Dallas: Episode 3x10 "Dead Reckoning" Promo (HD)

Here's a promo for next week's episode, episode 3x10 "Dead Reckoning". It looks like this is going to be a great episode. :)

Dallas: "After the Fire" Promo (Promo for second half of Season 3)

Here's the "After the Fire" promo for the second half of season 3 of Dallas. It looks like the second half of the season is going to beyond awesome. :)

Dallas: Scoop on the future of John Ross and Pamela's marriage in the second half of season 3 from TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich

Here's some scoop on Dallas from this week's (Posted on 5/14/14) Matt's Inside Line column.

Do you have any scoop yet on the next half of Dallas Season 3? Will Pamela get back at John Ross? –Taylor
“She’s definitely out for me,” Josh Henderson assures. “It’s been a beautiful roller coaster between her and John Ross so far, and it comes to a head pretty quickly. Once we pick back up, it gets pretty nasty.” (Speaking of “the nasty,” Henderson shared this anecdote about reading the midseason finale’s threesome scene for the first time: “I was actually pretty nervous. I was like, I’ve never done this in real life, so this is going to be ‘interesting.’ But we had fun with it, and the audience went nuts!” IOW, I think I just got an exclusive on the limits of Josh’s romantic history.)

Link to the full article:‘Agents of SHIELD’ Season 2 Director Coulson Spoilers — ‘Once Upon a Time’ - TVLine

Dallas: Episode 3x08 "Where There's Smoke" Promo (Season 3 Mid-season Finale)

Here's a promo for next week's season 3 mid-season finale, episode 3x08 "Where There's Smoke". It looks like this is going to be another awesome episode. :)

Dallas: Didn’t anyone ever tell you that denial isn’t just a river in Egypt, John Ross? (My thoughts on episode 3x06 “Like Father, Like Son)

Right off the bat, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this episode. The biggest highlight of this episode for me personally would be all of the scenes featuring John Ross, who spent the episode desperately trying to keep the Arctic lease deal alive by scheming with various people throughout the course of the episode. His primary strategy was to suggest to Christopher, Bobby, Pamela and Sue Ellen that they take Ewing Global public. He originally got the idea from an old friend of his, Hunter McKay, and Nicolas, who both told him that they became rich by originally buying controlling interest in a company, so John Ross set out to do the same thing. He thought that he had managed to get enough support from Nicolas, Pamela and Sue Ellen, but when the time came to vote Sue Ellen voted against taking the company public, so his plan ultimately failed.

If that wasn’t enough trouble for John Ross to deal with, Sue Ellen continued to tell John Ross that he was acting just like J.R. by cheating on Pamela with Emma and his secretary Candice, but he made it clear to her that there was nothing going with Candice. Candice did try to make a move on John Ross at one point in the episode though, but he rejected her advances. Throughout the episode he repeatedly told Sue Ellen that he’s not J.R., but personally his attempts to convince her that he’s not just like J.R. were about as convincing as Jim Parsons’ attempt to convince everybody that he’s not Sheldon when he was hosting Saturday Night Live, which weren’t even the tiniest bit convincing. After all, in his opening monologue he talked a lot about how he’s nothing like his character on The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper. He even sang a song about how he’s not Sheldon, where the lyrics consisted primarily of him singing “I’m not that guy” over and over, only to act just like Sheldon in pretty much every sketch that he appeared in throughout the episode. I’m now convinced that Jim Parsons is pretty much just being himself when he’s playing Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory, which in my mind shows that despite all of the awards that he’s either won or been nominated for, he has a very limited range in terms of his acting ability. That really makes me wonder what will happen with Jim Parsons’ acting career once The Big Bang Theory eventually ends, but I digress.

Speaking of bad acting and characters that annoy the hell out of me, while I’m willing to admit that for the past several episodes Christopher hadn’t been annoying me nearly as much as he did last season, he unfortunately found a whole new way to annoy the hell out of me that didn’t even involve him talking or threatening to have someone sent to jail in this episode. Towards the beginning of the episode, Bobby told John Ross that he was giving his shares in Ewing Global to Christopher, because now that he’s serving as the interim Texas railroad commissioner regulations dictate that he can’t own any shares in a company. What made Christopher so annoying in that scene is the way that he stood in the background with an incredibly obnoxious smirk on his face the entire time Bobby was telling John Ross this.

