I think “Daddy Dearest” was the only episode I actually saw during its short-lived run in 1989, because with only eight of them, it probably wasn’t ever syndicated afterward. (Then again.) And after all these years, serial killers several times a week, this first experiment in primetime profiling still came to a jarring end.
My favorite of the lot, however, was the mysteriously-titled “And They Swam Right over the Dam”, where a couple of pediatricians set out to liberate their patients from overindulgent parents. Richard Kind (Larry’s cousin Andy one DVD ago on Curb Your Enthusiasm), the all-White team’s gopher, takes them down without so much as a fight, and reminds us how much stranger things were back then.
What a great movie. I had to get this in here before I put it aside for my recent acquisition of the entire Unsub series, because yeah, my pace lately isn’t likely to keep up. It’s a Boorman, so I shouldn’t be surprised, but he did seem more focused here, even if it was Marvin’s influence, and I especially loved the dream-y quality of that moment when his character just hides while a pursuer is caught by the police. This is a perfect example of taking source material to new creative heights; I’m ashamed to remember having only been entertained by Payback.
A while back when this short season of television from my youth (and the months spent trying to swim like the titular character in the neighborhood pool) were remastered I almost plunked down 