http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:34:38 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/22/083434.php#comment-430638 The locale for F&G was suburban Michigan - outside of Detroit - not Minnesota. Other than that, I enjoyed your article. -cc- ]]> 430638@blogcritics.org Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:34:38 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/22/083434.php#comment-81106 Nice post. But F&G had its other weaknesses, the worst of which was how it would push to the edge of disaster for Lyndsay over and over only to pull back at the last moment. Remember the episode where she had a party at her house when her parents went out of town? That party should have been a major disaster for her. And she should have been caught. But in magical television style, everything came out OK. Our heroine got her Big Scare and Learned a Valuable Lesson. But they did portray the freaks about as realistically as I've ever seen. They were all complex, conflicted and surprising. Her sort-of boyfriend who had dreams of being a rock'n'roll drummer that were mostly just dreams (no practice, no band; lots of being lost in the music) was so perfect it was scary. And I still occasionally find myself wondering what happened to Lyndsay that summer, driving around the country with a bunch of Deadheads, having completely chucked her old life. That's the sign of a great television show! ]]> 81106@blogcritics.org Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:42:57 EDT