Dallas: Episode 3x06 "Like Father, Like Son" Promo

Here's a promo for next week's episode, episode 3x06 "Like Father, Like Son". It looks like this is going to be another awesome episode. :)

Dallas (TNT Series): Good news, Everybody! The Ewings are back, and they are more scandalous than ever before (My thoughts on episode 3x01 “The Return”)

Right off the bat, I’d like to say that I found the season three premiere somewhat challenging to review. That’s not because I thought the season premiere was bad, it’s actually a very good episode in my opinion. What makes this episode particularly challenging for me to review is the fact that I feel like this episode was primarily providing exposition for season three instead of simply diving right into the action and having the show hit the ground running like the writers did with the season two premiere.

I don’t view that as a bad thing at all though. My main complaint with the season two premiere was actually that even for a show that typically moves at a pretty fast pace, the season two premiere seemed to move too quickly for its own good, especially when it comes to how they handled the reveal of Ann’s secret and how it effected Sue Ellen’s life as well. Because the writers seemed to be moving really fast with the events that took place in the season two premiere, as a viewer I felt like I wasn’t being given a chance to take everything in and process what was happening from an emotional standpoint, which was a little frustrating at times and was one of the contributing factors in terms of why I found the reveal of Ann’s secret so underwhelming and disappointing. There was also the fact that Ann’s secret was simply just rather lame. However, Brenda Strong’s acting in that episode as well as season two as a whole definitely helped make up for the lameness regarding the details of Ann’s past that were revealed last season, but I digress.

In terms of my thoughts on the season three premiere itself, I found it refreshing that the writers really used the entire season premiere to move forward from the events of the season two finale and set things up for season three. One of the things that I was really glad to see was the fact that the writers specifically established how much time had passed since the events of the season finale unlike the season two premiere where they played fast and loose with how they handled the passage of time. For example, Ewing Energies was completely up and running and yet Pamela was no longer visibly pregnant. However, I just wrote off the whole thing with Pamela not looking pregnant for roughly the first third of the season as something the writers did since John Ross and Pamela had several romantic scenes during that portion of the season. However, while they did a mini time jump in this episode, they did start out the episode by picking up right where they left off with John Ross and Emma meeting with each other at a hotel so that Emma could give John Ross some files that belonged to Harris, followed by them having sex. After the theme song, the show jumped ahead twelve hours.

Dallas: "Love Triangle" Behind the Scenes Video

Here's the "Love Triangle" behind the scenes video that gives a preview of what will be happening with the Pamela/John Ross/Emma love triangle in season 3 of Dallas. I'm really excited to see what happens next with that in season 3, especially after watching this video. :)

Dallas: Scoop on the future of the Pamela/John Ross/Emma love triangle in season 3 from TVGuide's Natalie Abrams

Here's some scoop on Dallas from TVGuide's Natalie Abrams' Mega Buzz column, which was posted on 2/4/14.

I still can't believe John Ross cheated on Pamela with Emma so soon after they eloped! Where do things stand on the new season of Dallas? — James
Things will still be hot and heavy between John Ross and Pamela... and between John Ross and Emma. Playa! However, it won't take long for someone to catch on to John Ross' infidelity. But it's not the new Mrs. Ewing who is suspicious, but rather a former Mrs. Ewing, if you catch my drift.

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Dallas: TNT Sets Season 3 Premiere Date and Announces Split Season-TVLine

According to TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich, season 3 of TNT's Dallas will premiere on February 23, 2014. Season 3 will also be split into two separate halves. Season 3 will also feature what Executive Producer Michael Robins calls “the biggest Southfork wedding yet!”. Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some details on the scheduling for Dallas' split third season:

As first unofficially announced by cast member Josh Henderson back in July, Dallas‘ coming run will be split into two halves — an opening run of eight episodes, and then seven more come summer — with each batch serving up its own cliffhanger, showrunner Cynthia Cidre told TVGM.

