{"id":28986,"date":"2023-11-18T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28986"},"modified":"2023-11-18T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T16:00:26","slug":"a-review-of-the-new-netflix-offering-the-355","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28986","title":{"rendered":"A review of the new Netflix offering &#8220;The 355&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nI&#8217;m all in favour of female action figures and there&#8217;s some thespian talent in this espionage thriller, but this is a thinly-plotted effort that all too obviously is contrived to appeal to the widest possible audience on television screens.\n<p>\nSo we have no less than a quintet of leading actresses: Jessica Chastain for American viewers, Diane Kruger for European viewers, Bingbing Fan for Chinese viewers, Lupita Nyong&#8217;o for black viewers, and Pen\u00e9lope Cruz for Latino viewers. \n<p>\nAmerican Theresa Rebeck is responsible for the story and co-writer of the script which has the female five chasing a small device that can hack and control any part of the Internet and any electronic network (yeh &#8230;.) while racing around exotic locations ranging from Morocco to China (actually Taiwan).\n<p>\nIt is a non-stop smorgasbord of running, fighting and shooting with twist after twist, making it something of a bubblegum movie, sweet and chewy but instantly forgettable. And only an American would come up with the contrived title which is a reference to Agent 355, the codename of an unidentified female spy who fought for the Patriots during the American Revolution.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all in favour of female action figures and there&#8217;s some thespian talent in this espionage thriller, but this is a thinly-plotted effort that all too obviously is contrived to appeal to the widest possible audience on television screens. So we have no less than a quintet of leading actresses: Jessica Chastain for American viewers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28987,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28986\/revisions\/28987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}