{"id":5015,"date":"2010-01-16T15:57:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T20:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:22:08","slug":"theme-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/theme-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dude DVRs all the series dramas (and a few sitcoms) he can pack into the box, and he watches them in chronological order (natch).<\/p>\n<p>About two years ago, we started noticing something very odd: Across all the dramas, across all the networks, there would be a theme of the week. It\u2019s as if The Great Producer in the Sky (aka James Cameron) said to all the writers in television, \u201cOkay. This week\u2019s writing prompt is underground BDSM sex parties, a murder, and collector\u2019s wine. GO!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amongst a good dozen dramas, this writing prompt will show up at least three times, sometimes four, all in different permutations. Now it\u2019s just a running joke. Dude says, \u201cThe theme of the week is \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s interesting and curious to see how each writing team interpreted the prompt to fit their characters and canon, it\u2019s super annoying and gets very old very fast.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s one reason I\u2019ve pretty much stopped watching TV dramas. Homogeneity pretty much sucks the fun out of \u2026 well, everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dude DVRs all the series dramas (and a few sitcoms) he can pack into the box, and he watches them in chronological order (natch). About two years ago, we started noticing something very odd: Across all the dramas, across all the networks, there would be a theme of the week. It\u2019s as if The Great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[589],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16770,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/16770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}