{"id":360,"date":"2010-10-14T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/?p=360"},"modified":"2019-02-12T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:15:23","slug":"michael-chiklis-the-shield-and-no-ordinary-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/michael-chiklis-the-shield-and-no-ordinary-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Chiklis, The Shield, and No Ordinary Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Michael Chiklis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/pics\/lb\/michael_chiklis_300309\/michael_chiklis_5270098.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Chiklis\" width=\"180\" height=\"377\" \/>I first encountered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0004821\/\">Michael Chiklis<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0286486\/\">The Shield.<\/a> The Shield is a very violent cop show with dark, anti-heroes for protagonists. It&#8217;s also one of the best cop shows I&#8217;ve ever seen with one of the best endings of all TV in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see Chiklis again, really, until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1591493\/\">No Ordinary Family<\/a> came on. I was pulled into trying the show by the premise, as advertised on Hulu, of an average family developing super powers. I&#8217;ve watched three episodes now and,\u00a0I think the writers are getting lazier.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve made the same mistake one too many times in my book. Moving the plot along by making the characters do stupid things is just awful.<\/p>\n<p>I realize now that it was really the combination of the super-power premise with Chiklis himself that led me to try it out. I kept imagining The Shield with super powers thrown in. But Chiklis does NOT play Macky with super powers. Which is too bad, because that would have been super cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first encountered Michael Chiklis in The Shield. The Shield is a very violent cop show with dark, anti-heroes for protagonists. It&#8217;s also one of the best cop shows I&#8217;ve ever seen with one of the best endings of all TV in my opinion. I didn&#8217;t see Chiklis again, really, until No Ordinary Family came &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/michael-chiklis-the-shield-and-no-ordinary-family\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael Chiklis, The Shield, and No Ordinary Family<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytelling","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}