{"id":5352,"date":"2026-04-15T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T02:48:11","slug":"now-the-best-thing-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5352","title":{"rendered":"NOW the best thing on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5350\">Monday<\/a> I said that\u00a0<em>Shrinking<\/em> was the best thing on TV, a bit of a misnomer for as of last week\u00a0<em>Shrinking<\/em> is not currently airing new episodes.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing on what we used to call &#8220;TV&#8221; is HBO&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Rooster<\/em> starring Steve Carrell. Yeah, it&#8217;s a little silly and a little predictable, but come on, what\u00a0<em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> these days? It&#8217;s Steve Carrell being Steve Carrell, Phil &#8220;Jamie Tartt&#8221; Dunster being, well, the better half of Jamie Tartt, all touched with the Bill Lawrence magic.<\/p>\n<p>Half a dozen episodes in it&#8217;s still unclear to me how many more to expect this season, or whether there will ever be another season.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m enjoying it while I can.<\/p>\n<p>After all, it&#8217;s the best thing on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday I said that\u00a0Shrinking was the best thing on TV, a bit of a misnomer for as of last week\u00a0Shrinking is not currently airing new episodes. The best thing on what we used to call &#8220;TV&#8221; is HBO&#8217;s\u00a0Rooster starring Steve &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5352\">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-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","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=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}