{"id":3633,"date":"2022-05-11T06:55:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T02:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2022-05-11T06:55:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T02:55:44","slug":"series-ended-up-being-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3633","title":{"rendered":"Series ended(?) up being a winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday night was the concluding episode of\u00a0<em>Winning Time<\/em>, HBO&#8217;s series on the 1980s Lakers. Apparently there\u00a0<em>will<\/em> be a Season Two, so let me instead say concluding episode of Season <em>One<\/em>. (Until today I&#8217;d had no idea there would be more than this single set.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had mixed feelings about\u00a0<em>Winning Time<\/em> since I panned its <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3562\">first episode<\/a> two months ago. I feel as though it got better, though not necessarily any more <em>true<\/em>. In fact, as the season went on it seemed to get more and more fictional, and more and more, well, actionable. Though I said some time ago that I hadn&#8217;t heard any former Lakers players in arms about their depictions&#8230; now I have. And if I were them, yeah, I&#8217;d probably be upset. Nobody looks too great in this one, with the possible exception of future commissioner David Stern, ironically one of the few people depicted who\u00a0<em>can&#8217;t<\/em> sue.<\/p>\n<p>(He&#8217;s dead, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p>I guess the thing to remember is that it&#8217;s not a documentary, it&#8217;s a TV series.<\/p>\n<p>And in the end (or at least the end of this season)&#8230; a damn good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday night was the concluding episode of\u00a0Winning Time, HBO&#8217;s series on the 1980s Lakers. Apparently there\u00a0will be a Season Two, so let me instead say concluding episode of Season One. (Until today I&#8217;d had no idea there would be more &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3633\">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-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","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=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}