Thirtysomething (TV series)
The Best Years ( original title thirtysomething ) is a created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick American television series that ran from 1987 to 1991 on ABC and in 1988 won the Emmy and the Golden Globe. In Germany, where the series was broadcast in the First, it was less successful.
Action
Michael Steadman ( Ken Olin ), who runs an advertising agency, and his wife Hope Murdoch ( Mel Harris), who had a daughter Janey recently, live in Philadelphia. Hope has interrupted her career as a writer, to have time for her daughter. Michael's work colleague Elliot Weston (Timothy Busfield ) is married to Nancy ( Patricia Wettig ), they have two children, Ethan and Britanny. Hope's best friend is the official Ellyn Warren ( Polly Draper ), other characters are the photographer Melissa Steadman ( Melanie Mayron ) as Michael's cousin and the college professor Gary Shepherd (Peter Horton ). During the mission, Michael and Hope have a second baby, Nancy gets cancer, Michael and Elliott's agency goes bankrupt and they are employed by another company.
Occupation
- Ken Olin: Michael Steadman
- Mel Harris: Hope Steadman
- Melanie Mayron Melissa Steadman ( three Emmys 89-91 )
- Timothy Busfield Elliot Weston ( three Emmys 88-90 )
- Patricia Wettig: Nancy Weston ( three Emmys 88, 90,91 )
- Luke Rossi: Ethan Weston
- Jordana Shapiro: Brittany Weston
- Peter Horton: Gary Shepherd
- Patricia Kalember: Susannah Shepherd
- Polly Draper: Ellyn Warren ( Emmy 88)
- David Clennon: Miles Drentell (Chief of Michael and Elliot at DAA)
- Terry Kinney: Steve Woodman ( friend and colleague of Ellyn )
Reception
The series is still regarded as one of the most groundbreaking U.S. television history and is included in many "best of" lists, but always also generated controversy. The feminist Susan Faludi led the series in her winning the National Book Critics Circle Award book " Backlash " (1991) as a prime example of emancipation hostility and glorification of the housewives on ( " in TV shows like" thirtysomething, "where the single women are pitiful and the wife and mother, saintly "). The left New York Times considers it in 2009 for one of the most remarkable effects of the program to have first discussed consistently raising children in a series. The newspaper wonders, given the deluded and suffering from cancer of her husband, Nancy, as the program could be construed as each family idyll ( "it is impossible to watch the series and did think it glamorized marriage as a sacrosanct alternative" )