I realized the other day that one of the reasons I loved “Wings” so much was that Helen wanted to be a concert cellist, and she was always getting her heart broken on that dream because music is so competitive.

She also wanted to get married and got her heart broken by men occasionally, but that she dealt with or shrugged off. Music was her unhealthy on-again off-again true love relationship that she couldn’t seem to walk away from. That I … READ MORE

Wings gave us some great women characters. Helen, who won’t take crap from anybody; Fay, a rare older woman who’s so cheerful you’d never suspect she can be totally evil; the mother of Joe and Brian, who abandoned them and never should have been a parent; and a number of women who passed through the characters’ lives and behaved in ways we weren’t used to seeing TV women behave (I have got to write about Helen and Gayle, the ex- … READ MORE

I posted a while back about Wings, and mentioned in passing the