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Awkward in a Nutshell

Show Name: Awkward (2011-present)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Teen, Drama
Run: 5 seasons (65 episodes as of today)
Running Time: 20-44 minutes
Network: MTV

Jenna Hamilton is a very normal, very awkward 15-year-old girl. And like most girls at Palos Hills High School, she's crushing on very popular, very attractive Matty McKibben. So when Matty invites her to meet him in a utility closet, she just can't say no. Jenna's life is no longer the same as she deals with boy problems, misunderstandings, and trying NOT to be a loser in high school.

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Grey's Anatomy in a Nutshell

Show Name: Grey's Anatomy (2005-present)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Run: 11 seasons (244 episodes as of today)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: ABC

Being a surgeon at Seattle Grace Hospital is basically going back to high school. You've got the eager over-achiever, Cristina Yang; the model-type blonde, Izzie Stevens; the dorky softball, George O'Malley; the cocky, overconfident Alex Karev; and the talented Meredith Grey. And that's just a fraction of the population. Full of drama, mischief, and romantic affairs, Seattle Grace isn't your average hospital. It's better.

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Hart of Dixie in a Nutshell

Show Name: Hart of Dixie (2011-2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Run: 4 seasons (76 episodes)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: The CW

New Yorker Zoe Hart thought she had it all together. After graduating from med school, she would become a cardio-thoracic surgeon like her father. However, it turns out her father is not a cardio-thoracic surgeon but small town physician, Dr. Harley Wilkes. Then, her life starts falling apart so she takes an offer from Dr. Harley Wilkes to work at his practice in Bluebell, Alabama, unbeknownst to her that he has a partner, Dr. Brick Breeland, and that he's actually dead and has left the practice to her.

When she arrives, Zoe starts out on the wrong foot with nearly everyone in town. However, knowing that this is her chance to get out away from her overbearing mother, Zoe braves it out and decides to stay in Bluebell. Here, in Bluebell. she finally finds a place that feels like home.

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Full House in a Nutshell

Show Name: Full House (1987-1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Run: 8 seasons (192 episodes)
Running Time: 22 minutes
Network: ABC

Set in San Francisco, news reporter Danny Tanner calls on his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis and best friend Joey Gladstone to help him raise his three daughters after the death of his wife, Pam, in a car accident. Danny, Jesse, and Joey work together to parent D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle as these girls face problems that come with growing up that customarily only a mother could understand. Over the years, the three men solidify their bonds as life-long friends as well creating a different kind of family with their three girls, making for a full house of love and joy.

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The Girl Who Sees Smells // Sensory Couple in a Nutshell

Show Name: The Girl Who Sees Smells / Sensory Couple (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Run: 16 episodes
Running Time: 60 minutes

Based off a webtoon of the same title, The Girl Who Sees Smells (Sensory Couple), which first starts three years prior to the two main leads, Choi Moo-Gak and Oh Cho-Rim, meeting each other. Choi Eun-Seol is the only witness who has survived the “Barcode Murders”, but fell into a coma shortly after her traumatic experience and lost her memories. Having woken up from the coma, she is able to gain the synesthetic ability to see smells but does not remember the fate of her parents or who she originally was. A retired detective who was solving the "Barcode Murders" adopts her and names her Oh Cho Rim. Choi Moo-Gak's sister, who is also named Choi Eun-Seol, was entangled in the "Barcode" murder case, resulting in not only her death, but also in the loss of most of Choi Moo-Gak's senses (analgesia).

Choi Moo-Gak's sole focus is to catch his sister’s killer. When confronting criminals, he pushes his body to the limit and ignores what harm he may be causing himself. While unearthing the cold case, Choi Moo-Gak crosses paths with Oh Cho-Rim. Although Choi Moo-Gak lost his senses and Oh Cho-Rim has had her senses heightened, they both use their abilities to find the murderer. (The original title of “Sensory Couple” was “Girl Who Sees Smells.”)

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Chuck in a Nutshell

Show Name: Chuck (2007-2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Run: 5 seasons (91 episodes)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: NBC

Chuck Bartowski was an average computer nerd working at the Buy More as part of the Nerd Herd, based off Best Buy's Geek Squad, until his ex-roommate Bryce Larkin from Stanford sends him an encoded message that downloads the U.S. most important spy secrets into his brain. In order to protect the government's secrets and Chuck, they send in Colonel John Casey of the NSA and Agent Sarah Walker of the CIA to watch over Chuck as well as use his new-founded intelligence to help them on spy missions to save the day. Now a spy, Chuck struggles to balance his double life, torn between wanting to share his secret while protecting his friends and family.

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The Vampire Diaries in a Nutshell

Show Name: The Vampire Diaries (2009-present)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Supernatural, Fantasy, Thriller, Horror
Run: 6 seasons (133 episodes as of today)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: The CW

Stefan and Damon Salvatore return to their hometown of Mystic Falls, Virginia. There, they both meet Elena Gilbert, a teenage girl who resembles their past love, Katherine Pierce. Elena falls in love with Stefan, but their relationship gets complicated when Elena becomes attracted to Damon. Two words. LOVE TRIANGLE!! And just when things couldn't get anymore complicated, Elena finds out the Salvatore brothers are bloodsucking vampires and that her best friend, Bonnie, is a witch.

