I suffered through the first iteration of this and found it almost as painful as the originals. Lear's shows (like Sorkin's) love nothing more than preaching to the choir while thinking they're changing people's minds.
The problem with the rebooted AITF (beyond the badly dated script) was that the actors were poorly directed and no one could decide if they were playing the characters or the original actors. The Jeffersons fared a little better in that the actors were playing the script, but it just wasn't that good to begin with. "You can't draw sweet water from a foul well." --Dave Sikula On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 2:00:05 PM UTC-8, Tom Wolper wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:59 AM Kevin M. <[email protected] > <javascript:>> 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/598dfe1d-e133-4f79-82c2-28dd2bdd3ee8%40googlegroups.com.
