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I know in theory there is pleasure to be had from cornball comfort-food television but man alive, and I say this with all the love in the world for Dolly Parton in my heart, her Heartstrings program on Netflix nearly busted my saccharine-meter. Picture all those little smoking wheels and springs going "yoing yoing yoing" out of it like a cartoon clock on overdrive and that was me, with this show. Granted I only managed to watch one and a half episodes, including obviously the one that starred my beloved Colin O'Donoghue...
... as a pond-prone bad-boy cowpoke called "J.J. Sneed" after Dolly's 1970 song. Did anybody watch this episode, or any of Heartstrings? I know some of you people watched Heartstrings. I heard there's a gay episode -- should I watch it? Or should I just stick with staring at all of these gifs of my beloved Colin O'Donoghue giving us the rest of his PG-rated skinny-dip (also known as "his best on-screen shirtlessness to date" if you can believe it) after the jump...
These Old Bones is the strongest episode. Kathleen Turner deserves an Emmy for sure!
ReplyDeleteI thought "Two Doors Down", AKA The Gay One, was better written and performed than it had to be, considering the Hallmark Channel production values and Steel Magnolias-adjacent script. The ending goes on too long, and there are too many neat dramatic reveals, and Oscar winner Melissa Leo kind of makes a fool of herself with the wedding cake topper. All that aside, it still has a lot of non-sappy things to say about honesty and acceptance. If anything can change the world, it's Dolly casually dropping the word "transgender" into her introduction.
ReplyDeleteI love heartstrings...the world would be a whole lot better place if there were more folks like Dolly ...Dolly for president :)
ReplyDeletethe gay episode is cute and nice and a bit corny but no agenda and the main gay guy is smoking hot :)