{"id":4770,"date":"2017-01-01T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=4770"},"modified":"2017-01-17T20:13:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T07:13:39","slug":"2016-in-pixels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2016-in-pixels\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 in Pixels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve been a bit laggardly on the <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/2016\/12\/31\/2016-in-calories\/\" target=\"_blank\">fitness and health<\/a> side of things but that&#8217;s okay: I&#8217;ve been investing those &#8216;lost&#8217; hours in my televisual research (145 titles totalling 496 hours, up a respectable amount from <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/2015\/12\/30\/2015-by-720p\/\" target=\"_blank\">last year<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mississppi_Grind_Poster.jpg#\/media\/File:Mississppi_Grind_Poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/1\/13\/Mississppi_Grind_Poster.jpg\" alt=\"Mississppi Grind Poster.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy <span title=\"must have been published or publicly displayed outside Wikipedia\">Source<\/span> (<a title=\"Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_criteria#4\">WP:NFCC#4<\/a>), <a title=\"Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Mississippi Grind\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mississppi_Grind_Poster.jpg\">Fair use<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=47298344\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoyed on the big screen were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mississippi Grind<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Deadpool<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>45 Years<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Hunt for the Wilderpeople<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Nice Guys<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>La Isla Minima<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Keanu<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Accountant<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Blood Simple<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>99 Homes<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mentions: Beach Boy Brian Wilson biopic\u00a0<em>Love and Mercy<\/em>, unexpectedly affecting <em>Rocky<\/em> spin-off\u00a0<em>Creed<\/em>, the unlikely and uncompromising\u00a0<em>Young Adult<\/em>, the ridiculously fun <em>Central Intelligence<\/em>, and <em>Florence Foster Jenkins<\/em> which I was totally prepared to hate but couldn&#8217;t because it was so well executed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:The-americans-title-card.png#\/media\/File:The-americans-title-card.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/4\/46\/The-americans-title-card.png\" alt=\"The-americans-title-card.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy <a title=\"DreamWorks Television\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DreamWorks_Television\">DreamWorks Television<\/a> and\/or <a title=\"FX (TV channel)\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FX_(TV_channel)\">FX<\/a> &#8211; The Americans, Season one episode five &#8220;<a title=\"COMINT (The Americans)\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/COMINT_(The_Americans)\">COMINT<\/a>&#8220;, Public Domain, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=41308362\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The small screen offerings held their own:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Americans<\/em> S01\u201304<\/li>\n<li><em>The Expanse<\/em> S01<\/li>\n<li><em>Getting On<\/em> (UK, 2008) S01\u201303<\/li>\n<li><em>Better Call Saul<\/em> S02<\/li>\n<li><em>Low Winter Sun<\/em> (UK, 2006)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thespinoff.co.nz\/tv\/21-10-2016\/why-on-earth-did-the-best-new-zealand-tv-pilot-in-years-not-get-commissioned\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animals<\/a> Pilot<\/li>\n<li><em>Westworld<\/em> S01<\/li>\n<li><em>Game of Thrones<\/em> S06<\/li>\n<li><em>Catastrophe<\/em> S02<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/2016\/05\/16\/box-watch-the-good-wife\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Good Wife S07<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mentions: low key sci-fi robot drama\u00a0<em>Humans<\/em> S02, an happy bonus season of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/2016\/08\/07\/box-watch-offspring\/\" target=\"_blank\">Offspring<\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>S06, and\u00a0<em>Transparent<\/em> S02 which continues to make me scratch\u00a0my head\u00a0after each ep\u00a0but unable to stop pressing the Next button for the next episode.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;d actually already watched the first two seasons of\u00a0<em>The Americans<\/em> but made the mistake of introducing the\u00a0<strong>Goddess<\/strong> to the pilot. It was a hard slog rewatching those first two seasons, I tell you.) (It wasn&#8217;t a hard slog \u2014 it&#8217;s a damned good show.)<\/p>\n<p>Bring on 2017!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve been a bit laggardly on the fitness and health side of things but that&#8217;s okay: I&#8217;ve been investing those &#8216;lost&#8217; hours in my televisual research (145 titles totalling 496 hours, up a respectable amount from last year). By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, Link Enjoyed on the big screen were: Mississippi Grind Deadpool 45 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2016-in-pixels\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2016 in Pixels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,4,6],"tags":[1233,1230,1232,1231,1234,1147,1229],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-99-homes","tag-better-call-saul","tag-keanu","tag-la-isla-minima","tag-mississippi-grind","tag-the-americans","tag-the-expanse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}