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Falcon Heene IS "The Navigator!"
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I realize this is so "yesterday's news," but -- I felt like it was a pretty funny follow up to the exciting saga of The Heene Family's great adventure.
Especially when those paths go back even farther than high school. I think he and I were butting heads as far back as elementary school! If my memory serves me right, Schaeffer and I ended up, briefly, in the Guilford Central School together. Fall 1968. Yep. I was a newly transplated girl from New Orleans dropped unceremoniously into a tiny, extremely humble elementary school out in the boondocks of southern Vermont. I had NO idea what the hell I was doing there and was suffering my own case of "Other-itis." I In my case, as an only child of often charming, but highly eccentric parents, my wild ride hit some very bumpy patches, More on that later. Back to Eric: See as a newcomer that year to Vermont from New Orleans I had an accent. I wore dresses and probably continuing too make my parents happy by literally curtseying to the adults they trotted me out to meet. Politely. Of course. That was my job. I can promise ...
Huge fan. This show has Emmy Awards all over it and deservedly so. Wow. Dark, hypnotic and better than anything I've seen on cable TV since Breaking Bad. Think about the first time you ever read Shirley Jackson's The Lottery or some of the very darkest Daphne du Maurier short stories. Place all that eeriness in a God forsaken corner of Louisiana, add one hell of a strange narrative along with two of the best/worst police partners and -- you got a hit assuming the two leads can act. And, oh, man, can they act. Note: 100% not for kids. This is grown up stuff. -- Whew! Good television is back. And the soundtrack is already a must-have.
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