{"id":1460,"date":"2013-07-26T20:14:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T20:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullculls.wordpress.com\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2013-07-26T20:14:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T20:14:41","slug":"television-whitenoise-rubicon-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"Television Whitenoise: Rubicon 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rubicon_510.jpg\\\"><img class=\\\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1461\\\" alt=\\\"Rubicon_510\\\" src=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/rubicon_510.jpg\\\" width=\\\"510\\\" height=\\\"756\\\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, it seems that I am a little late to the table on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Rubicon exemplifies the best in TV drama and also the worst, and part of it is the structure. You have a conspiracy theory that involves most of the characters in the story, you have what kind of amounts to a locked room atmosphere, you want to create a sense of peril and the impression that your heroes are in danger &#8211; this is what any drama wants. But you are a series and you want to be commissioned for a second series, so maybe near the end you start to get a little cautious and then the whole machinery and the mystery collapses in the middle like a souffl\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>It started off brilliantly but it felt like it threw it away. It is a shame it was not renewed for a second series &#8211; it would have been interesting to see how it progressed and how the characters developed, and whether the second series fell prey to the same issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it seems that I am a little late to the table on this one. Rubicon exemplifies the best in TV drama and also the worst, and part of it is the structure. You have a conspiracy theory that involves <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=1460\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[154,170,171],"tags":[770,771,844,999],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television-whitenoise","category-update","category-updates","tag-muse-hick","tag-musehick","tag-paul-grimsley","tag-skull-cull"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}