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September 22, 2024 - Continuing "My Time Travel" With Sisters
If you read my blog from last Sunday night, you'll recall that for the first time in 33 years, I saw the pilot episode of the show "Sisters" last Saturday night. (Sisters aired on the NBC network from 1991 - 1996, Saturday nights at 10pm.) I talked about that while talking about "my journey back in time" watching that episode. (If you didn't read it and want to, scroll below this blog and it's there.)
Last night, I still "went back in time" and yes, I loved doing that. But it didn't seem as (for lack of a better term) intense as it did on September 15, 2024. Maybe it's because this time, I kinda remembered what the episode was about? I mean, at least partly. Or maybe it was because (in my opinion) the pilot episode was better? But that is how shows go. Some episodes are better than others. You also have really good episodes while others are...clunkers. And, this is still the first season. I remember a few things from the show but overall, I really don't remember most of it. So maybe the first episodes, perhaps the first season as a whole wasn't all that great? Maybe the show picks up in the second season? Like I said, I honestly can't remember.
I am going to recap the second episode next. I'm trying to keep it as short as possible while still giving you an idea of what's going on with each character. (Truth? I usually and REALLY go into details while recapping things. So I don't want to bore you.)
The second episode of season one - "80%" - centers on Alex. She and her husband, Doctor Wade Halsey, are coming up on their 15th wedding anniversary. But, for a while, Alex has been feeling and thinking that Wade is cheating on her. When she finally finds out the truth, she is totally shocked. So much so that she takes her and Wade's fourteen year old daughter, Reed, and moves in with her mother.
Meanwhile, Teddy is still trying to get Mitch back. That is still causing problems between her and Frankie.
John actually leaves the house (for the first time in a few months) with Georgie to attend Alex and Wade's party. But, not without some comforting items. Georgie and those items help John provide entertainment at the party.
How did I do? lol
I might just start providing longer details on each episode in another section of my site.
Anyway, "next week's episode" is "A Thousand Sprinkles." There was a brief preview of that episode at the end of the one I saw last night. But honestly? I can't remember what it's about. I mean that after not seeing it for years and the preview is totally escaping my mind now. I did look up the title of the next episode eventhough I didn't read what it's about. Why? I'm trying to keep this as "new" as possible. I'm afraid if I read what the episode is about, it might make me recall some details. I don't want to do that and spoil it for me watching it next Saturday night.
Don't try to figure me out folks. I can't even figure myself out.
lmao
- Lynn (Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 10:14am)
But here is my first blog. My blog over all will be about random things by the way.
September 15, 2024 - I Went Back In Time
Ok......not literally. But the thought of that intrigues me. To be able to go back in time to places, see people of our past. Well......some places and some people that is. But still. I'd LOVE to be able to go back in time. I'd do a lot over again of course. Correct some things. But the main reason? I'd be able to see my dad alive and well again. (He passed away on October 20, 2022 after a brief "illness" period. Maybe one day I will explain.)
Anyway, getting to the point of this blog.
Last night, September 14th, 2024, I did something that I had not done since May 11, 1991. What was that? I saw the pilot episode of a TV show that I loved. Every Saturday night at 10PM, I'd be "glued" to my TV watching an episode of that show. The show I loved (and still love) is called "Sisters." And between the ages of 12 - 17, I couldn't wait for Saturday to finally come around. May 11, 1991 - May 4th 1996, I loved watching the lives of Bea (the mother/matriarch), (sisters) Alex, Georgie, Teddy, Frankie (and later on) Charlie unfold. The show is about their ups, downs, craziness, flashbacks and lives. Now don't get me wrong. Sometimes (just like with all shows) it was a little silly. But still, I love the show. Thinking back, I remember thinking "Man is Sela Ward pretty. So is Julianne Phillips." But now, after seeing the pilot at 46 years of age, my thoughts have changed. I'm now thinking, "Wow......all those women were gorgeous!" I'm also thinking, "The film quality certainly has changed since 1991." lol.
