Sullivan's Crossing

[statsgirl]

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Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan, reconnects with her small-town past after a scandal causes her to leave her professional and personal life behind in the city.

Stars Morgan Kohan, Scott Patterson, Chad Michael Murray, Tom Patterson, Andrea Menard, Amalia Williamson.

[greekmom]

It's really slow moving. Slower than Virgin River.

I enjoy playing spot the Canadian actor. A few of them also were in Virgin River.

So far it's a filler show for me.

[Artsda]

This is reminding me of Virgin River.

[greekmom]

5 hours ago, Artsda said:

This is reminding me of Virgin River.

Both come from books written by the same author.

[greekmom]

Watched the last episode last night.  Frat boys are up to no good and they got the young impressionable camper involved.

Hopefully Tom Jackson is ok.

I really noticed that Scott P. has had significant hair loss on top.  Guess that's the reason for the hats.

[Athena]

This is not my usual jam / type of show that I would normally watch. I caught the pilot after CTV's incessant commercials for it. Then I started leaving all the episodes on in the background. 

It's very Canadian. I'm glad they got to film somewhere not normally featured like Nova Scotia. I am finding CMM more attractive now than when he was younger. I was indifferent to him on Gilmore Girls and I didn't watch One Tree Hill.

As a Canadian kid, I grew up with Tom Jackson on the "Shining Time Station" which had him and George Carlin in a Thomas the Tank Engine show. I'm really glad Jackson is still working and as soothing as ever.

On 4/6/2023 at 8:16 AM, greekmom said:

I really noticed that Scott P. has had significant hair loss on top.  Guess that's the reason for the hats.

His hairline was receding a lot even in Gilmore Girls. He is an older, grumpy version of Luke.

I read a spoiler from the books:

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Maggie and Cal eventually get together (shocking I know). Book 2 follows Sully (Scott P) meeting someone romantically as well.  If the show ever makes it to season 2 or 3, I'd like to see who they'd cast (probably Canadian) opposite him. 

 

[statsgirl]

On 4/1/2023 at 11:02 AM, greekmom said:

So far it's a filler show for me.

Same here. I'm glad to see Tom Jackson and Andrea Menard, even more so that they are playing characters that share their cultural roots and please show, I want to hear them sing. They're both such good singers and composers.

Megan Kohun is beautiful but I'm not buying her as a super rising neurosurgery star.  (She's also a bit too young for the role.) I know that CMM's character is going to be her love interest eventually but I don't get why, her boyfriend Andrew is smarter, more considerate and (to me) more attractive. All that Cal has going for him is propinquity.

He's also kind of a jerk in the first episodes and even in episode 5 when he playing attorney, I can't get beyond that.  He says she's full of herself (or something like that) because she introduces herself as a doctor but the situation called for a doctor. It's a neurologist's job to identify dementia and that situation called for it.  (Hi, Richard Donat! Long time no see.) The time Maggie needed to be on site to help Frank as he was being taken to the hospital, she decided to play cop instead. And she's kind of a lousy girlfriend, blowing off Andrew for Cal.

Sully resents that Maggie went away, Maggie resents that Sully is estranged from her, Lola resents Maggie because she is Sully's real daughter -- I don't care.

Maybe it will get better. Five more episodes to go this season.

[greekmom]

3 hours ago, statsgirl said:

Sully resents that Maggie went away, Maggie resents that Sully is estranged from her, Lola resents Maggie because she is Sully's real daughter -- I don't care.

Maybe it will get better. Five more episodes to go this season.

It's hilarious. Sully is jealous of Walter's relationship with Maggie yet he doesnt see that  she is jealous of his relationship with Lola.

Sully also lends everyone his last shirt (or last dollar) because he's Sully everyone takes advantage.  BTW I can't believe he paid $20 for a double whiskey. 

I never liked the characters the woman who plays Maggie's mother portrays.  What she did to Sully in the flashback is cold man.

[statsgirl]

I know Lynda Boyd mostly as Rose from Republic of Doyle (fun to see her with Allan Hawco again) and recently Family Law where she is a not nice character currently involved with Harry.

Phoebe as a character is well-drawn and very recognizable, probably grew up without much money and loves playing the grand lady. She was a bad match for Sully (ambitious where he is not) and is much better suited to Walter  and his lifestyle than Sullivan's Crossing.

Cal is a mini Sully, happy in his small world (unless we find out at the end of the season that he's a mega entrepreneur on a break which wouldn't surprise me) and everything that we have been told about Maggie, her drive, her ambition, her way of working, suggests that she would be as unhappy with Cal as her mother was with Sully. It's why I can't get into the inevitable Maggie/Cal relationship.

