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Revisiting “thirtysomething”…again

April 12, 2016

I saw this article today (although it was written on February 11) and how this year was the 25th anniversary of Gary Shepherd’s death on “thirtysomething”. That led to looking up more articles on thirtysomething and the reaction to Gary’s death. Again. Yeah, I’ve done this before. Lots of times. It seems like every spring and fall I always turn to thirtysomething for some reason. April of 1988 has such strong memories for me as it is and maybe thirtysomething is a catalyst for that…I don’t know.

I Skyped my older brother about it because I know he watched the show and he said he’s going to watch the pilot again and I said we’d need to discuss it afterwards. Actually, I already watched the pilot last week. :-) What I want to do is watch one episode every week just as if it was on tv again and match the original dates up as much as possible. Hopefully this fall. Right now though I may run through a few of my favorite episodes over the next few weeks.

I found a few other articles – some that were written at the time that episode aired, and others that reflected on the show as a whole but in more current times. It affected so many of us and not in an entitled whiny way either as so many people would think. It was the one show most like real life and we ate it up, we bonded with the characters, we even had traits of some of (or alot of) those characters. And Gary’s death? That was the most real thing of all.

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April 12, 2016

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