{"id":95,"date":"2006-09-19T07:53:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T15:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2006-09-19T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T04:23:51","slug":"heist-television-gets-edgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Heist Television Gets Edgy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"untitled11.jpg\" id=\"image96\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/untitled11.jpg\" \/>Last night we watched the pilot episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0805667\/\">Smith<\/a> starrring Ray Liotta and Virginia Madsen. It was pretty good, and a welcome change from the latest trend of &#8220;good guys&#8221; shows like Law &#038; Order and CSI. Unlike the classic stories of <em>Robin Hood<\/em> (rob from the rich, give to the poor) or <em>The Thomas Crown Affair<\/em> (rich guy steals but doesn&#8217;t hurt anyone) this story has sharp edges and blunt-force trauma.<\/p>\n<p>I think the writers looked at every other drama on television and said &#8220;nothing that appears in those shows will appear in ours&#8221;. It was really different, and really enjoyable. I strongly suspect it will be ignored by most people as it contains a lot of violence, the characters are significantly flawed, and the storyline requires some thinking.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll watch again next week for sure. If you enjoy a different kind of drama, you might like this too.<\/p>\n<p>Did anyone else catch this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we watched the pilot episode of Smith starrring Ray Liotta and Virginia Madsen. It was pretty good, and a welcome change from the latest trend of &#8220;good guys&#8221; shows like Law &#038; Order and CSI. Unlike the classic stories of Robin Hood (rob from the rich, give to the poor) or The Thomas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}