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Beauty and the Beast – The First Season

Long before he played the demon fighting, cat loving Hell Boy with Selma Blair, and even before she played one bad mother in Terminator, Ron Pearlman and Linda Hamilton played as love interests in the Emmy award winning Beauty and the Beast.

Episode one, originally aired Sep, 25, 1987, starts off as assistant D.A. Catherine Chandler (Hamilton) is leaving a flashy, upscale party in New York City and is viciously attacked and mugged.

Catherine wakes up to find that she is still alive and is being nursed back to health by a mysterious stranger named Vincent, who gently reads to her as she recovers.

Catherine comes to find that her rescuer is no regular man, but is a half-man, half-beast who was adopted as a baby by a leader of an underground city that is maintained and lived in by those abandoned and forgotten by the world above.

A special and sweet relationship grows between Catherine and Vincent as she accepts him for what he is, and he, in return, finds someone he can finally open up to after all his years of hiding.

There is also some action through the episodes as Vincent helps Catherine with her job as a D.A., and sometimes has to protect her from the bad guys that are out to hurt her, as she tries to help the innocent victims of crimes like the one of which she was a victim.

As I said, this was made in the '80s, so there isn’t all the fancy technology and computers in use that a viewer may be used to, and some episodes read like an overly dramatic, gothic romance novel and have so many references to books that you simply can’t keep up.

But, the scenery of the underground city is so beautiful, and the relationship between Catherine and Vincent so sweet that you can easily forgive its downfalls.

It’s also fun to see Hamilton and Pearlman together. You can tell that the actors work very well together to portray a pair that truly care about each other and have a very unique bond.

With all 22 original episodes at your disposal, it’s one guilty pleasure that you simply can’t stop watching after just one episode.

Written by: Jessica McCumber

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