One full episode in, and Jonathan Frid has the day off. He's too new to take over as a front burner character, and it creates more intrigue to have the story developed slowly. We still have Jason's blackmail of Elizabeth to deal with so that's what this episode focuses on as he tells Elizabeth that Willie's belongings have disappeared. Roger too has disappeared, not having been seen since he first met Willie, and he never left town. It's just a vacation for actor Louis Edmunds after the exhaustion of wrapping up the Burke Devlin story, just as Elizabeth was absent while Joan Bennett was on vacation as the Laura Collins story culminated.
Joe Haskell makes a return after being absent a bit, and he runs into Burke and Carolyn at the Blue Whale. Carolyn's cool to the men who pretty much dumped her so it will take some damaged control to find out what's on her mind. I like when Nancy Barrett gets front burner work because she reminds me of a fragile heroine from one of those American International Edgar Allan Poe horror film starring Vincent Price, or even from a Hammer film.
Try to tune out the record in the background at the Blue Whale. on sleepless nights after watching a marathon of these, I can't get it out of my head. This episode is more traditional soap opera than the gothic melodrama we've seen with ghosts and phoenixes and whatever Barnabas turns out to be. you can't have young characters on a soap opera without that, so it's a lull but not one without a point.
Joe Haskell makes a return after being absent a bit, and he runs into Burke and Carolyn at the Blue Whale. Carolyn's cool to the men who pretty much dumped her so it will take some damaged control to find out what's on her mind. I like when Nancy Barrett gets front burner work because she reminds me of a fragile heroine from one of those American International Edgar Allan Poe horror film starring Vincent Price, or even from a Hammer film.
Try to tune out the record in the background at the Blue Whale. on sleepless nights after watching a marathon of these, I can't get it out of my head. This episode is more traditional soap opera than the gothic melodrama we've seen with ghosts and phoenixes and whatever Barnabas turns out to be. you can't have young characters on a soap opera without that, so it's a lull but not one without a point.