Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bride of Kiefer speaks
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 25 | Aired on 05.30.2002
And since when has the show not been unrealistic and pulpy?
Right. It's not like we're making a documentary.
I sort of liked the amnesia plotline. It was a clever way to show what Teri was up to during the separation and the affair with Dr. Phil.
Yeah. Also, plotlines have to interconnect in so many different ways. Jack's storyline is the main storyline, and every other storyline has to support that. It's like a puzzle. How can this family get separated again? How could Teri lose touch with Kim and lose touch with CTU? And then how could Kiefer not know that his family is in trouble again? How could he be out of touch with Teri?
Right. You could have called CTU and gotten picked up again, but you didn't remember it. Meanwhile, Kim doesn't trust anyone at CTU, so that's how they lose touch with both of you.
Exactly. It's problem-solving.
Do you watch the show every Tuesday when it airs, or do you just get tapes from the studio?
I don't have a television.
What?
I just don't. I'd rather read a book. I mean, I have a monitor hooked up to a VCR so I can watch the episodes on tape, so it's not like I'm living in a cave. And I have a CD player and all that. But I have a child and he's only eight. I'd rather be really sure about what he's watching at that age. I'm sure he'll hate me in a couple of years for that.
He will! All his friends will be talking about some show, and he won't be able to relate!
Well, whatever. When he was two, he had this babysitter who used to leave him in front of the television. I mean, I don't mind that he watched a little TV, but I came home one day and found out that what he was watching was Spanish 911 or whatever that is. It's a COPS kind of show. Some guy is always beating the crap out of his wife. I just don't want him to see stuff like that, and it's impossible to avoid unless you just don't have a television.
Yeah, come to think of it, when I was growing up, daytime television was so much more innocent. I mean, if you had cable there was softcore on Cinemax and stuff, but it was after my bedtime.
There is so much worse stuff out there than Skinemax these days. [laughs]
So do you get to see the episodes before we do?
No! They won't give the tapes to me until the day they're airing.
Is it weird to watch yourself on TV?
It can be -- like hearing your own voice on tape -- but I've been doing this for so long that I'm used to it. And I always learn something when I watch the show. For instance, it's so interesting to see how they edit it and what kind of music they use. We had a wrap party for the show, and it was the biggest thrill for me to meet the composer. I was dying to meet him. I was star-struck.