I've loved Moonlighting since I was a kid, I got seasons 1 and 2 as soon as they were released. I got downright giddy when I found out about season 3, I don't know what it is about the show. All my friends make fun of me and say its a woman's show. Maybe it is, but I'm still in love with it. Any thoughts on this???

It is certainly not just a womens show! If nothing else, both men and women can appreciate the sheer quality of the writing, acting, and film making! It's a battle of the sexes, so it appeals to men and women if you ask me!! :wave:

Mul

absolutely! My brother also likes the show btw (though he hardly mentions it because he hates to confess that he likes something I like as well :rolleyes: )
It's great stuff they wrote for Moonlighting, and I think that both men and women can relate to it in some point.

I was ashamed to watch the show because I'm one of the youngest people around who likes it. (19) But I think, even when it is a show from the 80s and Maddie's hair is BIG for the time we live in now :p , this show is timeless! :D

Since when did Moonlighting become a woman's show? My how times have changed. :rolleyes:

I agree I think this show has appeal for both women and me. This show had it all, comedy, chemistry, great writing and dialogue. And I would think David Addison is a character men would like as well.
My husband doesn't really care for all of the eps. but there are a few he enjoys watching. And my brother is a fan. So you are not the only one DAddison. And by the way, welcome to the boards.:wave:

I've loved Moonlighting since I was a kid, I got seasons 1 and 2 as soon as they were released. I got downright giddy when I found out about season 3, I don't know what it is about the show. All my friends make fun of me and say its a woman's show. Maybe it is, but I'm still in love with it. Any thoughts on this???


It is a woman's show but everyone has different taste. Just like Three's Company is considered a woman's show but it won;t stop me from buying the DVD's because i discoverd the show when I was a kid.

It is a woman's show but everyone has different taste. Just like Three's Company is considered a woman's show but it won;t stop me from buying the DVD's because i discoverd the show when I was a kid.
I think times have just changed. I know most of the fans of Three's Company in my school were guys.

Im 16 and I am in love with the show!!! None of my friends have seen it though and when I try and explain it they just don't get it lol. I just watch it anyway though :) It's also not for specifically women either, I know loads of men who used to love it and still do :)

I watched Moonlighting when it originally aired, and I can tell you that the for first 3 seasons it was not at all a woman's show.

By season 4 though, I have to admit, I was a little embarrassed at how soap opera-like the show got, and felt emasculated watching Maddie marry that tool. I think most guys I knew were like, "what the f has happened to this show? No way is Maddie marrying a dweeb. This is pushing things too far"

I can tell you clearly, without a doubt, the other guys I know who watched this show felt it clearly lost it at that point.

Im 16 and I am in love with the show!!! None of my friends have seen it though and when I try and explain it they just don't get it lol. I just watch it anyway though :) It's also not for specifically women either, I know loads of men who used to love it and still do :)


What I mean by a woman's show is when it was created, the producers were mainly trying to attract women viewers. Just like the producers of Sanford and Son didn;t have women in mind while creating that show only men. But that doesn;t mean that men can't be fans of Moonlighting and women can;t be fans of Sanford and Son.

i've been a fan since the first airring of the pilot.
it's not a woman thing.

What I mean by a woman's show is when it was created, the producers were mainly trying to attract women viewers. Just like the producers of Sanford and Son didn;t have women in mind while creating that show only men. But that doesn;t mean that men can't be fans of Moonlighting and women can;t be fans of Sanford and Son.

I think when he began the show, Glenn was trying at attract ANY viewers. I don't think he was trying to target a female audience in particular, and I don't think that's what happened. I think I kind of see what you mean though. Underneath all the slapstick and inuendo and cases and banter, the real heart of the show is the romantic context. I guess that's girly. Though I'm sure that deep down, men really like that stuff too. They just don't like to admit it. But with ML, it was ok to like it because all that romantic stuff wasn't really on the surface, it was underneath all that other stuff. So I think it's really a programme that blokes could get away with liking.

Love Gem

There were plenty of male fans in the original run of the show. Dave was a god to the guys I went to school with. I don't see how anyone could look at his character and say he wasn't just as important in the show. That was the engine of the story, the differences and yet the attraction between the two leads. Drama is conflict and if the two of them hadn't been as bold as they were, they wouldn't have been as interesting.

no no..anyone who says ML is a female show well they r wrong..some guys could learn a lot from david addison...ML was 1 of them drama's, romance mixed in with a lil comedy here and there...some people say well its kinda like a soap opera..well thurrs a lot of action going on in the show fights and stuff like that. lets say in the pilot it show a guy with a knife in his back, bad gun firing fr maddie and punches by the sissy fighter david.. there's nuthin rong wit a guy watchin ML

First, it's essential to define what you mean by a "woman's show".

Is a "woman's show" one that more women watch then men? If so, yes, ML is a woman's show. I don't know the exact precentage of women who watched ML but I would say without a doubt more women watched then men (especially as the series went into the 4th and 5th seasons).

Does this mean that guys can't watch or should be thought of as girly for watching? No, but ML was definitely perceived as a woman's show. It was a romantic comedy- HEAVY on the romance. People watched to see if David and Maddie would get together. The relationship and romance drove the show. The mysteries were secondary.

I'm a guy and I was a HUGE ML fan when it aired. I was in High School when ML ended. Could I have worn a ML T-shirt to school and not have the other guys think it was a little odd? I rest my case.

I'm 26, new to Moonlighting through DVD's (it came on past my bedtime back in the day and was off the air by the time I was staying up later) and I'm male. I think it's a very well-written show and Bruce and Cybill were born to be David and Maddie. IMO, television knows no gender. Shows like The Golden Girls, Sex And The City and Desperate Housewives all have ardent male fans (and before anyone says gay, which there are a number of male fans that are, I also know a lot of heterosexual male fans of those shows as well) and I've seen women who love The A-Team and MacGyver. Good TV is good TV is good TV, gender really doesn't matter IMO

The only thing I can say to the whole male/female question is...when the show first aired I knew a lot of guys that liked ML. My dad, my friend's brother, and some people in school. Even today, my dad still likes it and so do my brothers. And they're only 19 and 15. Even my ex-boyfriend used to watch it w/ me on Bravo(and then he'd watch it even w/out me). I really think the show has something for everyone. A battle of the sexes show, especially presented in the way ML was, always makes for good debate between men and women.

I was the only obsessed fan though...taping it every week. Although my cousin Denise did that too. And my friends and I would quote dialogue all the time and watch my tapes over and over :) I guess some things never change. I still do that ;)