Subject: Re: Morning-After Commentary: SK's "Golden Years"
From: colten@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (marc.colten)
Date: 1991-07-29, 13:10
Newsgroups: alt.horror,rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1991Jul21.021055.12039@infonode.ingr.com>, tappek@infonode.ingr.com (J. Kurt Tappe) writes:
> > gerry@dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac) writes:
> > 
>> > >So are we saying that people actually like _Golden Years_?  It made me
>> > >want to vomit because the acting was so bad.  Maybe it wasn't the
>> > >acting itself, but the lines the actors were given.  Take the two
>> > >assistants in the beginning as a good example, or the mad doctor.
> > 
> > I'd have to agree with this.  Our whole family went into Golden Years
> > with high hopes.... we're all Stephen King fans, and were ready to 
> > watch every night.  After the first hour and a half, I had to bail
> > out;  my list of things I would rather be doing than watching this
> > lame attempt at drama got too long.  Both the acting and the writing
> > needed a lot of work, and the budget on this thing did seem somewhere
> > between Dr. Who and the original Star Trek.  The rest of my family
> > gave up after the first night.  

I don't think I lasted an hour on that show.  It was pretty pathetic.
I kept wondering why the "mad doctor" didn't have a hunchback dwarf
running around.  It was that bad.

marc colten