Remington Steele 4.07 - Premium Steele

[quarter_to_five]

I can't decide if the best line of this episode is "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn," or "I'll get you the whole MGM catalog on video tape."

So that kind of whiplashed between a typical mad hijinks RS episode, and the rarer but welcome deep-and-emotional RS episode. Really rather vicious turn there with the bombs and the guilt. Monroe is a great character. I'd wish he'd show up again, but he probably won't. The total dearth of secondary characters really stands out sometimes. Don't know if it's something of it's time or just a peculiarity of the show. The only other 80's shows I can recall ever watching a lot of were, I think, ST:TNG and, er, Fame - both of which had large, ever evolving, ensemble casts. 

Comments

[giandujakiss]

It's the time period. Nothing in this era had continuing storylines except soap operas - which is one of the many reasons why soap operas are a totally unappreciated medium - they took advantage of the one thing that TV has that film lacks, i.e., the ability to tell stories over prolonged periods.

Anyhoo! There were ensemble shows at the time, sure - and there were shows like RS where the regular cast was small. But nothing in this period was big on telling arcs in the way shows do today.

[quarter_to_five]

It just seems odd for a show thats in it's fourth season to really only have 3 regular characters. Even without arciness in plot, I just expect them to know more people by now! (Still, the romance/character stuff does kind of gradually carry on....I mean, I think this episode assumes that you've been watching these two make up and break up and their particular dynamic for a while now.)