{"id":925,"date":"2008-03-27T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=925"},"modified":"2008-03-27T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T20:18:00","slug":"immortality-is-interesting-but-not-in-new-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/03\/27\/immortality-is-interesting-but-not-in-new-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Immortality is interesting, but not in New Amsterdam."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out the pilot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/new-amsterdam\">New Amsterdam<\/a> just now. It concerns a 400-year-old immortal homicide detective who will die only when he finds his soulmate. Derivative but potentially interesting, right? Wrong. The actors have no chemistry or interest in their parts; the mysteries have no originality; the &#8220;quips&#8221; are stupid and bloodless, and the main character is incredibly dull for someone who supposedly has a death wish. I think he&#8217;s supposed to be a lonely, suffering character, but he doesn&#8217;t seem either lonely or suffering. He just seems bored, detached and incapable of human connection, living because that&#8217;s all he knows how to do. Kill it!&nbsp;[Filed under &#8220;vampires&#8221; because it addresses immortality&#8230;BADLY.]<\/p>\n<p>Oh look &#8212; some eps of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/television.aol.com\/show\/moonlight\/1342116\/videos?sem=1&amp;ncid=AOLETV00170000000034\">Moonlight<\/a> on AOHell TV&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out the pilot of New Amsterdam just now. It concerns a 400-year-old immortal homicide detective who will die only when he finds his soulmate. Derivative but potentially interesting, right? Wrong. The actors have no chemistry or interest in their parts; the mysteries have no originality; the &#8220;quips&#8221; are stupid and bloodless, and the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/03\/27\/immortality-is-interesting-but-not-in-new-amsterdam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Immortality is interesting, but not in New Amsterdam.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}