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Paula Sheppard was beautiful.
Roseanne revival
Glad to see old iMBD posts ported over here.
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Please don’t. Perfect Strangers, in large part, was rooted in a legal immigrant’s love affair with the United States and its unique, beautiful culture.
If it were rebooted now the characters would be race swapped, gender swapped, and the moral of each episode would be how America is flawed, evil, and unfair.
Zhe would be a gay, paraplegic, transgender, non-binary, black Muslim.
No. It stands from be on its own. Hollywood doesn’t need to reboot every property that ever existed. How hard is it really to think of another odd couple scenario?
If they have to do Perfect Strangers, let it be about their kids.
Agreed. The opening told a great story too. Studios crapping about 200 million dollar origin stories every few years could really learn a thing or two about exposition from the opening to Perfect Strangers.
Yeah, my wife and I have been watching it. It looks absolutely gorgeous in HD. Whoever cleaned the show up to get it ready for HD deserves a raise. It is immaculate.
Here's some updates on the project.
http://www.eonline.com/news/888758/roseanne-revival-looks-like-a-happy-reunion-see-what-s-happening-behind-the-scenes-of-the-abc-series
Looks like they've designed the sets to pretty faithfully recreate the old Conner home. Not sure how they will rectify this with the last season of Roseanne (originally referred to in the last episode as a story written by Roseanne to deal with Dan's death / Jackie being gay / Darlene being married to Mark and Becky to David, etc...)
We'll see what happens, but I've got zero faith in the show. Don't know who the new kids are in the last picture, but they certainly went full-PC. I thought Roseanne was over that kind of stuff, but apparently not.
EDIT: One of the girls is playing Darlene's daughter. She's a dead ringer for Melissa Gilbert too.
Movie, I think, though only marginally so. The film was a tad more realistic in some regards. Movie Kiriyama was superior to the book one, in my opinion. And Kou Shibisaki's unearthly beauty and haunting performance as Mitsuko could never be done justice on a black and white page.
At least now we know the speed of stupid. (When Jackie was trying to heat up her coffee in the microwave with no electricity.)
The line Leon gave about sinking his life savings into his boyfriend's bookstore "wisely located directly across the street from the public library."
Another good episode is when Booker goes to the car show with another woman, and Jackie uses Roseanne's wedding ring to make him pay for it.
And also the one where Roseanne and Dan start throwing each other's stuff out of the door. Great stuff.
Officially? When she went Segal on a train. Technically, when they won the lottery. In reality? The show was in a slow descent from season one. Each successive season was just a little bit worse than the one before it.
They were all funny (except for the last season), but the raw charm of the first season didn't last long. Roseanne's character moved closer and closer to Roseanne the person. She went from being rough around the edges to just being rough. She went from being a strong woman to a nasty, man-hating third wave feminist. And the more her personal life fell apart off-screen, the more vindictive her character became on-screen.
I hated the way Jackie morphed into a complete bumbling fool at the end. Ditto for Mark.
Once Roseanne dyed her hair black the show, as it had existed previously, was effectively over.
Season 1 is the gold standard for me. No other season even comes close.
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