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shadowkatAfter reading this post which appears to be attempting to get friends and other people online to love or at least watch Marvel Agents of Shield, I thought, there are ways to convince people to watch a tv show and this is not amongst them. Actually all this post manages to do and rather effectively at that is royally piss off the people who have given up on Marvel Agents of Shield. So if you want to know how not to persuade people to watch or love something that you do - that's how. (Assuming of course the intent of the article/post was to persuade not...piss off. You can never tell on the internet.)
So how do you persuade someone to try a tv show, which you think they'll love or at least appreciate?
There's a couple of ways.
First is to share clips of that series which you've discovered on Youtube and think represent why you like it and why someone else may like it. The below are clips to television series that I highly recommend.
1. Justified: This is the trailer to the first Season.
2. The Good Wife:
Depiction of the hilarious court-room politics - with Michael J Fox, guest-starring.
It's hard to find non-spoilery clips for this series.
3. Scandal:
That's one way to do it.
Another is to try to describe the series and include clips - or the hybrid method.
Example: Buffy the Vampire Slayer starts out as a series about a former high-school cheerleader who moves to a new school and is a vampire slayer. It's quirky, with quippy dialogue and subverts the traditional slasher/gothic tropes. Instead of Buffy being the victim, she's the hero. But over time it changes and becomes something else entirely - with episodes that broke rules in narrative format and writing.
Here's two examples of how it becomes something entirely different and somewhat experimental:
The entire episode, except for the first couple of scenes and last couple of scenes, had no sound but music, which you hear in the clip below.
And then there was the musical - which made fun of musicals:
Or you can direct your friend to a critical review of the series, as one might do for say Breaking Bad -Alan Sepinwall's review of the first episode of the series. Or better yet, and far less spoilery: Stephen King - Why I love Breaking Bad - assuming of course your friend or the people you are attempting to persuade are Stephen King fans.
Or if you have the time or inclination just write your own review of it. Here's an example of one I wrote for The Tomorrow People: Although I clearly didn't love it.
The trick in writing your own review, I think, is not to tell people what they'll like, but describe it well enough to show them whether it would be something that might interest them, without spoiling it. That's what makes reviewing difficult - that fine line between spoiling and teasing. You have to give just enough info to intrigue, but not enough to spoil. Also, you can't give too little - or you will bore. Vagueness gets you nowhere. Nor does it help to flatly state this is a good show - you must watch it. Because seriously, why would they?
So how do you persuade someone to try a tv show, which you think they'll love or at least appreciate?
There's a couple of ways.
First is to share clips of that series which you've discovered on Youtube and think represent why you like it and why someone else may like it. The below are clips to television series that I highly recommend.
1. Justified: This is the trailer to the first Season.
2. The Good Wife:
Depiction of the hilarious court-room politics - with Michael J Fox, guest-starring.
It's hard to find non-spoilery clips for this series.
3. Scandal:
That's one way to do it.
Another is to try to describe the series and include clips - or the hybrid method.
Example: Buffy the Vampire Slayer starts out as a series about a former high-school cheerleader who moves to a new school and is a vampire slayer. It's quirky, with quippy dialogue and subverts the traditional slasher/gothic tropes. Instead of Buffy being the victim, she's the hero. But over time it changes and becomes something else entirely - with episodes that broke rules in narrative format and writing.
Here's two examples of how it becomes something entirely different and somewhat experimental:
The entire episode, except for the first couple of scenes and last couple of scenes, had no sound but music, which you hear in the clip below.
And then there was the musical - which made fun of musicals:
Or you can direct your friend to a critical review of the series, as one might do for say Breaking Bad -Alan Sepinwall's review of the first episode of the series. Or better yet, and far less spoilery: Stephen King - Why I love Breaking Bad - assuming of course your friend or the people you are attempting to persuade are Stephen King fans.
Or if you have the time or inclination just write your own review of it. Here's an example of one I wrote for The Tomorrow People: Although I clearly didn't love it.
The trick in writing your own review, I think, is not to tell people what they'll like, but describe it well enough to show them whether it would be something that might interest them, without spoiling it. That's what makes reviewing difficult - that fine line between spoiling and teasing. You have to give just enough info to intrigue, but not enough to spoil. Also, you can't give too little - or you will bore. Vagueness gets you nowhere. Nor does it help to flatly state this is a good show - you must watch it. Because seriously, why would they?
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Date: 2013-12-15 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-15 11:21 pm (UTC)I think part of the trick of recommending a series to someone else - is knowing their tastes. For example - I'd never recommend Once Upon a Time to you, I think it would drive you nuts (I might be wrong about that) but
definitely would recommend The Good Wife and Justified.
I don't know if you'd like Scandal - it's unevenly written and difficult to follow at times. Also a bit soapy. But with a lot of juicy anti-heroes, male and female.
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Date: 2013-12-15 08:00 pm (UTC)I think the trick is definitely highlight the thing they might enjoy -- and knowing that if their reaction is "Meh," back off and let it lie fallow. They may come back to it at some point.
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Date: 2013-12-15 11:28 pm (UTC)