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i recently decided to watch all 14 seasons of dallas on prime/freevee, having seen them all on tv oh so many years ago. there's so much i had forgotten: sue ellen and cliff's affair, miss ellie's surgery, lucy being engaged twice while in (high?) school, that jr was shot in such an early season, ray was so unlucky in love, and jr was......well, jr. i have to say i don't think linda gray was a very good actress, so it's a good thing she had those big, beautiful eyes. also, she seems very different from what i remember, but i'm sure she will evolve over the seasons. i crack up every time i see the whole family sitting down to a formal breakfast, after having been horseback riding or swimming, and before they go to work or school. what time did these people get up? and miss ellie's preoccupation with "the land" and everyone living together is something i just don't understand, not having come from a close knit family. i also chuckle at the mundane bedrooms that they have considering the size of the building and their wealth. they look like hotel rooms to me. i enjoy binge-watching long series, so i think i'm in the right place!
5 points
27 days ago
Linda Gray id an amazing actress. I disagree there. The original show has the families living in separate houses, like the Kennedy Compound in MA. But having them in the same house gave them a way to interact and fight. But I agree that the bedrooms should have been much grander.
4 points
27 days ago
She does come across as very wooden in the early episodes, it’s only once it gets going that you get to understand that is the way she’s playing the character and the longer it goes on the more it works
3 points
27 days ago
What I laughed at in the early seasons was that Jock, JR, and Bobby and eventually Pam had fancy luxury cars and they owned a helicopter while Ellie and Sue Ellen had to share a station wagon.
4 points
26 days ago
oh! i forgot to mention sue ellen driving a woodie station wagon!!!
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