{"id":657,"date":"2012-03-23T23:08:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/?p=657"},"modified":"2012-03-23T23:08:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T04:08:11","slug":"theme-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/2012\/03\/23\/theme-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past television season has had several shows that were very similar, falling into a few themes. For example, <em>The Ringer<\/em> and <em>The Lying Game<\/em> both involve a down-and-out female taking the place of her affluent identical twin, investigating a mystery involving secrets and murder, and finding that the new family likes them much more than their twin. In fact, these two shows are ridiculously similar, the difference being that <em>The Ringer<\/em> is orders of magnitude better. Another new show this season falls in the same theme. <em>Switched at Birth<\/em> while not about twins, <em>is<\/em> about a couple of girls who switch (to some degree) families after finding out that they were, well, switched at birth.<\/p>\n<p>Another theme this season has been oldies. Trying to follow in the shoes of <em>Mad Men<\/em> (for some reason), there have been several shows that take place in the past this season. There was the short-lived <em>Playboy Club<\/em>, the more successful <em>Pan Am<\/em>, and the Canadian (and older-set)\u00a0<em>Bomb Girls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A third theme this season was that of fantasy. Both <em>Once Upon a Time<\/em> and <em>Grimm<\/em> are about fairy-tales in real-life.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly the whole vampire-werewolf-etc. fad continued its presence on television with the release of <em>The Secret Circle<\/em> and\u00a0a TV adaptation of <em>Teen Wolf<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if it is just coincidence or studios trying to cash in on fads while they can (the way that they all release low-budget movies that have the same theme as a current blockbuster). Either way, this season was very theme-heavy compared to usual.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/tag\/television\/\" rel=\"tag\">Television<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past television season has had several shows that were very similar, falling into a few themes. For example, The Ringer and The Lying Game both involve a down-and-out female taking the place of her affluent identical twin, investigating a mystery involving secrets and murder, and finding that the new family likes them much more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/glab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}