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Companion piece - Woman of the Hour
Sad
My favorite combinations of shots of all time
Saw it, not that good
If Susan were a contestant on The Bachelor, she'd be that drunk girl who gets cut on the first night.
The girl that shags Bobby
Enough dialogue?
Wouldn't there be ...
Romance tacked on
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I do agree that the police stop speech was a poor choice. I think the writers/producers were getting too political. However, as a previous poster noted, I think there are now a majority of African Americans in Philadelphia. So it would make sense that in the long history of Native Americans and then White people inhabiting that land/house, it made sense by the early 2020's to illustrate that demographics and attitudes change and where perhaps years ago it was unthinkable (if not illegal) to sell that home to an African American family, times, indeed, change.
My biggest gripe was that they had a live-in housekeeper. There is no reason why two adults with one teenage child need a live-in housekeeper to clean an 1800 square foot home. It showed the owners (regardless of race) to be spoiled and in need of status symbols. There were other ways to show that the house experienced a COVID death just as it had a century before during the Spanish Flu.
Ahh, but that was one of soap's greatest moments: Cecil dying immediately after saying "I do," and Alexis walking away with all of his wealth and control of Colby Co. I doubt he had the potential. That's why the writers opted for him to be a secret villain through his alter ego, Logan Rhinewood. I think they came up with that alter ego because they knew Lloyd Bochner's wooden acting style only allowed for so much range. They could only keep the smoke and mirrors going for so long, and once they signed Joan Collins to play Alexis, Cecil's (and Bochner's) days were numbered.
I too loved her in Season 3. However, there was a more human quality to Alexis in Season 2 that I think people really liked. Think back to her lunch at the St. Denis with District Attorney Dunham (Brian Dennehey) after the unsatisfying result in Blake's murder trial. He presses her for more dirt on Blake that she alluded to in their earlier conversations. As much as she despises Blake for estranging her from her children she can't allow herself to further betray him.
You also see an Alexis who is not filthy rich in Season 2. That's the only time that happens during the whole series. She has to live in the artist studio Blake deeded to her when they were married. Yes, it allows her to 'f' with Krystal and Joseph, but she really has no other place to live (rent free) while in Denver. She must use all her feminine wiles to woo Cecil Colby because she really needs the money and would be perfectly happy to take a backseat to the boardroom brawls and simply play Lady MacBeth and allow Cecil to ruin Blake.
She has a very tender rapport with Steven. She understands him only as a mother can and with her bon vivant lifestyle in Acapulco, she has a sensitivity toward homosexuals and the judgment they faced in the '70's - early '80's.
As I recall, Season 2 was the only time we see Alexis in jeans. Granted, they were designer jeans - Gloria Vanderbilt or Calvin Klein by the look of them. But we never see her dressed as shabbily (save when she was incarcerated on first the belief and then the conviction of the murder of Mark Jennings).
I guess I don't understand your derision for Krystal wearing furs? Didn't Alexis wear plenty of fur? And Dominique Devereaux, for that matter? I think it was just coming to the public's consciousness that raising animals (in particular minks) for their fur was cruel. So I don't think Krystal, Alexis, Dominique, Fallon, etc., could be blamed any more so than say, my own mother in the '80's. A fur coat was a very popular gift to the special lady in your life if you were well-heeled enough in the 1980's.
I agree that Blake was the villain (and protagonist) or Season 1. It was a very fine line for a character to walk and a testament to John Forsythe's skill as an actor. But if I'm not mistaken, wasn't Cecil Colby (Lloyd Bochner) in Season 1, and didn't he try to imperial Denver Carrington and indeed woo Fallon? Or was that in Season 2? If memory serves, Cecil Colby was a villain in Season 1, but he was a weak one, and that is why he was replaced by Alexis. I do remember his dying words when he knew he was not long for this world was that he was giving all of his money and power to Alexis, and he was sure she would be able to ruin Blake with it (far better than he ever could).
I can answer your question as to why everyone raves about Season 2 in four words: Alexis Morel Carrington Colby.
Hahahahahahahaha!!
No, but I've seen it referenced a lot on this site, so I'll have to check it out. Thanks, DoctorThirteen.
One dictator or the other? Is it your position that Zelensky is a dictator?
I think he knew spineless Republican senators like Susan Collins would vote Gaetz in, but they would appear extremely weak in doing so. Collins et. al. wouldn't like that. Trump saved what little integrity they have left by not forcing them to vote on a Gaetz confirmation. Selecting Bondi makes Trump look reasonable. Compared to Gaetz, Bondi has practically no baggage. That should make for a smooth confirmation hearing with no senators appearing as rubber stamps for Trump. I'm reminded of that scene in Defending Your Life where Meryl Streep's lawyer, the prosecutor, and the judges return to watch more heroic moments from her life just for fun; the decision for her to advance to the next realm is a foregone conclusion. If you accept the initial premise that Trump and Gaetz conspired to do this from the get-go, you see that it's a win-win situation for all involved. Just not necessarily for the American people.
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