Funny, sordid soapy episode featuring daytime divas Constance Towers and Leann Hunley playing the wife and mistress of wealthy Lloyd Bochner who hires the firm to redecorate their homes. The mistress doesn't know, but the wife does, and this ruins a perfect set-up, creating some scenes that seem like they are straight out of an Noel Coward play.
It's funny that Constance Towers, who for 5 years played the sweet matriarch Clarissa McCandless on "Capitol" and created infamy with nearly 20 years of mayhem as the evil Helena Cassadine on "General Hospital", goes from the seemingly perfect wife to the character revealed in the twist at the end. Hunley, who played scheming but basically decent flamboyant characters on "Days of Our Lives" and "Dynasty", is hysterical, particularly as she ogles Meshach Taylor. Then there's Bochner, the veteran sophisticated actor as the husband, perfectly mannered. A fun episode that ends with a nice scene between Julia and Reese's voice, giving the viewer one last opportunity to hear Hal Holbrook before his character is written out.
It's funny that Constance Towers, who for 5 years played the sweet matriarch Clarissa McCandless on "Capitol" and created infamy with nearly 20 years of mayhem as the evil Helena Cassadine on "General Hospital", goes from the seemingly perfect wife to the character revealed in the twist at the end. Hunley, who played scheming but basically decent flamboyant characters on "Days of Our Lives" and "Dynasty", is hysterical, particularly as she ogles Meshach Taylor. Then there's Bochner, the veteran sophisticated actor as the husband, perfectly mannered. A fun episode that ends with a nice scene between Julia and Reese's voice, giving the viewer one last opportunity to hear Hal Holbrook before his character is written out.