4 hours ago, greekmom said:

It's hilarious. Sully is jealous of Walter's relationship with Maggie yet he doesnt see that  she is jealous of his relationship with Lola.

He's also not trying to fix his relationship with Maggie. Being "take me as I am" isn't going to cut it with a child after a 15 year separation, especially when Walter his rival is all "don't worry, I'm going to help you" with her.

[Artsda]

I don't blame her for leaving with the step-dad, Sully was looking for a fight and he jumped straight to drink again.

[greekmom]

Sullivan's Crossing coming to the CW this fall which means our American friends can join in on the conversation.

https://www.nexstar.tv/chad-michael-murray-and-scott-patterson-return-to-the-cw/#:~:text=Starring Morgan Kohan (“Transplant%2C,The CW in Fall 2023.

[Artsda]

CW picking it up makes sense with 2 cast members that were major CW stars. 

[Athena]

I caught up to the last 4 episodes. I think I keep watching for the actors and the location. The writing is mediocre and most of the characters have too many problems especially the leads. It's like every episode someone is mean to Maggie and Sully is struggling with his alcoholism and incredibly bad financial management. Seriously, how has he been able to keep that place afloat?

I find the lead actress okay. I partly blame the writing because it's taken awhile for us to get to know her character. Also, she did treat Andrew rather coldly. Even though he turned out to be a controlling jerk, he was right in that she didn't seem to know what she wanted.

On 4/18/2023 at 11:14 AM, statsgirl said:

Cal is a mini Sully, happy in his small world (unless we find out at the end of the season that he's a mega entrepreneur on a break which wouldn't surprise me) and everything that we have been told about Maggie, her drive, her ambition, her way of working, suggests that she would be as unhappy with Cal as her mother was with Sully. It's why I can't get into the inevitable Maggie/Cal relationship.

The writing isn't great but we're finally seeing that Maggie has sought out control in her life due to her anxiety and her unstable upbringing with an alcoholic father. Her mother is rather controlling too but can't blame her too much considering she lived with Sully. Once I found out that Maggie has panic attacks, I was able to relate and understand her better. I know she suggested therapy to Sully but I really hope Maggie looks into herself right now in her life. Maggie is more relaxed in Sullivan's crossing and she'll be fine as a trauma and search and rescue medic. It's just a lot of crap in her life right now which would understandably cause her anxiety to flare up. I know this from personal experience.

Cal probably has some family money which wouldn't surprise me. I'm fine with this pairing and CMM is trying to make this mysterious widower thing work for me at least.

 

[AnimeMania]

The CW is adding the 10 episode "Sullivan's Crossing" to its US fall lineup.

[statsgirl]

Caught up to the end of the first 8 episodes. My overall impression, trying not to spoil too much for the CW viewers is that the show is very much Sullivan's Crossing folk = good; educated townies = bad. Boston is too stressful for Maggie, she's only happy in Sullivan's Crossing.

It feels like the writing is deliberately against Andrew. Frank tells him that Maggie is relaxed and happy in Sullivan's Crossing getting dirty (note, she hasn't been there since she was a teenager); Andrew replies that she is the cleanest person he knows. The show is hitting me over the head with how wrong Andrew is for Maggie

Cal had a tragedy in his life so he came to Sullivan's Crossing to work as a handyman and now he's happy again.

Maggie is emotionally cheating on Andrew with Cal and I think that I'm supposed to think that it's romantic because it's CMM.

Lola wants what Maggie has and is willing to throw away: Sully as a father figure, Cal interested in her, a place to call home. Poor Lola can't even get Rafe to pick her to dance.

I find Maggie cold and self-centred but I can't figure out if it's a deliberate decision like Stephen Amell who played Oliver as traumatized in Arrow season 1 or if she's a poor actress. I think that Morgan Kohan needs more experience before she can carry a show like this.

I'm supposed to feel sorry for Sully that Phoebe took Maggie away from him but why didn't he hire a lawyer to fight for Maggie to visit him? Walter telling him that he's a loser was cruel but it doesn't seem that far off the mark. Both Sully and Maggie seem bewildered by why bad things keep happening to them..

I love Edna's earrings, all of them.

[Artsda]

So drunk Sully hit Lola? 

 

[greekmom]

12 hours ago, Artsda said:

So drunk Sully hit Lola? 

 

Of course drunk Sully hit Lola. There was major foreshadowing back a few episodes ago about how Lola didn't know who hit her and the fact that Sully is extra nice to Lola ( I mean come on - she gave him back the 5 grand and he just gives it to her and he's losing his shirt!). 

Maggie continues to follow in Sully's shoes of making bad decisions.  I figured Walter is shady as heck. Lola's out to get Maggie makes no sense unless she is totally jealous of the opportunities that Maggie has had.