Dynasty

When Dallas emerged as the most successful night time drama on television, ABC decided to come up with something to rival it. Initially, the makers had the idea to make it about oil and set it in another county in Texas. Thankfully, that idea never came to fruition. Aaron Spelling and the Shapiro's finally came up with a script that would set this long running drama in Colorado, and boast even more wealth, greed and glamour than the Ewings. Dynasty didn't immediately take off in the ratings war. Seen as a direct competitor to the Texas Ewings, the wealthy Carringtons were even crasser due to their wealth. Patriarch Blake Carrington heads up the clan, ...  Read the complete review

Dynasty is probably the most known soap opera ever.Everyone,back in the 80s was watching it:money,power,passions,affairs,murders:everything was there. The soap was about the life of the Carrington family,a really wealthy family,lead by Blake Carrington(played by John Forsyth,who also provided the voice of Charlie in Charlie's angels).His wife Crystl,played by Linda Evans,who was then at the top of her carrier,was his ex-secretary.She was his 2nd wife,and they didn't have any children.Blake had children from his first marriage with Alexis(Joan Collins,the perfect bitch of the soaps):Fallon(Emma Samms),Adam(Gordon Thomson-who then portrayed Masson Capwell in ...  Read the complete review

DYNASTY was created for American television after DALLAS became very successful. It was about another wealthy clan - the Carringtons (and their relatives/friends/enemies the Colbys), and was set in Denver, Colorado. The star of the show was John Forsythe who, among other things, had previously been the disembodied voice of Charlie in CHARLIE'S ANGELS. Forsythe played Blake Carrington and the first episode was mainly concerned with the wedding of Blake and Krystle (played by Linda Evans). As you can expect, the series followed the loves and hates, and other personal relationships of the main characters, and sometimes it seemed like the only thing any ...  Read the complete review

Jeez! Remember Dynasty? I'm sure some of you do, I was only a little tike when it was still around, but I still fully understood the concepts. It was basically a glitzy, bitchy American soap with a number of British actors too, and well it was just about a bunch of rich people and their problems. It sounds dull saying that, but it's interesting, and should you ever win the lottery. Women sleeping with other men, Men sleeping with other women, business swindles, murders...You know the usual ever-exciting stuff in rich households... All I knew is that Joan Collins and Stephanie Beecham were great bitches (in a respected sense), and believe me, they were ...  Read the complete review

In the same way that British soaps are unremittingly miserable and Australian soaps unfailingly innocuous, American soaps are - or once were - ludicrously melodramatic. If someone gets shot or even punched in a British soap, that thread of the storyline is dragged on for months; the same goes for affairs and sexual liaisons. In DYNASTY everyone was doing everything to everyone else on a weekly basis. Here you had a host of rich, glamorous, and ridiculously-named characters (Fallon, Crystal, Alexis etc.) in an endless cycle of sex, betrayal, sex, blackmail, pyschosis, and sex. Who could forget the royal wedding of Amanda Carrington to the Prince of Moldova that ended in ...  Read the complete review