Cast additions for Season 3 include 90210‘s AnnaLynne McCord (playing a tomboy-ish ranch hand love interest for Jesse Metcalfe’s Christopher) and Camp alum Juan Pablo Di Pace (in the series regular role of self-made billionaire businessman Nicolas Trevino.

Link to the full article:‘Dallas’ Season 3 Premiere Date — Split Season Starts Feb. 24 2014 - TVLine



My thoughts: While I'm very excited for season 3 of Dallas to start, I have to admit that I'm not very happy about the fact that TNT is splitting season 3 into two separate halves. It always bugs me when cable networks air seasons of a show in two separate halves considering the fact that seasons for most shows on cable TV networks typically only consist of 13 to 16 episodes. I might not mind cable networks doing that if the seasons had 22 to 24 episodes each season, but I just think it's stupid when cable networks air seasons of TV shows in two separate halves when their seasons are usually shorter than that. Personally, I think that cable networks should air the entire season of a TV show all at once with the exception of maybe one or two short breaks between episodes like broadcast TV networks do. That being said, I'm really excited for season 3, and I'm really anxious to see who's getting married on the show next season.

Dallas: Scoop on possible scheduling for season 3 from TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich

Here's some scoop on Dallas from this week's (Posted on 8/1/13) Matt's Inside Line column.

I would like any information you may have on Dallas and the upcoming Season 3. –Shonda
Josh “John Ross” Henderson took it upon himself to “announce” via Facebook that Season 3 will premiere in late February and air in two chunks — eight winter episodes, followed by seven in the summer. TNT however declined to confirm that news for me, and then Josh’s posting went MIA. Hmmmm.

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Dallas: Renewed for a third season | Inside TV | EW.com

According to Entertainment Weekly's James Hibberd, TNT has renewed Dallas for a 15-episode third season, which is scheduled to premiere early next year. Here's an excerpt from the article:

“Dallas has built a passionately loyal following with its expertly woven storylines, clever twists and turns, and numerous outstanding performances by a cast that spans generations,” said Michael Wright, president, head of programming for TNT. “Although we said goodbye to Larry Hagman and his iconic character J.R. Ewing this year, Dallas has many more stories left to tell, and the Ewing clan will continue to honor J.R.’s memory by keeping its audience surprised and delighted.”

Indeed, some wondered if Dallas would continue beyond the second season after Hagman passed away late last year. The season has averaged 3.8 million viewers per episode when including seven days of DVR playback, and 1.4 million adults 18-49.

Link to the full article:'Dallas' renewed for third season | Inside TV | EW.com



My thoughts: I'm beyond thrilled that Dallas has been renewed for a third season, because it along with Revenge has managed to more than satisfy my constant craving for nighttime soap operas. I have to admit that I think that Revenge ended up really stumbling creatively in its second season to the point where I now love Dallas more than Revenge these days. Although, Revenge has been pretty good lately. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that a lot of people realize that the show has really gone back to its roots since the ratings have declined significantly this season, but I digress.

While I did love season 2 of Dallas, and some ways I loved it even more than the first season, I didn't think that the second season was perfect. There were definitely some aspects of the season that were a bit rushed and handled somewhat poorly, such as Ann shooting Harris, admitting to shooting him and having the trial and her simply being sentenced to probation pretty much all in the span of just two episodes. I really wish they had done a little bit more with Ann being sentenced to probation. Given the fact that Cynthia Cidre was forced to write Larry Hagman's death into the show on fairly short notice, I'm more willing to overlook some of the season's flaws than I'm willing to overlook Revenge's flaws this season. I'm planning on writing a review of the second season of Dallas once it's summer time and most of my favorite shows are on a break until the fall, so I'll talk about my thoughts on the season as a whole in more detail then.

