What s New on Hulu in April 2021
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There is a legend of a movie. A movie with a twist so ludicrous, I dare not speak of it, lest you scoff yourself right off of this website, never to return. It is called
Wild Mountain Thyme. It is coming to Hulu on April 25, and you should definitely try to watch it without knowing the ending first. Because it is really, really,
really dumb. (Do you know the twist in
Serenity, the one with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway? It’s dumber than that.)
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It might seem like a movie you’d want to watch anyway: It’s written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, the Oscar-winning writer of
The Dukes of Hazzard was based on a 1975 film called
Moonrunners. The first episode of the show s first season was titled One Armed Bandits, and it introduced viewers to the main characters and some of the broad plot points that would dominate the long-running series.
John Schneider and Tom Wopat starred as Bo and Luke Duke, two good old boys, as the song s iconic theme song from Waylon Jennings described them, who always conducted their lives just a little bit on the wrong side of the law.
The show focused on the Duke family s multi-generational dispute with a corrupt local kingpin named Boss Hogg, their Uncle Jesse s nemesis. The simple, fun plots often hinged on the cousins various run-ins with the local sheriff, Rosco P. Coltrane, who s in Boss Hogg s pocket. Catherine Bach played the Duke boys cousin, Daisy, whose skimpy costumes were the inspiration for the Daisy Dukes jean shorts that have been popular ever since in Southern fashion.
The
Dukes of Hazzard was more than just a popular TV show, it was a television phenomenon that launched several of its cast members into sex symbol status. Forty-two years after the show debuted in 1979, the cast members look very different today, but they ve held up remarkably well.
The Dukes of Hazzard starred John Schneider and Tom Wopat as Bo and Luke Duke, two good old boys, as the song s famous theme song described them, who were always living just a little bit on the wrong side of the law. The show s relatively simple, but fun plots centered around their various scrapes with the local sheriff and a corrupt local kingpin named Boss Hogg, a longtime archenemy of their family.