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<blockquote data-quote="tommie" data-source="post: 322871" data-attributes="member: 370">I&#039;ve been jumping around Lou Grant the past week or so and it really does improve upon the pilot - contrary to what people have said, it&#039;s not all doom and gloom and some of the humour could&#039;ve fit nicely into Mary Tyler Moore (Mary going to jail over not revealing her sources could&#039;ve easily been a plot on Lou Grant) - they&#039;ve just shifted the focus to drama. I don&#039;t think it&#039;s as radical of a makeover as a lot of people have claimed. Of course individual episodes watchability does depend on how engaged you are in a particular &quot;issue of the week&quot;, but I was surprised how a lot of them translated well into today&#039;s landscape (ie things like &quot;urban crisis&quot;). Since the cast is stable from episode 3 forward there&#039;s no real issue with seeing them out of order, bar some occasional references to past stories but the writing seems to have been kept at an even quality through the seasons (from what I can tell).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tommie, post: 322871, member: 370"] I've been jumping around Lou Grant the past week or so and it really does improve upon the pilot - contrary to what people have said, it's not all doom and gloom and some of the humour could've fit nicely into Mary Tyler Moore (Mary going to jail over not revealing her sources could've easily been a plot on Lou Grant) - they've just shifted the focus to drama. I don't think it's as radical of a makeover as a lot of people have claimed. Of course individual episodes watchability does depend on how engaged you are in a particular "issue of the week", but I was surprised how a lot of them translated well into today's landscape (ie things like "urban crisis"). Since the cast is stable from episode 3 forward there's no real issue with seeing them out of order, bar some occasional references to past stories but the writing seems to have been kept at an even quality through the seasons (from what I can tell). [/QUOTE]

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