{"id":4297,"date":"2015-10-21T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2015-10-21T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:54:12","slug":"quantico-episode-4-kill-your-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=4297","title":{"rendered":"Quantico Episode 4: Kill (Your Television)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIf Quantico<\/em> were just 10% more terrible, it would be great. For now it continues to ride the thin edge between hate-watchable and Ambien. I blame Josh Safron, the showrunner. His previous two-season camporama, Smash<\/em>, was a total trainwreck, but Quantico<\/em> is just a bus full of beautiful people stuck in traffic.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the constant seasaw timeshifts that make Quantico<\/em> difficult to get into, or the lack of relatable characters, or even the utter ridiculousness of everything. It\u2019s the totally awkward way characters blurt out IMPORTANT information. In the academy scenes, we watch swimming, shooting, and running exhibitions, followed by Miranda at the podium, explaining important life lessons. It\u2019s like someone else\u2019s summer camp home movies, if they went to a camp for runway models. Both timelines are filled with clunky dialogue dropping reveals and hints. The main means by which we \u201cdiscover\u201d anything is by being told in the present about something that happened in the past, with a hint that we\u2019ll actually get to see that thing we now already know about in the future. It\u2019s like getting the punch line before you\u2019ve heard the joke.<\/p>\n

(To read the rest of this brilliant episode recap and takedown, please visit the television blog that may be too hip for the room, Happy Nice Time People.<\/a> You can also catch my Homeland <\/a>recaps and other stuff.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If Quantico were just 10% more terrible, it would be great. For now it continues to ride the thin edge between hate-watchable and Ambien. I blame Josh Safron, the showrunner. His previous two-season camporama, Smash, was a total trainwreck, but Quantico is just a bus full of beautiful people stuck in traffic. It\u2019s not the … Continue reading Quantico Episode 4: Kill (Your Television)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[1250,1249,1252,1251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4301,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions\/4301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}