Touched by an Angel (TV Series) Living the Rest of My Life (2000) User Reviews

Reclaiming Your Life and Place in the World

[starlina7up · 10/10 · 9 October 2023]

Cecily Tyson was the best in her TV Appearances and this is no exception.

Abby was a widow mother and devoted to her son and daughter in law. Thanks to Tess Abby finally sees her son as he is. Phillip is a hustler who stole over $1,000 from his own mother. Abby made things clear with Phillip that he can't change his ways and be a better man and husband to Judith he can't be in Abby's life anymore and it's same to assume that Judith who was an innocent victim of his actions probably said the same thing. If Touched by an Angel had stayed on the air for a what could have been Season 10 then Monica and newly redeemed Angel Kathleen would work together to set Phillip straight and help him save his marriage and himself.

Claptrap

[aramis-112-804880 · 3/10 · 4 December 2022]

I'd like to see more stories about people accepting responsibiliry for their own lives. Individuals and individualists taking charge of their destiny. Artists carrying on with their metier in the face of public criticism.

Superficially, that's what this episode is about. But scrutinizing it more deeply one finds a thinly-disguised Marxist parable about the collective over the family.

Marx and Marxists always distrusted the family and wanted the family unit as it was traditionally understood disintigrated.

So here we have a nice old lady living with a son she can't trust moving in with a collective of strangers who comprise her "new" family even though she's just met them.

It seems strange the nice lady lives in isolation. She's 70 years old and is recently widowed without having made a support group of friends or extended family or people at her church (she seems of a religious bent; surely she has a church).

The whole episode makes no sense without a chilling undertone of Marxism the writers understood if the viewers do not.

And there's also a leftist-Marxist distrust of business, investing, and people trying to get ahead. More than any episode of this show, the angels do their best to strongarm people into directions they demand they go, as Communist dictatorships always do to their citizens. What happened to their typical paeans to free will?

While the episode highlights two artists, one older and more tradition and the other younger, angry and experimental, they simply show the temperamental nature of the artists. Very superficial. But then, it's not an episode focussing on art but art only as an adjunct to the collective. A very Stalinist attitude.

The whole episode is troubling. As a sixty-one year old artist I take away from this episode that if I leave everything I love and abandon my family I can start living the high life at an old codger's home. This is a stupid episode. But whoever wrote it is quite cunning.