"Falcon Crest" The Price of Freedom (TV Episode 1989) Poster

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(1989)

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Last episode
BetaMaxine17 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The first episode of the last season starts with workers and Lance in the vineyard where they find a dead falcon. A bad omen. Then the opening credits role with new music and new clips. It's not nearly as polished or classy as the earlier seasons. Susan Sullivan is noticeably absent from the main cast, getting a guest appearance credit later with no picture. Richard is in jail. We hear a voice over of a judge sentencing him to three years but not in a white collar prison but in a state prison. Gregory Harrison is a new addition to the cast looking like small time Gordon Geikko with slicked back hair. He visits Richard in jail where he is blackmailed into helping Channing. Richard sends Maggie a gift through his lawyer, a large diamond ring. Maggie visits him in jail for a conjugal visit. He plans to testify and fears for his life.

Angela hires a PI to investigate Pilar hoping to break up her marriage to Lance. The guy's incompetent and Pilar is on to him. Angela leaves for Greece leaving Lance in charge. Emma has a black eye from Charlie, a man she is having an affair with behind her Daniel's back. Maggie with a new much shorter haircut, drowns in a swimming pool when the ring Richard gave her gets caught in the drain. RIP Maggie.
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4/10
The series goes into free fall once this last season begins
Trivioid7 September 2023
With the start of the 9th and final season, it's clear the writers were throwing paint at the wall to see what would stick. The Ortega's and the Agretti's are completely written out, and gone from the Tuscany Valley as fast as they arrived in the last season: we still don't know whether Tommy and Kelly survived the fall into the water; or whether Gabriel's condition continues to improve; what became of the rumor between Maggie and Tommy, and its impact on Maggie's newspaper, the Tuscany Herald. Also Nick and Ben Agretti are gone without explanation; no word about whether Nick was going to continue to challenge Angela for control of Falcon Crest; or the mystery surrounding the death of the guy who forged the Falcon Crest deed.

The season starts on a totally different, fanciful note: Richard has been convicted of all kinds of financial frauds and is starting his prison sentence. It's unbelievable; even in the 1980s, a case like this wouldn't even have begun trial in these short months. And Michael Sharps (Gregory Harrison) is introduced out of nowhere, as one of Richard's co-conspirators. It's absolutely ridiculous.

Even the tempo of this final season is so different from all the prior seasons; one does not feel like he is watching the same show. The writers seemed to be grasping at straws.

I actually had stopped watching Falcon Crest by its 7th season; I began binge watching the series a few months ago, and finally got to this last season, more than 30 years after it aired. It's clear, I didn't miss much. Watching this last season is torture!
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