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Jane by Design in a Nutshell

Show Name: Jane by Design (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Teen. Drama, Romance
Run: 1 season (18 episodes)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: ABC Family

Jane Quimby is a high school student who lands her dream job: working at Donovan Decker, a popular fashion company. However, she only gets the job because they believe she's twenty-something years old. Now, she has to try to manage her school work and her job, all the while dealing with everyday high school drama and keeping her identity a secret at her workplace.

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Charmed in a Nutshell

Show Name: Charmed (1998-2006)
Genre: Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Drama
Run: 8 seasons (178 episodes)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: The WB

Also referred to as the Charmed Ones, the Halliwell sisters realize that not only are they witches, but the most powerful good witches ever known, when they discover the Book of Shadows. Once they read the incantation, their individual powers are activated: Prue, telekinesis and astroprojection; Piper, freeze objects and people; and Phoebe, premonition and later levitation and empathy. The Charmed Ones use their power to protect the innocents against the evil beings of the world with the help of their whitelighter, aka guardian angel, Leo. Besides fighting the demons and devils, the sisters face the challenge of living a normal life, while hiding their secret, as they are extraordinary. This show takes place in San Francisco where all the sisters reside at the Halliwell Manor.

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Bones in a Nutshell

Show Name: Bones (2005-present)
Genre: Crime, Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Run: 10 seasons (208 episodes as of today)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: Fox

Based off Kathy Reich's book series, Bones follows Temperance "Bones" Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, and Seeley Booth, an FBI agent, as they work together alongside the Jeffersonian team to solve murder cases in and around Washington D.C. Lending their scientific knowledge, Bones and the rest of the team receive the nickname "squints" by Booth because they always squint at the remains. Usually, the show has episodes-long arcs of serial murderers to accompany the everyday crimes. Beyond the crime solving and action, it also focuses on the relationships that develop among the team, including Booth, and their families.

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Keeping up with the Kardashians in a Nutshell

Show Name: Keeping up with the Kardashians (2007-present)
Genre: Reality, Comedy
Run: 10 seasons (138 episodes as of today)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: E!

Keeping up with the Kardashians revolves around the wealthy Kardashians and their daily lives, hence the name, Keeping up with the Kardashians. They're famous for being famous!! Their lives consist of many arguments and very amusing drama. Although this show has a very low ratings along with many critics, this show is very enjoyable, especially if you need a laugh.

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Modern Family in a Nutshell

Show Name: Modern Family (2009-present)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Run: 6 seasons (140 episodes as of today)
Running Time: 22 minutes
Network: ABC

Modern Family revolves around the ordinary lives of three families who are all related through Jay Pritchett: the Pritchett-Delgado family, the Dunphy family, and the Pritchett-Tucker family. There really is no plot whatsoever. It's just a show full of comedic situations and life lessons shot mockumentary style. Yes, that means that the characters are actually talking to the camera like they're in a documentary.

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Gossip Girl in a Nutshell

Show Name: Gossip Girl (2007-2012)
Genre: Teen, Drama, Romance
Run: 6 seasons (121 episodes)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: The CW

"Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite." Gossip Girl follows the lives of "It Girl" Serena van der Woodsen, "Queen B" Blair Waldorf, playboy Chuck Bass, "Golden Boy" Nate Archibald, and "Lonely Boy" Dan Humphrey. Serena has just returned from boarding school only to find that Blair now rules the elite private school of Constance Billards. Tensions rise between the longtime friends, as Blair doesn't want to give up her spot as Queen bee. With all the secrets and the drama, Gossip Girl is never far behind. The blogger with an unknown identity loves the scandal and the lies, especially revealing them on her popular blog. You're no one, until you're talked about.

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Gilmore Girls in a Nutshell

Show Name: Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Run: 7 seasons (153 episodes)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: The WB/The CW

Lorelai Gilmore, a stubbornly independent and sassy single mom, raises her daughter who's also named Lorelai "Rory" Gilmore in the town of Stars Hallow, Connecticut. Lorelai was a high school dropout who ran away from home when she got pregnant at 16 but now owns her own the Dragonfly Inn with her best friend Sookie St. James. Rory is a brilliant, bookish high school student who breaks out of her shell over the course of the show and attends Yale. Together, they make the Gilmore Girls! The show follows Lorelai's and Rory's lives in Stars Hallow as well as Rory's adventures at her prep school Chilton and Yale. It also shows them having two separate lives almost, one in the small town of Stars Hallow and the other in Hartford where they are part of the socialite scene since Lorelai's parents, Emily and Richard, are extremely rich. Throughout, they learn to navigate their daily-life and relationship problems as well as making friendships that will last a lifetime.

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Revenge in a Nutshell

Show Name: Revenge (2011-2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Run: 4 seasons (89 episodes)
Running Time: 43 minutes
Network: ABC

Emily Thorne is new to the Hamptons in Season 1, or so it seems. Little did everyone know, she's actually Amanda Clarke, the daughter of a terrorist convicted for treason, who has actually lived in the Hamptons when she was younger. Now, you can see why she'd want to change her identity. The only problem is that her dad, David Clarke, was actually framed. Nonetheless, he was sentenced to life in prison and was unfortunately murdered there as well. Now, she's back in the Hamptons and is dying to dish out some revenge, hence the title. With the help of her tech-savvy soon-to-be best friend, Nolan, Emily exacts revenge on the people who helped wrongfully convict David for the crash of Flight 197.

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