{"id":1667,"date":"2016-09-16T06:32:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T05:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:44:12","slug":"2016-tv-pilot-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/1667\/2016-tv-pilot-reviews","title":{"rendered":"2016 TV Pilot Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new season is about to start and I intend to review the pilot episodes of those shows that &#8211; at least on paper &#8211; appeal to me.<\/p>\n<p>I intend to watch the following pilot episodes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/StartUp_(TV_series)\"><em>StartUp<\/em><\/a> (Crackle)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kevin_Can_Wait\"><em>Kevin Can Wait<\/em><\/a> (CBS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Good_Place\"><em>The Good Place<\/em><\/a> (NBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/This_Is_Us_(TV_series)\"><em>This is Us<\/em><\/a> (NBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Designated_Survivor_(TV_series)\"><em>Designated Survivor<\/em><\/a> (ABC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speechless_(TV_series)\"><em>Speechless<\/em><\/a> (ABC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacGyver_(2016_TV_series)\"><em>MacGyver<\/em><\/a> (CBS)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Westworld_(TV_series)\"><em>Westworld<\/em><\/a> (HBO)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeless_(TV_series)\"><em>Timeless<\/em><\/a> (NBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Great_Indoors_(TV_series)\"><em>The Great Indoors<\/em><\/a> (CBS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Certainly not all of these shows are going to make it onto my regular watching schedule (Looking at you, <em>MacGyver<\/em>!) and most certainly not all of them are going to make it past the first season (Still looking at you, <em>MacGyver<\/em>!).<\/p>\n<p>With so much good TV currently available and so much old stuff still unwatched (currently I&#8217;m trying to catch up on <em>The West Wing<\/em> [must get through the series-low season 5 to get to the Alan Alda seasons] and <em>Prison Break<\/em>) the bar has been set so much higher for any show to get a slot on my programming schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new season is about to start and I intend to review the pilot episodes of those shows that &#8211; at least on paper &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1855,1710],"tags":[1860,1857,149,1865,1861,1856,1858,1864,1625,1859,1863,1862],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-tv-pilot-reviews","category-tv-season-diary","tag-designated-survivor","tag-kevin-can-wait","tag-macgyver","tag-prison-break","tag-speechless","tag-startup","tag-the-good-place","tag-the-great-indoors","tag-the-west-wing","tag-this-is-us","tag-timeless","tag-westworld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}