{"id":985,"date":"2012-07-13T17:21:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T21:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2016-10-12T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:24:06","slug":"the-it-crowd-season-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-it-crowd-season-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The IT Crowd (season 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{3.5\/5} &#8220;When I was eleven I broke the patio window and my mother sued me&#8230; She&#8217;s always been a very aggressive litigator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;The Final Countdown&#8221; Moss makes it onto a TV game show &#8212; he then discovers that there are perks for people who do well on the show. On the other hand, &#8220;Jen the Fredo&#8221; is barely watchable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reynholm v Reynholm&#8221; is all about Douglas (the boss) and his wife. When you only have 6 episodes per season, don&#8217;t spend a whole show on the Reynholms &#8212; give us more of Roy and Moss.<\/p>\n<p>Season 4 of <strong>The IT Crowd<\/strong> originally aired in 2010. Over the course of this series the number of funny parts decreases and the number of unfunny parts increases. But one look at Roy and\/or Moss in an unusual situation will still make you laugh. They do a good job at building on what&#8217;s come before, cleverly referring to previous episodes.<\/p>\n<p>For myself, I&#8217;m going to try to remember the first season, when it was brilliant, and forget about the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Will there be more of <strong>The IT Crowd<\/strong>? Creator Graham Linehan hoped to make a special but it hasn&#8217;t happened yet. If the special is longer than a half an hour, it could be tricky. Other shows like <strong>Futurama<\/strong> and <strong>Mr. Bean<\/strong> have had trouble making the jump from a half hour show to a movie.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/the-it-crowd-season-3\/\">season 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{3.5\/5} &#8220;When I was eleven I broke the patio window and my mother sued me&#8230; She&#8217;s always been a very aggressive litigator.&#8221; In &#8220;The Final Countdown&#8221; Moss makes it onto a TV game show &#8212; he then discovers that there are perks for people who do well on the show. On the other hand, &#8220;Jen [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,5,11],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-comedy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9627,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/9627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}