Title Recommendations based on Alistair
The Good Wife features Alicia Florrick, who was a devoted wife to her husband, Peter, a Cook County State's Attorney. She gave up her law career to raise their two children, but Alicia is now back as first-year associate at the law firm Stern, Lockhart & Gardner. With her husband behind bars on a corruption charge, nothing will ever go back to normal.
Jesse Custer is a small-town preacher. But that's not the best job for a cynical alcoholic. Jesse believes in God, but his lackluster sermons have trouble attracting much attention in Annville. That is, until he gains the ability to control people with his voice.
Bleach is the story of Ichigo Kurasaki, a scrappy high-schooler who is thrown into battling ghosts, death gods, and more. He is studying to be a Shinigami, responsible for taking care of the souls of the dead as well as dispatching ghosts and malevolent spirits. Because Ichigo can see these spirits, he got tangled up in a fight between a Shinigami and an evil ghost. The Shinigami, Rukia, was forced to save him, but in order for them both to survive, she gave him her powers. Now, under her guidance, he's working to become a full Shinigami, mastering combat and magical powers.
Saotome Ranma, a teenage martial artist, and his father Genma travel to the 'cursed training ground' of Jusenkyo in China. There, despite the warnings of the Chinese guard, they fall into the cursed springs. From now on, whenever Ranma is doused in cold water, he turns in to a girl, and a cute, well-built red-head at that. Hot water changes him back into a man again, but only until the next time. To make matters worse, his father engages him to Tendo Akane, a girl who hates boys.
With special powers of hearing others' thoughts, Sookie Stackhouse stays appraised of everything happening around her including supernatural gatherings, freak accidents, and vampire attacks. But sometimes she just wants to tune out the noise..
Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.
War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. As Napoleon's army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds—peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers—as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture.
Dexter centers on Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood spatter analyst for the Miami-Metro Police Department. And he really can't get enough of the gore at work. In his free time Dexter is a serial killer, creating his own blood spatters. But it's not as bad as it sounds—Dexter only targets other murderers who have eluded the justice system.
Azumanga Daioh depicts the lives of a group of girls during their three years as high-school classmates. It's strongly character driven, telling the story of a group of high-school girls and their hilarious daily tribulations.
When Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. After arriving in Hawaii and meeting the beautiful Rachel Jansen, Peter is shocked to see not only Aldous Snow in Hawaii, but also Sarah Marshall.
Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years. Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!
NCIS: Los Angeles is focused on an elite team of investigators tasked with solving the military's most difficult and perplexing crimes, ranging from high level securities heists to full scale terrorist plots. It's fast paced work, but jokes and banter between Sam Hanna and G. Callen keep things from getting too heavy.
Sakura Kinomoto, an elementary school student, discovers that she possesses magical powers after accidentally freeing a set of magical cards from the book they had been sealed in for years. She is then tasked with retrieving those cards in order to avoid an unknown catastrophe from befalling the world.
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit.
With powerful skills as a psychic, Patrick Jane became a television phenomenon. During one of his TV appearances, he called the infamous serial killer Red John "ugly and sad." This taunt provoked Red John to kill Patrick's wife and daughter—driving Patrick to swear vengeance at any cost. Now working as a consultant at the California Bureau of Investigation, Patrick feels that working with the CBI finally gives him the chance to use his powers for good. Still, he never loses sight of his goal—Patrick is with the CBI to figure out who Red John is and kill him.
