{"id":2842,"date":"2020-07-20T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T12:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2020-07-20T16:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T12:25:48","slug":"hulu-brings-it-with-palm-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2842","title":{"rendered":"Hulu brings it with Palm Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta hand it to the folks at Hulu. The world gives their business a gift (let&#8217;s face it&#8211;Covid basically required everyone to order some kind of streaming service), and rather than rest on that fact have absolutely\u00a0<em>brought it\u00a0<\/em> while we&#8217;re all chained to our TVs.\u00a0Not content (get it?\u00a0<em>con<\/em>-tent?) to offer mere Netflix scraps, they&#8217;ve put forth overlooked gems. Yes, yes, I made a fuss over\u00a0<em>Brockmire<\/em>, but for every\u00a0<em>Brockmire<\/em> there are 10 things actually worth your investment.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point:\u00a0<em>Palm Springs<\/em>. It&#8217;s close enough to &#8220;original content&#8221; to call it that I suppose. Produced in the pre-Covid era (remember those days?),\u00a0<em>Palm Springs<\/em> premiered at Sundance in January of this year. When it became clear a big theatre release wasn&#8217;t going to happen Hulu snatched it up. For something like $20 million. According to its own internals, Hulu claims the film set an opening weekend record by &#8220;netting more hours watched over its first three days than any other film&#8221; in the platform&#8217;s history. That&#8217;s a solid investment.<\/p>\n<p>The movie? Just watch it. Better to go in fresh. Yes, I thought it&#8217;d be a cheap ripoff of\u00a0<em>Groundhog Day<\/em> (and as a child of the &#8217;90s that it sacrilege). It is not. Trust me. Just watch it.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, what else are you doing these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta hand it to the folks at Hulu. The world gives their business a gift (let&#8217;s face it&#8211;Covid basically required everyone to order some kind of streaming service), and rather than rest on that fact have absolutely\u00a0brought it\u00a0 while we&#8217;re &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2842\">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-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","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=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}