I can agree with Babbin, who said at one point she still wasn't happy with the writing on the show by early 1991. It's a more colorful show , but not always strong. I feel the June, 1991 episodes are much richer.
The Tommy story really worked at uniting the canvas. It's also interesting to see what the story is doing to Trisha, who is very self reflective and having a morality crisis as she secretly Hope's that Clay has killed Monty so that she and Trucker can keep Tommy. In the July episodes, Trisha is going to the jail and offering to help Clay get out in exchange for custody of Tommy in a move that makes her more and more Clay and Gwyn's daughter. It's a fascinating character exploration of the depths one will go to o achieve a goal. They ground it in conversations between Trucker and Trisha about the loss of baby Ben and not properly grieving the death of that child. I wish this level of introspection occured later in the year under Ryan Munisteri.
I also was unaware that Carly and Clay married on the day that Ava and Paul were suppose to marry for the first time in 1991 (of the three times this occurs). Carly is really a trip. It didn't Dawn on me that Ally Rescott arrives in the midst of all this chaos, quite literally, showing up at some family event originally intended to be Paul and Ava's wedding reception, I assume. I also didn't realize that they had paired Matt Ford and Louie Slavinski so early in a father/son type dynamic. Bernie Barrows did so good in these type of relationships (especially later with Dinahlee),
Marisol Massey is a campy level of unhinged when she is back on the story coming at Clay with a knife in Carly's presence. I enjoy it much more than I probably should.
Bob Gunton as Barry Ryder, the mob boss targeting Paul, is a surprising move. I know Gunton from his work in The Green Mile, but in the early 1990s he was still appearing, or just stopped appearing, in Sweeney Todd so I guess this was a well know New York menace. The mob stuff seems a bit more tempered by summer of 1991, but still impacting the canvas.
This is all just random musings that I will probably expound upon once I watch more of the episodes properly.
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