Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way first: the great Larry Hagman passed away in the middle of filming the second season of Dallas. Which means this will be the last time we will see one of the great all time television villains of all time on screen. My sources tell me that the funeral for J.R. Ewing will be held during the eighth episode of the season, set to air March 11 which will feature many Dallas vets, some of which have yet to appear on the new version.
No word on how they will deal with J.R.’s death on screen (or if we will be getting another Who Shot J.R. mystery), but the character certainly is not going out with a whimper. Like last season the elder Ewing still has the best lines (like his distaste for the amount of male secretaries at Ewing Enterprises) and is still doing plenty of double dealings and manages in a couple blackmails for good measure just in the two hour premiere tonight.
When we left off, Christopher learned that his wife as not the Rebecca Sutter he thought he married and we learned that she was the real offspring of the Ewing’s bane Cliff Barnes (which would have made the newlyweds, if I am reading the family tree right, cousins by adoption). Christopher reluctantly teamed up with his other cousin (in a less skevy way) when him, J.R. Jr. and Bobby created Ewing Energies.
The new season starts up a couple weeks later, Rebecca (get ready to call her by a new name this season) has been in hiding ever since Christopher learned she was not who she seemed. It is on the eve of the election and by the end of the night you will learn if Sue Ellen will be the next governor of Texas. But the most interesting part of the new season involves Assistant Director Walter Skinner, who was promoted to the series regular this season, who pulls something tonight that is more shocking than anything that happened in the first season (which is saying a lot). And just when you wonder how someone could get so evil, we meet his mother, Judith Light, who is definitely the Boss in the family.
Dallas airs Mondays at 9:00 on TNT. You can download previous episodes of Dallas on iTunes.
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