The Romance

I have most of this series on DVD, and I watched the episodes when the show first aired. Even with the DVDs, months can pass before I start from the beginning again.

I've never cared for the "Olivia" episode concerning her desire to fly in an airplane. I suppose it was mainly because of the (in my opinion) all too numerous shots of her in the back of the "plane." The plane is so clearly a studio mock-up when they show Olivia's blissed-out expression. Both things bother me: the mock-up, and her blissed-out expression. It's kind of embarrassing. I realize that they couldn't show her in a real plane, blissing-out in the wild blue yonder.......but still.

So, when I saw that the next episode I'd be watching was "The Romance," I held my breath. Another Olivia episode: how would it be?

I needn't have worried. I loved this episode. At times, I thought how the art teacher was so very taken with Olivia was, um, a bit much; but then remembered how I have reacted in the company of a woman I was, suddenly and hopelessly, falling in love with.

It's a tender story