That being said, I have to admit that I was getting worried that Dallas might be canceled since the second season finished airing several weeks ago and yet there hadn't been any renewal news until now. If the worst had happened and Dallas had been canceled, at least I would have been left feeling fairly satisfied with how the show ended. Whether or not it was the writers' intention to write the last episode of season two in a way where it could be a good season finale, or a good series finale if need be, I'm not sure. The season finale did a pretty good job of having the Ewing/Barnes family feud seemingly come to an end, while also setting up a potential feud between the Ewings and Elena's family. Now that the show has been renewed it will definitely be interesting to see how that plays out in season 3. Honestly, the only thing that I truly hated about the season 2 finale was the whole thing with John Ross hooking up with Emma at the very end of the episode. I'm a huge fan of the John Ross and Pamela pairing, so I didn't like that one bit. If you're not already watching TNT's Dallas, then you definitely need to buy the first season on DVD right now and start watching it immediately. I consider it to be one of the most addictive shows currently on TV right along with Scandal.

Dallas: Episode 2x14 "Guilt by Association" & Episode 2x15 "Legacies" Promo (HD) (Season 2 Finale)

Here's a promo for next week's 2-hour season 2 finale, episode 2x14 "Guilt by Association" and episode 2x15 "Legacies". It looks like the season finale is going to be awesome. :)

Dallas: EP Cynthia Cidre teases a big moment for John Ross and Pamela | Inside TV | EW.com

Here's an article by Entertainment Weekly's Mandi Bierly, which gives some scoop on tonight's episodes, episode 2x12 "Call to Arms" and episode 2x13 "Love & Family" directly from executive producer Cynthia Cidre. Cidre also gives some scoop on the reveal of who killed J.R. in this article. Here's an excerpt from the article which gives some scoop on John Ross and Pamela's relationship.:

Tonight, the battle continues between the Ewings and the evil triad of Cliff Barnes, Harris Ryland, and Gov. McConaughey, who’ve worked together to pin the rig explosion that killed pregnant Pamela’s twin babies on over-eager Christopher’s faulty equipment so the Ewings would be slapped with a massive fine they cannot pay now that the government has also seized their main oil well. More than ever before, Pamela (Julie Gonzalo) finds herself stuck in the middle as the Ewing boys — one her ex-husband, one her recent lover — try to turn her against her father, Cliff, who they believe orchestrated the “accident” (viewers know they’re right). Judging from the photo pictured, it’s going to be another emotional turn for Pamela and John Ross (Josh Henderson). “She’s just found out something terrible about her father, and she comes to him, because he had warned her and she didn’t want to believe it,” Cidre says. “He picks her up and brings her inside… Oh, and there’s sex, I think,” she adds, laughing.

Pamela deserves a (momentarily) happy ending after losing her twins in the brutal March 25 episode. Cidre says she and fellow exec producer Michael R. Robin spent a couple of weeks editing that scene in which the babies flatlined on the heart rate monitor, which was filmed with a green screen. “Then, of course, post-production puts in the actual monitor so it’s accurate, and somehow the scene didn’t work, and we had to completely recut the ending,” she says. “We were gonna have both of them die at the same time, and, for it to really be emotional, you had to see that one had passed away earlier, and then you felt that terror watching it: ‘Oh my god, what’s going to happen to the other one?’ It wasn’t until we got that — literally the Saturday before the episode aired on Monday — that it worked.”

Link to the full article:'Dallas' EP Cynthia Cidre teases a big moment for John Ross and Pamela | Inside TV | EW.com

Dallas: Episode 2x12 "A Call to Arms" and Episode 2x13 "Love and Family" Promo (HD)

Here's a promo for next week's 2-hour episode, episode 2x12 "A Call to Arms" and episode 2x13 "Love and Family". It looks like next week's episodes are going to be absolutely awesome. :)

Dallas: Episode 2x10 "Guilt & Innocence" Promo (HD)

Here's a promo for next week's episode, episode 2x10 "Guilt & Innocence". It looks like this is going to be another very exciting episode. :)

Dallas: This has got to be the best episode yet of the series (My thoughts on episode 2x06 “Blame Game”)

As I said in my review of the first four episodes (My thoughts on episode 2x01 “Battle Lines” through episode 2x04 “False Confessions”), I truly believe that Dallas has been lucky enough to avoid suffering a dreaded sophomore slump like Revenge has been suffering from this season, and this episode once again reinforced that belief for me. This is definitely the best episode yet of the season, and perhaps the best episode of the series at this point. As far as I’m concerned, this episode only had one little flaw, which I found very forgivable. 

