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Jun. 17th, 2010 03:43 amDAY 16: Your guilty pleasure show
Does a show still count as a guilty pleasure if it was canceled over 20 years ago? I sure hope so because Moonlighting is mine. Moonlighting is a show from the late 80's centered around Maddie Hayes, a former model, who finds herself bankrupt and ends up teaming up with streetwise private eye, David Addison, to earn a living by solving all manner of crazy cases. This show hits so many of my TV watching kinks it's not funny - witty banter, UST (with plenty of T), a great sense of humour, clever breakages of the 'forth wall', random song and dance numbers, special episodes and just general silliness. Moonlighting never fails to make me smile. The show can also do the serious drama too though and David and Maddie were my first true ship. There's so many moments throughout the series between these two that I could watch forever. They just make my heart sigh ♥. I still maintain that their eventual hook-up was the greatest in TV history because of who they were and how it all happened (I could really care less if everything went to hell after that). There's a reason so many shows were modeled after Moonlighting's winning formula (Press Gang, The X-Files, Bones and Castle to name a few) and it's mostly because of the chemistry and complicated relationship of these two. Moonlighting is tons of fun and worth looking into just to see Bruce Willis (looking very fine with a full head of hair) as a brilliant comic actor before he became a huge movie star with Die Hard.
(I managed to restrain myself to only include two clips in this post :P)
Does a show still count as a guilty pleasure if it was canceled over 20 years ago? I sure hope so because Moonlighting is mine. Moonlighting is a show from the late 80's centered around Maddie Hayes, a former model, who finds herself bankrupt and ends up teaming up with streetwise private eye, David Addison, to earn a living by solving all manner of crazy cases. This show hits so many of my TV watching kinks it's not funny - witty banter, UST (with plenty of T), a great sense of humour, clever breakages of the 'forth wall', random song and dance numbers, special episodes and just general silliness. Moonlighting never fails to make me smile. The show can also do the serious drama too though and David and Maddie were my first true ship. There's so many moments throughout the series between these two that I could watch forever. They just make my heart sigh ♥. I still maintain that their eventual hook-up was the greatest in TV history because of who they were and how it all happened (I could really care less if everything went to hell after that). There's a reason so many shows were modeled after Moonlighting's winning formula (Press Gang, The X-Files, Bones and Castle to name a few) and it's mostly because of the chemistry and complicated relationship of these two. Moonlighting is tons of fun and worth looking into just to see Bruce Willis (looking very fine with a full head of hair) as a brilliant comic actor before he became a huge movie star with Die Hard.
(I managed to restrain myself to only include two clips in this post :P)
