As if the previous entire season wasn't a nightmare with that brat of an annoying kid actor! (And a useless character, at that, it was!) As if Alyssa Milano showing up to work with bizarro haircuts without contract permission, thus messing up with Samantha Micelli's looks; as if S8E01 "Seer of Love" wasn't bad enough, they bring us this miserable episode where Tony is, not only looking unusually fugs with a buzz cut, he's acting crazed out of character!
2 episodes ago, we had the displeasure of witnessing Judith Light and Tony Danza sucking face, proving how terrible their chemistry had been the whole entire series. Mind you, I don't mind them so much as friends, it's as love interest that they had exactly ZERO chemistry whatsoever. Sure, Judith was good playing the ugly duckling pining over the handsome hunk who's way out of her league and whom she'll never attain. But Tony Danza gave her absolutely nothing in return, safe for, maybe, a couple of longing looks in season 1. Then, that quickly passed and jock Tony got busy with dozen upon dozen other love interests. Angela was always rushing around and couldn't have care less about the man she's supposed to be secretly in love with.
The annoying Bill brat didn't work out, he's disappeared but not before tanking the show's ratings. It would never recover. (Sadly? No: it had run its course!) So if you watched 2 episodes ago, as I was saying, Tony and Angela sucking face, that scene was so awkward, we actually were watching two actors, possibly long-time friends, perhaps both married to other people, and being forced to kiss by a dumb script (and probably, by overzealous fans, as is most likely what was behind this nonsense!) and it doesn't work and it was painful to watch. So we watched not Angela but Judith appear to be sucking on a tube of anchovie paste, Tony's lips, who, himself, acted like dead fish and "have we locked lips long enough for the fans to tune in for this, can I back away now?!" It was THAT awkward, and anyone saying otherwise is delusional!
Well, in this title, uncaring, cold fish Tony, has become so in love with Angela that he's turned into a Misery movie-like stalker. It is unfunny, it is all creepy. Yes, they were going for creepy but NOT without funny. And it's not. Forgetting that this was supposed to be a comedy with sitcom continuation, then I'm giving a 3 for Tony's performance which it would have been fun...if the character was actually demented. He somehow forgot to throw in the lightheartedness and the humor and, instead, he comes across as all overbearing and do I have to call the police and have them report to the Culver Studios, never mind that this was taped some 30 years ago. THAT creepy and that unfunny.
And, of course, Angela just wants to get away from him? Why? This is the man you're too ugly for, the hunk you've been pining over for almost a decade, so what gives?! What gives is a terrible script and the cringeworthiness of, once again, having to watch 2 platonic best friends having a gun to their head forcing them to kiss. Kinda like KIrk captain and the Black co-pilot or whatever she was, I never watched that ridiculous show, just channel surfed one night onto "that scene". That bad. Badly acted. Awful turn of events. Tony Danza never gave enough of his performance to make me believe that he had the hots for Angela. So, in the end, this doesn't work. (The same that it never worked for that copycat sitcom that shall remain nameless, and "Mr. Sheffield" was even more dull, more awkward ,less handsome and more cringeworthy to watch kissing his no-good housekeeper than watching these two right here.
Did I mention this show doesn't work? It no longer works. The jokes are stale, the costumes have seen better days, the kids are grown and completely uninteresting and this ship has sailed. We went from a fun series, to a show where everybody took turns having bad haircuts and it turned in turn into a ridiculous charicature of itself. Tony obsessed with Angela to the point of madness? HA! Ha-ha! HA! Ridiculous. IF Tony had played it a bit better, if the costumes had been as good as they once were (was that dud of a nightgown Angela was wearing off the Vermont catalog??) and if the script hadn't been so godawful it could have risen to a 5 or a 6. 3 stars out of 10, for old times sakes and let's hope they sing Auld Lang Syne (but what's it mean) soon because... stick a fork in it, show's done!
2 episodes ago, we had the displeasure of witnessing Judith Light and Tony Danza sucking face, proving how terrible their chemistry had been the whole entire series. Mind you, I don't mind them so much as friends, it's as love interest that they had exactly ZERO chemistry whatsoever. Sure, Judith was good playing the ugly duckling pining over the handsome hunk who's way out of her league and whom she'll never attain. But Tony Danza gave her absolutely nothing in return, safe for, maybe, a couple of longing looks in season 1. Then, that quickly passed and jock Tony got busy with dozen upon dozen other love interests. Angela was always rushing around and couldn't have care less about the man she's supposed to be secretly in love with.
The annoying Bill brat didn't work out, he's disappeared but not before tanking the show's ratings. It would never recover. (Sadly? No: it had run its course!) So if you watched 2 episodes ago, as I was saying, Tony and Angela sucking face, that scene was so awkward, we actually were watching two actors, possibly long-time friends, perhaps both married to other people, and being forced to kiss by a dumb script (and probably, by overzealous fans, as is most likely what was behind this nonsense!) and it doesn't work and it was painful to watch. So we watched not Angela but Judith appear to be sucking on a tube of anchovie paste, Tony's lips, who, himself, acted like dead fish and "have we locked lips long enough for the fans to tune in for this, can I back away now?!" It was THAT awkward, and anyone saying otherwise is delusional!
Well, in this title, uncaring, cold fish Tony, has become so in love with Angela that he's turned into a Misery movie-like stalker. It is unfunny, it is all creepy. Yes, they were going for creepy but NOT without funny. And it's not. Forgetting that this was supposed to be a comedy with sitcom continuation, then I'm giving a 3 for Tony's performance which it would have been fun...if the character was actually demented. He somehow forgot to throw in the lightheartedness and the humor and, instead, he comes across as all overbearing and do I have to call the police and have them report to the Culver Studios, never mind that this was taped some 30 years ago. THAT creepy and that unfunny.
And, of course, Angela just wants to get away from him? Why? This is the man you're too ugly for, the hunk you've been pining over for almost a decade, so what gives?! What gives is a terrible script and the cringeworthiness of, once again, having to watch 2 platonic best friends having a gun to their head forcing them to kiss. Kinda like KIrk captain and the Black co-pilot or whatever she was, I never watched that ridiculous show, just channel surfed one night onto "that scene". That bad. Badly acted. Awful turn of events. Tony Danza never gave enough of his performance to make me believe that he had the hots for Angela. So, in the end, this doesn't work. (The same that it never worked for that copycat sitcom that shall remain nameless, and "Mr. Sheffield" was even more dull, more awkward ,less handsome and more cringeworthy to watch kissing his no-good housekeeper than watching these two right here.
Did I mention this show doesn't work? It no longer works. The jokes are stale, the costumes have seen better days, the kids are grown and completely uninteresting and this ship has sailed. We went from a fun series, to a show where everybody took turns having bad haircuts and it turned in turn into a ridiculous charicature of itself. Tony obsessed with Angela to the point of madness? HA! Ha-ha! HA! Ridiculous. IF Tony had played it a bit better, if the costumes had been as good as they once were (was that dud of a nightgown Angela was wearing off the Vermont catalog??) and if the script hadn't been so godawful it could have risen to a 5 or a 6. 3 stars out of 10, for old times sakes and let's hope they sing Auld Lang Syne (but what's it mean) soon because... stick a fork in it, show's done!