The pilot episode is about Bea and the four sisters dealing with the loss of her/their husband/father. Bea, Alex, Georgie and Frankie all live in the same town while Teddy was out in L.A. (Los Angeles.) She came home for a visit with her teenage daughter Catherine “Cat”.
Bea (Elizabeth Hoffman, RIP) is coping with the loss of her husband by drinking alcohol and trying to hide it from her daughters. She's also not ready to move out of the family home.
Alex (Swoozie Kurtz) is just being Alex, living her good life with her plastic surgeon husband. She organizes an "estate sale" of her father's things. Reason? To make it less stuff to pack and easier to move Bea out of the family home.
Georgie (Patricia Kalember) is a realtor and sold her mother's house for her while being the only one who is working in her marriage. Her husband, John (Garrett M. Brown) was fired a couple of months before her father passed. (Reason - John took the day off from work to take their one son to a ballgame. Apparently that affected a client and making a business deal. So John got the blame and was fired. He is dealing with that by doing karaoke in his pajamas, bathrobe and blue baseball cap.)
Teddy (Sela Ward) came back to town (along with Cat (Heather McAdam)) to visit. Also to help with moving their mother out of the family home. She is still in love with her ex husband Mitch (who is Cat's father/Ed Marinaro) even after being divorced for three years. Teddy herself is coping with that and is an admitted alcoholic. She is the first one to see that Bea is one as well. With everything going on, Teddy and Cat decide to move back for a while.
Frankie (Julianne Phillips) is a workaholic business woman. She's not only that. She's also in a romantic relationship with Mitch. Which Teddy finds out about when Mitch tells her a day or two after she gets back into town.
So.....now that you have a basis of the show and the pilot, here's some more of how I felt last night. Even though I was watching the episode on my tablet, I was so focused on it that I totally forgot that I was streaming the episode. I was just watching the show. No thoughts about anything else. Just enjoying it. And when the ad breaks/commercial breaks happened, I did what I used to do when the commercials would happen as I was watching the episode back then. I went for a bathroom break and snack break. Once I even stood up, stretched and sat back down on my sofa. Once the episode was over though.....that was a little different.
I swiped out of the app (Plex) and then I leaned back on my sofa. My first thought? "I can't wait until next week." My next thought? "Um......it's 2024. You just streamed the episode." So what did I do? I went into another app and watched Family Ties. (Which I LOVE by the way.) While the pilot episode (of Sisters) was on my tablet, I forgot that it is 2024. Even with it being streamed on my tablet. Even with the ad breaks/commercials. And it felt great to do that. Like I was back in time when life wasn't so serious. No stress. Just enjoying the time and moment.
I decided then and there to just watch one episode per week - you know. Like the show aired from 1991 - 1996. I'll be streaming the episodes in order as well. Each Saturday night, at 10pm, I'll be watching Sisters again.
I know. I could just stream the episodes any time I want. I could have marathons (oops binges) of them as well. Nah. I wanna have some fun with this show again. I want to take my time with it because it's been an extremely long time since it's been able to be seen.
So you'll know where I'll be on Saturday nights at 10pm. At least for 127 saturdays. (lol That's how many episodes there are of that show.) Oh! I'm trying to follow the original airings too. (Minus the air dates.) That means if an episode wasn't aired on a saturday, I'll skip that saturday for that episode. If there were two weeks between each episode.....well......you get the idea. Like I said, I'm taking my time with this series. Again,it's been so long since it's been able to be seen. Another reason? It's almost brand new since it hasn't been seen in many years. (I can't remember what happened in most of the episodes because of the time that has passed since I saw them.)
You might think I'm crazy. (Isn't that in a song by The Cars?) Maybe I am. But while I "went back in time", I had a lot of fun. And that's what we all need in life. Fun. Life is so stressful, demanding and hard. It doesn't help that the older you get, time speeds up and makes all of that even harder to get through.
- Lynn (Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 10:25PM)