 

Since I only have one very minor issue with the episode, I’m just going to mention it now and get it out of the way. The only issue that I have with the episode is the fact that this episode features a continuity flaw in the scene where J.R.’s assistant is showing him how to use what looks like an iPad or a Surface when they already showed J.R. using a tablet to look at Elena’s loan agreement with Sue Ellen in episode 2x03 “Sins of The Father” and they also showed J.R. using a tablet again later on in that same episode in order to look through articles that have been published about him in the media over the years . I read somewhere that they were going to use some deleted scenes from the first season in order to help give the character J.R. a sense of closure before he died. If I had to guess, the scene where his assistant was showing him how to use his tablet was a deleted scene from last season that was used in order to allow J.R. and Bobby to have a nice moment with each other when J.R. keeps messaging Bobby on his computer and emails him a link to a funny video featuring a dog.

What I like about that scene is that on the surface it looks like a nice moment between J.R. and Bobby where J.R. is just trying to cheer him up that also gives the viewers a chance to like J.R. despite all of the bad or questionable things that he’s done over the years. However, it ends up being revealed later on in the episode that it was J.R.’s way of pulling one of his very last schemes, because the email of the video apparently included a computer virus, which erased the Cloud Drive from last season when Bobby tried to show Sue Ellen what was on it. That moment also seems very telling of how Bobby feels about J.R., in my opinion. Bobby obviously wanted to see it as his brother doing something nice to try and cheer him up, but instead it ended up being a part of one of J.R.’s schemes. Since I thought it was a nice moment that also ended up being revealed as another one of J.R.’s many tricks and schemes, I’m willing to let that whole whole continuity error go.

  

Personally, I thought that this episode was absolutely crazy, and I mean that in the best way possible. The part of the episode where Vicente and his men took John Ross, Pamela, Christopher, Elena, Bobby and Sue Ellen hostage in Bobby and Ann’s house reminded me a lot of the season three episode of Desperate Housewives “Bang” where Lynette and several of the other characters were held hostage in a super market. To this day, that episode continues to be one of my top all-time favorite episodes of Desperate Housewives.

Dallas: Clip from episode 2x08 "J.R.'s Masterpiece"

Here's a clip from next week's episode, episode 2x08 "J.R.'s Masterpiece".

Dallas: Wow! It must really suck to be Ann Ewing right now (My thoughts on episode 2x05 “Trial and Error”)

As I said in my review for the first four episodes of the season (My thoughts on episode 2x01 “Battle Lines” through episode 2x04 “False Confessions”) I’ve actually been enjoying season two of Dallas more than I loved the first season, which was an awful lot, and that continues to be the case with this episode. This was definitely the best episode yet of season two in a lot of ways. Although, there were a few things about the episode that I found somewhat disappointing, they are only fairly minor complaints, which I’ll get to later.

One of the reasons why I’ve been enjoying season two even more than I enjoyed season one is that I feel the writers have really been doing a lot of the things that I wish they had done in season one. One of them being that I really wanted the writers to give the viewers just a little bit more information about Ann’s past so I could better understand her behavior at times, and they’ve really delivered when it comes to that aspect of the season. While the writers had already revealed some more details about Ann’s past in the first four episodes of the season, this episode really delve deep into Ann’s backstory and finally answered a lot of the questions that I’ve had about Ann, such as how Sue Ellen and Ann met each other and became friends. They apparently met when Ann did volunteer work for one of the foundations that Sue Ellen started for battered and abused women.

