{"id":25790,"date":"2020-03-07T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T15:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25790"},"modified":"2020-03-09T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:14:38","slug":"awaiting-the-friar-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/07\/awaiting-the-friar-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Awaiting the Friar Verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/mar\/06\/spenser-confidential-review-mark-wahlberg-netflix\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spenser Confidential review \u2013 Mark Wahlberg crash lands on Netflix<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>caper called Spenser Confidential, is the kind of film that evaporates as it\u2019s being watched, destined never to be thought of again. It\u2019s regrettable given those involved, from director Peter Berg, who has worked with Wahlberg four times before, including on 2016\u2019s criminally underseen Deepwater Horizon, to writer Brian Helgeland, who won an Oscar for his LA Confidential script before getting nominated for Mystic River. It\u2019s also a story based around a much-loved private eye created by Robert B Parker, one who provided inspiration to crime authors such as Dennis Lehane and Harlan Coben. But it would take a master sleuth to detect any of that pedigree in the finished product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Robert Urich is still my Spenser.  I&#8217;ve seen the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spenser_(film_series)\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Mantegna<\/a> television movies and don&#8217;t remember hating them, but, as <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/26\/meeting-robert-b-parker\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I mentioned<\/a>, the <em>Spenser: For Hire<\/em> television series turned me onto the Spenser books in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Which means the progression for this IP was television series > books.  And I liked both as their own things.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have Netflix, so I&#8217;ll have to wait for <a href=\"http:\/\/friarsfires.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friar<\/a> to weigh in on it.  It sounds like they&#8217;ve made some, erm, <em>changes<\/em>.  But they&#8217;ve got a native Boston speaker to do it.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font> The wait <a href=\"http:\/\/friarsfires.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/confidentially-crud.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is over<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spenser Confidential review \u2013 Mark Wahlberg crash lands on Netflix: caper called Spenser Confidential, is the kind of film that evaporates as it\u2019s being watched, destined never to be thought of again. It\u2019s regrettable given those involved, from director Peter Berg, who has worked with Wahlberg four times before, including on 2016\u2019s criminally underseen Deepwater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25795,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25790\/revisions\/25795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}