Robert Preston and Shirley Jones in "The Music Man"

In this week's episode, Gavia and Morgan find themselves unexpectedly at odds over classic movie musical The Music Man (1962), starring Robert Preston as small-time conman Harold Hill and Shirley Jones as the librarian who falls for him in spite of herself. Is this movie justifiably beloved or an interminable purgatory? You be the judge.

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“Commentary: ‘The Music Man’ is the wrong Broadway revival for this crucial moment,” Ashley Lee, The Los Angeles Times