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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 5926" data-attributes="member: 23">STREET SCENEI&#039;m really enjoying how each episode so far is sensitively highlighting a different sub-culture or community of people. The gang culture in this episode continues our tour. Dallas&#039;s George O&#039; Petrie appeared in this one, and I didn&#039;t even recognise him until he was pointed out to me (he had a great accent here).&nbsp; This episode is an example of the B-story being at least as intriguing as the main one. At least the concept. The women being excluded from Petrie&#039;s wife&#039;s baby shower was interesting. There was a hint that the wives were threatened by the two women. Chris, of course, decided they were going to put the wives&#039; minds at rest. So there was a nice conversation where she ordered Mary Beth to wear a certain dress that she looked terrible in. Something about the execution didn&#039;t work for me. The wives came across as cliquey, insecure and bitchy, and I didn&#039;t believe it. It felt like Cagney and Lacey&#039;s characters&#039; ongoing roles as feminist role models was at the expense of these other women, and that felt a little wrong to me. Intriguingly, this is one of the two season one episodes to be written by a woman.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 5926, member: 23"] [I][B]STREET SCENE[/B][/I] I'm really enjoying how each episode so far is sensitively highlighting a different sub-culture or community of people. The gang culture in this episode continues our tour. [I]Dallas's[/I] George O' Petrie appeared in this one, and I didn't even recognise him until he was pointed out to me (he had a great accent here). This episode is an example of the B-story being at least as intriguing as the main one. At least the concept. The women being excluded from Petrie's wife's baby shower was interesting. There was a hint that the wives were threatened by the two women. Chris, of course, decided they were going to put the wives' minds at rest. So there was a nice conversation where she ordered Mary Beth to wear a certain dress that she looked terrible in. Something about the execution didn't work for me. The wives came across as cliquey, insecure and bitchy, and I didn't believe it. It felt like Cagney and Lacey's characters' ongoing roles as feminist role models was at the expense of these other women, and that felt a little wrong to me. Intriguingly, this is one of the two season one episodes to be written by a woman. [/QUOTE]

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