{"id":1446,"date":"2007-07-04T20:56:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T19:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2007-07-04T20:56:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T19:56:47","slug":"review-meadowlands-101-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"Review: Meadowlands 101 &#8211; 102"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I caught this new series on Showtime, thinking a relatively strange title combined with both favorable critic and user reviews might be that one summer hit that sometimes comes along.<br \/>\nWow, was I wrong. First of all, it&#8217;s import, it&#8217;s not really a Showtime show, it&#8217;s freaking British all over (Channel 4 to be exact). It&#8217;s rare enough I ever like British shows, but even then, it&#8217;s usually comedies. So, here we have a show that tries to be strange, just to be strange. No real good storytelling or compelling characters, just strange, and nothing else. And even then, it&#8217;s still predictable. If there&#8217;s anything I hate, it&#8217;s writing something strange without a real purpose. And that&#8217;s what this show is all about. Well, at least they have Weeds coming back on in a few weeks, otherwise I&#8217;d call upon a channel boycot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I caught this new series on Showtime, thinking a relatively strange title combined with both favorable critic and user reviews might be that one summer hit that sometimes comes along. Wow, was I wrong. First of all, it&#8217;s import, it&#8217;s not really a Showtime show, it&#8217;s freaking British all over (Channel 4 to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}