{"id":8404,"date":"2014-03-02T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T22:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncobrief.com\/?p=8404"},"modified":"2014-03-02T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T22:43:03","slug":"tv-made-the-old-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/archives\/tv-made-the-old-way\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Made the Old Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Left to myself, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I would have watched Enlisted<\/a><\/em>, but Blondie insisted, saying it was pretty darned funny a show, and had the right \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for a comedy about the present-day military. Or at least \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the US military as it was a couple of years ago. (What it is becoming as of this very moment, I have no idea.)<\/em> So, I we watched the first three or four episodes together, and darned if she isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t right. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a funny, rapid-fire comedy about three brothers at an Army post in Florida, which is affectionate, respectful and knowledgeable about military life \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 something that I swear hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been seen on network television since Gomer Pyle, USMC<\/em> or No Time for Sergeants<\/em>, although perhaps Major Dad<\/em> took some detours through that route.<\/p>\n

Blame me for being jaded, as regards television; a couple of years ago I realized that most shows were just the same-old, same-old, served up one more time. Same old doctor-lawyer-cop triad, same old mystery twist I had seen twenty times before, same old clich\u00c3\u00a9 characters, dressed up with a few 21st century attire and attitudes… <\/p>\n

All in all, Enlisted<\/em> is well worth watching \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and with luck, perhaps it will last more than just one season. There haven’t been any sudden nasty thwacks of conventional political correctness, so far. And we appreciate a nice little grace note at the end of every episode; service pictures of various kin of people having something to do with show production. Who would have thought it – people working on a TV show about the military life actually having a familial connection to the military? Seriously, that alone is worth a mention. <\/p>\n

By the way, I am not the least interested in the Academy Awards. Although … I do have a mild academic interest in what is awarded Best Picture (purely for trivial knowledge points in future), and which actress wears the fugliest dress<\/a> on the red carpet. Other than that – the last picture I went to see in a theater was the latest installation of The Hobbit, and the last before that was the first installation of the Hobbit.<\/p>\n

PS – Enlisted does have a Facebook page<\/a>. Go ahead and like. You know you want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Left to myself, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I would have watched Enlisted, but Blondie insisted, saying it was pretty darned funny a show, and had the right \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for a comedy about the present-day military. Or at least \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the US military as it was a couple of years ago. (What it is becoming as of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aarrrmy-training-sir","category-media-matters-not","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncobrief.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}