I watched the first episode of The Madison, a Michelle Pfeiffer TV Drama on Paramount.In short, it deals with a rich NY family, where the patriarch dies while fishing in Montana and
I watched the first episode of The Madison, a Michelle Pfeiffer TV Drama on Paramount.
In short, it deals with a rich NY family, where the patriarch dies while fishing in Montana and the daughter of the matriarch played, by Michelle Pfeiffer, gets mugged in New York City. Very quickly it is conveyed that New York City is fake and that truth can be found fly fishing on the Madison River in Montana.
The mugging as depicted in the show symbolizes the evilness and moral loneliness of New York City, and then compares it to the wide open skies of Montana, where the sun shines and apparently the bugs are not too bad.
However, after the mugging there is a scene that immediately destroyed my suspension of disbelief in the show. The Michelle Pfeiffer character is having dinner in a fancy restaurant with her family and they commiserate with the daughter after her mugging and to change the subject and get people off their cellphones Michelle Pfeiffer turns to her daughter’s husband and asks: “So anything interesting happen to you today, besides your wife getting mugged?”
The son in law, pauses and then says: “Well, Uh, yeah we are
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