{"id":3919,"date":"2017-12-30T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T09:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2017-12-25T21:49:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T21:49:14","slug":"programmes-i-know-i-should-have-seen-but-havent-stuck-in-draft-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/programmes-i-know-i-should-have-seen-but-havent-stuck-in-draft-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmes I Know I Should Have Seen But Haven&#8217;t &#8211; Stuck in Draft #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Here&#8217;s a slightly enlarged piece I wrote back in 2015 or so, but never got around to finishing. So I&#8217;ve had a bit more of a bash at it, but still feel it makes the grade as part of my Stuck in Draft series.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In David Lodge&#8217;s Changing Places, the English faculty play a game called Humiliation. Basically, they have to name classic of English literature that they&#8217;ve not themselves actually read. The winner is the person who&#8217;s not read the biggest acknowledged classic.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t quite the same for me since I&#8217;m not teaching &#8220;contemporary television&#8221; or whatever such a course might be called. But I&#8217;ll admit that there are a lot of shows that I&#8217;ve not seen which others will be shocked\/disgusted\/surprised\/pitiful that I&#8217;ve not seen. Or perhaps I&#8217;ve only watched an episode or so, but given up far too early.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some of the list, concentrating for the most part on drama, and excluding soaps (never seen an episode of Coronation Street) or reality shows (have never watched Gogglebox, for example):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breaking Bad<\/li>\n<li>Futurama<\/li>\n<li>Mad Men<\/li>\n<li>The Good Wife<\/li>\n<li>The Crown<\/li>\n<li>Peaky Blinders<\/li>\n<li>Wolf Hall<\/li>\n<li>Big Little Lies<\/li>\n<li>The Leftovers<\/li>\n<li>Catastrophe<\/li>\n<li>Orange is the New Black<\/li>\n<li>Modern Family<\/li>\n<li>Last Tango in Halifax<\/li>\n<li>Boardwalk Empire<\/li>\n<li>Deadwood<\/li>\n<li>Queer as Folk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these I will get around to, and many I won&#8217;t. It&#8217;s not a complete list, and just because something&#8217;s not on it, it doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;ve seen all of it. For example, I bailed on The Sopranos before it ended, I got lost with Lost, and I&#8217;ve never seen the final season of The West Wing.<\/p>\n<p>At least two of those series are sitting with every episode on my Sky+, while for two others I have DVDs or Bluray boxsets to attack at some point.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s so much decent TV now, let alone all the rubbish TV we would put up with in between the good stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a slightly enlarged piece I wrote back in 2015 or so, but never got around to finishing. So I&#8217;ve had a bit more of a bash at it, but still feel it makes the grade as part of my Stuck in Draft series. In David Lodge&#8217;s Changing Places, the English faculty play a game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[107,556],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6786,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/6786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}