A domineering father forces a teenager to play tennis beyond her desire, and she suffers emotional problems.A domineering father forces a teenager to play tennis beyond her desire, and she suffers emotional problems.A domineering father forces a teenager to play tennis beyond her desire, and she suffers emotional problems.
J.C. Brandy
- Louise Henderson
- (as J. C. Brandy)
Philip Abbott
- Dr. Trebaro
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe story is loosely based on that of Jennifer Capriati, an American tennis phenom who entered the professional tour in 1990 several weeks shy of her 14th birthday. By 1995, she had retired due to injury and burnout, admitting in interviews that she had contemplated suicide the year before. Capriati's father was widely considered to be the main reason for the shortness of her career. Capriati later staged a comeback and won three Grand Slam tournaments before retiring permanently in 2004. The Women's Tennis Association amended its rules in 1994 to limit the amount of tournaments players under the age of 18 could enter.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Dr. Trebaro: What woke you? What woke you, Louise?
Louise Henderson: The wind, I think... A shutter was banging... I remember being frightened.
- SoundtracksMurder She Wrote Theme
Written by John Addison
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Lame season ender
This very mediocre episode ranks towards the lower middle to bottom of the season. After 2 rather good and enjoyable episodes, this one is a strange choice for a finale. As another reviewer points out, the plot is extremely cliché, recycling storylines already used in many other shows and movies, even already used within this series itself. The trope of a young woman reliving a traumatizing death for some reason kept reminding me of one from Fantasy Island with Melissa Sue Anderson. That show is much more campy cheese than MSW but they pulled this off way better.
Sure the plot is lame and too melodramatic, the simplistic mystery even worse, but my biggest issue was the dead eyed, amateurish, generic cast, with a couple obvious exceptions. Perhaps with a different cast and direction, this script could have worked. The women especially were grating and unlikeable, most of all the one playing the lead.
Even the overly beige, generically ugly sets and costumes grated. This is one of many episodes that in no way feel or look like they actually take place in New York. Once again, the poor, cheap setting kept pulling me out of the story and had me again wondering why they bothered. Just set the NY stories someplace like LA and be done with it. That was always such a bad move on behalf of the show.
This season should have ended with Another Killing in Cork. This episode plays like a mid-season filler and is best forgotten.
Sure the plot is lame and too melodramatic, the simplistic mystery even worse, but my biggest issue was the dead eyed, amateurish, generic cast, with a couple obvious exceptions. Perhaps with a different cast and direction, this script could have worked. The women especially were grating and unlikeable, most of all the one playing the lead.
Even the overly beige, generically ugly sets and costumes grated. This is one of many episodes that in no way feel or look like they actually take place in New York. Once again, the poor, cheap setting kept pulling me out of the story and had me again wondering why they bothered. Just set the NY stories someplace like LA and be done with it. That was always such a bad move on behalf of the show.
This season should have ended with Another Killing in Cork. This episode plays like a mid-season filler and is best forgotten.
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- xbatgirl-30029
- Nov 11, 2022
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