{"id":8126,"date":"2015-08-13T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8126"},"modified":"2015-08-13T21:34:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T03:34:34","slug":"post-mortem-backstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/post-mortem-backstrom\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem &#8211; Backstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/backstrom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8558\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/backstrom.jpg\" alt=\"backstrom\" width=\"750\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/backstrom.jpg 750w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/backstrom-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>What do you get when you combine the creator of <em>Bones<\/em> with one of the stars of <em>The Office<\/em> on a show based on a Swedish series of books? \u00a0I mean, besides a bit of a mess. \u00a0You get <em>Backstrom<\/em>, starring Rainn Wilson as a brilliant Portland detective who is his own worst enemy.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, despite an impressive cast, which also included Dennis Haysbert, Thomas Dekker, and Sarah Chalke, the show was a mess. \u00a0I obviously have not read the source material, so I don&#8217;t know if the flaws lied there or in the implementation of the translation. \u00a0Either way, the show will not live on to see a second season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you combine the creator of Bones with one of the stars of The Office on a show based on a Swedish series of books? \u00a0I mean, besides a bit of a mess. \u00a0You get Backstrom, starring Rainn Wilson as a brilliant Portland detective who is his own worst enemy. Sadly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[4724,109,5764,361,5766,238,5765],"class_list":["post-8126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-backstrom","tag-bones","tag-dennis-haysbert","tag-rainn-wilson","tag-sarah-chalke","tag-the-office","tag-thomas-dekker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8560,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8126\/revisions\/8560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}