Like many reviewers, I'm a Boomer who hadn't seen much of "Green Acres" since it left prime time and went into reruns. Stumbling across it on Prime, I gave it a look for nostalgia's sake, and am glad I did. I started right from the first season and rediscovered a treasure trove of humor that largely went over my head as a kid 50 years ago. Be sure to see the premiere episode before anything else. It lays the foundation for the entire 6 years that it ran. It should be remembered, among other things, as being one of the first network series to break the "fourth wall"---you can see the cast having fun with the wacky material and inside jokes. The humor is fast and well-written. Eddie Albert is the perfect straight man for the characters around him. Eva Gabor, gamely and unselfishly, uses the glamor-image thing to the show's advantage, not her own. (One wonders if her sister, the arguably more famous Zsa Zsa, could have pulled it off as well. I'm thinking 'not'.) Like most long-running series, the humor only held up for so long, but it was long enough to plant itself firmly (unlike Oliver's corn crop) into the national consciousness. Rediscovering "Green Acres" has been a real treat---thanks, Amazon.
Review of Green Acres
