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I thought it started out slow, but got much better as it went along. The highlight was Corky going ballistic on air about hot flashes & going to Murphy going ballistic about Trump's tweets.
Myles still has the bad stomach &, at the end, Murphy & Avery remembered Eldon.
The funny thing was that Candice Bergen was on Colbert last night and when she was 18 went out on a date with Donald Trump, which was arranged by both sets of parents ...thus the reference on the show to "dating" Donald Trump. Art imitating life! The Tweets were good too! Hilary was good too ... as a new secretary! "I'm ready to go from day one" and "I was a Secretary for a very large corporation"! Oh, what might have been!
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The funny thing was that Candice Bergen was on Colbert last night and when she was 18 went out on a date with Donald Trump, which was arranged by both sets of parents ...thus the reference on the show to "dating" Donald Trump. Art imitating life! The Tweets were good too! Hilary was good too ... as a new secretary! "I'm ready to go from day one" and "I was a Secretary for a very large corporation"! Oh, what might have been!
Bringing Tyne Daly in to play Phil's sister was a stroke of brilliance since the old Murphy Brown show led Cagney & Lacey. On the other hand, she would have made a good replacement for Eldon.
P.S. Who else had a sudden “gawd I’m OLD” moment when strapping Avery walked into the room? I actually stopped and did the math in my head, like “is it possible he’s that old already?”
Watching it now. (I am also binging the original having never seen it prior) I like it and it feels like the original but you can almost feel Candice and Joe shaking off the rust. Hoping they get into a better rhythm as the show progresses.
I never really watched the original on a regular basis so I am unfamiliar with all of the running gags.
I liked last night's episode. Putting everything so quickly to create a new TV show is not that realistic as it takes a long time when it is in the development stage, but this a fictional TV show and that's o.k. I can go along with that.
This episode was a set up to show future conflicts between Murphy and her son, the one that Dan Quayle maligned when Murphy was pregnant so I liked the continuity there.
I think the flip phone and senior jokes are becoming cliche. The flip phone has become the symbol for old people. Enough already. Enough with the old people not acclimating to 21st century technology. The new character, the production assistant said something about never having seen a flip phone before, but he had heard of them. He looks like he is about 30 years old. He probably had one when he was in high school or middle school or certainly his parents had one. Come on.
Donald Trump understands how to tweet and use social media and as Murhpy said, he's older than her.
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