Wow…I don't remember that version. Yep, cheesy indeed. But the cast photos are better than the awful video stills they used in the other version.

The 1980 subway/bar credits were great (another classic Edie Baskin photo essay), but they didn't use any text at all beyond the show's name, which was graffiti on the subway. So I could see why it wasn't included here.

That's like asking a Trekkie if he hates the sound the sliding doors make.

Edie Baskin. That's the name that's missing from this article.

That's the one way she would work with Cybill Shepherd again.

The show's title takes care of that decision for me. Ugh.

They both work in their own ways.

As we hear those immortal words again, "So…we're rightback where we started."

And it wasn't Jesus!

Thankfully, her Younger paycheck is stretching longer than her Bunheads paycheck did. Although I preferred Bunheads as a show.

Well that too, for sure.

Dream Kalinda interrupts one of the Dream Will sequences to drag him off, announcing that in the afterlife, she owns him now. Shades of Oklahoma!

That's been my rant as well: they tried to do what they perceived as a "cable" non-ending ending, but they don't seem to understand what that means. All of the strange plotlines they had to concoct in order to reach that outcome just made the whole thing fall apart.

We don't know for sure, but I think Diane's reaction says that she knew, but was happy going on with Kurt without it ever being mentioned. Alicia knocked down her house of cards.

All of the supporting characters we cared about more were in it, for one thing.

Now that the show's over, I can't wait to hear various versions of what "really" happened start to surface. It will probably be more of a legacy to the show than this final season.

I know what you mean about making sure my overall love for the show isn't lost in my excoriation of the finale and this season's arcs. "End" totally underscored all the bitching I've done in previous weeks about how "we're right back where we started" was the wrong direction for the Kings to take, because the end…

We must have gotten cable at the same time — I remember the making-of as well, and Tempest was one of my earliest HBO memories. Mazursky, John Cassavettes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, and Introducing Molly Ringwald and Sam Robards. Holy crap, the most perfect imperfect movie ever made. I still watch the hell out of…

Thanks to all the gentrification going on in NYC, HBO's Promo division has moved to the corner of the Point where the hookers once stood.

Phil & Gloria's plot was thin, but it didn't stop them from killing it. They were the only ones to cause me to LOL during the episode. Plus, June Squibb. C'mon.