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Head of the class was a great show..and actually diverse in terms of casting and personalities. Why remake it? Unless one of the original characters come back as a teacher...I'm also not interested.

I watched Long's SFT stint when the episodes were up in the last months. I was surprised at how balanced the show was, with a wide variety of different age groups shown. And hearing her speak about Stu/Jo...it made me think she got what the core was of that show. She opted to do the final good bye scene between Jo and Stu without doing the planned wedding between them because they were best friends and platonic...and they were the heart of the show. I think that experience helped her make her 2nd stint at GL quite successful.

Erica wiped the floor with both Maria and Brooke without breaking a sweat. Natalie and Barbara were more evenly matched against Erica. Although Annie in the late 2000s went a few rounds with Erica successfully. Of the younger set..Annie and Erica could verbally spar.

But in season 5..Carole and Heather bring her back to earth. Firing her clique benefited Luann immensely.

Luann was more countess especially in season 4 against Alex. Rhonj season 1 and 2 were good...3 to 5 were like a hamster wheel...and 6 should be skipped lol

Felicia seemed hardened and cynical in the episode. Nice to see more of Henrietta...who I read was a rival/friend of Quinn.

When my mom went to interview for a paralegal job 5 years ago...they barely used computers...still had law books, etc So not surprised at the public Zoom thing. Surely zoom meetings can be limited to those invited, etc. RHONJ Evan and Teresa had an odd vibe during that brief interaction. Joe B and Jackie..as well. And Jennifer was right... pigtails does talk down to her hubby

Alan does better with 1 on 1 interviews...imho And she's 90 years old and doesn't care...just like Susan pratt

What was ironic about the Tad and Dixie story was that he was back for months beforehand without a strong story. Other than the Barbara/Tad situation..he was basically not used. Dixie had the benefit of a strong story with Adam/Brooke..plus had a strong connection to Palmer/Nina/Will to play opposite of. No wonder Cady kept leaving...because the show seemed unwilling to write Dixie as anything except Tad's plus 1. It's why it was nice not having Tad on the Hulu show because it gave the writers a chance to rediscover Dixie as a character.

Had they framed the story where Alex would trade insults with Mindy but had other stories not involving Mindy...would have made it better. Her last scenes in 1992 read as a good bye more than a 8 week vacation. Not only how she played the scenes..but the scenes themselves.

Taylor seemed more like a Cecily Davidson or a youn brooke English. Remember Brooke was a spoiled rich teen that eventually grew into a reporter, etc. So Taylor seemed more like that until the show made her go crazy.

Wasn't it Lorraine Broderick that made Taylor into the obsessed stalker?

Jennifer/Carly and Jennifer/Billie were better friends than Jennifer/Hope. From what I recall in the 80s... Jennifer/Melissa were closer....same with Hope/Melissa

Dallas: Brandi is what Delores on RHONJ would describe as a 'professional victim'. Tiffany and Dee's interaction shows another side to Dee....a human side. As I've said before...Dee wishes Tiffany was her daughter. Kary is emotionally stunted due to being a child of an alcoholic. Her daughter last week said her mom is all emotion..no logic. Kam and Court are the odd couple that works. D'andra and her hubby do seem to enjoy one another.

The thing with Jen was during that Met confrontation with Mary...she backed down when Mary offered to go outside and settle this. Mary is shady as well...so I'm sure she'll be exposed in due time. No wonder Jen was so tense.... guilt has a way of eating one up. And it looks like Whitney's skin care line is in Meredith's boutique.

I do recall IR's run..she was fighting an attraction to Noah..but did have one scene where she was gleeful at Julia being jealous of her being around Noah. I think the show's reason for recasting was to take the character in a new direction. Wonder what that even means lol

To be honest, I can't imagine Leah being any less likable than in her debut season. She and Ramona/Sonja look to be the same age

I think the show had trouble writing Dixie after the mid 1990s. When the Prospect Park revival came out...MarDar wrote Dixie quite well on her own ironically. She actually had more to offer at that point than Tad did.

Dolan at least had a dry sense of humor..that was more dead pan than what Colin and Bailey-Smith had. I think the PTSD story with Margo was what drove away the last of Margo's humored zest. Holmes was handsome, but sexy isn't what I would have used to describe his Tom. I could have seen Emily going for Marx's Tom though I do think Marland lost the ability to write humor and banter. Look what he ended up doing to Shannon before she was 'killed' off. I never saw a lot of humor on his ATWT...everyone was so earnest like a Thomas Kinkaide photo.

Maybe brandi is out? Or maybe adding a 6th housewife to the 5 already on?

Makes the Ashley mental hospital scenes from the mid 80s look glamorous. 1974 scenes..moody and psychological..as if Ingmar Bergman was directing

Tess vs Sydney had potential on the City....and I think Tess being buddies with Jacob..but she/Angie not liking one another was another element not explored. I would have bought out Heinle's contract instead of having her appear and leave 2 months into the new show. At the same time, she and Tony had a good rapport while her new friendship with Azure had promise.

Agree...Eve brought spark to the story...and even provided an interesting conflict to the Jeff/Vicki story with resolving who he was. Sadly with moltke's departure cut short the Eve being killed angle. He and Carolyn made an interesting match..and provided her character with a touch more depth (looking beyond surface to what's inside).

After the show dumped Leah and Holly after season 1.. the two interesting hosts.. I knew the show would never be more than just a View knock off.

Marland had some characters he struggled to write..happens to every writer. Penny on the Doctors Holly, Hope, and Rita on GL Steve and Betsy on ATWT (yes..Betsy stayed till 1988 but she was not used well). Mctavish seemed to struggle to write Nola on GL Pam Long struggled to write the Capwells well on SB Labine seemed to not get Blake on GL. And any writer other than Long didn't get Reva at all on GL.