Quantum Leap (TV Series) Leaping of the Shrew - September 27, 1956 (1992) User Reviews

Brooke & Bakula; Scott & Shields

[richard.fuller1 · 9/10 · 8 June 2006]

By this time, Brooke was making fun of the primadonna image she had accumulated with "Blue Lagoon" and "Endless Love"; that all she was was beautiful and nothing more.

Bakula was already established by the TV show, so he was meeting Shields as her equal, and Brooke worked off him just as well.

Taming of the Shrew meets the Blue Lagoon? The pair watch more like a couple of old Hollywood pros.

Not a screwball comedy, but a simplistic romance.

And for an episode of "Quantum Leap" it takes a different turn as well.

Too many pluses for this episode of a show that isn't really a favorite of mine, but I must admit, I am enjoying watching the occasional assortment of shows that air on Sci Fi every now and then.

Really, a cute episode

[dukeb0y · 9/10 · 16 February 2021]

So I'm watching this on late TV and this time Sam Becket gets stranded on a raft with a lady. That's pretty good, they get to know each other and then they wash up onto an island. They do the usual survival skills and then get to like each other. And only at the end of the movie that I realize it was Brooke Shields, who played the lady.

And as a previous reviewer said, a couple of pros at their best.

One of the worst, most boring episode with annoying Brooke Shields playing herself

[imdb-25288 · 3/10 · 1 July 2022]

Storyline? Contrived. Setting? Bad. Throwback to Blue Lagoon? Boring! Brooke Shields? Awful! Scott Bakula? Playing the emasculated wimp, as usual. Trying to pass yet another "romance novel" type script as QL episode? Unforgivable.

Goof: it's their "only water", the water is pristine (except that Brooke peed in it) and then they tussle in said pee-water and all of a sudden it's all brown and murky? Really? That's what they were going to be drinking?

Nothing much happening. This episode was excurtiating to watch the first time, so why do I have it i the background? Because I'm waiting to see what Al is gonna wear next. Few redeeming qualities, other than Al doing his thing, well-dressed as usual, courtesy of the ever talented, Jean-Pierre D'Orleac whose last name ought to take an apostrophe, as I spelled it. His talent is that regal!

I never noticed how annoying this character of Sam Beckett was back when, and how weak a character he is played by Bakula. The guy hasn't aged very well, PS! I caught him a few days ago in NCIS and he looked just dreadful. Didn't age like most male actors who, unlike women, usually get better looking with age. Not him. Anyway, skip this one, it's less than half a star. I give it 3 for Al and Jean-Pierre.