“Carlene, I don’t think you’re quite gettin’ it, so let me explain: Our lives are over. We have lost everything. There is nothing left; just ashes.” – Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, creator of Designing Women, wrote that line, which is part of “Of Human Bondage,” the first episode of this seventh and final season. Thomason and this company of actresses in once-great roles,
What a treat, and what a relief! Designing Women: 20 Timeless Episodes, another pleasant release from Shout! Factory, judiciously ignores seasons 6 and 7, likely because the former was only just released on DVD early last month, and the latter is being released in mid-July. But there’s only so much pain one can endure in essentially the end of Designing Women at the end of
When Aaron Sorkin created Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, producing what was truly one of the best pilots in television history, he should have studied television history in the early ‘90s from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, creator of Designing Women. Not long after its debut, Studio 60 devolved into the characters becoming mouthpieces for whatever Sorkin was ticked about, that he just had to rant about
In January 2012, Universal Studios Home Entertainment will bring To Kill a Mockingbird to Blu-ray. Director Robert Mulligan’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, an Alabama lawyer who defends an African-American man accused of raping a white woman. Finch’s legal efforts profoundly affect his two young children who are already struggling with the challenges of early adolescence. The winner of