User Reviews

This episode was a slight improvement over the inaugural episode of the series, The Storm, which was highly unlikely soap. This one had its feet firmly planted in the publishing industry in New York City in 1948; a highly competitive, cutthroat industry similar to the streaming video companies that want to suck every last penny out of the consumer for films that are basically historical documents of American television (and that we saw for free with commercials from Westinghouse). Now, we STILL have the commercials for Westinghouse, have to suffer Betty Furness and PAY for the priivelige. Please. My second wife worked (and still works) in the publishing world; we both met Patty Hearst at a meeting one time for Hearst Publications. It was a fascinating experience. This episode captures some of that, but falls more into the category of Gable's "The Huscksters" rather than authentic publishing meetings, which are generally quite mundane and formal. So, in that sense this episode misses the mark as well, but gives a better try than the first one. It is apparent that the series is improving already by the second episode.