This is such a lovely show it remains a firm family favourite we all watched it, though in our case on repeat many years after the original broadcast.
Nonie my partner loved it so much she just had to see the film with Nicole Kidman, I wanted to be able to share it with her and was curious to find out what it was like. We both enjoyed the film and felt Kidman was great in it, personally she even looked remarkably like Elizabeth Montgomery, making her a perfect match. A film review I'll do anon so will leave a more detailed rundown until then.
I won't bother with making any comparisons between the two Darren's, for me both actors were just great in the role. All fans will know something about the actors and their times with the show, so I won't waste my time on it. I feel that they both provided something different to Darrin's persona, in his quirks and idiosyncrasies.
There was also two Mrs Cravitz with different actresses playing the part, again I won't reiterating what every fan of the show knows about the circumstances involved. Really I think that both of them encompassed the role admirably, I found them equally believable as both the annoying nosy parker neighbour, and the irritating spouse who drives her husband up the wall.
I have several favourite characters all of whom were given far too little time in the show, to really allow the full colour of their personality to shine. This is embellished by the stellar performances of the actors, such that one could never imagine anyone else playing the part.
Uncle Arthur is an absolute delight I would love for him to have been a relative of mine, such a great sense of fun and of the absurd. He has an unearing nack for locating the ideal way to drive Darrin and Endora up the wall, rather than to tickle their funny bones.
Aunt Clara is a sheer joy as the adorable quirky auntie, who should really jack in her witchcraft and hang up the spell book. Poor soul can't seem to get the hang of any of her spells, as they all end up with her in some form of lumber. Seeing her arrive at the Stephens household via the fireplace, rather than the front door is brilliant. Her cleptomania for nicking door knobs is hilarious, anyone getting a visit from Aunt Clara will end up with them being unable to navigate their own home.
Doctor Bombay is simply brilliant the ideal G.P. that I would love to consult, that leaves me wishing I was in his medical practice. I would imagine that any self respecting doctor would love, to be able to enjoy such a rich and varied lifestyle.
This show is set in the days of the trend for what became erroneously known as the nuclear family, when men and women knew their place in the overall scheme of things. Men where the head of the household and women were the dutiful house frau, keeping both hubby and house spick and span. Darrin like his dad before him enjoys the role emmensly. and as him he wants a wife to emulate his mother. Darrin's aspirations in life like all good aspiring middle classes is to be upwardly mobile, which includes the house in the suburbs.
Samantha really doesn't know what she is getting herself into when she, decides to live the normal life turning her back on centuries of family and tradition. She actually believes in the mythology and considers that, to be cooped up in the prim and proper environs of suburbia is every women's dream.
But of course Samantha is no ordinary woman with a thoroughly unconventional pedigree, yet she is still determined to fulfil her role in Darrin's life. She is actually proud of the tiny suburban nest that they will inhabit, and is determined to convince her mother Endora of the validity of it. Such that Samantha tries to enthuse about what she intends to do with it, Endora tries to placate her daughter while attempting to appeal to her esthetics, and not to settle with her first mundane choices. Endora can't believe that Samantha really wants to throw away her entire past and future life for one of parochial provincialism, and you can really see her point.
Why does Darrin react as such a pillock when he discovered that Samantha, was not exactly what he was expecting in a potential wife and mother? Yes he is living in the past when it comes to his attitude towards witches and witchcraft, not exactly as per the Salem witch trials. But of the cartoon Walt Disney variety, as is illustrated in his company's ad campaign for a client.
But why settle for the studiously tedious existence, that us mere mortal are forced to contend with? Even a modest house can be made more than just habitable, why deliberately make your life harder than needs be? Mortal human beings rarely have much of a choice about the way their lives pan out, how many of us with even the modicum of common sense couldn't appreciate the idea of living their dreams and not the dismal reality? Let's be honest I would have jacked in my job with alacrity and happily moved to more salubrious surroundings ASAP
Nonie my partner loved it so much she just had to see the film with Nicole Kidman, I wanted to be able to share it with her and was curious to find out what it was like. We both enjoyed the film and felt Kidman was great in it, personally she even looked remarkably like Elizabeth Montgomery, making her a perfect match. A film review I'll do anon so will leave a more detailed rundown until then.
I won't bother with making any comparisons between the two Darren's, for me both actors were just great in the role. All fans will know something about the actors and their times with the show, so I won't waste my time on it. I feel that they both provided something different to Darrin's persona, in his quirks and idiosyncrasies.
There was also two Mrs Cravitz with different actresses playing the part, again I won't reiterating what every fan of the show knows about the circumstances involved. Really I think that both of them encompassed the role admirably, I found them equally believable as both the annoying nosy parker neighbour, and the irritating spouse who drives her husband up the wall.
I have several favourite characters all of whom were given far too little time in the show, to really allow the full colour of their personality to shine. This is embellished by the stellar performances of the actors, such that one could never imagine anyone else playing the part.
Uncle Arthur is an absolute delight I would love for him to have been a relative of mine, such a great sense of fun and of the absurd. He has an unearing nack for locating the ideal way to drive Darrin and Endora up the wall, rather than to tickle their funny bones.
Aunt Clara is a sheer joy as the adorable quirky auntie, who should really jack in her witchcraft and hang up the spell book. Poor soul can't seem to get the hang of any of her spells, as they all end up with her in some form of lumber. Seeing her arrive at the Stephens household via the fireplace, rather than the front door is brilliant. Her cleptomania for nicking door knobs is hilarious, anyone getting a visit from Aunt Clara will end up with them being unable to navigate their own home.
Doctor Bombay is simply brilliant the ideal G.P. that I would love to consult, that leaves me wishing I was in his medical practice. I would imagine that any self respecting doctor would love, to be able to enjoy such a rich and varied lifestyle.
This show is set in the days of the trend for what became erroneously known as the nuclear family, when men and women knew their place in the overall scheme of things. Men where the head of the household and women were the dutiful house frau, keeping both hubby and house spick and span. Darrin like his dad before him enjoys the role emmensly. and as him he wants a wife to emulate his mother. Darrin's aspirations in life like all good aspiring middle classes is to be upwardly mobile, which includes the house in the suburbs.
Samantha really doesn't know what she is getting herself into when she, decides to live the normal life turning her back on centuries of family and tradition. She actually believes in the mythology and considers that, to be cooped up in the prim and proper environs of suburbia is every women's dream.
But of course Samantha is no ordinary woman with a thoroughly unconventional pedigree, yet she is still determined to fulfil her role in Darrin's life. She is actually proud of the tiny suburban nest that they will inhabit, and is determined to convince her mother Endora of the validity of it. Such that Samantha tries to enthuse about what she intends to do with it, Endora tries to placate her daughter while attempting to appeal to her esthetics, and not to settle with her first mundane choices. Endora can't believe that Samantha really wants to throw away her entire past and future life for one of parochial provincialism, and you can really see her point.
Why does Darrin react as such a pillock when he discovered that Samantha, was not exactly what he was expecting in a potential wife and mother? Yes he is living in the past when it comes to his attitude towards witches and witchcraft, not exactly as per the Salem witch trials. But of the cartoon Walt Disney variety, as is illustrated in his company's ad campaign for a client.
But why settle for the studiously tedious existence, that us mere mortal are forced to contend with? Even a modest house can be made more than just habitable, why deliberately make your life harder than needs be? Mortal human beings rarely have much of a choice about the way their lives pan out, how many of us with even the modicum of common sense couldn't appreciate the idea of living their dreams and not the dismal reality? Let's be honest I would have jacked in my job with alacrity and happily moved to more salubrious surroundings ASAP