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Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure (2005)
You've got to be kidding
What a wreck of a movie! Camp classic (Valley of the Dolls - so bad it's good, as another comment above aptly points out) it was not. I'm kicking myself all day today for wasting two hours of my life on this thing. Were these actors deliberately trying to sabotage their own careers? My antidote this morning was to waste two more hours (of repeats) on the newest guilty pleasure on TV - The O.C. - which is already starting to veer into "absurdist" territory in its plot lines, the "formula" having simply been tweaked for the present decade. Formula writing is the bane of American TV. This is always where it ends up - a parody of a parody, exhausted and flopping around like a fish on the beach.
Profit (1996)
Early cancellation was a sad commentary on American tastes in TV.
Wow! I came looking for Profit out here after its cancellation wondering if there was anything to be found. Guess I haven't been out here for a while - I thought I was the only one who had even seen it, let alone liked it. Adrian Pasdar didn't even have a bio the last time I checked - his name was here and that was all.
There has to be some way to revive this series and see the episodes that didn't air. Another reviewer said America just wasn't ready for something this good (cf. Action, another FOX premature washout) - sad but true. Hopefully, the powers that be are aware of feedback like this and take the rest of us into account as they dish up yet another season of pablum for the throngs who mourn the loss of The Dukes of Hazzard.
Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992)
I just watched this film for the third time since...
I just watched this film for the third time since it came out in 1992. This time I taped it for keeps with my finger on the pause button to slice out the commercials.
This is the amazing thing - that it was made for commercial network TV. Made-for-TV movies are generally so bland - they all look the same, feel the same, sound the same. This film, however, stands head and shoulders above such fare. I wish I knew the impetus behind Ken Olin's making of this film. Between his direction, the performances he got from this ensemble and James Duff's magnificent screenplay I don't know what to admire the most. It should be mandatory viewing for the religious right and the family values crowd. Who knows? They might even learn a thing or two about family values.