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You kind of have to laugh at how Reed got a personality transplant in season 6. I guess they wanted to set up the cousins as capable cast members in case more "Sisters" bolted from the show. I will say though, I don't miss Frankie at all. She was always kind of the worst "sister".

I think I've identified the reason why Sisters has never become a real memorable classic, despite six seasons and 127 episodes. It's just such an odd mixture of incredibly dark and dank stories, only to completely whiplash and have extreme whimsical stories. Yet, it never seems to hit that sweet middle ground where you can point and say "yes, this is what Sisters is about".

Blood & Oil seemed doomed from the start - it was essentially first developed in 2011 for ABC, then thrown into development hell to the USA Network. Then all of a sudden Empire became a big surprise hit in the spring of 2015, ABC quickly grabbed it back and wanted to soap it up (I assume they thought modern Dallas, so Cidre made sense). But Cidre always seemed to want to write her own show focusing on crime, so it's not surprising she quickly got the boot. Jon Harmon Feldman also didn't seem like a good fit either... They even attempted to do the "ex-wife with an axe to grind returns" before it was jettisoned off! It's a shame, because when ABC got soaps right, they got it right. Blood & Oil wasn't it unfortunately.

The only thing that stands out to me is that a Savannah repeat out-rated some shows on both WB / UPN. I guess it just goes to show that it had real momentum at that point in season one that just got squandered by them moving it in season 2 (that season 2 was creatively so-and-so didn't help either).

Sisters season 5 just continues down the bleak path. I mean, mob murder, hysterical blindness (!!), Teddy relapsing, Georgie being manipulated by a psycho therapist who makes her believe her father molested her... remember when this show was somewhat light? I really wonder what viewers at the time thought, but I guess they showed that by tuning out.

All about how you approach it really. Some go at it with the intention to "look good for my age" and tend to get good results since they tend to leave some aging marks on them, which makes it look more natural and less uncanny valley. Then you have people like Joan van Ark, that seems to utterly obsess over every little line and detail on the face that she fails to see the bigger picture. Then of course those that try to recapture their youth or use plastic surgery to curb earlier unhealthy habits...

IIRC, even before his death there was talk about the show ending. While I'm sure her ex's death play a part, I also just think it's just hard to combine a music career with a five-day-a-week talk show, particularly if you want to tour internationally.

The dividing it up into two half hours in some markets clearly saved it as it seemed on the way to the dumpster before that. It was very smart of them.

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There was definitively a line drawn between the dramas!

Not sure why you pushed Picket Fences in there since it's in the same quirky genre that Sisters was pre-season 4. But yeah. They did everything so now it's drama time! And it's rape.

swoon For Peter Dunne! What he did for season 7 of Melrose Place was amazing. But damn, season 4 of Sisters so far is depressing and Very Serious. I'm not sure what they're trying to do here.

You know how you often hear about something, but you don't really believe it until you feel it? Season 4 of Sisters. A complete vibe change into a Very Serious Drama, except it kind of just get soapier and more ridiculous.

I'm surprised Jacobs just didn't re-imagine the Wards as something else but a newly married couple. As you said, Val and Gary ended up filling that slot, with Karen and Sid being the "old" stable married couple and Laura and ratface being the long-term messy married couple. I'm not sure what I would've put in the Wards' slot instead (my first thought is a retired couple, but they would've similarly not fit in eventually).

I've always admired that SFT seemed to remain true to itself even towards the end. Even through ratings stunts like floodings, it always seemed to have a quiet dignity about it.

Actually, it does kind of explain the weirdness about top / bottoms that seem to exist in his work. Obviously, if you penetrate, you're straight. If you're a bottom, you just take it up the butt (what?). Either way I think he needs serious therapy because that's just messed up. And maybe step away from Grindr.

Donny shits himself in the oval office: Hot sexy and vital man there. That's it, that's my post take of it as you will.

Wait, Tyler Perry is closeted?

I mean, yeah. I've only seen two episodes but they sort of start and end at the same place as they start. I also want to somewhat address Tyler Perry's weird views on homosexuality. Does he think that if gays want to oogle weird [!@#$%^&*], they have to get their best friend into rehab and get weird about nudity to flaunt his butt to them? I'd think you'd just join a gym and be that weirdo in the corner if that's your beat.

I did watch two episodes of The Haves and the Haves Not and it was very daytime soapy, except a bit shallow but somewhat entertaining. I didn't expect much tbh but nothing was as bad as the clips I've seen of Tyler Perry's shows on YouTube (but there's always time!). But yeah, I continued on Sisters after that and now it's about 40 minutes left until MelFest.

I'm sitting around debating with myself if I should keep binge watching Sisters before Melodifestivalen or if I should finally start watching The Haves and the Have Nots. 🤔

I mean, the original 2007 run of Jeremy Horton fits into this but apparently Trevor Donovan was just terrible and they didn't bother recasting at the time.

Missed this, but another full broadcast of Our Family Honor has been posted (1x12): This channel has previously posted 1x10 and 1x11. The pilot is also available, so we're building up to a few episodes now.

I definitively think that Ari was sidelined because Doug III kind of turned out to be a flop that got written out quickly. She suffers the same problem as Cassie before her - related with far too many people in town, so they basically need to introduce a new love interest specifically for her. Add that they mostly seem to be adding new characters in their late 20s or in their 30s and Ari's just in an odd spot.

Add that the "quirky" parts of it (ie the weekly steam bath that was dumped eventually and the "flashbacks" to their younger selves) were more cosmetic than anything. I guess in the early seasons it was a tad more wholesome than it became later on, but that's not really an argument against it being a soap (though I suspect it might have to do with the rise of Melrose Place?).