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FOUR TV series you will never see
The theory of parallel universes – where things are similar yet different - is feasible and regularly explored in quantum physics, and even more reliably, in
comic books and other works of fiction. The good news is that we were able to discover what some of our popular TV shows looked like in another reality.
The bad (or is that good) news: You’ll never see them.
1. The Big Bong Theory
2. Jeans
The show traces four stoner girls who sit
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around their apartment smoking weed,
discussing whether the size of their joints
heir
lead to better highs, and their interaction
eraction
with their next door neighbour, a highly
successful neurosurgeon.
While parallel Earth missed out on the genius TV
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that is Suits, they did get this, a series which tracked
a failed businessman who takes an over-achieving
Ivy League graduate under his wing and teaches
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him how to go nowhere in life. Together, they sit
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around, ruminate about which reality shows are
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more pointless, and accomplish nothing at all while
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planning to eventually launch their social
media site for slackers.
3. Villains
Hopes were high for Villains,
especially since its counterpart,
something called Heroes, was
nixed before it could even make it
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to one episode. Instead of giving
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the audience really devious and
wicked superpowered characters
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determined to destroy the world,
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Villains instead dished up something
thing
infinitely more frightening – stories
es
about greedy bankers, slimy hedge
dge
fund managers and corrupt politicians
ticians
around the world.
October 2014 | TechSmart
4. So yo think you can
you
judge?
This reality TV talent contest is based
real
on a live audience voting for aspiring
judges fo the network’s other reality
for
based talent shows, including: So
ta
you think you can perform open heart
surgery? S you think you can fly
So
commerc
commercial airplanes? So you think
you can mow lawns? and the network’s
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latest: So y think you can run a
you
country? In this one, the winner of that
talent show will be given an unnamed
country to ru over for four years. [RN]
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