{"id":2160,"date":"2014-02-25T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/25\/when-a-mystery-show-is-about-disposable-female\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:51","slug":"when-a-mystery-show-is-about-disposable-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/25\/when-a-mystery-show-is-about-disposable-female\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>when a mystery show is about disposable female bodies, and the women in it are eye candy, it\u2019s a drag. Whatever the length of the show\u2019s much admired tracking shot (six minutes, uncut!), it feels less hardboiled than softheaded. Which might be O.K. if \u201cTrue Detective\u201d were dumb fun, but, good God, it\u2019s not: it\u2019s got so much gravitas it could run for President.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/television\/2014\/03\/03\/140303crte_television_nussbaum?currentPage=all\">Emily Nussbaum: The Shallowness of \u201cTrue Detective\u201d\u00a0: The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>This hasn\u2019t put me off watching the show, but I am pretty sure I will be rolling my eyes at least a few times while doing so\u2026<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when a mystery show is about disposable female bodies, and the women in it are eye candy, it\u2019s a drag. Whatever the length of the show\u2019s much admired tracking shot (six minutes, uncut!), it feels less hardboiled than softheaded. Which might be O.K. if \u201cTrue Detective\u201d were dumb fun, but, good God, it\u2019s not: it\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/25\/when-a-mystery-show-is-about-disposable-female\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}