BEg2 chapter 4 tangent: Brady Bunch 2:15 premature evaluation

[David Morris]

I saw a clip (preview?) of the whole family in a big stage production.
God!  It was awful!  But I was a kid when it was first on air, and I
thought it really sucked back then.

DM

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 9:59 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Hulu. Haven’t watched it all the way through yet, but impressions so
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> 70s decor - love it.
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> Carol Bondurant from Bob Newhart’s reception desk  (Marcia Wallace) appears
> as the wig salesperson.
> Even she seems to regard her red hair as outré.
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> Very whitebread. No POC, the only variation seems to be in hair!
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> Also, all the girls have blonde hair and the boys have dark hair.
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> With Marcia getting the dark wig, is she transgressing both into the
> “conspicuous in their absence” darker-pigmented sectors, and into a
> territory inhabited by the boys?
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> The secondary plot is interesting too: the girl chasing the middle boy is
> regarded as unseemly.
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> It’s completely fraught, emotionally laden, and I have to pause before
> watching the ending!
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> Also, it’s already made me laugh out loud.
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> As an aspiring Pynchon fan completist, I’m ashamed not to have already
> binged this show.
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