I used to have, well, I still have, a soft spot for Ron Koslow's creation, "Beauty and the Beast".
I just recently did a marathon viewing of the Season Two DVD. Beautiful DA is rescued after being attacked by thugs, and is nursed by a man-beast who lives in a hidden community beneath the New York subways. They are from different worlds that can never mesh. She cannot live with him for she has her role in the world and in being a helper of his world. He though having the soul of a poet, with his cat like face and mane hair cannot ever be seen in her world. And, yet, they have a cosmic connection that is romantic, and unbreakable, and week after week those moments in which it is confirmed, in which their emotional harmony resonates, well, naturally, this three season show (the third season unfortunately killed off the DA Catherine and the series was never the same and shortly after cancelled) is a cult favorite from the 1980s.
Flash to 2007. I saw Ron Koslow's name on the show Moonlight, and decided to watch. Mick St. John is a private investigator. Sam is a tabloid journalist. Mick has a life that he cannot share with anyone, he is a vampire, been around in undead form for nearly 100 years. Scoff if you want, but it works, and I am hoping that the network won't give up too soon and let it work for lots of other viewers. It can. It will. In the old days media moguls, you gave shows a chance to develop, to find an audience. There is a connection that is cosmic, and romantic, even though she has a live in boyfriend, a District Attorney, as it happens. The connection here, though, began way earlier, when Sam was just a little kid and she was saved by---Mick St. John. And, she knows what he is----and still cares for him. A lot. Even if it means that they can't be, they are.
I mean, she gave him her blood in this last episode. You can't get closer that that, right? Or maybe you can? But the series has to last for that to happen. It is the old show, re-created and updated, and again the push-pull emotion resonates.
There are a lot of viewers, well, women viewers, wholike the teaser of impossibility tempered with the hope of possibility--love colliding and then succeeding between two special souls. If you are laughing now, cut it out!
Love keeps trying to triumph, and so should this series. I know I'll be getting the first season DVD. Fans fan the flame, ok?
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