TV mini-series are almost always terrible. Taking a 90 minute premise and stretching it out over several nights is never pleasant. This is painfully evident in this stretched-out mishmash full of unbelievable characters and rather pedestrian performances by the actors portraying those characters. As family fare (supposedly) it truly fails, as there is a graphic rape scene and an extended scene of an couple making love with lots of near nudity. Plus there is constant talk about a woman who killed her baby. If that's family fare, I hate to see what they consider adult fare. Of all the performances, I rate George C. Scott's as passable, and at least Marilu Henner is not as annoying as Debbie Reynolds (or that Bates gal) as Molly Brown. Her "liberated" comments do grow tiresome after a while -- I get it! She's in 1912 and she's emancipated! Wow! Let's see her smoke another cigar. In the meantime, you can imagine Tim Curry in Rocky Horror Picture Show and pretend he just accidentally wandered on to the set of this. Why can't they make a straight depiction of the sinking of The Titanic without all the adultery, fornication and other degradations? Or better yet, let the poor thing rest in peace in its watery grave!
