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[wasabi_poptart]

Remember American Gothic? Oh, how I loved that show. Loved it, loved it, loved it. It's out on DVD now, so I've been rewatching it ... unfortunately, it does not hold up.

Gary Cole still rocks my world into a thousand pieces as the evil Sheriff Lucas Buck ("That's Buck, with a B"), but the show itself lacks focus. Obviously Buck is a supernatural entity, but his powers are very dodgy; it's never clear where the limitations are. Like, he can control the weather and resurrect the dead, but he can't run a nosy reporter out of town? Also, does he ruin people for the fun of it, or for personal vengeance, or to teach them a lesson, or what? The whole weekly morality play is very contrived. The whole show is contrived, really. Is there some symbolic occult relevance to Buck wanting to claim Caleb as his son when he's ten years old, or is that simply the age of the actor they found to play the role? I mean, the kid who played Caleb was great, but the rest of the show did not rise to the occasion.

Teevee has improved so much in the past ten years. You try to compare it to a show like Lost, or even Supernatural, and you just can't. I credit The X-Files with raising the bar.

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[ranger-hotsauce.livejournal.com]

I had a similar reaction to Sledge Hammer. I remember that show as being funny, but now, no.

X-files? I'd been blaming HBO and Showtime.

[unprotoize.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see Northern Exposure again. But then again, maybe not.

[ranger-hotsauce.livejournal.com]

Hilarity: On whatever the awards show is for TV, Northern Exposure won a whole bunch of "best drama" awards, and the creators who accepted the award said "we appreciate the awards, but it's a comedy."

[alexeye.livejournal.com]

oh, lucas black. a great kid actor who grew up to be unbelievably hot in a very redneck way. (e.g. the fast and the furious: tokyo drift)

american gothic has been on my netflix queue for ages, but at this point i don't know if i'll ever get around to it.

[glamazonwarrior.livejournal.com]

I used to love to watch McGuyver, the A-Team, and Murder She Wrote.

And Matlock.

None of them have held up well. Murphy Brown, though, has held up well in my estimation, despite being topical.

It does seem like TV has improved a lot, but I guess I'll have to see what I think of the shows in another twenty years.

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