{"id":143,"date":"2007-05-20T13:54:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T13:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/05\/20\/hustle-the-con-is-over\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:12:06","slug":"hustle-the-con-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/05\/20\/hustle-the-con-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Hustle: the con is over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/hustle.thumbnail.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Hustle\" \/>I hate to say it, but top-notch BBC con-men series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/drama\/hustle\/\">Hustle<\/a> has had its day.  I&#8217;d been looking forward to the new series ever since the previous series ended, but with the departure of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0504412\/\">Adrian Lester<\/a> it&#8217;s not the same show at all.  This series&#8217; episodes so far have been missing finesse, and I think it&#8217;s down to trying to make Danny Blue the new leader of the crew.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s just a bit too irritating.  I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0912938\/\">Marc Warren<\/a>&#8216;s fault as such because Danny&#8217;s character has always been a bit like that.  It&#8217;s just that the whole idea of the show is that it all comes together in the end, even when it looks like it&#8217;s gone wrong.  Stacey Monroe said so in the first episode, and Danny took offense &#8212; but she was absolutely right.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep watching, I suppose, in case it gets any better.  But I said the same thing about Doctor Who, and it didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to say it, but top-notch BBC con-men series Hustle has had its day. 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This series&#8217; episodes so far have been missing finesse, and I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hustle: the con is over? - PRINT HEAD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2007\/05\/20\/hustle-the-con-is-over\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hustle: the con is over? - PRINT HEAD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I hate to say it, but top-notch BBC con-men series Hustle has had its day. 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