To: Lane3 who wrote (16865 ) 7/7/2002 7:49:53 PM From: Neocon Respond to I have that reaction with some shows, too. I can hardly stand All in the Family any more, nor The Jeffersons, both of which I was fond of in their heyday. I have little patience with Designing Women, although that is partially a matter of season, since I disliked many episodes late in its run, and much preferred the first couple of years. With LA Law, part of the problem is that the office stuff was usually kind of hokey, although some of it was better (many of Benny's stories, for example), but the courtroom stuff was genuinely interesting, and aired issues pretty well. As the series wore on, it became less interested in good cases, and more interested in office melodrama. Plus, some of the gambits were outrageously hokey, like shoving Leland's girlfriend down the elevator shaft, and became even worse as people had entirely inappropriate emotional reactions. By the end of its run, I could barely stand the show. ER has the same problem: the first few years are excellent, then it goes increasingly out of kilter, and now, I put it on Cheers (Nick at Night) or pick up a magazine, rather than watch the wretched show.
