Thanks, Dark Lady.  If I remember correctly there's a wonderful long closeup of Grayson as a concerned Aunt Julia while the music plays... I love looking at Grayson by Chopin...

G.

Kelly is Willie's girlfriend. I'm sure MB will let us know if the relationship is defined beyond that.

This continues to be very cool.   Thanks to all involved.

G.

Those are very good points, Cousin Barnabas.  I've never heard anyone outside a movie say "shrink"--the last time might have been the 1970s.

I can't recall specifically but my memory of seeing this the one time is that there was potential, but there were also some spectacularly awful decisions about characters... can't recall the writing... in some cases I was just too "done" with what was being presented to even pay attention to the dialogue.

This presentation is fascinating, though, especially the material about what was originally written and what made it into the "final" cut (which, from what I understand, was still a rather provisional edit--unfinished FX and I don't think it had been scored?).

best, G.

Cousin Barnabas, I would tend to agree.  But this Vicki is very different from any other version of the character we've ever seen.  She's expensively and carefully coiffed and groomed, reads Forbes mag, and seems to have had some medical/psychiatric training--the snippet you just quoted is supposedly typical of how social works specializing in disturbed children talk, amongst themselves, about their cases (and having been privy on occasion to such conversations, it's not really that wide off the mark).

This Vicki seems so far almost more like an update of Julia than Vicki as portrayed in either the OS or the 1991 series.  There's no innocence and certainly no sense of a personal quest bringing her to Collinsport.

I don't remember enough of Vicki's further scenes to say more, but I'll be interested to see how this Vicki plays out as we continue our collective viewing of her journey...

G.

Didn't Roger once mention giving Mrs. J a recipe (or as older family members used to say, a receipt) for Indian pudding?

G.

Excellent.  I'm sure Joan was Hollywood glamour incarnate in VOGUES OF 1938.  And it was just her birthday, too...

G.

Very cool. Powell is mentioned several times in Stuart Little's OFF BROADWAY (a work that also features a fab photo of Grayson in THE BALCONY), and Little is quite complimentary about Powell's abilities, so I presumed it was just the crazy production schedule on DS that resulted in his difficulties.  Somebody must have liked him since they brought him back for 1840.

G.

The idea of a Witch being behind a Witch trial is certainly reminiscent of where DS went with the original 1795 storyline and the respective roles of Trask and Angelique in it...

I'm laughing, though, at the idea of Cotton Mather as this bearded hunk.  lol.  And what the hell is that person acting like a human dog wearing some kind of archaic muzzle supposed to be about??  Reminds me of the antics at Vincent Price (Prince Prospero)'s court in the 1963 Roger Corman film, MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH.

G.