After suffering a terrible blow, Julia's future--and the fate of the show--hang in the balance.After suffering a terrible blow, Julia's future--and the fate of the show--hang in the balance.After suffering a terrible blow, Julia's future--and the fate of the show--hang in the balance.
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- TriviaHunter tells Russ that he wants him to create more "how to" shows. In real life, Russell Morash went on to produce and direct The Victory Garden (1975), The New Yankee Workshop (1989), and This Old House (1979), one of the most popular shows in television history. Between the three shows, Morash won a total of 13 Daytime Emmys for and was nominated 37 times for Outstanding Talk/Service Series. He also won a Daytime Emmy for Lifetime Achievement in 2014.
- GoofsA character mentions New York station "WNET." At the time this station operated using the call letters WNDT. NET (National Educational Television) was then the distributor of "The French Chef" and other educational programs.
- Quotes
Paul Child: Let's say yes to all of it... .say yes to everything for as long as we can. Let's drop dead, someday, saying yes. That'll be a life.
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Season One Review
Another show that I decided to watch based on its appearance on the Guardians Top TV of 2022 list. I enjoyed "Julia", if perhaps I felt it was a little too frothy for its own good.
Having published a book of French recipes, to moderate success, an appearance on a literary TV show, for local Boston public television inspires Julia Child (Sarah Lancashire) to attempt to produce a cooking show for the little seen network. With the loving, though not perhaps unwavering, support of her husband Paul (David Hyde Pierce) the show is produced and goes from being minor splash to countrywide phenomenon, thank to Child's unique charm and the hard work of her friends and the TV station support staff.
It was perhaps a bit of an easy set-up, given that the real Julia Child is such a broad character, but Sarah Lancashire is really great at the heart of this comedy drama. Pierce is perfect too, so it's interesting to learn that he only took the role when Tom Hollander (who I'm sure would have been great too) left the project. It did remind me across the board of "The Marvellous Mrs Maisel" given that the show share producer Daniel Goldfarb. It's a period piece, obviously, and is focused on smart women operating in on their own - though neither show make the men in them "the problem" and Paul Child is an interesting and layered character just as Joel Maisel is.
I'm not sure this is much of a criticism, but the show isn't particularly interested in the deeper aspects of the story. For example, it does show Alice Naman, a black producer at the network, deal with the dismissive sexist views of her fellow producers, but it's hard not to imagine that there wouldn't have been more of a racial element to that, even in a progressive Bostonian liberal environment.
It's a funny and charming series though and I'll be back for the second season.
Having published a book of French recipes, to moderate success, an appearance on a literary TV show, for local Boston public television inspires Julia Child (Sarah Lancashire) to attempt to produce a cooking show for the little seen network. With the loving, though not perhaps unwavering, support of her husband Paul (David Hyde Pierce) the show is produced and goes from being minor splash to countrywide phenomenon, thank to Child's unique charm and the hard work of her friends and the TV station support staff.
It was perhaps a bit of an easy set-up, given that the real Julia Child is such a broad character, but Sarah Lancashire is really great at the heart of this comedy drama. Pierce is perfect too, so it's interesting to learn that he only took the role when Tom Hollander (who I'm sure would have been great too) left the project. It did remind me across the board of "The Marvellous Mrs Maisel" given that the show share producer Daniel Goldfarb. It's a period piece, obviously, and is focused on smart women operating in on their own - though neither show make the men in them "the problem" and Paul Child is an interesting and layered character just as Joel Maisel is.
I'm not sure this is much of a criticism, but the show isn't particularly interested in the deeper aspects of the story. For example, it does show Alice Naman, a black producer at the network, deal with the dismissive sexist views of her fellow producers, but it's hard not to imagine that there wouldn't have been more of a racial element to that, even in a progressive Bostonian liberal environment.
It's a funny and charming series though and I'll be back for the second season.
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- southdavid
- Oct 20, 2023
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