Some examples of TV series

1) The series follows a group of black students from a major university in the USA, belonging to the Ivy League,
whose majority of students is white. The show portrays how these characters deal with racism on the university
campus.

2) A group of ambitious law students and their brilliant criminal defense professor become involved in a twisted
murder plot that promises to change the course of their lives.

3) A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists
shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory

4) A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling
methamphetamine in order to secure his family’s financial future

5) A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.

6) In 1983, in a US Department of Energy laboratory in Indiana, a scientist is attacked by an unseen creature.

12 year-old Will Byers vanishes after encountering the creature whil riding home. The next day, a young girl
with a shaved head, wearing a hospital gown, steals food from a local diner.

7) In the small town of Dillon, one night matters : Friday night . Eric Taylor has recently been hired as the
Head football coach for the Dillon High School Panthers, the town’s pride and joy . The show displays the stress
that the town gives the high school players to win.

8) It is an American fantasy drama set on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos. It has several plots
and a large ensemble cast and follows several story arcs. It was both produced and filmed in Belfast but also
in Croatia, Iceland, Morocco and Spain.

9) While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college dropout, slips into an interview
with one of NYC top lawyers, Harvey Specter who hires him on the spot. Mike and Harvey are a winning team
and, even though Mike is a genius, he still has to learn about law ; While Harvey may seem a cold-blooded shark,
he appreciates Mike’s sympathy and concern for their cases.

10) It follows teenager Clay Jensen as he returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on
it lying on his porch. Inside, he discovers a group of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker (his classmate
and crush) who tragically committed suicide two weeks earlier.

A. Give a title to each show

Suits/Thirteen Reasons Why/Game of Thrones/Friday Night Lights/Dear White People/ Stranger
Things/How to Get Away with murder/The Big Bang Theory/House of Cards/Breaking Bad

B. Read the summaries and find the following expressions :

personnage/le droit/une intrigue/maladroit/physicien/poumon/assurer/député (US)/sournois,
manipulateur/se venger/trahir/disparaître soudainement/ rasé /blouse/restaurant/embauché/montrer/arc
narratif/qui a abandonné des études/sur le champ/entrée

C. Find the series corresponding to the genres :

Fantasy (1) Crime Drama (1) political thriller (1) Science fiction/horror (1)
Drama (1) Teen Drama (1) Legal drama (2) comedy/drama (1) sitcom (1)

D. Which one do you find the most interesting ? Why ? Which one do you find the least interesting ?
Why ?