Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Come Back to the 5 and Dime

Fuck the reboot, just watch the original.

Can you? It's not streaming anywhere and I think the DVDs are out of print.

It's also an updated version which sounds interesting to me, and I love Hampshire's dry delivery. Good choice.

Just die already, you greedy old buckbreaker.

Will I be making a return as Dorelda Doremus?

I love Emily, but I just can't see her in the Mary Hartman role.

Mary Hartman came along at the right place and time, but I don't think it's a show that could work today.

Why?

Do people still have waxy yellow buildup?

The 1970s had enough soap operas on the air in daytime to support two sitcom parodies of the genre.

Now there are four of them left, so it is like beating a dead horse at this point.

Primetime and streaming is littered with soap operas and serials. Daytime is dead, but the format continues. This won't be a parody of 1960s-1970s soap operas either, it's a parody of social media obsessions and self-awareness. Just like the original MH2 wasn't so much about soaps (those were the punchlines) as it was about 1970s consumerism and excess.

BTW, there were three soap parodies on TV at that time if you count the short-lived but brilliant "All That Glitters" (way ahead of its time). Also I think "Number 96" showed up soon after although it appears to have been both a commercial and critical failure.

[italic]All That Glitters[/italic] looked horrible. I’m glad it failed because then Linda Gray couldn’t have done [italic]Dallas[/italic].

As a young gayling I loved All that Glitters. Yes, it would have meant someone else would play Sue Ellen -- she wasn't the show's lynchpin, it still would have been a success.

That show looked like truly horrific TQ+ propaganda that really made me lose respect for Lear.

[quote] As a young gayling I loved All that Glitters. Yes, it would have meant someone else would play Sue Ellen -- she wasn't the show's lynchpin, it still would have been a success.

Considering how it fell apart after she left after she had been on it for over a decade, I would not take my chances. Especially considering their luck with recasts.

Sue Ellen was a goddess. Dallas wouldn't have been anything without Linda Gray.

[quote] Primetime and streaming is littered with soap operas and serials. Daytime is dead, but the format continues. This won't be a parody of 1960s-1970s soap operas either, it's a parody of social media obsessions and self-awareness.

In other words, it's old media trying desperately to stay relevant in the face of a new media onslaught … by regurgitating something from an era that predates social media that few people who never knew life without it will be likely to remember.

Daytime soaps never should have tried to copy their primetime cousins. The budgets went up but the ratings went down. Once people had new choices, they chose them. Even my mom stopped watching soaps when they got so stupid even she would rather have watched reality TV.

Her eye makeup says "I think I'm hot shit."

WEHT Louise Lasser?

All the Original episodes are on DailyMotion.

[quote] Primetime and streaming is littered with soap operas and serials.

Soap operas = daytime unless you’re in the UK. There are no streaming or primetime soap operas. Those would be dramas.

[quote] Soap operas = daytime unless you’re in the UK. There are no streaming or primetime soap operas. Those would be dramas.

Or, a lipstick-laden pig. There's no way that Grey's Anatomy would be confused for a soap opera. It's drama!

I thought Lear was rebooting all his shows with POC.

Norman Lear is ugly and no I’m not watching that shit

My dad loved the show when it originally aired & I caught some episodes on VHS in the ‘80s, it was pretty funny. I’ll probably watch this to see what the fuss is about.

I want Mary Kay Place back as Loretta!

All of the original episodes of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman are available to watch on Youtube. I did watch the first (maybe) 20 episodes and the humor definitely still holds up. I had forgotten how cute that Jewish cop was that she was fucking. It was one my all time favorite shows when it was on, but I am not sure I would want to see a re-make because the show was what it was because of Louise Lasser and I don't think anyone else could do as good a job that she did. She WAS Mary Hartman. Right down to the nervous breakdown in front of our very eyes.

Bring back Mary Kay Place as Loretta Haggers!

[quote]she wasn't the show's lynchpin

Oh, dear.

The original aired 5 times a week; I wonder if the reboot will?

I was thinking that too. I'm guessing weekly.

[quote] Oh, dear.

Did you just soil your Depends diaper, R27?

[italicThe original aired 5 times a week; I wonder if the reboot will?[/italic]

MOTHERFUCKER! MOTHERFUCKER!

Stevie was my favorite character on SC but I’m not sure if I will watch this because I was never interested in the original.

Emily Hampshire had an amazing deadpan delivery as well as a subtly neurotic vibe. I think she's a good pick for Hartman. Certainly worth tuning in just to see how it is. This is the first Norman Lear reboot than even remotely appealed to me.

Never watched it, before my time, but wasn't this show very dry, subtle satire about consumerism? All things that would seem to make it a non-starter in 2021.

The reboot apparently is about the new consumerism: people and their data. It replaces floor wax with social media.