{"id":2783,"date":"2010-10-13T17:49:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2010-10-13T17:49:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:49:43","slug":"tv_malaise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2783","title":{"rendered":"TV Malaise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an avid fan of scripted television, this new season has been <a href=\"http:\/\/watching-tv.ew.com\/2010\/10\/10\/fall-tv-hawaii-glee-dancing\/\">notable for its nearly complete lack of compelling new series<\/a>. My TiVo is recording only a couple new shows&#8211;<i>The Event<\/i> and <i>Boardwalk Empire<\/i>. And <i>The Event<\/i> is dangerously close to losing my interest unless its writers decide to stop futzing around with watered-down science fiction tropes and start actually telling a story that would make me care. The lack of exciting new television isn&#8217;t anything to cry about, however. Between returning shows (like <i>Community <\/i>and <i>Fringe<\/i>) and Netflix streaming of older shows that I haven&#8217;t seen (<i>30 Rock<\/i> and <i>Dexter<\/i>), I don&#8217;t suffer a lack of video content. I&#8217;m sure that something new will eventually grab my attention, but probably not until the spring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an avid fan of scripted television, this new season has been notable for its nearly complete lack of compelling new series. My TiVo is recording only a couple new shows&#8211;The Event and Boardwalk Empire. And The Event is dangerously close to losing my interest unless its writers decide to stop futzing around with watered-down <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2783' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-IT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}