{"id":8454,"date":"2011-06-14T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T05:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:36:59","slug":"dr-hairy-appraisal-parts-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=8454","title":{"rendered":"Dr Hairy &#8211; <em>Appraisal<\/em> Parts 1 &#038; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/06_2011\/appraisalpart1.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/appraisalpart1.jpg\" alt=\"appraisalpart1.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/06_2011\/appraisalpart1.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Appraisal Part #1 (2011, 232MB, 10:14 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/06_2011\/appraisalpart2.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/appraisalpart2.jpg\" alt=\"appraisalpart2.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/06_2011\/appraisalpart2.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Appraisal Part #2 (2011, 151MB, 9:40 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edward Picot&#8217;s bizarre and wonderful <b>Dr Hairy<\/b> series, the adventures of a hirsute<br \/>\nUK general practitioner coping with NHS (the NHS we<b> love<\/b>, don&#8217;t misunderstand us)<br \/>\nbureaucracy, continues with these first two episodes of <em>Appraisal<\/em>.<br \/>\nPicot&#8217;s comic timing just gets better &#038; better (&#038; occasionally strays into some<br \/>\nalmost Beckettian territory) &#8211; it&#8217;s fascinating to watch a long<br \/>\nproject like this unfold. If you missed the preceding episodes they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?s=picot&#038;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (as are some other<br \/>\ngems, some equally amusing, some altogether different in style and mood)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appraisal Part #1 (2011, 232MB, 10:14 min) Appraisal Part #2 (2011, 151MB, 9:40 min) Edward Picot&#8217;s bizarre and wonderful Dr Hairy series, the adventures of a hirsute UK general practitioner coping with NHS (the NHS we love, don&#8217;t misunderstand us) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=8454\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17,45,42,47,29,22,18,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-community","category-humor","category-narrative","category-observational","category-performance","category-politics","category-satire","category-serial","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8454"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12014,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions\/12014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}