Sisters TV Show Discussion

[dragonflies]

Any Sisters fans here? I love this show, I wish it was airing on tv.

Here's a petition to get it released on DVD:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/put-sisters-tv-show-on-dvd

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I remember this show closing out Saturday nights. I used to also watch it for the Days promos. I'm glad SOAPnet put it on the lineup for as long as they did.

Wasn't George Clooney on Sisters also? He and Sela Ward's Teddy had madchem with each other IIRC. And his character died someway too.

And there was a story involving Patricia Kalember's character being a surrogate mom to Julianne Phillips' character's baby. She may have even donated the egg too.

Remember when Swoozie Kurtz's daughter was part of a prostitution ring? She played it off as "a dating service." I think Ashley Judd played the role first before they recast her with someone else.

Loved how at the end of the show, the mom picks the illegit daughter to handle all the funeral arrangements. LOL.

(Sorry, don't remember any of these character's names, other than that they were all boy names.)

[dragonflies]

Yes he was and he and Sela Ward had some smoking hot chemistry

Stephen Collins signed the DVD petition-he was on the last season, pretty cool

The daughter's names were Alex, Georgie, Teddy, and Frankie

[DRW50]

Ashley Judd was on the show for a few years. In the last season they recast her. I think the soap magazines panned her.

George Clooney's character, Falconer, was killed off early in the 94-95 season as Clooney had joined ER.

I loved the first few years of this show. The characters were cliched but the actresses breathed life into the cliches, especially Ward, Kurtz, and Kalember. I also loved the Georgie/John marriage. And the schmaltzy moments, like the flashbacks to when the sisters were young, or John singing in his bathrobe, or the cheesy parodies (there was the episode where Alex believed Reed was sleeping with her boyfriend and trying to kill her, and she kept seeing herself in Mildred Pierce).

The downfall of the show was when they started taking themselves too seriously, around season 3 or so. The story that was a deal-breaker for me was when Georgie went to a therapist who made her believe she had been molested by her father. He then began having an affair with her after her marriage broke up. The story made my skin crawl, and with the other stories on the show also being miserable (rape, breast cancer, shootings) it wasn't hard to stop watching.

My favorite character was always Alex. I loved just about everything she did, and all of her relationships with Wade (David Dukes was such an underrated actor), the hot plumber who was a prince, and finally, that Robert Klein character.

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I remember that! So, Georgie wasn't molested by father?! That was the psychiatrist playing mind games with her? How was that ever resolved?!

I wish I had a disposable income, so I could watch the show. I wish they would try to put the show on Hulu or some ad generated website so I can watch it again.

[Sylph]

I loved this show's first years, as Carl mentions, even though it was a bit too soupy & corny for me.

Also, I hated Swoosie Kurtz.

[dragonflies]

My favorite character was Teddy. I freaking loved her, my second fav is probably Georgie. Never much liked Frankie, and Alex was okay. I did like Alex better with Robert Klein's character

[DRW50]

Charlie started going to the therapist to entrap him. He was exposed and lost his license, I think.

The whole story really upset me, because this came on the heels of over a year of misery for Georgie and her family, including her oldest son becoming a thug, and being sent to military school, and Georgie nearly committing suicide. She needed a break. Instead they gave her this. And to make it even creepier, the guy who played the psychiatrist was Kalember's real life husband and they wanted to do this story so they could work together. Ugh!

[Sylph]

It had a few soap actors: Joh Wesley Shipp (Guiding Light, All My Children) & Eric Close (Santa Barbara), for example. Ed Marinaro (Dynasty, Falcon Crest)...

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I loved Teddy early on. My favorite was the one where she was working for a phone sex hotline. I think they took away most of her personality after a few years.

Frankie was OK but she was a bit too whiny and dull. I liked her with Mitch at first but then it ran out of steam. The story with the boxer, not good.

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I'd take this show anyday over ABC's Brothers and Sisters.

[Khan]

Was I a fan of "Sisters"? Are bears scared of Erica Kane, lol? Saturday nights were incomplete w/o this show, IMO.

Ugh, Noelle Parker. She was terrible as nuReed, made worse by the fact that Ron Cowen & Daniel Lipman inexplicably regressed that character after all the work Ashley Judd had put into maturing her.