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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on May 29, 2012 16:31:11 GMT -5
China Beach starred my beautiful wife Dana Delany. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_BeachIt began with a TV movie and then with four seasons between 1988 and 1991. Pilot Part 1: Not bad the first part of the pilot although it is rather worryingly how McMurphy (Dana) is presented here. Despite its title, China Beach takes place in the midst of the Vietnam War at an evacuation hospital. I have read that China Beach was described as M*A*S*H without laughs. It certainly feels that way with McMurphy being like a female Hawkeye.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on May 30, 2012 20:06:46 GMT -5
Pilot Part 2: Not bad second half of the pilot. Quite good the singing from McMurphy. Too bad it got disrupted. Quite moving when Laurette comforted the seriously injured soldier. McMurphy was due to leave but changed her mind at the end. Quite remarkable that she decided to stay in a volatile situation when she didn’t need to make that decision.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on May 31, 2012 19:24:54 GMT -5
Home: Season 1 opener. Quite funny the hair McMurphy had in this episode. Quite thought-provoking McMurphy’s attitude towards a pregnant Vietcong nurse who threw a grenade which killed a friend of hers. It is hard to determine whether McMurphy did the right thing at the end of this episode.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 5, 2012 0:10:29 GMT -5
Hot Spell: Season 1, Episode 2. Amusing part of this episode is when the women including McMurphy were stuck together to shelter against a bombing attack. Oh dear Laurette’s singing is not exactly to everyone’s taste.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 5, 2012 0:10:42 GMT -5
Somewhere over the Radio: Season 1, Episode 3. Dramatic moments when Lila, Cherry and Laurette were stranded in a jungle after surviving a helicopter crash. A very tense moment when during surgery a mortar was found and disposed of.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 5, 2012 0:10:56 GMT -5
Waiting For Beckett: Antepenultimate episode of season 1. Beckett was sure melancholy here. This episode shows why no deserter deserves sympathy and the deserter deserves what he got here especially in him tricking Cherry about her brother.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 6, 2012 20:51:16 GMT -5
Brothers: Penultimate episode of season 1. Brothers mentioned or seen here are presented as disappointment except for McMurphy's who isn't seen here. Cherry certainly got a shock when she finally found her brother Rick and it goes to show that sometimes the hope is much better than the reality of the situation. A Star Trek reference is made here. Prophetic to the fact that Robert Picardo, even though he wasn't in the scene where the reference was made, later became a regular in Star Trek: Voyager which also featured fellow wife Jeri Ryan who is currently Dana's co-star in Body of Proof.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 7, 2012 20:19:17 GMT -5
Chao Ong: Season 1 finale. Swansong for Laurette and a good send-off for her. The season ends with McMurphy skinny-dipping. Dana would later skinny-dip in the movie Exit to Eden in a scene that cemented her place in my heart forever.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 9, 2012 1:25:03 GMT -5
Lost and Found Part 1: Season 2 opener. Debut of Wayloo Marie Holmes played by Megan Gallagher (had no idea she was in China Beach). Quite a show-stopping moment when Cherry made her outburst at that dinner. The words “lost and found” is usually used for objects. Quite disturbing when it is used about people.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 11, 2012 0:59:18 GMT -5
Lost and Found Part II: Amazing how in the midst of the tragedy established at the cliffhanger of the previous episode there was still light-hearted moment with the ice cream scene. Also very good the scene of more soldiers being brought into the hospital was done tenderly.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 11, 2012 21:36:49 GMT -5
Limbo: Season 2, Episode 3. Quite bold KC starting a hair salon at the base bad sad with the bad news she received. Quite surreal the dream the unconscious Dodger was having.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 13, 2012 20:59:12 GMT -5
XMAS Chnbch VN '67: Season 2, Episode 4. First of all have to state clearly that I don't approve that shorten form of Christmas. Takes place in Christmas 1967. Some heartwarming moments and some tragic moments (including the Christmas carollers coming in after a soldier had just died) and amazing that even with the tropical climate of Vietnam snow still came in for this episode.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 14, 2012 1:46:51 GMT -5
Women In White: Season 2, Episode 5. The fun part of this episode is Wayloo Marie doing a report of the war from women’s viewpoint and quite funny it turned out the way she did not want it to be. Coincidentally the day before I saw this episode saw the similarly named Grimm episode Woman In Black.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 17, 2012 18:16:35 GMT -5
All About E.E.V. : Season 2, Episode 6. Really did not like the Dennis Farina character and Dana looked cute on a bike.
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Post by Dana Delany's Chinese Husband on Jun 18, 2012 19:55:14 GMT -5
Tet' 68: Season 2, Episode 7. Good set pieces of seeing pairs of characters of what they were doing during the Tet Offensive. Terrible tragedy with the death of Cherry.
Powerful episode as it delivers powerful viewing.
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