I recently read a review that compared this series to that of the HBO series The Sopranos. In poor taste the author of the review decided to condemn new programming on all television and throw it all in the same heap of what I will just call his garbage pile. Shame on you sir. To his credit, he did mention that he liked the HBO series, but enough about that - this is about The Waltons. Programming has changed over the decades (thank God). I truly think that the American public is sick and tired of this time period being over-produced by Hollywood (the depression). I know I am. There is nothing so boring than to watch farmers work through the boring old problems of yesterday as if there was some grand moral to the story that will someday mean something should the world somehow forget we are in the COMPUTER AGE. NONE of the characters are remotely interesting unless you like daytime soaps from the 70's, NONE of the show's scripts are entertaining like some of these other reviewers here would like you to think, and NONE of the real world problems are represented making this series not even remotely tolerable. The scripts are drawn out, the characters are boring and the nonsense of living during the depression is long gone. I was forced to endure this show throughout my childhood and I would not put my worst enemy in such a position (somehow my parents thought it was a useful "tool" to show me what it was like to live during that era, yet they themselves were born two decades after the time period). If you like 70's TV shows, go find reruns of Six Million Dollar Man, B.J. and the Bear, Wonder Woman or Charlie's Angels. It will be more fulfilling.
Review of The Waltons
