tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post6451436798187154896..comments2024-03-28T14:49:36.133-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: Cult-TV Blogging: The Immortal: "Paradise Bay" (December 10, 1970)John Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-51538773252749478472018-03-16T00:50:37.769-04:002018-03-16T00:50:37.769-04:00John,
I enjoyed this one quite a bit. I didn'...John,<br /><br />I enjoyed this one quite a bit. I didn't see the big reveal coming, but I may have been beguiled by the pretty beach scenery. "A Happy Place to Live" made me think of the town of Darien, Illinois, where I grew up. The sign at our city's borders proclaimed Darien "A Nice Place to Live," and there are rumors that Robert Zemeckis, a native of Chicago, saw the sign and put it into his Back To the Future movies (since Hill Valley is also "A Nice Place to Live" according to its border signage).<br /><br />It's become pretty much de rigueur for The Immortal to have Ben sleep with a girl a week. The moment you see a woman in the episode, it becomes not a question of if, but when. At least they gave us two for the price of one this time, casting the same actress to play twins. I thought Trisha Sterling did a nice job playing two disparate personalities.<br /><br />This series has such high production values, it's a shame the stories always make me feel as though The Fugitive did it first. Every week, whenever Ben is threatened with death, I'm always rooting for death! How I would love it if they'd actually show us that Ben Richards is truly immortal!<br /><br />And since I'm wishing for things that will probably never happen, I'd also like peace on Earth and a pet unicorn. Or at least a girl in every port.<br /><br />Steve<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13101722769411384962noreply@blogger.com