{"id":6220,"date":"2013-04-12T10:33:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2013-04-12T01:17:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T08:17:13","slug":"the-sopranos-and-other-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/the-sopranos-and-other-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sopranos and Other TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written in a long time about what I&#8217;ve been watching on TV and such.<\/p>\n<p>I finally saw the last several episodes of <strong>The Sopranos<\/strong>. I had been dreading it because I heard that it ended very \u00a0noncommittally. What were all those critics talking about?! There was blood (a lot of blood), tension, permanent change, temporary change, forshadowing, and certainly a sense of completion for the writers. Heck, in the second to last episode there was a TV show playing in the background talking all about writing for television; the authors didn&#8217;t let that play in the background for so long for nothin&#8217;! I found the last episodes quite fulfilling. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slings and Arrows<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve been swept off my feet with this show. I&#8217;m about 1\/2 way through the 3 season run. I&#8217;m afraid to see it end because I&#8217;m such in love with it. (And I still haven&#8217;t gotten Megan hooked on it&#8230; I want her to catch up and have us watch it together)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Who<\/strong> from 2008 has some very enjoyable episodes, and some sappy ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The IT Crowd<\/strong>. I watched every episode and loved it! A nerdy treasure!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/strong>. Yes, the show from 1961 with Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. Darn good shows. Entertaining and fun, and not nearly as dated as it could be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>House of Cards<\/strong>. Netflix&#8217;s entrance into television production. Watching the show is a \u00a0fascinatingly sadistic \u00a0experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30 Rock<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve watched my fare share. I like it. It&#8217;s just crazy enough for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eureka<\/strong> \u00a0is pretty fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Modern Family<\/strong> is pretty good television<\/p>\n<p><strong>Burn Notice<\/strong>. I watched a bunch of episodes. It feels like spy edu-tainment :-)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breaking Bad<\/strong>. Intense. Intense. Intense.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Honorable mentions<\/p>\n<p><strong>How It&#8217;s Made<\/strong>. They show  \u00a0how the coolest stuff in the world is made with awesome factory processes with narration that makes me want to <em><strong>put an ice pick through my ears<\/strong><\/em>. Maybe I should just turn the volume down and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret<\/strong> is a fun one trick pony.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mad Men<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t know, it just doesn&#8217;t interest me<\/p>\n<p><strong>I am not watching \u00a0It&#8217;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/strong>. Don&#8217;t like it. It&#8217;s honestly mean spirited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Youtube<\/strong> needs to sneak it&#8217;s way onto this list at some point. <strong>Epic Rap Battles of History, Cracked.com, Imgur.com Gallery, BestofYoutube.com, 5SecondFilms.com, The Daily Show, Scam School, SMBC Theater, Instructables.com<\/strong>, etc etc etc etc etc!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t written in a long time about what I&#8217;ve been watching on TV and such. I finally saw the last several episodes of The Sopranos. I had been dreading it because I heard that it ended very \u00a0noncommittally. What were all those critics talking about?! There was blood (a lot of blood), tension, permanent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playing-reading-watching-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}