The Pretenders

Just as the series has been given the ax, the characters of the Lassiter family have begun to jell, their problems deepened, and their relationships enriched. Tonight, for example, there's a touching scene between brother Rob and sister Fawn that goes to the very marrow of his wounding fear he'll never be acceptable to women. There's another that shows the mettle of Benjamin Lassiter faced with a snub from the Brahmins in his family; and still another calling the shots on an unscrupulous investment speculators.