It's too bad Live in Front of a Studio Audience's Good Times restaging "fell victim, briefly, to a more substantial bit of 1970s cosplay"

Variety

As a result of the House impeachment vote last night, "viewers missed several minutes of a story that positioned the Evans family (led, in 2019, by Andre Braugher and Viola Davis) against a rapacious local politician when the broadcast cut in to announce, first, that President Trump had been impeached on the first charge against him, of abuse of power," says Daniel D'Addario. "Later, the end of that episode seemed briefly curtailed by the announcement of Trump’s impeachment on the second charge, of obstruction of Congress. That was too bad, if only because the Good Times episode seemed vaguely resonant to our moment in a way that the All in the Family episode chosen did not. (Blown lines, especially on the part of Braugher, might be forgiven in service of a larger point, had the story been told to completion.) If there was an episode for current events to interrupt, it felt almost poetically ironic that it had to be the episode about a black family carrying out small acts of resistance, as opposed to a Christmas episode of All in the Family that tended to feature, in the show’s own manner, liberal adult children endlessly flattering their Nixonian papa, until they stop."

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