Meshach Taylor

Meshach Taylor plays Anthony Bouvier on Designing Women, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason’s 1980s Atlanta design-firm comedy that treated speeches as appointment television. Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart — Southern feminism with a living room. Taylor’s Anthony is why the firm is a household instead of a podium: ensemble craft, a partner in the joke, the man the hour refused to treat as scenery.

Meshach Taylor occupies Designing Women's Anthony Bouvier chair across the 1986–1993 run on CBS, 1980s craft with a street address. Meshach Taylor is the temperature CBS actually had to cast for the 1986–1993 run. Mute Anthony Bouvier and Designing Women photographs as a thinner object; that is Meshach Taylor's whole argument. He does not need another credit to justify the chair.

Meshach Taylor's door is s01e01: Designing Women is the firm contract: Carter, Burke, Potts, Smart, Taylor — ensemble women's comedy with explicit politics, living room as podium. Meshach Taylor does not wait on a finale; s01e02 is the turn. The Beauty Contest uses the title as argument: Julia's speeches as appointment TV, Southern feminism never had a better living room. Meshach Taylor at s02e01 is the same job on a later date. 101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station is season two's joke title: design-firm sitcom still treating décor as politics, Atlanta volume intact.

Delta Burke’s fire is the gossip; Anthony is structure. On TV Flash Taylor is 1980s sitcom steel — the Bouvier who made explicit politics feel populated, and the reason the hour still photographs as a room instead of a lecture with better dresses.