"Dallas" Reunion Special -- Who's watching it?

Unfortunately, Larry Hagman looks 150 years old.

Victoria Principal is crying just reminiscing about it.

SHOW IT!!!!!

They're going to count down the top 10 "Dallas" cliffhangers throughout the show ... gee, I WONDER WHAT WILL BE #1??????

I've seen every episode they ever made except for three (iirc, there were 356 in total).

I don't know who he was.

I can't believe this show was on until 1991? Who the hell was watching it at the end? My parents were obsessed with this show but I don't remember hearing about it after about 1986

Later, he married Miss Ellie, and they were together for the final six seasons. Unfortunately, both characters ceased to be interesting once they got married.

She was easily the prettiest girl who was ever on the show.
JR's secretary Sly was #2.

The problem with so many of these cliffhangers is that they came out of nowhere. There was no real build up to them. The astounding buildup was what made the "Who Shot JR" stuff so great. For the whole season, JR was becoming more and more corrupt, screwing over family members and friends and making increasingly shady business deals. The two or three episodes at the end of the season was some of the finest TV writing I've ever seen, as they meticulously and logically constructed murder motives for literally about eight or nine people. Then he got shot, the season abruptly ended, and the rest is TV history.

My husband was right into it as well. He's got all the movies!

so is this even worth watching on DVD?

Absolutely yes

remember early 80s getting video tapes shipped in to addis and everyone was hooked and desp waiting for the new episodes, still have the theme song seared into my memory

so trashy but so good tho still a bit odd in that, wait yer millionaires but you all still live in the same house???

and yes Charlene Tilton/Lucy was a train wreck early on. slutty rebellious teen to the nth degree

Been watching Dallas lately

maybe the most baffling news itt tbh

― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, February 27, 2018 4:22 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dude, if you have a better suggestion for what to do with fourteen box sets full of Dallas episodes, I'm all ears. But I don't see where I have much choice in the matter.

Larry Hagman and the guy who played Bobby were two of the most genuinely lovely people she ever worked with.

Apparently those two and Victoria Principal were legit besties

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 27, 2018 6:50 AM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think almost the entire core cast of the show have been inseparably good friends since the late '70s, which I find so weirdly touching for reasons I can't explain.

Long and short: I love watching Dallas (although almost always while doing other things). Could I recommend it to other people in good faith? Not really. It's very trashy (shock) but it's fun and campy and occasionally even smart (but more often very dumb). The biggest feather in its cap is J.R., who I legitimately think is one of the greatest fictional characters of all time, certainly one of the greatest villains. Largely due to the relish Hagman takes in playing him.

But I don't expect to sell anyone else on it. I've been completely unsuccessful in that regard thus far.

I read that Hagman downed a bottle of champagne while filming every episode.

Yeah, I guess he was a pretty raging alcoholic for much of its run.

what happened to the reboot of this? died a quick death I imagine. seems like they tried to bring it back a few times.

reboot lasted three seasons! i think larry hagman dying kinda did it in tho

one of my earliest memories is dancing in front of the tv to the dallas opening credits then being out to bed

er, put to bed

xxxpost I watched the first season, it was okay. It was a continuation rather than a reboot. I guess it turned into a shitshow, though. The showrunner was, I guess, not all that familiar with the original show? Which...who knows what they were even thinking with that decision.

My mom watched the original religiously. It seemed like the most boring thing in the world as a kid. We bonded watching that first season of the reboot together, though. It was nice.

Dallas, Dukes of Hazard, Waltons and Little House...there were all kinds of southern whites on TV when I was kid. Watched all of them.

Yeah, it's hard to look past how glaringly white the show is. They very briefly dabbled in an interesting Upstairs, Downstairs conceit in one of the first season episodes, with the hired help commenting on what a bunch of fucked up drunks these crazy rich white people are but it didn't go any further than that.

But I guess the general theme of the show is 'crazy rich white people are a bunch of fucked up drunks'.

My gf actually sat and watched like ten minutes of an episode the other day and I was trying to give her a brief summation of what was happening and it was like, 'yeah, she was drunk and can't remember what happened...and, okay, see he's a recovering alcoholic...and she's drunk right now'.

On the greatness of Dallas:

Forty years ago this week, Dallas premiered on CBS – and changed TV history forever. At a time when network television was staid and dull, this Lone Star Peyton Place came on as a totally shameless melodrama full of sex, money, bad blood, family feuds, cowboy hats and shoulder pads – the first, best and most splendidly ridiculous of the prime-time soaps. It spun the saga of the corrupt Ewing family and their Texas oil empire, as they wheeled and dealed through bedrooms and boardrooms, running from 1978 to 1991. And what a cast – a dream team of veteran character actors plucked from Westerns and noirs and every style of pulp flick, chewing all this scarlet dialogue like so much Skoal. No learning, no moralizing, not a moment of subtlety. Dallas was not only the most Seventies show of the Seventies. It was, more importantly, the most Eighties show of the Eighties.

In our sophisticated post-Peak TV times, it can be easy to overlook how revolutionary Dallas was – going for long-term, week-to-week serial storytelling at a time when it just wasn't done, leaving no absurd plot twist untweaked. The Ewings invented the template for modern classics like The Sopranos, Mad Men and Breaking Bad. And at the center of the storm stood Larry Hagman as the grinning villain J.R. Ewing, who became an American icon. "Isn't that bizarre?" Hagman asked me in 2012, shortly before his death. "I could never understand the appeal of that character. I don't get it. My favorite J.R. line was, 'Once you get rid of integrity, the rest is a piece of cake.' And lemme tell ya, it's true."