This has become one of my top 5 episodes of Vega$, and I especially enjoy the acting. Elissa Davalos was a peach when we were in third grade, and Bob Ulrich was super screen-friendly. When I was allowed to watch this growing up I most remember this episode and how our women deserve our protection... I always dig the cars, and all the file footage of my favorite city in the USA!!! Great acting and directing all around, and post-production was consistent...
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Deborah Wakeham Guest-Stars
JasonDanielBaker24 April 2014
Former Vegas showgirl Lisa (Deborah Wakeham) is carjacked and raped having been lured to a secluded location by a mysterious stranger (Michael Cole) and his accomplice. Her friend Bea (Phyllis Davis) works for local private detective Dan Tanna (Robert Urich) but he is not hired to investigate.
Lisa, suddenly also unemployed, was reluctant to report the attack in the first place and felt humiliated by the process as victims used to be and still are.
Tanna is outraged and works with Veteran cop Lt. David Nelson (Greg Morris) to track down the assailants. It isn't long before there is another victim (Elyssa Davalos) and her accidental death complicates things. The only one who can identify one of the rapists in court is Lisa. Such an event would tie them in with the death of the other victim. This makes her a potential target.
What better idea for a detective show could there be than a private investigator in Las Vegas? There are infinite avenues to explore the light and shade of human character in Sin City and plausible reasons why a PI might make a handsome living there. Sadly Vega$ only lasted three seasons. I never could get past the putrid disco soundtrack the show had so the mute button on the clicker came in handy.
As with any episode of this show the guest stars are the amongst most impressive aspects of the production. Elyssa Davalos is given but a few minutes screen-time. But Canadian actress Deborah Wakeham appears in much of the episode. These are actresses I really liked. I didn't like seeing what happened to them here.
Michael Swan plays a baffling role in this with characteristic flair. For whatever reason Michael Cole looks hungover during his time on screen. It works for role...I guess.
Of the issues I had with Vega$ was the continual theme of violence against women. This particular episode evoked unpleasant memories of episode 8 from season 1 in which Maureen McCormick who played Marcia Brady on the Brady Bunch portrayed a beauty pageant contest who was brutally raped.
Michael Swan who played the rapist in that episode played another one (Or perhaps the same monster employing an alias) in this episode too. Seeing the same actor portray essentially the same character offered the unwelcome notion that the horror might repeat itself - something profoundly unsettling that bears too much resemblance to the real-life impact of that repugnant crime and violent tendency towards recidivism of its perpetrators.
The sensitivity of such subject matter has seemed greater in productions since. Not seeing that tone struck quite the same way here was more than I bargained for on this show or any other on network television. But it did come on Wednesday nights at 10 pm which filtered out some younger, more impressionable viewers seeing it.
Lisa, suddenly also unemployed, was reluctant to report the attack in the first place and felt humiliated by the process as victims used to be and still are.
Tanna is outraged and works with Veteran cop Lt. David Nelson (Greg Morris) to track down the assailants. It isn't long before there is another victim (Elyssa Davalos) and her accidental death complicates things. The only one who can identify one of the rapists in court is Lisa. Such an event would tie them in with the death of the other victim. This makes her a potential target.
What better idea for a detective show could there be than a private investigator in Las Vegas? There are infinite avenues to explore the light and shade of human character in Sin City and plausible reasons why a PI might make a handsome living there. Sadly Vega$ only lasted three seasons. I never could get past the putrid disco soundtrack the show had so the mute button on the clicker came in handy.
As with any episode of this show the guest stars are the amongst most impressive aspects of the production. Elyssa Davalos is given but a few minutes screen-time. But Canadian actress Deborah Wakeham appears in much of the episode. These are actresses I really liked. I didn't like seeing what happened to them here.
Michael Swan plays a baffling role in this with characteristic flair. For whatever reason Michael Cole looks hungover during his time on screen. It works for role...I guess.
Of the issues I had with Vega$ was the continual theme of violence against women. This particular episode evoked unpleasant memories of episode 8 from season 1 in which Maureen McCormick who played Marcia Brady on the Brady Bunch portrayed a beauty pageant contest who was brutally raped.
Michael Swan who played the rapist in that episode played another one (Or perhaps the same monster employing an alias) in this episode too. Seeing the same actor portray essentially the same character offered the unwelcome notion that the horror might repeat itself - something profoundly unsettling that bears too much resemblance to the real-life impact of that repugnant crime and violent tendency towards recidivism of its perpetrators.
The sensitivity of such subject matter has seemed greater in productions since. Not seeing that tone struck quite the same way here was more than I bargained for on this show or any other on network television. But it did come on Wednesday nights at 10 pm which filtered out some younger, more impressionable viewers seeing it.
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