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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 439030" data-attributes="member: 7">Piggy-backing off of my reply from yesterday....While Season 4 does have some decent-to-good shows (some might even be very good), I'd argue that there are two primary issues with the season as a whole. First, the mistake of sidelining Shelley Hack so early into the season, a pivotal time when they should've been trying to get her comfortable inside the angelic trio and developing her personality. Second, there are multiple episodes throughout the season that focus heavily on just one angel while the other two are off somewhere else and not directly involved in the primary story. That lessens the group effort of the core trio and eliminates their on-screen chemistry and friendship. Cheryl Ladd has said, on numerous occasions, that "it certainly wasn't all Shelley's fault" when questioned about Shelley Hack's arrival, treatment during her tenure, and eventual dismissal. Ladd has also commented that the producers and writers didn't seem terribly concerned on how Tiffany was supposed to "fit in" with Kelly and Kris and the Townsend Agency in general. Hack, as it seems, wasn't concerned at all that the producers dismissed her after one season, saying, "I never expected to be there for more than a year, and I wasn't." The on-screen chemistry just never "clicks" during Season 4, with one reviewer saying, "You didn't get the feeling these girls hung out together outside of the office." That says a lot when you look at the two previous trios. Even so, I've always defended Shelley Hack and her run as Tiffany. Once they finally decided to start writing for her, I thought she was a serviceable and even good addition and successor to Kate Jackson, even if their were kinks that never quite got ironed out like they needed to be. I also don't believe it was a good idea for the producers to can Hack after just one season, but they took the opportunity to blame everything on Shelley, fire her, and crank up the publicity machine for a brand new angel hunt for what would be the fifth and final season. As it were, Tanya Roberts remains my least favorite of the angels, with her modeling career standing in for police academy training throwing even the opening narration off balance.</blockquote>

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