I must say that we have found NE on HD and just watched this episode. I am amazed at the talent that is spread around this series. My husband and I watched it religiously when it was first broadcast, Now we are missing our usual 6oclock dinner time, since it is also on every night at 6.What's more important ? I live in Florida, and have a friend up in Chappaqua NY who also just loves it. We used to compare notes on the academy awards and NE. I am so impressed with the story lines,the acting, the scenery etc. I've got my eyes on amazon to see if I can pick up the whole series. I was able to record a few episodes, and guard them with my life. I have a TV guide that paid tributes to NE. Why Oh why can't they make TV series like this anymore? Glad to be able to catch it again.
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Chris and Maggie and the Cruel World
Hitchcoc19 February 2024
Sometimes I'm as nonplussed as Maurice when Chris gets going on one of his philosophical vents. But this time they help me make so much of this episode. It begins with his need to build a catapult so he could fling a cow which would have died a painful death. But because of Monte Python, the originality went out of the enterprise. While he is puzzling over this, Maggie's mother comes to visit with news she and Maggie's father are divorcing. This is stunning. Not only that but her mother is careless with a space heater and burns down her house. This all is really poignant ultimately. There is a secondary story as well, about a former pro golfer who is now a chimney sweep. He blew a putt in the Masters and Joel recognizes him.
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