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It's not easy to summarize such an extensive series that was initially watched by virtually everyone, but few made it to the end. For its time, it was a very good multi-genre drama that brought us one of the most distinctive TV protagonists of the 1990s. Jane Seymour was a very good choice. I've had the opportunity to watch the entire series three or four times over the years, but I've never managed to become a die-hard fan. However, I still know quite a bit about its backstory and everything that goes along with a series of this magnitude. I have my favorite characters (especially Dorothy), favorite plots (when the entire town is in action), and periods (traveling to Boston, for example), but two things never cease to fascinate me: the recasting of Colleen and the fact that many viewers gave up after the wedding at the end of Season 3. True, it was a big turning point, but shippers of Mike and Sully logically value the period just after that turning point the most. ;) Overall, I consider all the seasons very balanced (there are always great episodes and ordinary episodes), I highlight the comedy episodes, and I'm aware of the overlaps that don't correspond to the 1860s and 1870s period in which the series is set, and I recommend everyone watch at least part of the second half of the series. You will be pleasantly surprised, even if you choose the original version. Then you might even appreciate the cast of various genre celebrities, including husband and wife June and Johnny Cash.

A very sympathetic introduction to the series, which was a great success. It’s packed with plot, but I'm glad they recast some of the characters before the series itself, as then Loren in particular got more energy. :) I also agree that watching it back after knowing the series adds to the experience from the pilot because it shows how well thought out it was.

The film Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer was the culmination of the Regina boom that hit preschoolers globally in the 1980s. The film spices up the magical world full of color with some very catchy songs and a truly thrilling adventure. It’s too bad today's kids can't be introduced to all the colors of the rainbow with the help of Rainbow Regina, she was wonderful. :)

This surrealistic affair for more or less ten-year-old girls from a joint workshop between France and Japan has 39 episodes. I think I was a bit younger when I watched it, but I really fell for it. Today I understand why - it was those magical dream trips from the 1920s into the past and into fairy tales. Trips around the world where in real life a girl in a wheelchair could walk is fascinating even after all these years.

I've been intensely living with this series for about six months, just as I was taking a break between later seasons of The L Word. I’m enchanted by it. As a series, it's very complex and satisfying for even the most demanding fans. There are plenty of attributes to explore in more detail, but it's also digestible as a regular hangout with your favorite group. I loved the pairing of Chris Potter and Hal Sparks in Season 1 and since it didn't work out, it was a major shadow on the overall development later on. However, the purchase of the Rage comic and the book guide to the first three seasons has chased away the clouds hanging over me. Are you asking for a comparison with the original UK version? The US version definitely wins all the way, including in terms of believability.

Fortunately, when the series ended in 2004, it was the last time I had to deal with the unbearable barrier of actual unavailability. Moreover, that was the height of my love for Vicky Pratt of Cleopatra 2525... Since then, if I'm interested in watching anything new a few hours after it airs in the US, it's no longer a problem. However, because of Mutant X, I still went through the classic round of separate discovery and, after admiring the individual photos and the glorious viewing experience. I've gotten over the fact that the show was cancelled due to the production company going bankrupt, and I've said goodbye to my favorite group only to revisit it now and again. Mutant X Lives!

Cher is one of those few unique personalities who has been shining with her distinctive charm for decades. However, I always saw her more as an actress and I am very happy that the connection between the two most prominent professions of her career is also visible on this stage. What would a retrospective be without The Witches of Eastwick or Mermaids? However, I sometimes shock myself, for example by rooting for the old Sonny and Cher duo. ;)

I haven't seen the film very often since its premiere in the movie theater, but it's clear to me now, after seeing it again, how much of a service it did to the general acceptance of wartime Italy. It's of little use, though. It's still always just the evil and one-sided Germany in the regular movies, but Italy lived with its Duce for an entire 11 years longer... The fates of the elderly English ladies and one American Jewish woman are chosen with grace and deliberation.

It’s wrong that Showtime decided to stand behind London's Belle de Jour. The effort to include her among its own elite did not and in fact could not work. It's so British through and through that it's creepy. The series, lasting about three hours, is gone in a flash, leaving only a recurring aftertaste and discomfort, the same that comes after unpleasant intercity travel. Originally a blogged memoir, it left us with anecdotal episode topics peppered with an absurdly clichéd tale of true love outside the craft. Can Belle live without luxury? Is she sacrificing her career for a normal relationship? After two seasons I had to take a proper break to get through the next few minutes, which in London is called a full series. Once again, it all started to cycle back to ground zero, so I really have no idea what material they would want to weave a theme for the potential film that is slowly being announced. I'm supposed to get by on one good joke an hour? Fortunately, Season 4 did just fine without Bambi (or Bam-Bam, as her customer/boyfriend/husband called her), and thanks to Belle's understudy as Madame and her dalliances with Hollywood, there were a few self-parody sequences that were genuinely sweet. Competing with a dominatrix for a client with the help of the song "Keep Young And Beautiful" or having sex with a film critic who likes sex like Dracula from 1931, that really just called for a western-like conversation in a bar, and even that happened in the end. If they’d get a little more fresh wind in the stale environment of British dramedy, I’d be fine.

Kirsten Dunst's role of a lifetime brings me the same pleasure as her first big triumph in Interview with the Vampire. In addition, the period leading up to the French Revolution is just as magical in my cinematic perception as the 1920s, so I require nothing more for happiness. The director also dared to revolutionize the classical view of the historical role of Antoinette and this is only a good thing. In retrospect, their previous collaboration in The Virgin Suicides has gone up in value, which I didn't really like, but that's okay, as long as the girls found each other. I bow, and I applaud.