{"id":5816,"date":"2014-05-30T07:03:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T13:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2014-05-30T04:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T10:00:44","slug":"post-mortem-mind-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/post-mortem-mind-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem &#8211; Mind Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mindgames-676x250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5818\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mindgames-676x250.jpg\" alt=\"mindgames-676x250\" width=\"676\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mindgames-676x250.jpg 676w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mindgames-676x250-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Christian Slater dating back to 1988&#8217;s <em>Heathers<\/em>.\u00a0 Unlike most, I have enjoyed his recent forays into television, including <em>My Own Worst Enemy<\/em>, <em>The Forgotten<\/em>, and <a title=\"Post Mortem \u2013 Breaking In\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/post-mortem-breaking-in\/\"><em>Breaking In<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also a fan of Steve Zahn.\u00a0 That said, putting the two together in this vehicle so the two could shout at each other did not result in a winning formula, which is why ABC pulled <em>Mind Games<\/em> off the air after only 5 episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Mind Games was the tale of a bi-polar human psychology genius teaming up with his ex-con brother to start a new business where they use the &#8220;real science of human motivation and manipulation&#8221; to solve the problems of their clients.\u00a0 Not a great concept, but with two likeable stars, alongside reliable bit players like Megalyn Echikunwoke and Jaime Ray Newman, the show earned a spot in my rotation when it premiered in February. \u00a0Unfortunately, with all of the screaming, things never really came together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Christian Slater dating back to 1988&#8217;s Heathers.\u00a0 Unlike most, I have enjoyed his recent forays into television, including My Own Worst Enemy, The Forgotten, and Breaking In.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also a fan of Steve Zahn.\u00a0 That said, putting the two together in this vehicle so the two could shout at each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[68,2300,2301,4625,4629,4628,4624,4626,4627,2940],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-abc","tag-breaking-in","tag-christian-slater","tag-heathers","tag-jaime-ray-newman","tag-megalyn-echikunwoke","tag-mind-games","tag-my-own-worst-enemy","tag-steve-zahn","tag-the-forgotten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6127,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/6127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}