tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post8761125229556532943..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: Hamlet ala GilliganMitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-15761594349760967232014-07-17T16:30:03.482-04:002014-07-17T16:30:03.482-04:00For some of us, this was our first exposure to Ham...For some of us, this was our first exposure to Hamlet. When we studied Shakespeare in school, it certainly helped that I already knew the musical version!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-48625596500109189682014-07-15T23:02:30.342-04:002014-07-15T23:02:30.342-04:00This was always a show that could surprise you. T...This was always a show that could surprise you. This episode is one of the biggest and most pleasant surprises, of course. Others: who expected a Gilligan version of The Most Dangerous Game, with a downright evil Rory Calhoun and some genuine tension? And in The Little Dictator, the dream sequence is actually disturbing. Earlier in that same episode, Howell's economics lesson on currency for Nehemiah Persoff's "banana republic" despot is something really uncomfortable to watch when you consider what has happened to the currency in this country since the mid-Sixties. <br />But enough about that. The Producer is a highly rewatchable episode and arguably the show's best. And it is sad to think that many episodes of these supposedly silly 50's and 60's sitcoms might actually be too highbrow for an audience today! I can only imagine how they'd react to Wayne and Shuster now......Halhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09291930694234773688noreply@blogger.com