A gnat with a lobotomy could fool you

Moonlighting Season 3



I don't know. Looking at Moonlighting it just doesn't quite hold up. Ahhh, who am I kidding? I love this show. Even if it was starting to fall apart in Season 3. This show was doomed from the very beginning. Having a relationship as volatile, funny and rich as David and Maddie, it was fate that the show's producers would eventually jump the shark as it were, with the characters. If it had of been me, I'd have killed them off before they even kissed.
There is an incredible warmth and sweetness to this show that is hard to find in television these days outside of The Simpsons. Despite all the bickering and snarking these characters always cared about each other, even from day one (or the pilot episode as it were). It's easy to see where creator Glen Gordon Caron's influences lie: the Marx Brothers and Hepburn-Tracy movies. Oh, and standards from the fifties.
Season 3 saw an eventual, inevitable decline in the quality of the show. Sure, there were still those 'unique' episodes such as Big Man on Mulberry Street and Atomic Shakespeare, but they were stupidly placed back to back in the season and neither can hold a candle to Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice which was placed much more in context of the ongoing storyline.
As with the first season, the extras are reasonably pointless. It's nice they went to some point (commentaries and interviews) but they don't even begin to scratch the surface into what made this show so special and it's especially disheartening to here so little from the show's creator, Glen Gordon Caron. Could he have done just a little bit of research before hitting the sound-proof booth? Shame. I would have preferred behind the scenes footage and deleted scenes of which there is zip. I'd still like to get ahold of the original Moonlighting pilot released on DVD quite a few years ago which had a different Caron/Willis commentary plus Willis' audition. Maybe it's more special features than these.