{"id":446,"date":"2013-02-26T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T16:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2013-02-26T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T16:29:19","slug":"tv-rant-9-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"TV Rant -9.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching less tv than I should (I&#8217;m a little gun shy with that 6 strikes rule out).<\/p>\n<p>But here are my rants<\/p>\n<p><em>Parks and Rec<\/em> is still solid.\u00a0 Ron Swanson is one hell of a character.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a better foil for Amy Poehler than Tina Fey was and that is saying something.\u00a0 And the Tammy episodes have continued their epic scope.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Office<\/em> has been underwhelming.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still watching because I&#8217;ve been in this long, I want to see what they have planed for the ending.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tom Hanks&#8217; Electric City<\/em> is&#8230;\u00a0 well&#8230;\u00a0 Just fucking awesome.\u00a0 Very sad, action packed, social commentary. Post apocalyptic society.\u00a0 Scariest sewing circle ever.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t TV per sea; it was a series of Yahoo web shorts.\u00a0 Watch it, it&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n<p><em>House of Cards<\/em>.\u00a0 Netflix&#8217;s 1st series.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t say original because it&#8217;s a remake of a British show; but it doesn&#8217;t matter.\u00a0 Kevin Spacey is born to play the part of a Machivelian congressman from South Carolina.\u00a0 Kate Mara and Robin Wright are also awesome in it.\u00a0 I&#8217;d even vote for Spacey&#8217;s character.\u00a0 Very very good.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nashville<\/em>.\u00a0 Yep still watching it.\u00a0 This has become a solid show.\u00a0 It&#8217;s somewhat of a morality tale but it&#8217;s not an asshole.\u00a0 It really makes you want to see what happens.\u00a0 Chip Esten is quietly stealing the show and needs to act in more shit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Justified<\/em>.\u00a0 This refuses to become another cop show.\u00a0 Love it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Archer<\/em> is still obviously awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming:<\/p>\n<p><em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, March 31<\/p>\n<p><em>Mad Men<\/em>, April 7<\/p>\n<p><em>Breaking Bad<\/em>, July 14 (fuck)<\/p>\n<p><em>Venture Bros<\/em>, May 19<\/p>\n<p><em>The Killing<\/em>, May (It Rises!)<\/p>\n<p>CBS, the worst network ever, is developing Steven King&#8217;s <em>Under the Dome<\/em> as a series.\u00a0 If CBS has ever had a good drama, I can&#8217;t recall what it might be.\u00a0 I&#8217;m currently reading the book and I&#8217;ll get back to you on what a massive clusterfuck this will be.<\/p>\n<p>Woody Harelson and Matt McConaughey are developing a series called <em>True Detective<\/em> for HBO.\u00a0 Ought to be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Actually HBO has a bunch of interesting stuff going on.\u00a0 <em>Hobgoblin<\/em> is a series in development about a bunch of magicians and con men who try to bring down the nazi regime in WW2.\u00a0 Michael Chabon is writing it.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only read one of his books, <em>The Yiddish Policemen&#8217;s Union<\/em>, but it was pretty epic.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also adapting <em>American Gods<\/em> (Neil Gaiman).\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think this can be successfully done.\u00a0 But I&#8217;d rather have HBO try than CBS.<\/p>\n<p>More later, now time to make snowballs for the coming battle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching less tv than I should (I&#8217;m a little gun shy with that 6 strikes rule out). But here are my rants Parks and Rec is still solid.\u00a0 Ron Swanson is one hell of a character.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/movieox.com\/?p=446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}