Dallas has been off the air since 1991, but tonight at 9p it returns to TV on TNT with a reboot that does the original justice. Unlike other shows that have returned to television, this one includes members from the first shows and picks up with their lives in real time.
Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) still owns SouthFork, but he is going through some rough times and he is thinking of selling it. He is divorced from Pamela Sue and he is now married to the love of his life Ann (Brenda Strong). His adopted son Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe) is grown up and just like him. Christopher left Dallas to look for an alternate source for fuel besides oil and he has returned home to get married to Rebecca Sutter (Julie Gonzolo). So get ready for the first wedding of the series tonight.
So what about the Ewing brother that you love to hate? JR (Larry Hagman) is in a place you would never expect to see him and he is not the man we knew. His son John Ross (Josh Henderson) is a chip off his dad’s block and he trying to strike oil on SouthFork’s land but Bobby won’t have it. He is dating the cook’s daughter Elena Ramos (Jordana Brewster), but before she was with hims she was with his cousin Christopher. Elena was dumped by the good Ewing son on their wedding via email, and the bad one was there to console her. Sue Ellen is single, successful in business and people want her to take a shot at politics.
The Ewings might not sound that exciting by the way I am describing them, but that is because I am leaving out all of the juicy details for you to salivate over. There are so many shocking twists and turns that you will never see any of them coming, but you will enjoying watching each one play out.
Dallas is as much as about the new characters as it is the old ones, and that blend works brilliantly. It’s like time stood still for twenty years and the wheels are beginning to turn again.
Seriously after watching the first seven episodes, I can honestly say this is the best new show of the season and the season is almost over. The new Dallas is as good as the old one and whether you’ve seen the first one or new one will be your first visit to Dallas, you are going to love to the nighttime soap that changed television forever. I think the TNT version is going to do the same. 90210, Hawaii Five-0 and anyone else working on a remake take notice of this show because it is the first one to do it right.
Oh and for fans of the original the opening is the same. Once I saw that, I knew this show was going to be the sh!t and loyal to the original.
On Wednesday, June 13th Southfork is open for business again on TNT with a new version of Dallas that is as amazing as the original. Did you miss out on the nighttime soap when it was originally or forgot about some of the key points, then the cast of the new version, who were also part of the past, catch you up what happened then and bring you into the present. Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy explain their tumultuous from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90 and how two decades hasn’t changed anything about how they feel about each other. This is a little teaser for the best new show of the season that is debuting at the end of it. So make sure tune in this Wednesday at 9p for a show that will be as big as everything else from Dallas, and you know everything is bigger there than anyone else.
Jennifer Finnigan Tweeted the above picture and said, “Not sure what my new name is, but this may be my new look…” The Close to Home actress has had long blonde hair ever since we got to know her on The Bold and the Beautiful, but I think she should change it up because she looks Better with that new hairstyle. Not that Mrs Jonathan Silverman didn’t look good before, she just looks even better.
Now we just have to convince her boss David E Kelley and TNT let her do it for their new show Monday Mornings.
On June 13th, Dallas will make its debut on TNT and I think the drama is the best the show of the season. Now I know I have said that before about other shows this season that started to lose their momentum after the pilot screeners that us critics reviewed. But unlike those other shows, I have seen seven episodes of Dallas and I can tell you it gets better and juicier with each episode.
Unlike 90210 and Knight Rider, Dallas includes the original cast and uses them the way they should be utilized in the sequel. Seriously JR is just as bad as he was when he was shot and that is a very good thing. But the show isn’t only about JR and Bobby Ewing, it is about the next generation of Ewings and they are just like their fathers. Also like the original Dallas, this nighttime Soap is very easy on the eyes.
Even though it has been 30 years since the original Dallas aired, the story is the same. Family rivalries, oil, love, money and did I mention oil. It is everything you can hope for from a show that is resurrected on television and more. So make sure to set you DVRs to record Dallas on June 13th because you don’t miss a single second of the best new show of the season. Seriously it is the first time a sequel is as good as the original.
Back in the ’80s people feel in love with nerds thanks to movie franchise Revenge of the Nerds and now two of them are getting their own show on TBS. Curtis Armstrong and David Carradie aka Booger and Lewis will be hosting King of the Nerds. TBS described the show as “television’s ultimate nerd-off. The show invites competitors spanning the full nerd spectrum to come together to face challenges that will test their intellect, ingenuity, skills and pop-culture prowess. The nerds will first compete as teams before moving on to individual challenges, all with the goal of being named the quintessential master of all things nerdy.”
I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to watch the show when it debuts on TBS later this year. Especially because I might know a few of the nerds competing on it.
