{"id":42871,"date":"2025-08-29T11:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42871"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:10:47","slug":"a-bit-like-rear-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/08\/29\/a-bit-like-rear-window\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit Like Rear Window"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

Shouldn’t have greased those shoes, I suppose.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Which I’ve seen, but not since starting the blog, so no review. I recall Rear Window<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1954) as being a tightly plotted mystery, as a woman disappears, someone else’s dog is found dead, all observed by a guy with a broken leg, watching his neighborhood from his rear window. (He’s a journalist, so of course he watches. It’s not creepy. At all.)<\/p>\n

But what’s going on?<\/p>\n

We binged our way through the first season of The Flight Attendant<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2020) over the last week. While in many ways completely unlike Rear Window<\/strong><\/em>, such as nearly incessant sex, it’s also full of themes and techniques essential to Rear Window<\/strong><\/em>, such as inexplicable occurrences, red herrings that, maybe, aren’t. And it starts off fast, and slow.<\/p>\n

Fast in that flight attendant Cassie wakes up next to a dead man in a hotel in Bangkok, his throat slit, guaranteed to get the adrenaline levels up.<\/p>\n

Slow in that the mystery seems eminently solvable.<\/p>\n

Right up until the unexpected inconsistencies smack you, and her, in the face. It just takes a little patience to get there. We nearly walked away. Then the interest heightens as Cassie starts running, right up until the double surprise ending.<\/p>\n

I hate the title. But we’re looking forward to the second, and final, season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which I’ve seen, but not since starting the blog, so no review. I recall Rear Window (1954) as being a tightly plotted mystery, as a woman disappears, someone else’s dog is found dead, all observed by a guy with a broken leg, watching his neighborhood from his rear window. (He’s \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42873,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42871\/revisions\/42873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}