This is an IELTS cue card question asked this month – along with a sample answer.
Describe a TV series you have watched recently.
You should say: what series it is
why you watched it what it's about
and briefly describe the main characters in this series.
Okay, so recently I've been watching "Power" – a TV series about a guy who comes from
a poor neighborhood and makes a lot of money selling drugs – and then he decides that
he wants to go legit; he wants to leave his past behind and make a legitimate business
with his nightclub Truth.
So, the series follows the problems he and his family have to face while trying to get
out of the drug business and make a legal living running clubs.
Obviously, it's not as easy as it might sound – because all his old friends still
try to involve him in drug trafficking, and there always seems to be some crisis or something
which stops the guy from simply making a clean break and starting afresh.
A friend of mine recommended the series; I hadn't heard of it before, but I gave it
a try.
Watching a couple of episodes, and I kind of liked it.
Each episode has good pacing, and the characters are interesting enough to hold your attention.
The plot is also quite well written and has just enough twists and turns to keep you wondering
what will happen next.
Another thing I like about it is that the things that happen are credible; they're
not fantastically impossible scenarios like in some TV series – you can actually imagine
how such circumstances might occur in real life and how these people would deal with
them.
So, the main characters are a guy called Jaimie and his wife Tasha and their two children,
and Jaimie's ex-drug partner Tommy Egan, who is still involved in the drug business.
The other main character is government lawyer, Angela Valdez, who has an affair with Jaimie
while the special task force she is a member of is trying to prosecute Jaimie and Tommy
for drug related crimes.
There are some other characters which recur throughout each episode, people who work in
the club and other friends and contacts that appear repeatedly throughout the series.
It's now in season four, although I haven't watched this current season yet – I watched
up until the end of season three, so I guess I'll catch up with it when I have some more
free time.
I like watching the episodes all at once rather than one each week.
But it's one of the best TV series I've seen for a while – the fact that the time
flies past while watching it is always a good sign that it's enjoyable.
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