{"id":2530,"date":"2007-10-19T14:11:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T14:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/alessandra_stanley_singing_in_the_casino_thats_a_gamble\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T14:11:01","slug":"alessandra_stanley_singing_in_the_casino_thats_a_gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Alessandra Stanley: Singing in the Casino? That\u2019s a Gamble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cViva Laughlin\u201d\u009d on CBS may well be the worst new show of the season, but is it the worst show in the history of television?<\/p>\n<p>It certainly comes close in a category that includes \u201cBeverly Hills Buntz\u201d\u009d in 1987 (Dennis Franz in a short-lived spinoff of \u201cHill Street Blues\u201d\u009d), the self-explanatory \u201cManimal\u201d\u009d in 1983 or last year\u2019s one-episode wonder, \u201cEmily\u2019s Reasons Why Not.\u201d\u009d \u201cViva Laughlin\u201d\u009d is not even in the same league as \u201cCop Rock,\u201d\u009d a 1990 experimental series created by Steven Bochco that leavened a gritty police drama with Broadway musical moments: cops and criminals breaking into song and dance. \u201cViva Laughlin\u201d\u009d also features musical outbursts and is far worse.<\/p>\n<p><i>It may be just me, but I don&#8217;t think she liked the show.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/18\/arts\/television\/18stan.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cViva Laughlin\u201d\u009d on CBS may well be the worst new show of the season, but is it the worst show in the history of television? It certainly comes close in a category that includes \u201cBeverly Hills Buntz\u201d\u009d in 1987 (Dennis<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2530\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-movies-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}