{"id":1964,"date":"2008-08-23T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2021-03-14T21:46:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T01:46:25","slug":"rushing-to-a-very-dark-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"Rushing to a Very Dark Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SLCUe2QbclI\/AAAAAAAABjo\/FDw6eLuSZvw\/s1600-h\/z082308shield.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237849624313295442\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SLCUe2QbclI\/AAAAAAAABjo\/FDw6eLuSZvw\/s400\/z082308shield.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">James Hibberd<\/span>, a senior reporter for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/span>, posted a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">spoiler-free<\/span> review of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">first eight<\/span> episodes of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Shield&#8217;s final season<\/span>.<\/span><\/span>Here are a few snippets that really stood out for me:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">&#8230;gives viewers exactly what they want.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Some old faces return to tie up loose ends&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; the highly effective premiere&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vic Mackey<\/span> immediately seeking retribution against his longtime partner <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Shane Vendrell<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Strike Team<\/span> devolving into a cannibalistic game of survival.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;hugely suspenseful&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;leaves viewers impatient for each new episode.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mackey<\/span>&#8230; his every move to save himself only sucking him further down.<\/li>\n<li>On <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u201cThe Shield,\u201d<\/span> we are rushing to a very dark place.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;The Shield&#8221; <\/span>has returned to demonstrate how serialized television is done.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Hibberd, a senior reporter for The Hollywood Reporter, posted a spoiler-free review of the first eight episodes of The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[51,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25863,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/25863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}