The war is back on in Southfork as a new generation of Ewings are set to pick up where the last generation left off.

As this series starts, the Ewings are out of the oil business and Bobby Ewing is concerned with ranching, while JR Ewing is in a long-term care facility suffering from depression.

For those of you that are new to the series the Ewings are an oil baron family that is well connected.

JR plays the brash, cutthroat businessman, always wheeling and dealing looking to own everything.

Bobby the younger more thoughtful and honest of the Ewing boys, is constantly watching out for the big brother and his shenanigans.

There are backroom deals, espionage and blackmail constantly a foot, and that is where the conflict of the show comes.

It looks to be the recipe the shows producers and directors are going to maintain.

John Ross, who was like 12 last time I remember watching this show, is of course his father’s (JR) son.

He schemes and plots before the sounding of the start of the race.

Christopher, Bobby’s adopted son, is the reliable, big-hearted hero of the story. The conflict appears as though it will still arise from unseen, dirty tricks and sneaking.

Things are sure to never be dull on the Southfork Ranch.

The series starts back out with John Ross drilling for oil on Southfork, which is and always has been forbidden by the family.

Bobby is looking to sell the ranch to a conservation, in order to make sure that Miss Ely May’s dying wish is kept and the ranch’s resources are preserved free from drilling.

Bobby starts out by visiting JR to confide in him that he wants to buy the hatchet and he doesn’t want Christopher and John Ross to follow down the same road that they did.

Christopher and John Ross are still fighting over the same things as their fathers– namely women.

And, of course, control of The Ewing Empire.

I like the new series and truly appreciate the fact that it looks like they are going to stick to making the same show they quit making over a decade ago.

I find it refreshing that new Hollywood is doing something old Hollywood did without ruining the themes and tones of the original.

It’s similar, right down to polishing up the old opening credit roll, which took me back to Friday nights as a young child.

It is a definite must watch, and would of given it all four, but it is just reviving an old series and is not original programming.

So sit down, tune in and get hooked.

Dallas is waiting.