No sooner had "I Dream of Jeannie" ended then Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman were reunited in this TV melodrama that unfortunately suffers from a convoluted script and mysterious characters that are coldly obnoxious and a sub plot involving the lead character that distracts from the plot and adds a bunch of nonsense. That subplot is the presence of Harman as Eden's estranged husband, arising in her Nevada hometown while she is there in preparation of getting a divorce.
While Eden does have some warmth from stepmother Vera Miles and old friend Tyne Daly, everybody else treats her like a pariah. The mystery is a messy, mean-spirited plotline that had me frustrated to the point where I felt completely lost, just as eating did when she went to the woods to deal with the howling dog and found evidence of murder. Not all mysteries that seems unsolvable are fun to watch, and this definitely falls in that category. I
It's thanks to the coldness of the town of people that seem almost like aliens (definitely inhuman) that I began to shake my head and crinkle my nose in the same way you do in real life when you just don't want to even have to deal with a problematic situation. The over-the-top background music score doesn't help either. It's another one of those 70's TV movies that takes you into the middle of nowhere and shows you the coldness of people in rural communities, making me wonder why that always seems to be the case.
While Eden does have some warmth from stepmother Vera Miles and old friend Tyne Daly, everybody else treats her like a pariah. The mystery is a messy, mean-spirited plotline that had me frustrated to the point where I felt completely lost, just as eating did when she went to the woods to deal with the howling dog and found evidence of murder. Not all mysteries that seems unsolvable are fun to watch, and this definitely falls in that category. I
It's thanks to the coldness of the town of people that seem almost like aliens (definitely inhuman) that I began to shake my head and crinkle my nose in the same way you do in real life when you just don't want to even have to deal with a problematic situation. The over-the-top background music score doesn't help either. It's another one of those 70's TV movies that takes you into the middle of nowhere and shows you the coldness of people in rural communities, making me wonder why that always seems to be the case.