A successful Hollywood actor convinces his lover to kill her abusive husband, then makes a phone call.A successful Hollywood actor convinces his lover to kill her abusive husband, then makes a phone call.A successful Hollywood actor convinces his lover to kill her abusive husband, then makes a phone call.
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- TriviaA husband and wife are shown sleeping together in one bed. This is unusual as it was common practice on TV at the time for married couples to sleep in separate beds.
- GoofsWhen Larry carries Janice to the cab she's just hailed, the passenger door is already open.
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She's supposed to be a smart, capable career woman....so why did she act this way?!
"A Nice Touch" is not a very well made episode....and a few of the other reviews talk about this....though a few were also very positive about it. I just think the writing was a disappointment and the episode just didn't make a lot of sense.
The show is about two people.... Janice (Anne Baxter), who is an executive who works for a talent agency and Larry (George Segal), who is an up and coming actor who has no lack of confidence. The story is told a bit awkwardly through several flashbacks. It seems Larry came to audition for a part and although he was all wrong for the part and lacked the necessary talent, he simply wouldn't back down and kept pushing Janice to take him on as a client. Now considering she deals with up and coming actors all the time, the fact that he is able to so easily manipulate her and get her to fall for him seems highly unlikely. What seems even more unlikely is what happens next.
It's an odd episode. I liked George Segal's character. Larry was slimy and smooth and a real sociopath.... Segal did well with this...though it IS confusing why he didn't just dump Janice after he became famous. But Janice...she was a different story. This strong working woman is inexplicably needy, foolish, stupid and easily manipulated...TOO easily manipulated. As a result, the story just seemed fake...hard to believe and far-fetched. To make it worse, the show did what it often did...it has Hitchcock tack on an unnecessary epilogue where he explains away what we saw and essentially reinforces that crime doesn't pay...which really undoes what good there was in the show.
The show is about two people.... Janice (Anne Baxter), who is an executive who works for a talent agency and Larry (George Segal), who is an up and coming actor who has no lack of confidence. The story is told a bit awkwardly through several flashbacks. It seems Larry came to audition for a part and although he was all wrong for the part and lacked the necessary talent, he simply wouldn't back down and kept pushing Janice to take him on as a client. Now considering she deals with up and coming actors all the time, the fact that he is able to so easily manipulate her and get her to fall for him seems highly unlikely. What seems even more unlikely is what happens next.
It's an odd episode. I liked George Segal's character. Larry was slimy and smooth and a real sociopath.... Segal did well with this...though it IS confusing why he didn't just dump Janice after he became famous. But Janice...she was a different story. This strong working woman is inexplicably needy, foolish, stupid and easily manipulated...TOO easily manipulated. As a result, the story just seemed fake...hard to believe and far-fetched. To make it worse, the show did what it often did...it has Hitchcock tack on an unnecessary epilogue where he explains away what we saw and essentially reinforces that crime doesn't pay...which really undoes what good there was in the show.
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- planktonrules
- May 13, 2021
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