On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:59 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ted Danson = Archie > Jamie Lee Curtis = Edith > Jason Bateman = Meathead > Kaley Cuoco = Gloria > I guess this is what they're doing instead of live musicals as event programming. In general I liked the one they did previously. It was like taking a play and showing you a different cast. Trying too hard to mimic the original cast members was its weakest part. I did not look up which episode and season they used for the first All In the Family. As I watched it, it got me thinking that the lines came from the writers with no concept of what the actors would do with them. Once they saw how the actors made some lines work better than others they would naturally write to the specific strengths of those actors. So if by this point the writers were writing specifically to Jean Stapleton, Carroll O'Connor, etc, that might mean that Marissa Tomei and Woody Harrelson (or Jamie Lee Curtis and Ted Danson) are forced into their line readings and mimicry is what is needed to make it work. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiGVCQSNRKfGC%3DmfBHfu0iZr90MMsv4-sz48erTD4avjNQ%40mail.gmail.com.
