Apple TVFalcon Crest (1981)
Bias Rating
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Viewer Rating
Rating: 5.9
Overview
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
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Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
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Primary
Falcon Crest is a prime-time soap opera focused on the dramatic power struggles within a wealthy family dynasty. Its narrative primarily explores personal ambition, greed, and intergenerational conflict, without explicitly promoting or critiquing any specific political ideology, thus earning a neutral rating.
Falcon Crest, a classic 1980s melodrama, featured a predominantly white main cast with no explicit DEI-driven casting choices. Its narrative centered on family power struggles and romance without critiquing traditional identities or incorporating explicit DEI themes into its core storytelling.
Secondary
Falcon Crest, a prime-time soap opera from the 1980s, did not include any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes in its narrative. The show primarily focused on heterosexual relationships and family power struggles, resulting in no LGBTQ+ representation.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Falcon Crest is an original television series with characters created specifically for the show. There is no prior source material, historical figures, or previous adaptations from which characters could have been gender-swapped.
Falcon Crest is an original television series. Its characters were created for this production and therefore had no prior canonical or historical racial identity to be altered or 'swapped' from.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
5.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.2
5.5
Critic Ratings
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