On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Third in the series of Hula reviews, this features shows where my > memory didn't fail me. These shows are exactly as good or as bad as I > recalled. > > http://www.tvornottv.net/2009/05/27/the-hulu-hula-part-three/
I was particularly interested in two of your items here: Remmington Steele and Fall Guy. You wrote "[RS} was like “Moonlighting,” but it was also quite different from it." True - though in my house, we said it the other way around (that Moonlighting was like RS, but different). My memory is that Steele had been on for a season or so before Moonlighting, and that in the weeks leading up to Moonlighting's premier we (the circle of people I watched tv with - in those days we only had one, and had to negotiate which shows we watched) dismissed it as a wannabe RS. Immediately, but also gradually, we realized that there were some pretty huge differences, which made Moonlighting in some ways better, but other ways, not. For me I would sum it up as I grew to like the dude from ML better than the dude from RS, but always liked the chick from RS better than the chick from ML. I have not seen an episode of RS since it went off the air - you don't say much about what it was like to watch it now, but it was in your "still good" pile so I assume it holds up (at least the first couple of seasons). I'm glad. I absolutely agree with you about Fall Guy, and I think the difference between it an A Team is clear and instructive. Neither were high or even middle brow shows, but one got the most out of its limited form and managed to put together professional writing and acting that was fun and lighthearted if lightweight. If not intended as profound literature it at least did not make you feel like it was siphoning IQ points directly out of your brain. The other seemed like it was not even really trying - it had a marketable premise and just phoned it in every week. It felt like a roadshow version of Cannonball 3, and you could just see your own IQ meter plummeting as you watched it. I enjoyed Fall Guy, and only watched A Team when I could not talk by younger brother out of it. I think the moral here is, whatever your job might be, do it well - you will feel better about yourself, and you never know who might be watching. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... Smart (TV) People on Ice! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