Ann also mentioned that she grew up in a family that didn’t have a lot of money and never went to college, which is something Judith had apparently given her a hard time about when she was married to Harris. It sounds like Harris did treat her very well and was very generous with her when they first met. It was only after Judith met Ann and started to interfere in Ann and Harris’ marriage that the relationship between Ann and Harris took a turn for the worse. Apparently, Ann had been diagnosed with post partum depression after Emma was born, and she admitted that she’d taken more pills than she should have the day Harris kidnapped Emma at the fair. She also described herself as being a very awkward girl when she was growing up, saying that her mother had actually taken her to see doctors in order to see if they could find a way to make her stop growing. I can’t help, but wonder if that line was some kind of dig from the writers about the fact that Brenda Strong is really tall.

I have to say that I thought Brenda Strong’s acting in this episode was fantastic, especially when Ann was being questioned on the stand. I’ve always thought that Brenda was a great actress. She did a great job playing the role of Sue Ellen Mischke on Seinfeld, and she always did a fantastic job of narrating Desperate Housewives as Mary Alice Young, but I’ve been especially enjoying her work on Dallas. If you ask me, she should definitely consider submitting this episode for Emmy consideration. 

One thing that really surprised me about this episode was how quickly the whole thing with Ann confessing to being the one who shot Harris, as well as being tried and convicted unfolded all in the same episode. I know that some people were wondering if the writers and producers combined footage from several different episodes to make one episode in order to accommodate having to write Larry Hagman/J.R.’s death into the show on fairly short notice, but I don’t think that’s the case here. If they had combined several different episodes worth of footage to make up the episode, I’m pretty sure that the episode would have credited more writers then they usually do for an episode, as well as list two directors in the credits. I suppose it’s possible that they could have combined two or more episodes that just happened to all be written and directed by the same people, but I don’t think that’s the case here, especially since the producers previously said that Larry Hagman had filmed six episodes for season two before he died, and the episode that’s airing this week is apparently Larry Hagman’s final episode. For whatever reason, it looks like the writers decided to jump ahead one month about ten minutes into the episode so they get right to having Ann’s trial.

Dallas: Revenge might be having a sophomore slump, but four episodes in; this show is soaring higher than ever before (My thoughts on episode 2x01 “Battle Lines” through episode 2x04 “False Confessions”)

Before Dallas premiered on TNT back in June of 2012, I found myself thinking that this show in combination with ABC’s Revenge would be able to quench my constant craving for nighttime soap operas, and together they both did during their first seasons. However, as many people, both TV critics and viewers, have been saying, Revenge is having a major sophomore slump both creatively and in the ratings department.

In the case of TNT’s Dallas, however, it’s been able to avoid suffering the dreaded sophomore slump on the creative end of things. It’s true the ratings are down this season, but I’ve read a lot of comments online from people who are saying that they believe that the ratings being down has more to do with the fact that this season is airing during the regular TV season, meaning it has more competition to deal with from broadcast networks, whereas the first season aired during the summer with less competition. Brenda Strong addressed this in a recent interview that I read, and it sounds like TNT wants to branch out and start airing more shows during the regular season. According to her, it sounds like TNT is hoping to have Dallas pioneer that effort and expected the ratings for the second season to be lower since it’s airing during the regular TV season. Since she said that, I’m not too terribly worried for the time being that the show won’t be renewed for a third season. Perhaps they will renew it for a third season and simply decide to only air the show during the summer in future, but I’m not sure what the TNT network executives are thinking about the show’s ratings though.

As much as I loved the first season, I have to say that I think the second season has been even better in a lot of ways so far. For starters, none of the episodes have felt like filler episodes so far, which is always a good thing for TV shows if you ask me. There also isn’t the repetitive back and forth scheming regarding the future of Southfork like there was last season where John Ross and J.R. would have the upper hand one episode, and then Christopher and Bobby would have the upper hand the following episode, which often made me feel like the storyline wasn’t moving forward all that much. That was the main thing that made several of the season one episodes felt like filler to me. When it comes to season two, however, each episode has felt like it’s progressing the storylines and have all been full of excitement so far. Season two has also featured several very interesting storyline developments. My favorite storyline development would be the fact that John Ross and Pamela/Rebecca, have formed a business agreement as a part of a plan to get some of Christopher’s shares in Ewing Energy shares and have also become romantically involved with each other in the process, which I’ll talk about some more in a moment.