{"id":31534,"date":"2025-06-27T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=31534"},"modified":"2025-06-27T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:19:00","slug":"streaming-hours-well-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=31534","title":{"rendered":"Streaming hours well spent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Zero Day,” on Netflix, is the political opus that “Mountainhead” was not. Robert De Niro is magnificent as a former president who is called out of retirement to investigate a nationwide cyberattack.<\/p>\n

“Mountainhead,” by the way, started out with an interesting premise but quickly devolved into a rather silly black comedy.<\/p>\n

In “Long Way Home,” on Apple TV+, Ewan McGregor and his old friend Charley Boorman, starting in Scotland, ride classic old motorcycles across seventeen countries of northern and eastern Europe. It’s good, lightweight fun. It’s also a fine travelogue that gets us into some places where tourists don’t often go — northern Norway, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.<\/p>\n

Drone photography has done wonders for travel documentaries.<\/p>\n

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“Zero Day,” on Netflix, is the political opus that “Mountainhead” was not. Robert De Niro is magnificent as a former president who is called out of retirement to investigate a nationwide cyberattack. “Mountainhead,” by the way, started out with an interesting premise but quickly devolved into a rather silly black comedy. In “Long Way Home,” … Continue reading “Streaming hours well spent”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31534"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31542,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31534\/revisions\/31542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}