The Golden Girls (TV Series) The Bloom Is Off the Rose (1991) User Reviews

The Bloom Is Off the Rose (#6.13)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 20 February 2014]

Rose feels like her relationship with Miles is getting boring. She compares it to her time with Charlie and thinks that she was never bored with him. Miles agrees to go skydiving with her but then he also finds out that she never did it with Charlie and their life was not as adventurous as she remembers. And Blanche is dating a guy that is a real jerk, but doesn't listen to Dorothy who tells her about it.

The storyline of Rose and Miles was pretty good, a great way to show how hard it is to compete with a ghost.

Blanche's story was good as well, the guy she dated really was making me mad. And I also want to mention that I loved that black sweater with gold glitter she had on.

Rose is more talk than action ...

[mloessel · 6/10 · 2 April 2022]

If i met Rose would i want to date her. No. Her St Olaf stories would be a bit much after while. Betty White would've been more convincing as Blanche because she played closer to a Blanche character when she was on MTM back in the.70s. Instead White plays a farm girl who's very naive and some how relocates from St Olaf, Minnesota to Miami, Fl. What i don't get is why the Costume Designer (Judy Evans) chose to create clothing of such an upscale design for her and the other Golden Girls. They are well dressed ladies earning middle income wages. However, they do look good in the clothes they wear.

I remember my mother choosing to shop at Goodwill stores for her everyday attire. She was very frugal but comfortable in wearing hand me down clothes. Back to Rose she is dating a gentleman college professor named Miles played by veteran character actor Harold Gould. In real life they would not be a match. But this is a fictional series that ran successfully for seven years. Anything is possible in the world of fictional T. V. shows. In this episode Rose convinces Miles that skydiving would be fun unfortunately she doesn't tell him that she has no desire to join him in this adventure. In the final scene we learn that she chose not to jump and some how Miles' parachute fails to open but he survives the fall. In the end she's off to visit him recovering in the hospital. Rose puts on a good facade as the adventurous lady. Quite possibly her adventures are in her dreams.

A difficult episode to get through without fast forwarding.

[mark.waltz · 5/10 · 23 March 2021]

While character actor Mitchell Ryan is very good, the role he plays here, Blanche's boyfriend Rex Huntington, is another absolute jerk that the sexpot of Miami dated, finding herself taken for granted and abused emotionally and physically. She's weaker in this episode than any other episode where she's with a jerk, and it's only because he tries to abuse Dorothy that she wakes up and smells the cheesecake. Meanwhile on a lighter scale, there's Rose and Miles, finding some new adventures in their relationship as he's desperately trying to stay young and finding exciting things for them to do. It's another episode that I can either fast forward through Blanche's story directly to Rose's, or skip to the next episode because as important as the story of physical abuse is to tell, once you've seen this a few times, you don't need to revisit it, making this one of my least favorite episodes.