Will It Make The Same Waves?

DKosty123

In 1978 during one of the worst recessions of the 1970's, Dallas originally started with Jock, Ellie, JR, Bobby, Sue Ellen, Cliff, Lucy, and a bunch of others. The top prime time soap contained something which fascinated everyone, an evil JR who played well being in oil which in 1978 was in such short supply that there were odd/even license plate days to get your gasoline. CBS had the top rated show on prime time television, while Reagen was running for his first term as President more people in the US were wondering who shot JR? The show had tawdry affairs, double dealing back stabbing business deals, and there was always someone getting tossed in the pool, and another deal being cut with JR cutting them out. There were motels, women, affairs, kids who were lied too about who their parents were and the oil barons club. There was a ball every year and there were always those scenes around the dinner table at Southfork. All the men drank so much that you wondered if any of them would survive.

Wonder no more, as they are back, the survivors, along with the kids who still don't really know who their parents are and have been lied to about it so long that they think they know. The kids are into bad blood too. If the first show is any indicator, we are not only back on track, but the pace is faster than ever.

The first show wastes no time in having Bobby ill, selling Southfork, John Ross Junior bringing in a gusher, and Bobby's adopted son Christopher preaching alternate energy while finding out it is not all it is cracked up to be. The women are here, and the younger generation of them appear to be smarter and more agile than Sue Ellen and the older generation was, but yet have trouble digesting lies and handling the rift between John Ross Junior and Christopher.

Bobby and JR are still at it too, only it doesn't start that way and there are other matters which will be resolved on upcoming shows. How will the ratings be? According to JR in the promos, this recession is much worse than the 1970's which means more people will stay home and watch. Is JR right when it is TNT trying to carry on the lighted torch from the old CBS warhorse?

score 8/10

DKosty123 13 June 2012

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2627146/