{"id":120,"date":"2014-01-31T13:53:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T13:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2014-01-31T13:53:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T13:53:34","slug":"white-collar-season-five-finale-in-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"White Collar Season Five finale in the books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s season finale of\u00a0<em>White Collar<\/em> represented everything holy and unholy about serial television. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, this season has been great, and the final unfolding of the &#8220;Rebecca&#8221; story arc did not disappoint (Fort Totten!). When I looked at the clock, though, at that final resolve and realized there were more than 20 minutes left in the episode, I knew some trickery was on its way. After some silly floundering we find\u00a0<em>WC<\/em>&#8216;s producers relying on the oldest trick in the book: bringing us right back to where we started!<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t give away any more plot points for the sake for those who haven&#8217;t seen it. I still recommend the show, and because I&#8217;m already hooked I&#8217;ll be back for a sixth season. Even somewhat predictable is still good on this show, one of the best currently on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s season finale of\u00a0White Collar represented everything holy and unholy about serial television. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, this season has been great, and the final unfolding of the &#8220;Rebecca&#8221; story arc did not disappoint (Fort Totten!). When I looked &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=120\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}