Further, what is Mary Astor's character thinking and doing while Brent flies to " Maryland"?
Betty Davis ( Maggie) reacts to Brent ( Pete) showing up at her plantation with all the surprise and shock of her dog having had puppies?!
What the hell would have had to happen to Maggie beyond her ex-boyfriend showing up to tell her he still loved her to get her to ACT like she had complex feelings and emotions about it?!!
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Darryl Henriques steal the episode with 4-5 minutes!
9 June 2019
This is the first of the Enterprises' run-in with the the one trick pony Ferengi, with their ruthlessly mercantile , misogynistic finagling: big deal.
What matters is the astounding presence of The Portal, played by Darryl Henriques, the last of the immortal guardians of a once unimaginably vast and superior empire inhabited by a race of nearly omniscient beings, who has stopped the Federation and Ferengi from functioning, leaving them dead in space and freezing as punishment for conflictual behavior in his space!
His ease of releasing the ships, in deciding who the aggressor was and questioning Riker is genius!
The Ride Back
(1957)
Not ENOUGH character development in time allotted.
29 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This movie seems to excite interest and admiration for what is supposedly a very offbeat and anti-hero '50's western. As much as I hate to say it, I'm not sure Conrad could carry his part of this movie, although he has some very emotive moments. For his part, Quinn does what he can with what he has in dialogue, but the revelation about the character or his wife / girlfriend is simply a one act pony. BTW--the ending isn't THAT original. You can see the plot denouement a long way before it occurs.
This WAS Rod Serling in essence
2 January 2017
This episode, and even more so Walking Distance, WERE Rod Serling in metaphorical essence. He chafed at his own perfectionism, had a love/ hate relationship with television and was particularly upset, dyspeptic really, about sponsors and the corporate "suits".
Given his extremely sensitive and empathetic nature, the plight of art when faced with capitalistic profit requirements were common in Jewish writers of the era, such as Paddy Chayefsky, Arthur Miller and many others. One of the most interesting battles reflected in Serling's work is that people who clearly are miserable and confused /vain/ frightened /deluded etc. often "merit" a rather sneering and sarcastic closing narration, as though they were the causes of their own neuroses--a VERY different outlook from now.
Serling's stress levels, chain smoking and inner turmoils were deadly vestiges of his demons, and he died at 50!
Given his extremely sensitive and empathetic nature, the plight of art when faced with capitalistic profit requirements were common in Jewish writers of the era, such as Paddy Chayefsky, Arthur Miller and many others. One of the most interesting battles reflected in Serling's work is that people who clearly are miserable and confused /vain/ frightened /deluded etc. often "merit" a rather sneering and sarcastic closing narration, as though they were the causes of their own neuroses--a VERY different outlook from now.
Serling's stress levels, chain smoking and inner turmoils were deadly vestiges of his demons, and he died at 50!
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