Matlock (TV Series) The Good Boy (1989) User Reviews

Well-written, well-acted,, but one guest role actor looks too old for his role

[ejchri · 7/10 · 9 January 2018]

The guest role of the teenage son is supposed to be in his senior year of high school or possibly the late part of his 11th grade year (a junior). The actor who was cast looked to me to be 30+ years of age. Because I was curious, I looked this episode up in imdb. I looked at its broadcast date (1989) and the birth year of that young actor (1970). So my visual impression was wrong -- it was an actor who was in fact younger than age 20 but he looks a decade too old for this part. It should have been an actor who looked much younger than Brian Bloom at that time, or at the very least, his wardrobe should have been styled MUCH younger. He was chronologically close in age to this role, but in appearance, Bloom looked a decade or more wrong for it. A good actor, though!