@gazza5472

9 months ago

I enjoyed this despite some inaccuracies. If you didn’t grow up on Dynasty this TV movie would give you the broad brush strokes: - It was created to rival Dallas. - It was silly, camp and highly materialistic. - They burnt through storylines so quickly that the plots became more and more outrageous. - The actors playing secondary characters could be swapped-out at any time. The producers did not give a toss. - “Amanda” is representative of all the daft actor switches that occurred, rather than being an accurate portrayal of Catherine Oxenburg. (In actual Dynasty, it was Fallon who had a car crash whereas Amanda was pushed into a swimming pool as Oxenburg and came back out as Karen Cellini, whilst fighting with Sammy-Jo.) - The Moldavian Wedding Massacre was a gobsmacking cliffhanger but it threw the show off its rails for good. I think the three things this misses are: - The writing team who turned Dynasty from a turkey into a hit wasn’t the Shapiro’s. It was the Pollock’s: credit where credit is due. - Joan Collins as Alexis was a tour de force. She blazed across the show like a very attractive, scene-stealing comet ☄ . The actress in this re-telling has none of that flash or charisma, she is just whiny. The uninitiated would not understand from this why Alexis became such a global icon at the time. - It wasn’t just Dynasty that tanked by the end of the 1980s. Within a series, all of the super soaps were CANX! Still, at least they had some decent replica Carrington Mansion stairs, which the actual Re-Union botched!

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