This week I did something I don’t typically do. I watched a soap opera.
TNT recently resurrected the 80’s prime time serial Dallas and the new show aired its two hour premiere Wednesday night. I watched partly for the nostalgia of it. I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s, and the original Dallas was appointment viewing in my house. J.R. Ewing was shot when I was 7 years old and I remember it as vividly as I remember the Reagan assassination attempt that happened a year later. Dallas jumped the shark in later seasons and became a bit of a cheese-fest, but in the first few years of its run, it was one of the most-watched television shows in the world. We viewed it as a family and Friday was the only day of the week that I was allowed to stay awake past 9:00.
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