Taxi Driver and Moonlighting?

wideawake-1

I have lived with this series on and off ever since the DVDs were released, endlessly fascinated by the kind of insights into men and women that it throws up. OK. So last night I watch Taxi Driver for the first time (I don't care for the adulation of gangsterdom). And guess what? Look at the scene where Robert de Niro first approaches Cybill Shepherd. See the David Addison smirk? See the Mattie Hayes flirtation? And what about the mohawk-ed thief in the Moonlighting pilot, wasn't that a way of signalling the separation of the New Jersey boy from the psychopath Vet?

So David Addison is a Travis Bickle who skipped Vietnam and hightailed it out to the Coast instead, got himself a life and a sense of humour. And Betsy? Well, she gave up politics and got into modelling instead, and never looked back either.

score 9/10

wideawake-1 15 June 2010

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2264860/