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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Back Then

Posted by Melanie at 18:57 0 comments

Help! I can’t stop watching episodes of thirtysomething on You Tube. It’s a TV show, that ran on ABC from 1987-1991. Back then the house we lived in was so far off the beaten track we couldn’t get cable, instead we had to be satisfied with a spotty CBC feed. I remember stumbling upon the show by accident, one dark winter evening, after the kids were in bed.

At the time the show appealed to me because like Hope, the female lead, I was also at home with a wailing baby and, like Hope I was a member of my local recycling group. In one episode Hope goes to a meeting with the local politicians to make a presentation about the relevancy and urgency of recycling. However the intimidating suit wearing politicians and structure of the meeting make her, as a breastfeeding mother, feel inadequate. Instead of her planned presentation she ends up saying something lame abut how she doesn’t want toxins in her breast milk. I remember having the same feelings of inadequacy when making a similar presentation to the members of The Peace River South Regional District.

The show follows the ordinary lives of thirty something yuppies Hope and Michael and their friends and family. At times the action degenerates into soppiness and I find myself fast forwarding through to the next scene. Also the shoulder pads on the outfits of the women are friggin distracting and I don’t remember being as neurotic as Hope is about leaving the baby with a sitter.

Because of our off again on again TV reception I rarely got to watch a whole episode, let alone the whole four year series. I think the reason I’m enjoying it so much this time around is because it reminds me of a younger innocent me.

The show has been released as a series of DVD’s. I wonder if I can rent them

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