{"id":1312,"date":"2006-11-15T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2006-11-15T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T08:56:00","slug":"genre-in-3-lbs-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1312","title":{"rendered":"Genre in 3 Lbs (or less)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday William Uricchio, the other co-head of CMS, forwarded on a <a title=\"3 Lbs - TV - Review - New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/14\/arts\/television\/14stan.html?ex=1164171600&#038;en=452fda3da7680092&#038;ei=5070&#038;emc=eta1\"><i>New York Times<\/i> review of the new medical drama <i>3 Lbs,<\/i><\/a> which includes the following nifty tidbit on genre:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A procedural, be it a crime series like <i>Law &#038; Order<\/i> or a medical show like <i>House<\/i> or <i>3 Lbs,<\/i> is a genre that works by staying within well-marked boundaries. These series wrap a fillip of surprise (patricide, ulcers) into a comfortingly familiar framework. Each episode begins with an average person guilelessly going about the day until fate strikes. On <i>Law &#038; Order,<\/i> cab drivers, joggers and quarreling couples stumble on a dead body and set off a whodunit. On medical shows, a housewife, soccer coach or a concert violinist suddenly keels over, setting off a whatdunit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I should try writing one of these just as an exercise.  Neat stuff, even if the wholly me-too nature of <i>3 Lbs<\/i> makes me completely uninterested in tuning in (Tucci or no Tucci).  What can I say?  I&#8217;m a <i>House<\/i> man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday William Uricchio, the other co-head of CMS, forwarded on a New York Times review of the new medical drama 3 Lbs, which includes the following nifty tidbit on genre: A procedural, be it a crime series like Law &#038; Order or a medical show like House or 3 Lbs, is a genre that works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-la","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}