It’s about as bad as I expected. I remember when they were pushing Grant Show as the “next big thing” when he was on “Melrose Place”, but like so many of the other pretty boys, couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag. He comes off even worse in this. John Forsythe was commanding, Show wouldn’t have even made guest star status. The guy playing the major domo who was on “The O.C.” would’ve been a better choice (but give him a rug).
The actress playing Fallon has less charm and charisma (and looks) than your average late-night soft porn actress. When they cast “good girl” actress Pamela Sue Martin (not far off from playing “Nancy Drew”), she was playing against type. Yeah, she was playing the rotten spoiled rich brat, but she was also very intelligent and very hot. This new actress is just 100% bitch with no likeability, whose vagina is apparently called MLK, Jr. Boulevard, with her penchant for Mandingoes. That may have been shocking 35 years ago, it’s just clichéd and stupid now.
Flaming gay guys... boring.
Cristal, said with the overpronunciation “CREEEEES-Sttalll”, no doubt. She’s hotter and more likeable than this Fallon, but playing opposite a wooden and dead-eyed Grant Show isn’t going to work.
You have to be able to like the characters for it to be successful, and there’s nothing much to like here. No “guilty pleasure” here.
Unfortunately, the Dallas sequel suffered from similar problems with recasting of the next generation. They just were boring or forgettable and couldn’t match up to the prior generation. When they left with a cliffhanger (Christopher Ewing getting blown up), nobody even cared. Contrast that with 1980 when the country was going nuts over “Who Shot J.R. ?” You couldn’t recreate that today.
I like Grant Show but he hardly seems like an oil tycoon in this trailer, more like a restaurant manager banging one his waitresses. He did pronounce “Cristal” normally.
I thought the exact same thing when I saw that old dude from the OC! “Why isn’t he Blake?”.
LMAO @ MLK BLVD Comment! I agree with your observations. When I saw the pilot of Dynasty, Fallon was mesmerizing, this chick? I watched one ep of the Leary show, she seems like she’s playing the same character, practically (trashy rock n roll chick).
On the New Dallas, Christopher was boring as hell, if they’d killed him off sooner maybe they wouldn’t have been cancelled, John Ross was ok, oh well.