While SINS isn't perfect, and it's bloated at 5 1/2 hours, it has a crisp, glossy, mid-'80s competence that almost works, a program starring (and produced by) Joan Collins, doyenne of the decade.
Although Aaron Spelling would never have greenlit the budget for all this European location shooting for DYNASTY (despite his doing so for LOVE BOAT twice a year), SINS has the look, posh production design (compared to DYNASTY's drab, inert sets) and vibe that DYNASTY should have had -- at least in Seasons 5 and 6 -- but absolutely didn't.
A shame... Except for the very first and final years (which were pretty good) most of DYNASTY was muddled and suffocated -- sparkling PR to the contrary -- further scarred by the creative perversities of the producers and their excessive control-and-manipulation of the actors. With more relaxed love-and-attention (if not higher budget) DYNASTY could've, and should've, been more like what SINS gave us.
