That's where the trend of serializing primetime shows started, but I believe what kicked it into high gear and made it fashionable for the rest of the television was "Cheers." People were OBSESSED with Sam and Diane and whether or not they would get back together - even though S2 made it clear that the two together would never be anything but a total disaster - to the point where creators/EP's Glen and Les Charles have apologized for just about every other show on TV becoming serialized, lol.
The whole "Ewings vs. Barnes" legacy always appealed to me. What didn't appeal to me, though, was how DALLAS ultimately was reduced to "J.R. vs. The Rest of the Free World," with J.R. coming out on top. Every. Single. Year. To me, that gets old (just as Blake and Alexis' constant fighting on DYNASTY always gets old).
Yes. Jacobs' initial pitch to CBS was "Scenes from a Marriage" x 4. Michael Filerman, on the other hand, wanted to do "No Down Payment," a forgotten 1957 pot-boiler starring Joanne Woodward and Tony Randall that, if you watch it, bears a lot of similarities to early KL. As Jacobs often said, "I wanted to produce art, [MF] wanted to produce trash; and together, we made television."
Same here. I love "Family." That show could cut so deep. From a creative or narrative standpoint, today's shows don't hold a candle to shows like "Family" or the MTM dramas from the late '70's and '80's.
That's another issue I've always had with DALLAS: the women never are as important to the show and its' producers as the men are (except when Peter Dunne is producing, and then it's all dismissed as Pamela's dream). As someone who believes TV is, at heart, a women's medium, I find that level of misogyny to be very reductive, for lack of a better word.
I've tried naming one FC storyline that I enjoyed from beginning to end...and I can't. For me, most FC stories either began well enough but soon went off the rails, or they started off badly and just got worse. If I watch the show at all, it's because of Jane Wyman, who had the good fortune to play an antagonist who, IMO, had more layers to her than either J.R. Ewing or Alexis Carrington Colby.
You're not kidding, lol! I stayed up last night to watch some of it, in fact, and...words just fail me big time, it's so incredible. Like, am I nuts, or did Genele just show up to where Frank THINKS he's gonna dig up her sister/his wife's remains, and Genele's still in her NEGLIGEE - IN THE WOODS, Y'ALL! AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT! - as she teases Frank about where she actually buried poor Renee!? SAY WHAT!?!?!?!?
Yeah, FC's last season ain't great TV, but it's great TRAINWRECK TV.
Peter Dunne was very good at taking storylines that might've gone off the rails on other shows and basing them in character. Very rarely do I watch his stuff on KL or DALLAS and feel like I don't understand what the characters are doing or why.
I still think FC made a big mistake in not doing more with Emma suddenly gaining control of the vineyards. Emma had always been the one trying to appeal to Angela's better angels. But, what if Emma surprises even herself, not only by being competent enough to run the vineyards, but by proving she had inherited her mother's deviousness as well; playing Richard, Michael Sharpe and Lance against each other as each tries to take Falcon Crest from her? Even Angela would've been like, "Gee, I didn't know the girl had it in her!"
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