The Bitch Is Back!

‘If you’re not going to get a nasty comment when talking about a new version of Dynasty then when will you? But it won’t be from me’

- Emma Samms

There’s a new television series that has just started showing in the US and here in the UK which has prompted a lot of people to ask me a lot of questions. It’s the Dynasty reboot. Not a sequel, continuing on from where we left off all those years ago, but a re-make of the same stories with the same characters. Updated, of course, but essentially the same glorious and utterly outrageous characters and storylines of the 80s.

When people ask me about the new series they adopt a sympathetic expression, as if they were talking to someone who just found out that their spouse was cheating on them. The people asking the questions feel the need to affirm their love of the original Dynasty, recalling how they’d arrange their schedules around it or get special permission to stay up late and watch it with their mums. And then comes the question, the one they’ve been leading up to: “What do you think about it?”
I haven’t seen it yet so it would be churlish to deliver any kind of review sight unseen, but my answer is always “I really wish them well. I hope it does for them all the wonderful things it did for me”.