Phenom (1993–1994)
7/10
sign me up, I'm on the Phenom waiting list as well!
26 June 2016
Years ago, back in 1994, I didn't set out to watch this. Waiting for other stuff, with my VCR poised and ready, I encountered this. And watched some of it. Cut to the present, I am RavenGlamDVDCollector, and I am trying to recollect the pretty-girl TV shows I have seen during my life. Oh, yeah, there was a show I didn't actually watch, there was a Mom in it, she had a tennis-playing daughter and a crazy goofy boy. But what the hell was the show's name? I have to admit, I had forgotten.

It took perusing through a stack of 22 year old TV guides to bring to light the name, and when found, it's kinda self- explanatory, the title is kinda unusual. Gee, Judith Light, I had forgotten about her. But even if I had seen her credited for something named PHENOM on Wikipedia, it wouldn't even have rung a bell. Fortunately the old TV Guide mentioned 'tennis-playing daughter' and my quest for anything I might have forgotten was instantly rewarded.

Sadly, it's a 1.22 case, a single season, 22 episodes, =failed TV show, the execs wouldn't green-light an apparently failed TV show for DVD release, even if some people remember it fondly. There are like fourteen reviews here, 23 years later? You do the math. Life just ain't fair, this show had a lot of promise. It was head and shoulders above a slew of junk being telecast in prime-time on South African M-Net, Mondays at 18h30, but it is gone and forgotten, and that's very sad. And all my nagging is stuck here in this Lonely Outpost where few, if any, would ever visit.

Not even a downloadable segment of it. It's just a vague memory now. Sigh.
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