Maybe. But wasn't "Yellowstone" about the cattle industry? (IDK, I never watched the show, lol).
DALLAS wasn't just a TV series; it was an epic. David Jacobs and Leonard Katzman put so much into it: Greek tragedies, Icelandic sagas, Arthurian legends, Victorian literature, classic Westerns, you name it. At its' best, watching the original series was like watching a Tennessee Williams play unfold every week, with all the psychosexual drama and twisted family dynamics you'd expect from such a production. If you're going to revive something like that, therefore, then you've gotta bring it. Cynthia Cidre didn't. Whether she didn't LIKE that kind of epic storytelling, or she didn't know how to write or produce it, what she ended up giving fans was very tepid, harmed by the fact that the characters she added to the Barnes/Ewing feud, including the fully grown John Ross and Christopher, were tepidly written and tepidly cast.
(Frankly, I wish they had asked someone like Pamela K. Long to helm the reboot instead. I feel like she would've understood better how to write a show like DALLAS that was, at once, modern and timeless).
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