Off-topic (ish) tangent - Jon-Erik Hexum, one of the true Hollywood tragedies. I could have seen him doing similar things to Clooney given the chance. Or at the very least Tom Berenger. Though that may be nostalgia and tragedy coloured glasses.
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I loved this show. Gritty, realistic, and yet just enough non realism to work.
I didn't like Faye, but I did like Barbara even if she was the producer's wife - my favourite performance of hers was later, in LA Law as one of the plaintiffs of the week, she played a television anchorwoman who'd exposed her breast on TV to show the results of surgery for cancer removal.
Frank/Joyce were one of my earliest ships - I really loved them and thought they had amazing chemistry. I had a crush on Frank too, and probably a proto-girlcrush on Joyce though I didn't realise it then. They also single-handedly disprove the Moonlighting curse and show that characters can be together and written as such without resorting to major schmoop and sugar, but be actually happy overall too.
You know I agree with you about the main character thing (though the years of soaps have a bit to do with that too).
Just one of the shows that deserves every bit of hype it ever got.
I am amused that I have discovered that Veronica Hamel also appeared in Starsky & Hutch and in some episodes of Dallas.
Weren't Frank and Joyce an existing couple either at the very beginning of the show or within the first few weeks? I don't really consider it a Moonlighting situation for that reason. It was incredibly chemistry both in the romantic pairings and in the way almost all the characters related to each other.
I think for the first six or eight episodes they were checking each other out(and JD made a pitch for Joyce) but it wasn't long enough to become Will They Or Won't They? They were going to. My friend says that both Travanti and Hamel are gay...they really tapped into something in any case.(but it kind of explains a lot about my success with relationships that my big inspiration for heterosexual love in the eighth grade was not.) I thought Fay was funny, but they only did a half-adequate job of making her a real character...kind of like Anya on Buffy. She's kind of there to be obnoxious/inappropriate and it's funny to this day that when I flip out like a mammal, I still think of her. Unfortunately, I don't have Furillo to turn to.
On topic now.
I loved this show. Gritty, realistic, and yet just enough non realism to work.
I didn't like Faye, but I did like Barbara even if she was the producer's wife - my favourite performance of hers was later, in LA Law as one of the plaintiffs of the week, she played a television anchorwoman who'd exposed her breast on TV to show the results of surgery for cancer removal.
Frank/Joyce were one of my earliest ships - I really loved them and thought they had amazing chemistry. I had a crush on Frank too, and probably a proto-girlcrush on Joyce though I didn't realise it then. They also single-handedly disprove the Moonlighting curse and show that characters can be together and written as such without resorting to major schmoop and sugar, but be actually happy overall too.
You know I agree with you about the main character thing (though the years of soaps have a bit to do with that too).
Just one of the shows that deserves every bit of hype it ever got.
I am amused that I have discovered that Veronica Hamel also appeared in Starsky & Hutch and in some episodes of Dallas.
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My friend says that both Travanti and Hamel are gay...they really tapped into something in any case.(but it kind of explains a lot about my success with relationships that my big inspiration for heterosexual love in the eighth grade was not.)
I thought Fay was funny, but they only did a half-adequate job of making her a real character...kind of like Anya on Buffy. She's kind of there to be obnoxious/inappropriate and it's funny to this day that when I flip out like a mammal, I still think of her.
Unfortunately, I don't have Furillo to turn to.
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