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The Waltons
From 1972 to 1981, the Depression Era returned to America through the popular television series, The Waltons. For nearly a decade, American viewers embraced The Waltons into popular cultur...
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Critical Essay by Anne Roiphe
A bobwhite cry breaks the quiet of night among the firs and pines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia…. "Good night, Ma." "Good night, Joh...
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Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
The plot [of "The Homecoming"] seems to be the problem. Just as one story line gets under way, another appears to sidetrack it.
At the center is...
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Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
The mode [of "The Waltons"] is almost brazenly sentimental.
The narrator is John-Boy, the oldest son, reminiscing from the present. As he puts i...
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Critical Essay by Robert Berkvist
"The Waltons," CBS's gift to viewers who were hoping for one, just one, different show this season, seems strangely out of place until you realiz...
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Critical Essay by Peggy Hudson
When I say that The Waltons perpetuates a myth, I am saying that the show is based on a certain concept of what life was like in the 1930's—and that there ...
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The Waltons
Critical Essay by Anne Roiphe
