{"id":75938,"date":"2021-11-01T00:55:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T07:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=75938"},"modified":"2021-11-01T00:55:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T07:55:42","slug":"b-positive-gets-revamped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2021\/11\/01\/b-positive-gets-revamped\/","title":{"rendered":"B Positive Gets Revamped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost nothing surprises me \u2013 the wall coming down, the <strong>Trump <\/strong>presidency, even <strong><em>Tickle Me Elmo<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; But I am completely surprised by <strong><em>B Positive<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; If you haven\u2019t been watching \u2013 and ratings would indicate that you\u2019re not \u2013 it\u2019s a mediocre sitcom with some very talented actors, decent writing, and a crappy theme song accompanied by a really creepy video montage in the style of <strong><em>Monty Python<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; In season one, the male lead needed a kidney transplant and was surrounded by dialysis patients and a female lead as his donor.&nbsp; The season ended with him surviving his transplant surgery.&nbsp; The end, right?&nbsp; In season two, his donor (who he\u2019s secretly in love with) comes into millions of dollars, buys a retirement home, and hires the sassy gay dialysis nurse \u2013 played by the delicious <strong>Darryl Stephens<\/strong>.&nbsp; The home is populated by such talented oldsters as <strong>Linda Lavin<\/strong>, <strong>Ben Vereen<\/strong>, <strong>Hector Elizondo<\/strong>, and a scene-stealing <strong>Jane Seymour<\/strong>.&nbsp; If I were to describe <em>B Positive<\/em> now, I\u2019d call it a mediocre show with some very talented actors, decent writing, and a crappy theme song accompanied by a ridiculous video montage in the style of <strong><em>Moulin Rouge<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s better or worse \u2013 but kudos for the flip.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost nothing surprises me \u2013 the wall coming down, the Trump presidency, even Tickle Me Elmo.&nbsp; But I am completely surprised by B Positive.&nbsp; If you haven\u2019t been watching \u2013 and ratings would indicate that you\u2019re not \u2013 it\u2019s a mediocre sitcom with some very talented actors, decent writing, and a crappy theme song accompanied<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75940,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75938\/revisions\/75940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}