{"id":105,"date":"2005-05-24T23:07:24","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T23:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gregbueno.com\/wp\/sakufu\/2005\/05\/24\/oh_god_haffley\/"},"modified":"2005-05-24T23:07:24","modified_gmt":"2005-05-24T23:07:24","slug":"oh_god_haffley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/2005\/05\/24\/oh_god_haffley\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, God, Haffley?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure why there’s so much denial<\/a> and speculation<\/a> about the death of Rex Van de Camp on Desperate Housewives<\/i>. (Yeah, I’m being meta about a TV show. Like I don’t prattle on about Law & Order<\/i> all the time.)<\/p>\n

He’s dead. It’s disappointing, but what’s so wrong about killing off a main character?<\/p>\n

There are so many avenues to take the plot with Rex dead. And with Andrew turning out to be gay demon spawn and George being all psycho-stalker, keeping Rex alive would have painted Bree’s storyline into a duller corner. That’s assuming the writers do their job next season and really mess things up.<\/p>\n

I would prefer that Zach not be Mike’s son, and I have a feeling Tom will turn out to be a better parent than Lynette, while Lynette manages to alienate everyone trying to prove she can get back in the workforce game.<\/p>\n

And since I do prattle about Law & Order<\/i> alot — I can’t say I’m terribly disappointed by the cancellation of Trial By Jury<\/i><\/a>. I watched each episode religiously, like a bitch for L&O<\/i> would. But I just didn’t feel it. The pace of the show dragged, and Crime & Punishment<\/i> already did the exclusive focus on the courts better with real<\/i> cases.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the cancellation seems a bit premature. With another few episodes, I’m sure the writers would have found the right mix of suspense that makes Special Victims Unit<\/i> the best of the bunch. I think Trial By Jury<\/i> was aiming to do something along the lines of what the Homicide\/Oz<\/i> creative team did with The Jury<\/i> last year.<\/p>\n

By the way, here’s a first-person account<\/a> from Jamey Sheridan about the Bell’s palsy that made him wear an eyepatch for the last few episodes of Criminal Intent<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure why there’s so much denial and speculation about the death of Rex Van de Camp on Desperate Housewives. (Yeah, I’m being meta about a TV show. Like I don’t prattle on about Law & Order all the time.) He’s dead. It’s disappointing, but what’s so wrong about killing off a main character? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proto-tvwhore-org"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Bkjq-1H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregbueno.com\/sakufu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}