{"id":1842,"date":"2015-04-09T04:52:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T04:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2015-04-22T03:58:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T03:58:08","slug":"american-odyssey-the-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/04\/09\/american-odyssey-the-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"American Odyssey: The Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>American Odyssey\u00a0<\/em>debuted on\u00a0Easter Sunday in the 10 o&#8217;clock slot on NBC. \u00a0TV By the Numbers reported that it received a 1.2 rating and a 4 share with 5.4 million total viewers in 18-49. \u00a0It\u00a0beat<em> Battle Creek<\/em> on CBS in 18-49 ratings and share, but lost in total viewership. \u00a0<em>Battle Creek\u00a0<\/em>received a .7 rating and 2 share, but had 5.6 million total viewers. <em>A.D.: The Bible Continues\u00a0<\/em>was the lead in which brought in\u00a09.5 million total viewers, so there was a significant drop-off between the two programs, but I attribute that to the biblical nature of<em> A.D.<\/em> on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode has received mixed reviews so far, with slightly more positive feedback than negative. \u00a0<em>American Odyssey\u00a0<\/em>has a 55% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 59% on Metacritic&#8211; not overwhelmingly good, but not terrible for the first episode of a television series. \u00a0Critics are saying that there are too many storylines going on that are too contrived. \u00a0Another critique of the show is that there are a few lapses in logic and coincidences that held advance the storyline.\u00a0Positive reviews of the show have complimented the complex storyline calling it clever and fresh. \u00a0It is difficult to make a conspiracy story with a unique story that also sticks as close as it can to reality, and it seems to me that <em>American Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0is accomplishing that pretty successfully.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NBCAmericanOdyssey?ref=ts&amp;fref=ts\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0likes: 58,901<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=american%20odyssey&amp;src=typd\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0followers: 11,600<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7PYepYHaitg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Odyssey\u00a0debuted on\u00a0Easter Sunday in the 10 o&#8217;clock slot on NBC. \u00a0TV By the Numbers reported that it received a 1.2 rating and a 4 share with 5.4 million total viewers in 18-49. \u00a0It\u00a0beat Battle Creek on CBS in 18-49 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/04\/09\/american-odyssey-the-pilot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[377],"tags":[506,102,505,522,404,535,91,437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}