A Guide to Good Shows for Dummies

A Guide to Good Shows for Dummies 

Ofcourse what you like and dislike is entirely dependent on your tastes and opinions. But this is a guide to help people classify the well-made shows from the poorly made ones. This guide can also be applied to movies but with very limited applicability.

There are certain parameters which can be considered to help a person better judge things in a show. And for the convenience of all you common folk, such helpful things are all listed below.

1.) Camera
If the camera work is not noticeable, it is a bad show.

2.) Music
If the show uses stock music in too many scenes then it's a bad show.

3.) Anurag Age Test (AAT)
If the characters are portrayed by actors who are too good looking and young; & their sexual appeal is a thing in the show, then all of them are distractions with a weak story and it is a bad show.

4.) Dialogue
If crisp, cool sounding and edgy dialogue is used by many characters at too many times, then it is a bad show.

5.) Character traits
If many characters or even one, are defined by them being woman/black/LGBTQ instead of being properly written, then it's forced diversity and a bad show.

6.) Predictability
If the events are typical and predictable in nature then it is not original and hence a bad show.

7.) Plot Structure
Even when a show is set on an ingenious plot, if the makers are obsessed with the main storyline and mention the same things again and again, then it is lazy writing. Hence, a bad show.

8.) Emotional depth
If a show displays too many, too strong emotions to deliberately incite a response from the viewers, then it is a bad show. Emotional depth is about subtlety, not tears or sympathy. The more 'in your face' is something, the worse.

9.) Rationality
If the actions of characters are based on impulsive emotional outbursts rather than in alignment with their character design, and moreover defying rationality for the purpose of forwarding the plot, then it is a bad show.

10.) Plot Armor
If certain characters come out of all situations unharmed and everything happens without a justifiable consequence, then it is a bad show.


Now, since it's an art form and human imagination and ingenuity is nearly limitless, it is very much possible for a show to exist which is very good even if it defies a few of my parameters. But it is rare. And hence, this guide is mostly very reliable.