{"id":3178,"date":"2006-11-12T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-12T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2006-11-12T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-12T10:20:00","slug":"24-series-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"24 Series Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, what else are you going to do when you’re wrapped up in a duvet? I had put this by for a rainy day, which duly arrived. I do love this show, even though the plot was seriously creaky this time, and watching it all over the space of a couple of days meant that the rhythms didn’t really work properly (it becomes more apparent that it’s designed episodically. Real life doesn’t have a climax on the hour every hour…) and the occasional continuity gaffes stick out more clearly – but it was great, and I’m now going to order series five.<\/p>\n

What I most like about the program is the emphasis on ‘phronesis’, ie judgement – the people involved are always under pressure to establish their priorities, and the boundaries between good and evil get distinctly blurred. I think it is an essentially tragic vision of the world, ie Greek not Christian, but no less fascinating for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, what else are you going to do when you’re wrapped up in a duvet? I had put this by for a rainy day, which duly arrived. I do love this show, even though the plot was seriously creaky this … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Pg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}