"Wings" Heartache Tonight (TV Episode 1997) Poster

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(1997)

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3/10
A show that never flew that
jpapanone30 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
High...sank like a stone towards the end.

I remember watching the reruns of Wings in USA when I came home from school...and some of these episodes I've probably seen 20 times.

I found myself finishing lines that must be buried somewhere deep in my subconscious.

I'm half guessing how they end, and more often than not, I'm right. It's a combo of having seen em before...and the show being pretty damn predictable.

So...season 1 to 3 were early episodes. Pre Antonio and when the opening was classical music, which I never liked.

So really...seasons 4 and 5 were probably the best. There was definite some good stuff and scenes and episodes early on, but I think 4 and 5 were the most easily watchable and rewatchable.

There are some good scenes and episodes once Casey arrives, but that started the descent starts ng in season 6, and once Lowell is gone and Bud arrives for 1 way too long season 7, the show was over.

Season 8 is just the leftover remains.

I haven't rated many episodes. I tended to do the ones that's stood out as enjoyable or were easily neutral.

This show...like a handful of others that I can't recall right now...was pretty darn consistent.

I am 99% sure that there isn't a 10...probably not even a 9. I think the best Wings episode may be a very generous 8.

It wasn't groundbreaking, writing wasn't Seinfeldesque and didn't have anything like Friends...but it definitely could have played and contributed in the major leagues. Not a 300 hitter, but good enough to make the team and stay on.

This episode and the one a few ago, Mrs. Write were absolutely horrendous. Felt like the later seasons of HIMYM where since it was the end, nobody seemed to care. Not the writers, directors or actors. Everybody phoned it in.

Everything that could be bad and some bad was done bad here. Casey/Amy Yasbak was married to John Ritter before he died...and what John Ritter did with slapstick nonsensical humor almost perfectly, Amy did the absolute opposite. Here it is done perfectly...and here is exactly how not to do it.

So this episode offered nothing. I don't know how much reason there is to rewatch any episode of Wings, though I enjoy them...this episode is right up there with HIMYM ones and Superstore ones.

Look away.
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