Posts tagged: “Dallas”

View the gallery Okay. I will grant that there's something comforting about a show where people wear regular, comfortable sweaters, instead of being aggressively Blair Waldorf'd. But if we don't filter in a LITTLE insanity soon, I will be terribly sad. I want bigger

View the gallery Phew, J.R. Ewing's absence was greatly exaggerated. By me. Because I feared it. He pops up here again, having jetted off to Las Vegas to stick in Cliff Barnes' aging craw. And also to give John Ross a chance to spread his wings.

View the gallery This is last week's episode, not last night's -- sorry for the delay in posting, but I was on vacation and then had a travel drama, and basically, you know you're tired when you're watching Dallas and you can'

View the gallery It's a testament to the strength of the original cast that, so far, most of my time watching the show is spent tolerating the new guard while waiting for the oldies to sink their teeth into each other. Although, credit where credit is due: Josh

View the gallery This week in JR, we got some good, old-fashioned geriatric verbal brawling, courtesy of the return of Cliff Barnes. "Time has not been kind to that face, JR purred. "But I do recall the smell of brimstone and CRAZY." And, later: "I&

View the gallery This is the promo shot they used between back-to-back episodes, encouraging us to stay tuned. What they NEEDED to do was just do a giant close-up of Hagman and let everyone else float around behind him, like on one of those weirdly water-colored

View the gallery This is how much I loved '80s soaps as a kid: The Dallas theme song was one of the first tunes I ever learned to play on the piano, followed immediately thereafter by the Dynasty theme, both of which I specifically asked my music teacher to