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Friday, January 21, 2011

Dawn Wells Not Being Mary Ann!



Whenever we see any of the castaways in regular street clothes and bopping about in civilization, it's always as disorienting as it gets. There are a million examples from which to choose, but here is the most disturbing of all the disorienting Gilligan alums' post-curricular work.

Although she does wind up in a cornfield, Dawn Wells is decidedly not Mary Ann, as she is pistol whipped and then mercilessly chased by a serial killer in The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976).

For our poor Mary Ann to be bludgeoned and hunted and bleeding, our disorientation is compounded, even more so than when Bob Denver is not playing stupid or Jim Backus is not playing rich.

If you think the town dreaded it, wait until you get a look. Dread (and disorientation) is the order of the day (or the night). And somebody shut up that damn dog.

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