Many people across the globe are sick with coronavirus and everyone is strongly advised to stay home.
\nMovie theaters, schools, restaurants and jobs are closed. Whether working from home or just relaxing in the comfort of your own home, it is a convenient time to catch up on your favorite show, movie or just start a new one.
\nBelow are six television shows to entertain you while social distancing.<\/p>\n
“The Office,” U.S. Version.\u00a0Streaming platform: Netflix<\/strong> You have the annoying boss, the office brat, the manager’s pet, the smart and logical one, etc. The show stars Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fisher, Angela Kinsey and Rainn Wilson. The office is well-known for its adult humor.<\/p>\n The show resembles how an everyday office is typically run and what the work environment is like.<\/p>\n “One Tree Hill.”\u00a0Streaming platform: Hulu<\/strong> Lucas was raised solely by his mother Karen since his father was absent. While Nathan, whose mother is Deb and ended up marrying Dan, has everything he\u2019s ever wished for. “Shameless,” U.S. version.\u00a0Streaming platform: Netflix<\/strong> “The Simple Life.”\u00a0Streaming platform: Hulu<\/strong> It first aired on Fox on December 2, 2003. The show mainly focuses on Paris and Nicole giving up their phones, money and credit cards to work a real job in a small town in Arkansas with the most ridiculous tasks. While the girls worked on the dairy farm, they had to feed cows as well as wash and prepare them for milking.<\/p>\n At Sonic, Paris and Nicole took orders, made onion rings and brought the food out to people on roller skates. The show contains foul language and alcohol.<\/p>\n “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.”\u00a0Streaming platform: Netflix<\/strong> Along the way she becomes a nanny for one of New York’s socialites. The show stars Ellie Kemper, Carol Kane and Titus. “Criminal Minds.”\u00a0Streaming platform: Netflix or CBS<\/strong> By using behavioral analysis and profiling, this group of agents are able to predict and find the perpetrator before their actions become uncontrollable.<\/p>\n The show not only presents a different case each episode, it tells the story of how the team works together on various cases while dealing with their own personal struggles.<\/p>\n The show is an American police procedural drama that differs from most because it focuses solely on the victims and criminals rather than the crime performed.<\/p>\n Criminal Minds has a total of 15 seasons with an average of 22 episodes per season. The show includes dead bodies and a great deal of blood and violence. Criminal Minds is a great show to watch if one enjoys thrilling crime dramas.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Many people across the globe are sick with coronavirus and everyone is strongly advised to stay home. Movie theaters, schools, restaurants and jobs are closed. Whether working from home or just relaxing in the comfort of your own home, it is a convenient time to catch up on your favorite show, movie or just start…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39,1029,40,869,913,91,42,93,915,85,1030],"staff_name":[839,850],"class_list":["post-13954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-binge-watch","tag-city-college-times","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-journalism","tag-journalism-program","tag-san-jose-city-college","tag-shelter-in-place","tag-sjcc","tag-tv","staff_name-deanna-fulford","staff_name-melissa-schraml"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nFeel the need to escape from the workplace? Come take a look at the most popular mockumentary about a small paper company called Dunder Mifflin.<\/p>\n
\nThe show is about a small town in North Carolina whose high school basketball team has drama dating back a whole generation.
\nThe town Tree Hill is turned upside down when half brothers Nathan and Lucas Scott both make the varsity high school basketball team.<\/p>\n
\nThough both Nathan and Lucas despise each other, they have to learn how to put their difference aside in order for their team to succeed. The parents are also forced to come together again and face the drama that they left behind in high school.
\nOne Tree Hill focuses on the lives of Lucas, Nathan, Haley, Brooke, and Peyton as they try to navigate through high school into the adult world.
\nThe show also incorporates various themes like murder plots, stalkers, school shootings, fake marriages, love, hatred, jealousy, vengeance and forgiveness.<\/p>\n
\nOn the south-side of Chicago lives the Gallagher family. With an absent mother and a drug-dependent, alcoholic father who usually ends up passed out on a park bench, the eldest daughter Fiona is forced to take care of her five younger brothers and sister.
\nThe six siblings and their extended family of friends, lovers and neighboors lives are infected with sex, drugs, suicide, abuse, mental disorders and more. Despite their hardships, the Gallaghers always make something out of nothing with their determination and love for each other.
\nThe show incorporates dark humor but also tackles the many struggles of what poor families with absent parents have to do in order to survive. The show has nine seasons with their 10th and final season coming this year.
\nHowever, if one does decide to start the \u201cShameless\u201d series, be aware that it does show extreme nudity, an attempted suicide, drug abuse, graphic sex scences as well as foul and racial language.<\/p>\n
\nBefore \u201cKeeping up with the Kardashians,\u201d Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie invented reality TV with their show \u201cThe Simple Life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe jobs the two are forced to do include working at a Dairy Farm, Sonic and a local gas station.<\/p>\n
\nAfter being kidnapped and quarantined by a cult leader in an underground bunker for fifteen years, Kimmy Schmidt is freed after being found by the police and starts a new life in New York City.<\/p>\n
\nThe show aired on Netflix on March 6, 2015 to January 25, 2019. One of the show’s writers, Tina Fey, makes several cameos.<\/p>\n
\nCriminal Minds is based on an A-list team of FBI profilers who analyze the country\u2019s most-twisted criminal minds.<\/p>\n