{"id":3522,"date":"2009-07-29T22:53:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T02:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2009-07-29T10:53:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T14:53:39","slug":"thats-one-way-of-putting-it-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one way of putting it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Todd Vanderwerff on <em>Hung<\/em>:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the sweetest show about utter desperation you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll ever see.<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">And it really is. The show isn&#8217;t perfect. Much like Showtime&#8217;s <em>Nurse Jackie<\/em>, another new half-hour dramedy, the more sitcom-ic elements sometimes threaten to overwhelm the rest. And, much like Dmitry Lipkin&#8217;s last show, <em>The Riches<\/em>, the characters often shine more than the sometimes really contrived plots. But where it works &#8212; particularly, surprisingly, with Thomas Jane&#8217;s engaging performance each week &#8212; the show really works.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Vanderwerff on Hung: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the sweetest show about utter desperation you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll ever see. And it really is. The show isn&#8217;t perfect. Much like Showtime&#8217;s Nurse Jackie, another new half-hour dramedy, the more sitcom-ic elements sometimes threaten to overwhelm the rest. And, much like Dmitry Lipkin&#8217;s last show, The Riches, the characters often shine more &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3522\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}