"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise..."

    Star Trek was the first sci-fi TV show in my life and as such, remains my favorite. Watching Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and the other crew members in the classic Enterprise was certainly very important for me. When I was 10 years old (back in 1990) and was kept away from my father and from my city, the philosophy of Gene Roddenbery was everything I had. The vulcan concept of life based in logic became my ideal and was my very own escape, avoid feelings helped me to grow up. The "Next Generation" introduced me new concepts of human behavior and a strong sense of organic society, several minds thinking together as different parts of a single brain. The strong sensibility of "Deana Troy" interacting with the strategical mind of "Worf" and the huge knowledge of "Data" guided by "Riker" and "Picard" are very unlike the conflict present in the original series. To mention technology, the computers and other devices are not that distant from our own today.

"There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission..."

    This phrase makes us feel exactly as they say, exposed to whatever their imagination can conceive. "The Outer Limits" is maybe the best continuation to a vintage TV show ever made, this version is as good, if not better than the original black-and-white, the subjects are the same we're used to think about. "What if..." is the starting point, think about the possibilities of humanity in many ways. This series goes beyond science fiction, it gets close to our questions about life. Could the death be exterminated? Could technology be our doom? Are we really that superior? These are some of the points we're faced to. "The Outer Limits" means the ultimate work in philosophy, certainly the most sophisticated effort in guiding the audience to a deep questioning about our lives. I was always attracted to science and also by the mysteries of our mind but until I started to watch this show no other ever did such a good job working on this subject.

"If no one told you that was gonna be this way, your job is a joke, you're broke, your love life's DOA..."

    I couldn't forget "Friends" here but I don't have much to tell about it, it's just a great show. It's about life surrounded by friends able to be there for you if you're there for them too. Rachel, Monica, Pheebs, Chandler, Joey and Ross. They are neighbors, flatmates, lovers... Living in New York City, they're Friends as I would love to have and I bet you too. Our everyday is discussed in friendly chats at the "Central Perk Cafe", different backgrounds leads to different points of view and there is where the fun resides. Naive Pheebs, silly Joey, uptown Rachel, obsessed Ross, insecure Monica and gallant Chandler. With beveled qualities like those you easily identify your own people.

"...She's the lady in red when everybody else is wearing tan. The fresh girl from flushing, the nanny is named Fran!"

    Who never wanted to have the perfect nanny? Maybe not totally perfect but at least that one who is funny, protective, beautiful... This is Fran Fine, the character played by Fran Drescher in "The Nanny", a story about a British Broadway producer living in New York with his 3 kids, butler and business partner. He accidentally hires a cosmetics seller as nanny an seven years of comic situations starts to happens. Watching the re-exibition of this sitcom made me fell robbed because I didn't had the opportunity to watch it until very recently. Living in Brazil may be good but it takes a really long time for us to watch what the world is watching... But anyway, one could never have the best of both worlds...